Recent Obituaries
Martin Canfield
Nov 2, 2015
Martin Jay "Marty" Canfield, 59, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, November 2, 2015, at the Allen County Regional Hospital. Marty was born July 22, 1956, in Independence, Missouri, the son of Clarence and Doris (Hudson) Canfield. He was raised by his mother and step-father, Harlan Beebe. He grew up and attended school in Iola. He served in the U.S. Navy...
Margaret B. Hahner
Nov 2, 2015
Margaret B. Hahner, age 86, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 2, 2015, at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. She was born on June 19, 1929, in Richmond, Kansas, the daughter of Ralph S. and Gladys (Maxey) Chandler. Margaret grew up near Princeton, Kansas and graduated from Williamsburg High School in 1948, and then attended Ottawa University for...
Luther Willard Justice
Oct 28, 2015
Luther Willard Justice, age 89, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at Golden Heights in Garnett. He was born on August 15, 1926, at South Park, Kansas, the son of Emmitt Justice and Mary (Button) Justice. He grew up in the Shawnee area before graduating from Shawnee Mission High School. Luther was a World War II...
Doris Bishop
Oct 28, 2015
Doris J. Bishop, 86, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at Allen County Regional Hospital. Doris was born November 14, 1928, in Neosho Falls, Kansas, the daughter of George and Susan (Henry) Stephens. She grew up in the Neosho Falls and Yates Center areas. She graduated from Yates Center High School in 1946 and on May 15,...
Earl Roberts
Oct 28, 2015
Earl Leroy "Pete" Roberts, Jr., 58, of Gas, Kansas, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2015, at Forest, Mississippi. Pete was born July 30, 1956, at Ft. Carson, Colorado, the son of Earl Leroy and Nadine Louise (Gonzales) Roberts, Sr. His father was in the U.S. Air Force so the family moved following his career. They were stationed in Alaska for...
Earl G. Roberts
Oct 28, 2015
Earl Gene Roberts, age 79, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, at the Anderson County Hospital in Garnett, Kansas. Earl was born on January 3, 1936, at Humboldt, Kansas, the son of Lester Earl and Creola (Wemmer) Roberts. His family moved to Garnett in 1942 when they purchased a farm south of town. Earl graduated from...
Kenneth Slife
Oct 24, 2015
Kenneth Dene "Kenny" Slife, Sr., 67, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, October 24, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. Kenny was born September 22, 1948, in Augusta, Georgia. He moved to California with his stepfather and mother, Bennie and Lena ( Dix ) Williams where he grew up and graduated from high school. While living in Bakersfield, California,...
Gene Kessler
Oct 24, 2015
Gene A. Kessler, 78, of rural Colony, Kansas, died Saturday, October 24, 2015, at Windsor Place in Iola. Gene was born September 21, 1937, in Thayer, Kansas, the son of Archie and Sadie (Johnson) Kessler. He grew up in the Geneva area and graduated valedictorian from Neosho Falls High School. He farmed northwest of Iola in the Geneva Township all...
Chris Edward Bowen
Oct 24, 2015
Chris Edward Bowen, age 64, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2015, at his home, where he had been battling cancer since March. Chris was one of four children that completed the family of A. Darlene South and Hansford Johnson "Bo" Bowen, being born in Garnett on October 8, 1951. Chris spent all of his life in...
Leon Sinclair
Oct 21, 2015
Leon Sinclair, 72, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Harold Leon Sinclair was born April 21, 1943, in Iola, Kansas, the son of Fred E. and Geneva ( Walden ) Sinclair and lived in Iola all of his life. He was working for the Iola Greenhouse when he married Lorena...
Sun Stanford
Oct 18, 2015
Sun Ok Stanford, 64, of Richmond, Kansas, died Sunday, October 18, 2015, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas. Sun was born January 15, 1951, in Incheon, South Korea. She met Billy G. Stanford while he was serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. They were married on August 1, 1975, in Seoul, Korea. After his military duty...
Robert Payne
Oct 18, 2015
Franklin Robert Payne, 79, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Sunday, October 18, 2015, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Robert was born October 13, 1936, in Allen County, the son of George Albert and Hazel (Colgin) Payne. The family moved to Colony and that is where he grew up. On December 24, 1959, Robert married Rosella M. Fulton in Iola....
Colleen Pearman
Oct 16, 2015
Colleen Kay Pearman, 70, of Colony, Kansas, passed away Friday, October 16, 2015, at Iola Nursing Center. Colleen was born January 23, 1945, in Iola, the daughter of Eugene Samuel and Esther Mabel (Sutterby) Robb. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1963, Iola Junior College in 1965 and Pittsburg State University earning her Bachelor's...
Ruth Marie Sluder
Oct 14, 2015
Ruth Marie Sluder, age 86, of Rantoul, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 14, 2015, at Residential Living Center, Garnett. She was born June 24, 1929 in Bell, California, the daughter of James and Marietta (Berg) Smith. Ruth married Paul Sluder on March 28, 1959 in Mexico. They made their home in La Puente, California before moving to Pomona, Kansas...
Marjorie L. Rolston
Oct 13, 2015
Marjorie L. Rolston, age 94, passed away on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village, Kansas. Marge was born on August 19, 1921, at Stanberry, Missouri, the second child of ten children born to Lola Bell and William Turner. Her family moved to Garnett, Kansas in 1926. She was united in marriage to Wayne Rolston on November...
Serenity Rayne Lawson
Oct 13, 2015
Serenity Rayne Lawson, infant daughter of Sterling Lawson and Jessica Vanover of Moran, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 20, 2015, at the Feuerborn Family Funeral Service Chapel in Moran, Kansas. Burial will follow in the Moran Cemetery. Condolences may be left for the family at www.feuerbornfuneral.com
Alvin Pratt
Oct 10, 2015
Alvin Matthew Pratt, Sr., 91, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, October 10, 2015. Alvin was born May 3, 1924, in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Matthew William and Ora Luella (Smith) Pratt. He graduated from high school in Kansas City and then served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He served from March 1943 to March 1945 under Vice...
Cheryl Tedder
Oct 7, 2015
Cheryl Elaine Covey Tedder, 64, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, October 7, 2015, at Iola Nursing Center. Cheryl was born July 13, 1951, in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of John Isaac and Opal Geneva (Simmons) Covey. She graduated from high school in Independence, Kansas. On May 15, 1972, Cheryl married Michael Tedder. They later divorced. She moved to Iola...
Homer O. Pugsley
Oct 6, 2015
Homer O. Pugsley, age 100, of Prescott, Kansas, formerly of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, at Prescott Country View Nursing Home in Prescott, Kansas. He was born on March 24, 1915, at Garnett, the son of Walter and Lochia (Hart) Pugsley. He graduated from Garnett High School in 1936. Homer was united in marriage to Beverly...
Joan Beck
Oct 5, 2015
Joan Beal Beck, 83, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, October 5, 2015 at Windsor Place in Iola. She was born February 13, 1932, ½ mile west of the Diamond Methodist Church in Deer Creek Township in Allen County on the family farm to Albert Linn Beal and Grace Henrietta Hardin Beal. She was the 6th of 11 children and lifelong...
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