Recent Obituaries
Harold Weldon Houk
Jan 12, 2024
Harold Weldon Houk, 92, of Moran, passed away January 12, 2024, at the Moran Manor. Harold was born March 29, 1931, Moran, to Russell Eugene and Jennie May (Whitlow) Houk. The family moved to the Whitlow/Houk homestead northwest of Moran where he attended Fairlawn, a one room school house, until the fifth grade. He attended Moran Elementary and graduated from...
Morris Wayne Dible
Jan 10, 2024
Morris Wayne Dible, formerly of Iola, Kansas, passed away peacefully on January 10, 2024, at his residence in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was 79 years old. Morris was born on September 4, 1944, to Wayne and Wilma (Stephens) Dible. He married Karen S. Zornes in June 1977, and their union was blessed with three daughters. Morris had a passion for hunting....
Kathleen E. Fultz
Jan 9, 2024
Kathleen Ellen Fultz, loving mother of Linda, Gary, Sue, and Dick, passed into the Lord's hands at Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul, Kansas, on January 9, 2024, at the age of 101.Kathleen was born July 6, 1922, to Orion and Effie (McDade) Powers. She taught school at Savonburg, Kansas, for two years before getting married to Warren Fultz...
Thomas Paul Mikulka
Jan 8, 2024
The Hon. Thomas Paul Mikulka, 69, passed away Monday January 8th, 2024, in Chanute, Kansas. Thomas was born in Topeka, Kansas, on November 11, 1954, the son of Thomas John and Esther Louise (Zimmerman) Mikulka. Tom graduated from Hayden High School in Topeka, Kansas, in 1972. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1976, Tom backpacked Europe for seven...
Tawnya Roloff
Jan 7, 2024
Tawnya Marie Roloff, age 42, of Iola, Kansas, passed away January 7, 2024, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Tawnya was born April 6, 1981, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to Timothy Lee Roloff and Carol Ann (Baysinger) Roloff. Tawnya graduated in 1999 from Iola High School. Tawnya loved to read and managed to collect a large amount...
Gregory F. Katzer
Jan 7, 2024
Gregory Fredrick Katzer, age 84, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at his home. He was born on March 12, 1939,the fifth of thirteen, on a farm southeast of Greeley, the son of Tony and Anna (Egidy) Katzer. On June 3, 1967, Greg married Shirley Hager at St. John's Catholic Church in Greeley, Kansas. This union...
Bonnie Lee Gorrell
Jan 6, 2024
Bonnie Lee Gorrell was born on Sunday, February 6, 1949 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Frances Wayne and Arlene Erma (Hosier) Ecclefield. She passed from this life at her home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on Saturday, January 6, 2024. She was 74 years of age. The former Miss Bonnie Ecclefield was a 1967 graduate of Welda high school...
James Anthony Miller
Jan 5, 2024
James Anthony Miller, age 25, of Richmond, Kansas, passed away on Friday, January 5, 2024, at his home. James was born on May 24, 1998, in Lawrence, Kansas. At age two, James went to live with his nana Linda and papa Dave. On November 2, 2001, James and his younger brother William went to live with Andy and Georgia Miller....
Jack L. Blevins
Jan 5, 2024
Jack Blevins, age 76, of Greeley, Kansas passed away at his home on January 5, 2024, surrounded by his loved ones. Jackie Leon Blevins was born on November 29, 1947 at Yates Center, Kansas. He was the second of six children born to Ralph Vincent Blevins and Mary Lou (Guffey) Blevins. Jack grew up in Yates Center and Colony, Kansas,...
DeDe Lynn Hammer
Jan 2, 2024
DeDe Lynn Hammer, age 54, passed away on January 2, 2024, at her home in Colony, Kansas. DeDe was born on July 2, 1969, in Kansas City, Kansas. Her parents, Orville Lavon Hammer and Patricia Lynn (Cochran) Hammer brought her home to Iola, Kansas. DeDe attended school in the area and after graduating, attended Mary Grimes School of Nursing, where...
Donna Marie Carr
Jan 1, 2024
Donna Marie Carr, age 73, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, January 1, 2024, at her home, surrounded by family. She was born on August 17, 1950, in Ottawa, Kansas, the daughter of Matthew J. and Irene B. (Pickert) Feuerborn. Donna attended school at Holy Angels and graduated from Garnett High School with the class of 1968. After high...
Peggy J. Carnahan
Jan 1, 2024
Peggy Joyce Carnahan, age 90, passed away on January 1, 2024 at her home in Gas, Kansas. Peggy was born on August 4, 1933, in Allen County, Kansas, to Fred Weeks and Bertha (Dunton) Weeks. She attended school in Iola, Kansas, where she graduated high school with the class of 1952. Peggy worked an assortment of different jobs, her primary...
Brandon Michael Hamilton
Dec 31, 2023
Brandon Michael Hamilton, age 27, passed away on December 31, 2023 at his home in Olathe, Kansas. Brandon was born on May 18, 1996, in Chanute, Kansas, to Ted W. Hamilton and Belinda (Spencer) Hamilton. In his early years, he attended the Community Christian School then went on to finish middle and high school in Iola, Kansas. With his job,...
Sally Pickert
Dec 31, 2023
Sally Pickert (nee Gilstrap), of Saint Charles, Missouri, passed away Sunday, December 31, 2023 at the age of 86. Beloved wife of the late Kenneth Pickert; cherished daughter of the late Albert and Ada Gilstrap; devoted mother of the late Michael (Rita) Pickert and Diane (the late Roger) Wellman; loving grandmother of Samuel (Kali) Wellman and Jessica (Mark) Zilienski; treasured...
Helen Cassity Miller
Dec 30, 2023
Helen Cassity Miller, age 85, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, December 30, 2023, at St. Luke's South Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas. Helen was born on May 22, 1938, in Garnett, KS. She was the sixth of seven children born to W.R. "Buck" Cassity and Esther (Burlingham) Cassity. She attended school in Garnett and graduated from Garnett High School...
Kenneth Wayne Woods
Dec 26, 2023
Kenneth W. Woods, 81, of Ottawa, Kansas passed away December 26, 2023 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Kenneth Wayne Woods was born on May 7, 1942 at Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Harry Max and Dorothy (Ginbey) Woods. The family then moved to Garnett, Kansas, where Ken spent his school age years, graduating from Garnett High School. Ken received a teaching degree...
Joel Barentine
Dec 26, 2023
Joel Chester Barentine, age 97, of Pleasanton, Kansas, passed away December 26, 2023, at Olathe Medical Center, with his son by his side. Joel was born on November 14, 1926, to Charlie and Lessie (Vermillion) Barentine, of Beebe, Arkansas, the sixteenth youngest of seventeen children. Joel was united in marriage to Dorothy Arlene Bennett on January 19, 1948, in Little...
Eddie Johnson
Dec 24, 2023
Eddie Dean Johnson, age 69, passed away on December 24, 2023, at the Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Eddie was born September 12, 1954, in Colony, Kansas to Raymond H. Johnson and Virginia Douglas. He attended school in Moran, Kansas, until his high school graduation, when he joined the Kansas National Guard. He made a career as a...
Candy Fletcher
Dec 23, 2023
Candice "Candy" Annice Fletcher, age 67, passed away on December 23, 2023, at the Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola, Kansas, surrounded by the staff that had become her companions. Candy was born on February 10, 1956, in Kansas City, Kansas, to John D. Mahan and Joan L. (Schowengerdt) Mahan. She grew up in the Kansas City area. After high...
Efren Palacios
Dec 22, 2023
Efren Palacios passed away at home with his family beside him on December 22, 2023. Efren (Eddie) Palacios was born in the Philippines to Lorenzo and Maria Palacios. He had 2 sisters and 5 brothers. Eddie shared so many stories of his life in the Philippines. As a child, he loved to lay on the back of water buffalo while...
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