Paul Douglas Tubach was born to Howard E. and Ida Lillian Fetzner Tubach on November 17, 1940, in Hutchinson, Kansas, and passed away on October 22, 2024, at his home in Hiawatha, Kansas. His father was a minister who requested country assignments. He started school at Bellevue School north of Leona, after moving there in 1945. From Leona, his family moved to Cosby, Missouri, in 1949, where he attended Prairie Valley School and Cosby Grade School, then Savannah High School. The family moved to Hiawatha in 1956, and he graduated with the Class of 1958 from Hiawatha High School.
After Paul graduated from high school, he immediately went to Ft. Leonard Wood for Basic Training in Missouri and took further training at Camp Chaffee in Arkansas. He served the rest of his enlistment in the National Guard. He went to Highland Community College, graduating from there in 1960.
Paul married Marian Sue Wilson on September 1, 1961, at the First United Methodist Church in Hiawatha. Paul and Marian attended high school together and worked at Schroth’s IGA when it was located at the Clock Tower.
They started their married life at their first home in Lawrence, Kansas. He went to Kansas University, and graduated from Baker University in 1964. They moved to Westminster, Colorado, where they lived for five years, then Paul was transferred to Hartford, Connecticut, with the Travelers Insurance Company. After retiring from Travelers in 1996 as the Vice President in charge of the Surety Claims Division, they moved back to Hiawatha from Simsbury, Connecticut, their home for 30 years. In Hiawatha, Paul worked with Wilson Bros, Inc. for 22 years.
They had four sons: Paul Douglas II, Philip David, Michael Stephen and Patrick Daniel.
Preceding him in death were his parents, sons Michael and Philip, and his brother-in-law Stephen Roy Wilson.
Paul leaves behind Marian of the home, Douglas and Niki of Canton, Connecticut; Danielle Tubach of Montrose, California; and Patrick and Tanis Tubach of Novato, California. Additionally, he leaves a brother, Lee and Beth Tubach of Monument, Colorado; sister Janice Kocher and Ferna Moser of Basehor, Kansas; brother Jerry and Sheila Tubach of Topeka, Kansas; sister-in-law Annette Wilson; brother-in-law David and Debbie Wilson; cousins Patricia McIlwain and Jane and Jerry Reschke; and many Tubach cousins. He also leaves beautiful grandchildren: Christa and Curtis Yung, Nicholas Tubach, Madison Tubach, Avery Tubach, Samuel Tubach and Allie Tubach. Also surviving are his beautiful great-grandsons, Eugene Oliver and Elliot August Yung.
A celebration of Paul's eternal life is pending and will be announced soon with Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, Hiawatha.
