Lawrence Journal-World
February 4, 1988
Snow-Slick roads blamed in fatal accident
Snow-slick roads Wednesday morning (2/3/88) contributed to an accident that killed a 24-year-old Lawrence man, according to the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Department.
Kraig R. Lisbon was driving south on U.S. Highway 24-40 about five miles south of Tonganoxie when he apparently lost control of his vehicle and skidded across the highway’s center line, a sheriff’s officer said today. Wednesday morning’s snowfall had made the road slick, the officer said.
Lisbon’s car was hit broadside by a vehicle driven by James Quaife, 34, Topeka. Leavenworth County ambulance personnel took Lisbon to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
A passenger in Quaife’s car, Thomas Holcomb, 36, Topeka, was treated and released at LMH. Quaife did not require treatment.
“Kraig was the All-American boy,” said John Pappert, owner of Century Office Products Inc. 925 Iowa, where Lisbon had worked as a sales representative for the last six months. “He did a real good job for us. He was the kind of guy you could never get mad at.”
Pappert said Lisbon was driving back to Lawrence on Wednesday morning from Kansas City International Airport, where he had dropped off his wife, Kristina, who was going to join Lisbon’s parents at a business convention in Dallas.
The accident occurred shortly before 8:30 a.m., according to the sheriff’s department.
Pappert said, “If you had a daughter, Kraig was the guy you’d like her to marry. in six months, I didn’t get to know him as well as I wished I had.
“He was extremely well-liked around here. Everybod’ys still walking around in a daze.”
Mr Lisbon was born June 21, 1963, in Hartford, Conn., and had lived in Lawrence since 1977, moving from Danville, Ill.
Mr. Lisborn, a 1982 graduate, was a member of the high school swimming and diving team and won third place at the state meet as a senior. He later attended Kansas University and was a member of Plymouth Congregational Church.
He married Kristina Mostert on May 25, 1985, in Lawrence. She survives of the house.
Other survivors include a daughter, Kailey, of the home; his parents, Bob and Jan Lisbon, Lawrence; two brothers, Keith and Kevin, both of Lawrence; a sister, Karen Andgregg, Austin Tex; and a maternal grandfather, George Ripley, Orlando, Fla.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. the Rev. Kendall Baker will officiate, and burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery. (Sec 16, Lot 177)
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday at the mortuary.
the family suggests memorials to the Kailey Lisbon Education fund, in care of the mortuary.