Recent Obituaries
Sharon Blomquist
Oct 3, 2023
Sharon E. Blomquist, age 74, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at the Anderson County Hospital in Garnett. Sharon was born on April 6, 1949, the daughter of James and Helen (Ramsour) Cubit. She first attended a one room schoolhouse, Washington School, before graduating from Garnett High School in 1967. Sharon was very active in 4-H,...
Gary W. Farrar
Oct 2, 2023
Gary W. Farrar, age 76, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 2, 2023 at home in Garnett, surrounded by loved ones. Gary Wayne Farrar was born on October 8, 1946, in Garnett, Kansas. He was the first of three children born to Hubert Ryland and Juanita Helen (Cunningham) Farrar. Gary graduated from Garnett High School in 1964. He...
Doris Church
Oct 1, 2023
Doris Church, age 98, of Lone Elm, Kansas passed away on Sunday, October 1, 2023 in Iola, Kansas with her family by her side. Doris Arlene Garver was born January 5, 1925 at Lone Elm, Kansas. She was the third of four children born to Ray and Nora Grace (Hamilton) Garver. She grew up in the Lone Elm community where...
Margaret Rose Morgan
Sep 29, 2023
Margaret Rose Morgan, lifelong member of the Greeley community, peacefully departed this world on September 29, 2023, at the age of 87. Born on October 31, 1935, in Greeley, Kansas, Margie was a cherished daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother. Margie was the tenth of ten children born to Louis and Theresa (Schraml) Sommer and grew up on the farm...
Ralph Eugene Dowell II
Sep 28, 2023
Ralph Eugene Dowell II, passed away September 28, 2023, at his home in Wichita, Kansas. Ralph was born on January 21, 1958 to Ralph Eugene Dowell Sr. and Francis Violet (Reiter) Decker, the fifth of eight children. Ralph attended school in Iola and graduated from Iola High with the class of 1976. Ralph retired from Precision Pattern, Inc. of Wichita,...
Elizabeth King
Sep 27, 2023
Elizabeth Agnes "Bessie" King, age 91, passed away September 27, 2023, surrounded by family, at the Quail Creek Skilled Nursing in Springfield, Missouri. Elizabeth was born on July 2nd, 1932, in Scotland, Texas, to Alphonse and Caroline (Haberman) Prescher. On September 18, 1950, she married Edward Joseph "Ed" King in Scotland, Texas. They made their home at Piqua, Kansas and...
Fern Miller
Sep 26, 2023
Fern Marie Miller, the first born daughter of Osie Lee Hirt and Amy Alice (Riffey) Hirt, was born January 19, 1926 at home near Westphalia, Kansas. Fern passed away on Tuesday, September, 26, 2023 at Guest Home Estates in Garnett, Kansas at the age of 97 years, eight months and seven days. She lived her entire life in Kansas. In...
Mary Virginia (Ginny) Reaves
Sep 26, 2023
Mary Virginia (Ginny) Reaves, age 100, of Humboldt, Kansas, went to be with her Lord and Savior on September 26, 2023. Ginny was born March 24, 1923, in Florence, Kansas, to Otto A. Powers and Cora M. (Stroup) Powers. Ginny graduated in 1941 from Iola High School. She and Donald E. Reaves were married October 4, 1941, in Yates Center,...
Myrtle Violet Caudell
Sep 25, 2023
Myrtle Violet Caudell, age 90, of Iola, Kansas, passed away September 25, 2023, at Moran Manor, Moran, Kansas. Myrtle was born March 9, 1933, in Yates Center, Kansas, Aaron E. Hamilton and Rebecca Myrtle (Park) Hamilton. Myrtle attended school in Yates Center. She and Billy B. Caudell, Sr. were married December 23, 1951, in Buffalo, Kansas. Myrtle was a homemaker....
Betty Louise Parker
Sep 22, 2023
Betty L. Parker age 94, passed away on September 22, 2023, at Moran Manor in Moran, Kansas. She was born November 22, 1928, in rural Humboldt, Kansas, to Cecil and Georgia (Brooks) Kirby. She married L.R. Parker on June 2, 1978, and they made their home in Gas, Kansas. She was a member of St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Iola...
Mary M. Schornick
Sep 21, 2023
Mary Margaret Branson Schornick, age 79, of Yates Center, Kansas, passed away September 21, 2023, at Yates Center Health & Rehab. Mary was born January 14, 1944, to John and Margaret (Allan) Branson in Eureka, Kansas. She attended school in Eureka and graduated from Eureka High School in 1962. In 1966, she graduated from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas,...
Cloyce Eugene Anderson
Sep 19, 2023
Cloyce Eugene Anderson, age 91, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. Cloyce Eugene Anderson was born on August 5, 1932, in Belton, Missouri, the son of Cloyce Landon and Clara Edith (Averill) Anderson. The family moved to Colony when Gene was 11 years old. Gene graduated Colony High...
Russell F. Gardner
Sep 19, 2023
Russell Flynn Gardner, 89 of Jefferson, Maryland, passed Tuesday, September 19, 2023 peacefully at home with his wife after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was born November 25, 1933 in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Russell H. Gardner and Ida Virginia (McAfee) Gardner. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force serving from 1955 to 1963,...
Doris L. Rogers
Sep 18, 2023
Doris Lee Rogers, age 87, of Iola, Kansas, passed away September 18, 2023, at Moran Manor, Moran, Kansas. Doris was born August 12, 1936, in Richmond, Kansas, to Robert Crick and Gladys (West) Crick. Doris and Dale Weien were married in 1951 and had two sons. They later divorced. She married Elvin Holtz and they had a son and a...
Betty L. Sumner
Sep 13, 2023
Betty L. Sumner, age 98, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, at the Anderson County Hospital. She was born on January 30, 1925, in Ottawa, Kansas, the daughter of William J. and Mabel Glasser Marks, the tenth of eleven children. Betty was united in marriage to J.H. "Pete" Sumner on June 23, 1943, in Ottawa, Kansas....
Phyllis O. Adams
Sep 13, 2023
Phyllis Opal Adams, age 74, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on September 13, 2023, at her home surrounded by family and loved ones. She was born on November 21, 1948, in Garnett, Kansas, the youngest child of Benjamin Franklin and Opal Lucille (Long) Parks. Phyllis attended grade school in Mont Ida, attended her freshman year at Westphalia, and completed her...
Roland "Jerry" Rowe
Sep 12, 2023
Roland Jerome "Jerry" Rowe, age 95, of Iola, Kansas, passed away September 12, 2023, at Heritage Health Center, Chanute, Kansas. Jerry was born at home on January 18, 1928, in Bazine, Kansas. He was the oldest of four children born to Roland Vernon Rowe and Millie (Mounce) Rowe. Jerry attended school in Bazine and Garnett, Kansas. He graduated in 1946...
Kathryn Elizabeth Wilmoth
Sep 10, 2023
Kathryn Elizabeth Wilmoth, age 87, of Iola, Kansas, passed away September 10, 2023, at Heartland Meadows, Iola, Kansas. Kathryn was born August 1, 1936, on a farm southeast of Yates Center in Owl Creek Township to Francis R. (Frank) O'Brien and Mary B. (Totman) O'Brien. Kathryn attended country schools at Cherry Creek and New York Valley near the O'Brien family...
Brian Scott Carlson
Sep 8, 2023
Brian Carlson, age 52, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday, September 8, 2023, at his home. Brian Scott Carlson was born on September 21, 1970, in Park Ridge, Illinois. He was the third of four sons born to Richard Carlson and Jane (Garza) Carlson. Brian graduated from Wheeling High School with the class of 1989. Brian was a lifelong...
Frances Hunt Scearce
Sep 6, 2023
Frances Irene Scearce, age 75, of Iola, Kansas, passed away September 6, 2023, at St. Francis Via Christi, Wichita, Kansas. Frances was born December 19, 1947, in Iola, Kansas, to Lewis A. Hunt and Vera (Thompson) Hunt, but was lovingly raised from birth to young adulthood by grandparents, James and Alice Gregg. Frances graduated 1965 from Iola High School. She...
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