Recent Obituaries

Lavon Johnson

Apr 16, 2024

Lavon Ruth Johnson passed away April 16, 2024, at Cedarhurst Nursing Home in Springfield, Missouri. She was born April 12, 1928, in Iola, Kansas, to Arthur Ray and Velma T. Kinman. When she was two years old, the family moved to Gas City, Kansas. She attended grade school and graduated from the 8th grade in 1942. She attended Iola High...

Maria (Connie) Melendez

Apr 16, 2024

Maria Conception Melendez, age 74, of Humboldt, Kansas, after a four-month battle from kidney transplant rejection, passed away April 16, 2024, surrounded by her family at St. Luke's on the Plaza, Kansas City, Missouri. Connie was born December 10, 1949, in Chanute, Kansas, to John G. Borjas and Aurora (Romero) Borjas.

Connie graduated in 1967 from Chanute High School, Chanute, Kansas....

Carol Hunsperger

Apr 13, 2024

Carol M. Hunsperger passed away, on April 13, 2024, with a family friend by her side, at Residential Living Center, in Garnett, Kansas.

Carol was born on October 1, 1938, in Moran, Kansas, to Wayne and Jean Thompson. She attended school in Kincaid, graduating from Kincaid High School. Carol had a caring heart and went on to get her CMA.

Carol was...

Sylvia Yoder

Apr 12, 2024

Sylvia Yoder, age 84, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday, April 12, 2024, at her home.

Sylvia S. Miller was born on November 18, 1939, at McMinnville, Oregon. She was the fifth of seven children born to Samuel B. "Red Sam" Miller and Wilma (Miller) Miller. Sylvia's family moved to Garnett, Kansas when she was ten years old....

Karen White

Apr 11, 2024

Dr. Karen A. White, 72, passed away on April 11, 2024, in St. Petersburg, Florida. She was hit by a car on her early morning walk. Born on July 30, 1951 in Joplin, Missouri, Karen had a life long career as a professional violinist, private violin teacher, music professor and collegiate administrator.

A concert violinist who performed regularly as a soloist,...

Anna Marie Ford (Nelson-Weiner)

Apr 11, 2024

In loving memory of Anna Marie Ford, 86, who passed away peacefully on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at her home in Humboldt, Kansas.

Anna was born January 14, 1938, in rural Humboldt, one of six children born to Roy and Marie (Fiechtl) Nelson. She was raised on her parent's dairy farm, where she developed a strong work ethic and...

Leo Ramsey

Apr 5, 2024

Leo Lyle Ramsey, age 79, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Friday, April 5, 2024, in Garnett, Kansas, peacefully, with family at his side.

Leo was born on March 23, 1945, in Uniontown, Kansas, to Lyle and Anna May (Rogers) Ramsey. Leo attended school in Uniontown and graduated with the class of 1963 and attended Pittsburg State University....

Shirley Ball

Apr 4, 2024

Shirley Ball, age 93, peacefully passed away on Thursday, April 4, 2024. She was surrounded by loved ones, at her home in El Dorado Kansas.

Shirley Mae Yocum was born in Moran, Kansas on March 14, 1931. She was the second of two daughters born to Chester "Chet" Leonard Yocum and Olive Faye (Shelton) Yocum. She lived in Moran...

Margaret J. Robb

Apr 4, 2024

Margaret Jane Robb, age 85, of Iola, Kansas, passed away on April 4, 2024 at Glen Carr House Memory Care in Derby, Kansas.

Margaret was born on February 28, 1939, to Philip Butler and Marjorie (Gilliland) Butler. At two years old, she was adopted by Lewis "Snipe" Thornton. She lived her whole life in Iola. In 1955, she married...

Rosalie Rommelfanger

Apr 3, 2024

Rosalie Rommelfanger, age 87, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at St. Luke's Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri.

Rosalie Elizabeth Feuerborn was born on May 12, 1936, in Garnett, Kansas. She was the second of six children born to Matthew J. and Irene B. (Pickert) Feuerborn. Rosalie started school in the one-room Earnest Schoolhouse...

Gale Ritter

Apr 2, 2024

Leland "Gale" Ritter, age 92, of Iola, Kansas, passed away April 2, 2024, peacefully at home on the family farm. Gale was born September 16, 1931, in Dentonia, Kansas, to John F. Ritter and Mary (McCracken) Ritter.

Gale graduated in 1949 from Esbon High School, Esbon, Kansas. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1954...

Carolyn Wright

Mar 30, 2024

Carolyn Sue Wright 83, of Iola, Kansas, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, March 30, 2024, surrounded by family.

Carolyn was born on May 9, 1940 in Stevenson, Washington to Howard and Maxine Collins. They lived in Roseburg, Oregon, where she spent the first several years. She always had fond memories of playing beneath the huge pine...

Donald Penson

Mar 30, 2024

Donald Lee Penson, age 85, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, March 30, 2024.

He was born on April 2, 1938, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Charles Curtis and Mildred Lee (Killinger) Penson. He graduated from Shawnee Mission High School with the Class of 1957.

Don was united in marriage to Patricia Ann Lutz on...

Rita E. Baker

Mar 29, 2024

Rita Elnora Baker, age 75, of Humboldt passed away on March 29, 2024, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. Rita was the first of six children born to Lawrence and A. Elnora (Mintz) Olson. She was born on July 19, 1948, at Iola, Kansas.

Rita grew up in Humboldt, Kansas, and graduated from Humboldt High School in 1966....

Barb Siefker

Mar 28, 2024

Barbara Jane Siefker, age 87, passed away peacefully on March 28, 2024, in Chanute, Kansas.

Barb was the youngest of four children born to Alpha Alden "A.A." and Gladys Ann (Storminger) Ensminger, on November 29, 1936, in Highland, New York. Her family returned to Moran, Kansas when she was six months old. Due to her mother's illness, Barb tagged...

Jacquelyn Gay

Mar 28, 2024

Jackie Gay, age 70, of LaHarpe, Kansas passed away at her home on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

Jacquelyn Carol Hagan was born on August 13, 1953 at Greeley, Colorado. She was the second of five children born to George Fredrick Hagan and Ethel A. (Bias) Hagan. Jackie attended high school in Leavenworth, Kansas. In August of 1972, a chance...

Warren Leon Smith

Mar 27, 2024

Warren Leon Smith passed away March 27, 2024, at Ascension St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Leon was born to Warren A. and Helen F. (Stevenson) Smith on September 21, 1952, at home in Osage City, Kansas.

He attended school at Waverly Grade and Talmage Grade and graduated from Chapman High School with the class...

Charles Wilson

Mar 22, 2024

Charles "Chuck" Lewis Wilson, age 66, passed away at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri on March, 22, 2024.

Chuck was born on January 6, 1958 to Donald and Patty (Roath) Wilson. He grew up in and around Woodson County, Kansas. On September 22, 1978, he married Janeen Wilson in Iola, Kansas. Together they raised three children, Charles R., Alisha,...

Vicki Scheimann

Mar 19, 2024

Vicki Rae Scheimann, age 72, passed away at her home in Iola, Kansas on March 19, 2024.

Vicki was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on October 24, 1951, to William and Katherine Neiswender. She grew up in Myerstown, Pennsylvania and graduated Eastern Lebanon County High School in 1969.

Vicki married Ronald Truax; they later divorced. She later married Frederick...

Ronald E. Phipps

Mar 19, 2024

Ronald Elton Phipps, age 81, of La Harpe, Kansas, passed away on March 19, 2024.

Ronald was born on May 11, 1942, to William and Violet Mae (Bash) Phipps in Des Moines, Iowa.

Ronald married Rose Ann Owens on March 31, 1962, in Alameda, California. Ronald made a career as a boilermaker while raising three children with Rose...