Recent Obituaries
Thomas P. Roach
Jul 16, 2015
Never one to make a scene, Thomas P. Roach, known lovingly as Tom, Pa, Pop, Grandpa, and Great-Grandpa, passed away quietly in the middle of the night on July 16, 2015, at Iola, Kansas. Thomas was born in Gahagan, Louisiana on June 18, 1920 to Birdie Coleman and Marion Roach. He had a very humble beginning, growing up around Texarkana,...
Robert Powell
Jul 13, 2015
Robert L. Powell, 83, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Monday, July 13, 2015, at the Moran Manor. Robert was born October 16, 1931, on the family homestead west of Colony, the son of Ernest Amos and Lucy Virginia (Fultz) Powell. He grew up in the Geneva area before the family moved to LaHarpe. He graduated from LaHarpe High School in...
Jack Wayne Lowe
Jul 11, 2015
Jack Wayne Lowe, age 80, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, July 11, 2015, at Olathe Hospice House, Olathe, Kansas. He was born March 4, 1935 in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of E.M. (Bud) Lowe and Zeta Marie (Roper) Lowe Schults. Jack graduated from Duncan High School. Upon completion of his education, he joined the Army, serving four years...
Joseph B. Cannon
Jul 10, 2015
Joseph B. Cannon, age 87, of Eloy, Arizona, formerly of Garnett, Kansas, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 10, 2015, at his home. Joe was born on September 9, 1927, in Garnett, Anderson County, Kansas. He graduated from Garnett High School in 1944 and then attended the University of Kansas, School of Journalism. He met Winona June Erhart at The...
Samuel R. Harris
Jul 10, 2015
Samuel R. Harris, age 92, of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Friday, July 10, 2015, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. He was born February 6, 1923, at Geneva, Kansas, the son of Stanley and Marie (Smith) Harris. At age two, the family moved to the Diamond neighborhood north of LaHarpe, Kansas. He graduated from LaHarpe High School...
Duane W. Frazier
Jul 9, 2015
Duane Wesley Frazier, age 83, of Riverside, California, formerly of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, July 9, 2015, at his home. He was born on August 18, 1931, in rural Anderson County, Kansas, the son of John and Mabel (List) Frazier. They moved to Garnett, Kansas in 1943. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in January 1950 and...
Delma Rourk
Jul 8, 2015
Delma Marie Rourk, 83, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2015, at the Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola. Delma was born May 13, 1932, on a farm southwest of Iola, the daughter of George and D. Cleo (Chrowl) Harris. She grew up on the family farm west of Iola, attended Neosho Valley Grade School and graduated from...
Donald Dwayne Dieker
Jul 8, 2015
Donald Dwayne Dieker, age 63, of Salina, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2015, at his home. He was born on April 21, 1952, the son of Wilfred and Dorothy (Schillig) Dieker. He graduated from St. Teresa's Grade School and from Westphalia High School. He then received an Associate Degree from Allen County College, and from Kansas Vocational Technical...
Elmer Nichols
Jul 8, 2015
Elmer Fredrick Nichols passed away peacefully on July 8, 2015 at Iola Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Iola, Kansas. He was born at home in rural Carlyle on October 8, 1912 to William Harold and Libby Helen (Kettle) Nichols. He grew up in the Carlyle area and graduated from Iola High School in 1930. He married Fern Roney on...
Charles Sater
Jul 5, 2015
Charles Henry "Chuck" Sater, 65, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, July 5, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Chuck was born December 5, 1949, in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Charles Daniel and Anna Marie ( Gifford ) Sater. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War. In 1984, Chuck was married...
Dalia Stoll
Jul 4, 2015
Dalia Renee Stoll, 20, of LaHarpe, Kansas, passed away Saturday, July 4, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colorado while vacationing with her family. Dalia was born December 15, 1994 in Calcutta, India. She lived in Colorado until the age of 9 when the family moved to Kansas. She attended school at Marmaton Valley in Moran and graduated from Iola High School...
David Lemuel Hill Jr.
Jul 4, 2015
David L. Hill Jr., RET. SFC, of Garnett, Kansas who was a great patriot and lover of his country, passed away on the 4th of July, 2015 at the age 86 at Golden Heights, Garnett. David was born November 8, 1928 at Flint, Michigan, the son of David L. and Lillie Ozell (Massey) Hill. He grew up in Kennett, Missouri,...
Helen Stewart
Jun 30, 2015
Helen Marie Dingus Stewart, 96, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, June 30, 2015, at Windsor Place in Iola. Helen was born February 26, 1919, in Mound City, Kansas and moved to Blue Mound, Kansas while in grade school. She finished her remaining years of grade school in Blue Mound. Helen married Vernon Dean Stewart in 1935. They moved to...
Donald DVM
Jun 29, 2015
Dr. Donald Hunziger passed away at his home in Humboldt, KS on June 29, 2015. He and his wife had recently moved to Humboldt from Oregon, MO. Donald Howard Hunziger was born to John and Doris (Burrier) Hunziger on Jan. 7, 1942 at Oregon, MO. He graduated from the Oregon High School in 1960. He attended and graduated from the...
Mable Scoville
Jun 27, 2015
Mable Ellen Scoville, age 100, formerly of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, June 27, 2015, at St. Mary's Manor in Blue Springs, Missouri. Mable was born September 11, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Clarence J. and Mabel (Overman) Bricker. Her father died when she was two and she moved to a farm three miles south of Iola where...
John Carl O'Malley
Jun 27, 2015
John Carl O’Malley, age 56, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma passed away at his home on June 27, 2015. John was born on September 8, 1958 at Garnett, Kansas. John was the youngest son of John Emmett and Dorothy Helen (Borth) O’Malley. Named after his father, John, and maternal grandfather, Carl Borth, he was known as JC when he was little...
Dona Laymon
Jun 25, 2015
Dona Jean Byfield Laymon was born in Neosho Falls, Kansas on April 21, 1928 to Nellie Heslop Byfield and Wessie Byfield. She graduated from Neosho Falls High School with honors in 1946 and moved to Iola. She worked at Hallmark Cards in 1949, then Sears Office in 1950. Later she worked at Becker-Brigham Oil Company, as well as for Bushey...
Elaine Page
Jun 21, 2015
Elaine B. Page, age 97, passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2015, at the Moran Manor in Moran, Kansas. Elaine was born January 10, 1918, on a farm between Mildred & Bayard, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence and Dessie (Davis) Isaac. She graduated from Mildred High School. On August 18, 1937, Elaine married Willis Page and they made their home...
Gordon Ulrich
Jun 19, 2015
Gordon Leland Ulrich, 70, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Friday, June 19, 2015 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Gordon was born April 10, 1945, in Iola, the son of Leland Herschel and Genevieve Arlene (Fleischman) Ulrich. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1963. While Gordon was attending Emporia...
Wilberta Morrison
Jun 17, 2015
Wilberta L. Morrison, 87, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Wilberta was born March 30, 1928 in Elsmore, Kansas, the daughter of William Edward and Georgia (Swanson) Ludlum. She grew up on the family farm west of Elsmore and attended Skyrocket Rural School. She graduated from Elsmore High School in 1946, and...
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