LOYD BLOSSER

Loyd Blosser, youngest son of the late Quincy Blosser and Betty Gualdin Blosser, was born in Malt Bend, Missouri December 10, 1899.  He came with the family to Norway, Kansas in 1906.  His father and grandfather bought their first land around Norway in 1883.  Loyd now owns 1500 acres of land in the Republican River valley.  He is one-third owner of the Skyliner Motel and Shady Lake Court in Concordia, Kansas and the Bel Villa Motel and Restaurant in Belleville, Kansas.  He is also one-third owner in a water flood oil lease in Oklahoma.

Loyd attended school in Norway and KSAC at Manhattan, Kansas.  When he was just eighteen he entered in serve in World War I in the Motor Transport Corps.  He was assigned to the Engineers and helped survey the first aerial mail route from San Antonio to El Paso, Texas.  He is a member of the E.U.B. Community Church of Norway,Kansas, The American Legion, the Last Man's Club and Barracks Club made up of World War I veterans, Masonic Lodge of Scandia, Kansas - 32nd degree, Isis Shrine of Salina Kansas, Director of the North Central Shrine, Elks Club and Social Clubs.

On June 1, 1922, he married Bess Potter, a school teacher from Malta Bend, Missouri and brought her to the home place at Norway, Kansas, as his parents had moved to Concordia, Kansas.  Mrs. Blosser's maternal grandfather, George C. Hains from Recortown, Virginia fought on the side of the South in the Civil War.  Her paternal grandfather of Muthall, Oklahoma fought on the side of the North.  Her parents were the late Carl Potter and Carrie Hains Potter.  Mr. Potter received a land grant from President McKinley which is still owned by Mrs. Blosser and two nieces.  Mrs. Potter lived with Mr. and Mrs. Blosser for many years and passed away on July 15, 1959.  She had run in the Cherokee Strip opening in 1893 and won a claim near Perry, Oklahoma.  Mrs. Blosser is the only one of her immediate family left.

Bess and Loyd Blosser moved to Belleville in 1924, where Loyd worked for his brother Charles, and Bess taught school until they bought the Chevrolet garage in Superior, Nebraska.  While in Superior, Loyd sold the first transport load of gasoline to S. W. Thomas to be brought into Kansas.  In  1938, they moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and built a new twenty-unit motel known as the Blosser Court.  In 1942, they sold that and moved to Denver where they owned and operated the West Ho Motel.  In 1945, they sold that and moved back to their farm, a mile south of Norway, where they lived until 1959 when they moved back to the Blosser home place built in 1906.