Recent Obituaries
Dale Marney
Apr 21, 2012
Dale C. Marney, 79, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Saturday, April 21, 2012, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Dale was born November 19, 1932, at Rocky Comfort, Missouri, the son of Champ Clark and Kate Frances (McNeill) Marney. He grew up in Rocky Comfort where he graduated from high school in 1950. On March 16, 1952, Dale...
LaVonne Atteberry
Apr 20, 2012
LaVonne Marie Atteberry, 96, of Elsmore, Kansas, died Friday, April 20, 2012 at Moran Manor in Moran, Kansas. LaVonne was born February 17, 1916, at Savonburg, Kansas to Eric Leonard and Julia Evalina (Swanson) Carlson. The Carlson family later moved to the Elsmore area where she attended East Liberty Grade School. She graduated from Elsmore High School in 1934 and...
Wallace Peine
Apr 20, 2012
Wallace Lee Peine, 80, of rural Piqua, Kansas, died Friday, April 20, 2012, at his home. Wallace was born August 30, 1931, at Greeley, Kansas, the son of Curtis John and Genevieve Emma (Kress) Peine. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa and served in the U.S. Navy. On November 17, 1950, Wallace married Phyllis Callies...
Scott Powelson
Apr 19, 2012
Scott Powelson, age 68, of Richmond, Kansas passed away on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at the Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa, Kansas following an eight year battle with cancer. Scott was born on May 2, 1943, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Calvin Scott Powelson Sr. and Edna Johanna (Brown) Powelson. He graduated from Garnett High School in 1961. Following...
Rosemarie Stifter
Apr 16, 2012
Rosemarie Stifter, age 91, longtime resident of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Monday, April 16, 2012, at Anderson County Hospital Long Term Care in Garnett. She was born on September 1, 1920, at home in Greeley, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Huss) Hastert. She attended eight grades at St. John's Catholic School and four years at Greeley High...
Mildred Ansell
Apr 15, 2012
Mildred C. "Midge" Ansell, 82, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, April 15, 2012, at her home. Midge was born November 5, 1929, at Medoc, Missouri, the daughter of Hosea and Jessie (Berry) Seeber. She lived in Missouri until moving to Iola in 1946. On March 26, 1946, Midge married Earl Croley and they made their home in Iola. She worked...
Melvern Judd
Apr 14, 2012
Melvern "Mel" K. Judd, age 87, of Centerville, Kansas, passed away on April 14, 2012 at the Mercy Hospital, Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born November 11, 1924, at Melvern, Kansas, the son of Fred and Blanche (Snyder) Judd. Mel attended school in Ottawa, Kansas, until entering the US Army in June of 1943. He was wounded in action in...
Clara Shetlar
Apr 13, 2012
Clara L. (Shelton) Shetlar, 91, passed away on April 13, 2012 in Houston, Texas after suffering a stroke the Friday before. She was born in Watova, OK on August 29, 1920 to Mary Rose-Shelton and Harry Shelton. She grew up in the Mildred-Moran, KS area where her parents operated a family farm. She married Marvin Roy Shetlar of Bayard, KS...
Margaret Karr
Apr 11, 2012
Margaret F. Karr, 81, of rural Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at the Moran Manor. Margaret was born November 27, 1930, on the family farm at Piqua, Kansas, the daughter of John C. and Mary (Bruggeman) Weber. The family moved from Piqua to a farm northeast of Humboldt where she attended school. On November 29, 1952, Margaret married...
Viola M. Sommer
Apr 11, 2012
Viola M. Sommer, age 88, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on June 3, 1923, in Anderson County, Kansas, the daughter of Albert and Theresa (Mersman) Kipper. She grew up in Scipio and attended school there. Viola worked in Kansas City as a housekeeper following school. Viola...
Jane McCoy
Apr 9, 2012
Jane McCoy, of Garnett, Kansas, formerly a longtime resident of Manhattan, Illinois, passed peacefully on Easter Sunday night. She is survived by her daughter Sheila McCoy and her favorite son-in-law Dennis Hachenberg of Garnett, Kansas, one sister Rita McQueen of Wilton Center. Numerous nieces, nephews and lifelong friends also survive. Jane was preceded in death by her parents, her loving...
Roannah McDonald
Apr 8, 2012
Roannah McDonald, age 93, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012, at Anderson County Long Term Care in Garnett. She was born on June 7, 1918, in Moran, Kansas, the second child of eleven born to Homer Curtis and Ruby Visalia (Wilson) Kent. Roannah was united in marriage to Merritt William McDonald on May 23, 1936,...
Tracy Vail
Apr 5, 2012
Tracy M. Vail, age 76, of Belton, Missouri, passed away on Friday, April 5, 2012, at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on September 12, 1935, at Hamburg, Arkansas, the son of Jesse Lee and Anna Lois (Roberts) Vail. He grew up in Hamburg, living there until he joined the Army in 1958. While in...
Thomas Maxwell
Apr 4, 2012
Thomas R. Maxwell, 84, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at Iola Nursing Center. Tom was born December 8, 1927, at Oakmont, Pennsylvania, the son of John V. and Edith (Mattner) Maxwell. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated from high school in 1945 at Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. Tom served in the United States Army during the Korean War....
Ruth Hoffmeier
Apr 4, 2012
Ruth Hoffmeier, age 89, of Welda, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at Anderson County Hospital Long Term Care in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on August 29, 1922, in Welda, Kansas, the daughter of Dave and Julia (Prohaska) Brecheisen. Ruth graduated from Welda High School in 1941. Ruth worked at Cessna in Wichita, Kansas and the Army...
Madge Schell
Apr 4, 2012
Madge Schell, 84, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 4, 2012, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Madge was born February 1, 1928, on a farm in Wilson County, Kansas, the daughter of Floyd and Georgia (Wiltse) Dunaway. She graduated from Chanute High School in 1946, and then from cosmetology school at Emporia. She worked several years as a...
Opal Duggan
Apr 2, 2012
Opal Irene Duggan from Gas, KS passed away April 2,2012 at Windsor Place. She was born May 23, 1926 in Skidmore, MO to Dick Earl Gray and Opal Marie Myers who preceded her in death. She graduated from Iola High School in 1945. She worked at Southwestern Bell as a telephone operator in Iola. She married Curtis Elmer Duggan in...
Venita Kelly
Apr 2, 2012
Venita Ann Kelly, age 58, of Seneca, Missouri, passed away on April 2, 2012 at Freeman West Hospital, following a six month illness of pancreatic cancer. Venita was born April 20, 1953 in Corona, CA, the daughter of Marvin and Carol Jane (Bell) Mersman. She moved to Seneca in 1975 and had worked as a secretary for the Seneca School...
Charles Morrison
Apr 1, 2012
Charles "Pete" Morrison, age 81, of Centerville, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, April 1, 2012, at his home. He was born May 8, 1930, the son of William Allen and Anna Agnes (Dinsmore) Morrison. He was born on a farm near Goodrich, one of eleven children. Charles attended grade school at Finley. Charles married Mary A. Reed on May 22,...
Vievie Teague
Mar 29, 2012
Vievie M. Jewell Teague, rural LaHarpe, died on Thursday, March 29, 2012, at Windsor Place in Iola. She was 96. Vievie was born on her parent's farmstead a mile east of Princeton, KS, on November 6, 1915. She was the only child of Samuel and Nellie Griffith Jackson. When she was three, her father bought a livery stable in Iola,...
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