Recent Obituaries
Kathleen Percival
Jan 29, 2013
Kathleen Percival, 87 of Overland Park, mother of Cecelia Orcutt of Iola, passed away Tuesday, January 29th, 2013. She had battled Alzheimer's for nearly ten years. Katie was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Keith and beloved husband Daryl. She is survived by her two daughters and son-in-laws, Cecelia and Steven Orcutt of Iola and Julie and Jim...
Vincent Culbertson
Jan 27, 2013
Vincent E. Culbertson, 97, left this world and went home to Jesus on January 27th, 2013 at Chanute Health Care Center in Chanute, KS. Vincent was born to George W. Culbertson and Ida E. (Geddes) Culbertson on December 15, 1915. Vincent had three siblings. One sister, Velma, two brothers, G. Kenneth and Eugene. All have preceded him in death. On...
Audrey Clifton
Jan 27, 2013
Audrey Irene (Plumlee) Clifton, 101, of Humboldt, Kansas, former longtime Rocky Comfort, Missouri resident, passed away Sunday, January 27, 2013, at Chanute HealthCare Center. Audrey was born January 16, 1912, in Rocky Comfort, the only child of Oscar Esmond and Bessie (Link) Plumlee. She grew up in Rocky Comfort and graduated from high school there. On February 20, 1930, Audrey...
Anna Laymon
Jan 24, 2013
Anna Faye Laymon, 91, longtime Neosho Falls resident, passed away Thursday, January 24, 2013, at the Allen County Hospital. Anna Faye was born April 16, 1921, at Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Fred and Alta (Drybread) Allen. The family moved to Neosho Falls in 1931. In 1938, Anna Faye married Wayne W. Laymon and they always made their home in...
James Fincher
Jan 24, 2013
James H. Fincher, age 78, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Jim was born on May 30, 1934, in Lafayette County, Arkansas, the son of James Joseph and Dora Viola (Spence) Fincher. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force. After his time in the Air Force, he...
Twila M. Hermreck
Jan 23, 2013
Twila Mae Hermreck, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, January 23, 2013, at Anderson County Long Term Care in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on July 29, 1921, in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Jose I. and Mabel E. (Kennard) Flores. She grew up in Garnett, attending Irving Primary School. She worked at Grennan's Produce, in Garnett...
Dean Dudley "Tutt" Richards Jr.
Jan 22, 2013
Dean Dudley "Tutt" Richards, Jr., 90, of Baldwin City, KS died peacefully on Jan. 22, 2013 at the Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in the arms of family. Dean was born at Paola, KS on Jan. 18, 1923, to Dean Dudley Richards, Sr. and Verda Jane (Polkinghorn) Richards. When Dean was nine months old, he and his older brother, Frank...
Betty J. Stewart
Jan 20, 2013
Betty Jean "BJ" Stewart died on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was the younger child of M.E. "Roy" and Lucille Stewart, born on September 29, 1927, in Greeley, Kansas. She was a great-granddaughter of Valentin Gerth, one of the first Greeley settlers. Betty and her family moved to Garnett when she was about 10...
Jeffrey Jackson
Jan 20, 2013
Jeffrey Jackson, 55, of Elsmore, Kansas, passed away Sunday, January 20, 2013, at his home. Jeff was born June 17, 1957 in Iola, Kansas, to Oliver Conrad and Lorella (Brown) Jackson. He graduated from Marmaton Valley High School in 1975 and attended Allen County Community College. He worked in the oil field industry and farmed his entire life. Jeff married...
Reva Williams
Jan 20, 2013
Reva Marie Williams, 61, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away Sunday, January 20, 2013, at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. Reva was born March 14, 1951, in Eugene, Oregon, the daughter of Norman Asa and Virginia (Stevens) Williams. She grew up in Oregon and lived in several Kansas communities before moving to Ottawa in 1990. SURVIVORS: Mother: Virginia Williams of Eugene,...
Ima Jean Marmon
Jan 18, 2013
Ima Jean Marmon, age 89, of Garnett passed away Friday, January 18, 2013 at Golden Heights, Garnett, Kansas. She was born January 10, 1924 at Richmond, Kansas, the daughter of Claude and Jenny Mae (Powelson) Robinson. On February 17, 1944 she was united in marriage to Roy Marmon at El Dorado, Kansas. This union was blessed with seven children. Ima...
Charles L. Peterson
Jan 17, 2013
Charles L. "Chuck" Peterson, age 86, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 17, 2013, at his home. He was born on December 4, 1926, rural Osawatomie, Kansas, the son of Lars and Mary (Carlyle) Peterson. Chuck grew up in the Parker, Kansas area, graduating from Parker High School in 1945. He entered the Merchant Marines at the age...
Junior Gerken
Jan 17, 2013
Junior Gerken received his gift of eternal life on Jan. 17, 2013 at Chanute HealthCare Center. Junior was the grandson of Mr. & Mrs. H. H. Gerken who came as newlyweds to take a homestead 3 miles east of Humboldt in 1861. They also were charter members of St. Peter's Lutheran Church which was founded in 1863. Junior was born...
Sarah Mueller
Jan 16, 2013
Sarah Ann Mueller, 34, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Sarah was born September 19, 1978, in Iola, the daughter of Robert A. and Sarha Ann (Ellis) Peterson, Sr. She grew up in Iola and worked for S.E.K.I.L. taking care of her father. SURVIVORS: Fiance': John Williams 3 Sons: Dalton Ray Peterson,...
John Hoggatt
Jan 15, 2013
John Paul Hoggatt, 67, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. John was born June 1, 1945, in Independence, Kansas, the son of Clyde John and Hazel Irene (Jones) Hoggatt. He graduated from Yates Center High School and served in the U.S. Marine Corp. He lived in California before returning to Kansas. On...
Florence Utley
Jan 15, 2013
Florence Helen Utley, 88, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at Windsor Place in Iola. Florence was born March 26, 1924, in Nobles County, Minnesota, the eighth of thirteen children born to August and Margaret (Froham) Lange. She grew up in the rural Luverne, Minnesota area. On May 29, 1943, Florence married Marvin F. Utley in Ivanhoe, Minnesota....
Florence Lickteig
Jan 15, 2013
Florence Sophia (Brummel) Lickteig, age 94, of Greeley, KS passed away January 15, 2013 at the Anderson County Hospital, Garnett, Kansas. She was born in rural Richmond, KS on August 23, 1918 the sixth of seven children of Frederick and Helena "Lena" (Bach) Brummel. She graduated from West Scipio School in 1932. Florence grew up during the Great Depression, and...
Jeanette Snavely
Jan 15, 2013
Jeanette Snavely, 90, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at the Allen County Hospital. Jeanette was born June 27, 1922, on the family farm south of Humboldt, Kansas, the daughter of John Henry and Idessa (Michael) Stranghoner. She grew up at Rose and on a farm northwest of Yates Center. On April 19, 1941, Jeanette married Merle...
Marybelle Pruitt
Jan 14, 2013
Marybelle Ada Pruitt, age 87, of Aurora, Colorado passed away at home on Monday, January 14, 2013 after a battle with liver cancer. Her children Russell and Sharon were with her. Born in Allen County, Kansas on May 1, 1925, Mary was one of eleven children of Raymond Uriah Jackson and Bertha Viola Colgin. Mary grew up on a farm...
Dorothy Treat
Jan 14, 2013
Dorothy Duncan Treat, 85, formerly of Iola, passed away Monday, January 14, 2013, at Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler, Kansas. Dorothy was born June 16, 1927, in Paragould, Arkansas, the daughter of Floyd L. and Edith F. (McDonald) Eubanks. She grew up in Arkansas and Louisiana. In 1950, Dorothy married Dean Duncan and they made their home in Missouri...
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