Recent Obituaries
Cecelia CeCe Biery
Jun 14, 2016
Cecelia "CeCe" Biery, age 64, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 at St. Luke's Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri. She was born May 3, 1952, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of Gustave and Sue Frommer. CeCe graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Paterson, New Jersey. She worked as a police officer in New...
Charles E. "Charlie" Sellman
Jun 14, 2016
Charles Ernest "Charlie" Sellman, 67, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at Kindred Hospital Northland in Kansas City, surrounded by his family. Charlie was born December 15, 1948, in Iola, the son of Ernest "Bud" and Ruth (Schulze) Sellman. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1966. He attended Pittsburg State University....
Michael Ray "Mike" Karr
Jun 14, 2016
Michael Ray Karr, 37, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Mike was born December 1, 1978, in Iola, the son of Harold Ray and Marsha Sue (Chapman) Karr. He grew up in LaHarpe attending LaHarpe Elementary and graduated from Iola High School in 1998. Mike made his home in Iola and was a pulling unit operator in...
Mildred G. Ludolph
Jun 12, 2016
Mildred G. Ludolph, age 97, of Iola, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, June 12, 2016, at Windsor Place in Iola, Kansas. She was born on June 27, 1918, in Westphalia, Kansas, the daughter of Loren and Ruth (Hugenott) Bouse. She attended schools in Westphalia, graduating in 1936. After graduating high school, Mildred worked in the Westphalia telephone office. Mildred was...
Ricky Ray Ahring
Jun 9, 2016
Ricky Ray Ahring, age 57, of Harris, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, June 9, 2016, at his home. He was born January 26, 1959, the youngest of five children born to Fred W. Ahring Sr. and Marjorie (Bartlett) Ahring. Ricky graduated from Garnett High School. He worked the wheat harvest with his family during the summer months, and during the...
Roy W. Leake
Jun 8, 2016
Roy W. Leake, Jr., 67, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Roy was born September 9, 1948, in Colony, Kansas, the son of Roy Wilson and Elsie Lavon (Morris) Leake. He grew up in Iola and Moran, graduating from Moran High School in 1968. He joined the U.S. Navy after graduation and served on the USS Kitty Hawk...
Virginia Helen Weatherman
Jun 4, 2016
Virginia Helen Hale Weatherman, 91, of Colony, Kansas, passed away Saturday, June 4, 2016, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Virginia was born June 2, 1925, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Jacob Elijah and Ada Bell (Moore) Hale. She grew up in Turner, Kansas, and graduated from Turner High School in 1943. On January 9, 1944, Virginia married Robert...
Darlos R Aldrich
Jun 2, 2016
Darlos “Dot” Aldrich died on June 2, 2016 at the Westview Care Center in Derby, KS. She was 91 years old. She was the youngest of four children born to Blanche (Armour) and Joseph Elvin Westervelt on January 31, 1920 on a farm near Altamont, KS. She attended Altamont Grade School and graduated from Labette County High School. At 17,...
Tracy Eleanor Rawlings
Jun 2, 2016
Tracy Eleanor Sloan Rawlings, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, June 2, 2016, at the Allen County Regional Hospital. Tracy was born October 4, 1922, in Elsmore, Kansas, the daughter of James Austin and Nora Ellen (Rhodes) Sloan. She grew up south of Moran, Kansas. On October 4, 1939, she married Roy Rawlings and they made their home in Moran....
Marie Miriam Mercuro
May 31, 2016
Marie Miriam Mercuro, 75, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the Allen County Regional Hospital. Marie was born July 30, 1940, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of Raymond and Marie (Dering) Smith. She grew up in New Jersey and worked at Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey before moving to Iola in 2004....
Delores Wilson
May 31, 2016
Delores Ruth Wilson, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. She was born November 15, 1931, in Elsmore, Kansas, the daughter of Fred F. and Anna Emily Caroline (Seastedt) Tippie. Delores attended Elsmore schools, graduating from Elsmore High School in 1949. After graduation, she worked for a brief...
Virginia Ellen Larson
May 28, 2016
Virginia Ellen Larson, 75, of Savonburg, Kansas, passed away on May 28, 2016, at her home surrounded by the family she loved. Virginia was born on October 11, 1940, near Urbana, Kansas, to parents Alfred and Ellen Rost. During her childhood, the family resided in several Neosho County communities, ultimately settling on a farm west of Stark. She graduated from...
Doris Robertson
May 24, 2016
Doris Wolf Mitchell Robertson, age 90, of Eudora, Kansas, formerly of Iola, completed her life journey on this earth at Medicalodge in Eudora, Kansas and went home to be with Jesus on May 24, 2016. Doris was born on August 8, 1925, to David and Rissie Wolf, in rural Gate, Oklahoma. She was the sixth of ten children. One sister,...
Robert E. Wilper
May 22, 2016
Robert Edward Wilper, age 58, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2016, The House at Midland Care, in Topeka, Kansas. Robert Wilper was born Klaus Ewe Kaulen on March 23, 1958 in Cologne, Germany. Edward John and Agnes Mae (Korte) Wilper adopted Klaus Ewe and Ralf Joseph on October 26, 1962 and loved them with all their...
Dorothy M. Schuster
May 21, 2016
Dorothy M. Schuster, age 95 of Garnett passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at her home in Garnett. Dorothy was born May 25, 1920. She was the first of two daughters born to Fred and Mary (Light) Brown. Her father worked for the railroad; thusly the family made their home in several Kansas towns while Dorothy was young. She...
Stephen Ray Moyer
May 21, 2016
Stephen Ray Moyer, 64, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, May 21, 2016, at Stormont Vail Healthcare in Topeka. Steve was born April 13, 1952, in Iola, the son of William Edward and Doris Jean (Schuster) Moyer. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1970. He has always made his home in Kansas, most recently...
Richard D. Crabtree
May 18, 2016
Richard D. Crabtree, age 80, of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at Garnett, Kansas. He was born July 25, 1935, at LeRoy, Kansas, the son of William and Myrtle (Rohr) Crabtree. Richard graduated from LeRoy High School with the Class of 1954. He joined the Marine Corps in 1954 serving for eight years as a mortorman...
Dorothy Catron
May 14, 2016
Dorothy J. Catron, 78, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2016, at her home surrounded by her loving family. Dorothy was born June 29, 1937 at Iola, the daughter of Edward "Eddie" Frank and Helen Elizabeth (Sicka) Smith. Her mother died at childbirth and she was raised by her grandparents, John and Hannah Smith on the family farm...
Mignonette Kelley
May 13, 2016
Mignonette "Mig" L. Kelley, age 80, of LaHarpe, Kansas passed away May 13, 2016 at her home. Mig was born July 26, 1935 at Roseville, California, the daughter of Charles "Carlos" Ralph Schmitt and Celia (Cirby) Schmitt. She grew up in Roseville, graduating from high school there. She earned her Associates Degree from the American River Community College. On January...
Wayne Brown
May 12, 2016
Wayne Richard Brown, Sr., 68, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, May 12, 2016, at his home. Wayne was born May 7, 1948, in Mason City, Iowa, the son of Theodore Paul and Leona Irene (Fewings) Brown. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1970, he married Edna Ann Curtis and they had three children before they divorced after twenty-three...
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