Recent Obituaries
Donald Buchholz
Nov 18, 2013
Donald Keith Buchholz, 80, of Moran, Kansas, passed away Monday, November 18, 2013, at Moran Manor. Donald was born March 3, 1933, in LaHarpe, Kansas, the son of Ewalt and Laura (Robb) Buchholz. He grew up at Moran. Donald enjoyed watching the KU Jayhawks and Kansas City Chiefs. Survivors include one brother, Larry Buchholz and wife, Judy of Tyro, Kansas,...
Lenova J. Pickard
Nov 18, 2013
Lenova Jean Pickard, age 91, of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly of Scipio, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 18, 2013 at Wedgewood Nursing Home in Fort Worth, Texas. She was born February 9, 1922 in Green Ridge, Pettis County, Missouri, the only child of Henry and Ida Belle (Craig) Marshall. Jean graduated from Westport High School with the class of...
John Heard
Nov 17, 2013
John Heard, 91, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, November 17, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola. John was born January 6, 1922, in Wheatland, Missouri, the son of Woodson and Ethel (Goodman) Heard. When he was 6 months old the family moved to Bronson, Kansas. He graduated from Bronson High School and on December 24, 1941, married Lucile Pool in...
Patricia Cole
Nov 17, 2013
Patricia Ann Cole, 62, formerly of Savonburg, passed away Sunday, November 17, 2013, at her home in Iola, Kansas. Patricia was born July 23, 1951, at home in Savonburg, the daughter of Samuel and Lucille (Baker) George. She was raised at Savonburg. On August 13, 1976, Patricia married Carl Lee Cole in LaHarpe. He preceded her in death September 7,...
Dottie Young
Nov 16, 2013
Dorothy B. "Dottie" Young, 94, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 16, 2013, at Tara Gardens in Iola. Dottie was born June 16, 1919, in Henry, Illinois, the daughter of Henry and Christina (Schlosser) Hank. She was baptized in the Catholic Church and was retired from Gates Rubber Company. SURVIVORS: 1 Daughter: Jan Scheibmeir & husband, Donald of Piqua,...
Robert Prasko
Nov 12, 2013
Robert Prasko, age 75, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola, Kansas. The fifth of six children, Robert P. Prasko was born to John and Anna (Sudol) Prasko on December 2, 1937, in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. Robert spent his childhood in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He then enlisted in the US Army in 1954. Following...
Barbara Creason
Nov 9, 2013
Barbara Joan Creason, 87, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 9, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola. Joan was born March 12, 1926, at Harris, Kansas, the daughter of Emmett and Charlotte (Richardson) Reddington. She grew up at Harris and Garnett and graduated from Garnett High School. On January 12, 1944, Joan married Clifford L. Creason and they made...
Robert G. Hiestand
Nov 8, 2013
Robert G. Hiestand, age 88, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday, November 8, 2013, at Golden Heights in Garnett. He was born on October 19, 1925, in Milo, Missouri, the son of Daniel M. and Mildred L. (Parks) Hiestand. His family moved to Anderson County in a wagon when Bob was a young boy. They lived near Mont Ida...
Lorraine D. Manbeck
Nov 7, 2013
Lorraine D. Manbeck, age 90, of Moran, Kansas passed away Thursday, November 7, 2013 at the Allen County Hospital, Iola, Kansas. She was the first of two daughters born to Edward Clyde Canfield and Carrie Opal (Sinclair) Canfield. Lorraine was born February 20, 1923 at Chicago, Illinois. Her family moved to Mildred, Kansas when she was a young girl. She...
Sherry Baker
Nov 5, 2013
Sherry Lee Baker, 66, of Hartford, Kansas, formerly of Iola, passed away Tuesday, November 5, 2013, at her home. Sherry was born October 2, 1947, in Iola, the daughter of Guy T. and Betty Lou (English) Baker. She grew up in Iola. She has made her home in Topeka, Ottawa, Burlington and Hartford. She worked for Hetlinger's in Emporia. Sherry...
Ambrosia Weide
Nov 4, 2013
Ambrosia "Amber" Dawn Weide passed into the loving arms of our Heavenly Father on November 4, 2013. Amber was born on December 30, 1978 to Stephen L. and Jeannie M. Tippie Weide in Iola, Kansas. She made her home in Iola where she was born and raised. She owned and operated Amber Weide Daycare out of her home for 10...
Nina L. Brown
Nov 4, 2013
Nina L. Brown, age 88, of Garnett, Kansas passed away, Monday, November 4, 2013 at St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. She was born on June 10, 1925 at Garnett, Kansas. Nina was the sixth of eleven children born to C.H. "Pop" and Ruby Visalia (Wilson) Kent. She grew up in Garnett, attending school there, before graduating from Garnett High...
Merrill Truster
Nov 4, 2013
Merrill E. Truster, age 100, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Monday, November 4, 2013 at Windsor Place in Iola, surrounded by his family. Merrill was born July 1, 1913, in Humboldt, the son of Charles N. and Virdie O. (Glenn) Truster. He attended school in Humboldt. On August 7, 1937, Merrill married Mae Beaty and they lived on a farm...
Omer A. Hermreck
Nov 4, 2013
Omer A. Hermreck, age 83, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 4, 2013, at the Anderson County Hospital in Garnett. Omer was born on May 22, 1930 in Greeley, Kansas, the seventh child of twelve of Christopher and Catherine (Pickert) Hermreck. Omer grew up in Scipio and attended the East Scipio School. His family later moved to Garnett....
Wayne Eugene Rolston
Nov 4, 2013
Wayne Eugene Rolston, age 94, passed away peacefully on Monday, November 4, 2013 in Kansas City. He was born in Westphalia, Kansas on May 11, 1919, the son of Mary Lee (Drybread) and Hugh Scott Rolston. Wayne graduated from Burlington High School in 1935. He raced greyhounds prior to being called to service in 1942, shortly after marrying Marjorie Turner,...
Wanda Close
Nov 3, 2013
Wanda J. Close, 86, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Sunday, November 3, 2013, at the Moran Manor. Wanda was born August 7, 1927, in Fredonia, Kansas, the daughter of Archie and Lura (Mozingo) Owen. She grew up at Parsons and graduated from Parsons High School in 1945. She worked as a switchboard operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone. On August 21,...
Leo Thummel
Nov 2, 2013
Leo A. Thummel, 86, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 2, 2013, at Windsor Place in Iola. Leo was born August 20, 1927, at Tipton, Kansas, the son of Joe and Anna (Simeon) Thummel. The family moved to a farm 2 miles north and 1 mile west of Piqua when he was 14. He did construction work. On June...
Deloris Krokstrom
Nov 1, 2013
Deloris "Pauline" Krokstrom, 93, of Elsmore, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 1, 2013, at Moran Manor. Pauline was born February 10, 1920, at rural LaHarpe, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Lela (Laver) Brooks. On September 3, 1941, she married Orville B. Krokstrom in Iola. They made their home at Elsmore after he was discharged from the service following WWII....
Ella Maye Johns
Oct 31, 2013
Ella Maye Johns, age 88, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, October 31, 2013, at Kansas City Hospice House, In Kansas City, Missouri. She was born January 19, 1925 in Montgomery County, Iowa, the daughter of George Gunnar and Lillie Amanda (Larson) Westerlund. She attended school in Grant, Iowa, graduating in 1942. She worked in Norfolk, Virginia during WWII,...
Thelma Louise Monroe
Oct 30, 2013
Thelma Louise Monroe, age 86, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2013, at her home after an eight month battle with cancer. She was born on August 9, 1927, the youngest child of Walter Irvin and Allie Rae (West) Farrar. She graduated from Garnett High School in 1945. On August 19, 1946, she married Charles (Sam) Borovicka....
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