Recent Obituaries
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,...
Betty J. Cope
Mar 28, 2012
Betty June Cope, age 83, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born July 1, 1928, in Hume, Missouri, the daughter of Charles and Alta (Shoemaker) Powls. She attended Hume High School in Missouri. Betty married Bud Lytle and this union was blessed with two sons, Robert "Butch" Lytle...
LaVerne Wittman
Mar 26, 2012
LaVerne H. Wittman, age 89, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, March 26, 2012, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born June 11, 1922, at Ellsworth, Kansas, the daughter of Frank Nicholas Kueser and Gertrude Helen (Hermreck) Kueser. She attended school at East Scipio, taught by nuns from Ursuline Academy, Paola, Kansas. After graduating from 8th grade...
Ruth Evans
Mar 25, 2012
Ruth M. Evans, 100, of Iola died Sunday, March 25, 2012, in Iola. Ruth was born Sept. 18, 1911, in Chanute. The family moved to Mildred in 1927 where Ruth graduated from high school. She later attended Pittsburg State Teachers College and taught first through eighth grades at two country schools near Bayard. Ruth lived near Bayard for 33 years...
Beverly Middleton
Mar 22, 2012
Beverly J. Taylor-Middleton, 74, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, March 22, 2012, at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita, Kansas. Beverly was born May 28, 1937, at Adrian, Minnesota, the daughter of Raymond and Iva (Baumann) Lawrence. She grew up at Adrian and graduated valedictorian of the Adrian High School Class of 1955. On June 20, 1955, Beverly married...
Lawrence Tidd
Mar 21, 2012
Lawrence F. Tidd, 78, formerly of rural Moran, Kansas, died Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at Catholic Care Center in Bel Aire, Kansas. Lawrence was born September 2, 1933, in Neosho Falls, Kansas, the son of Frank and Elizabeth (Diebolt) Tidd. On January 31, 1955, Lawrence married Mary E. Boles at the First Methodist Church Parsonage in Iola by Rev. E.E....
Joseph L. Humbert Jr.
Mar 20, 2012
Joseph L. Humbert Jr., age 80, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at the Anderson County Hospital in Garnett, Kansas. Joe was born on April 23, 1931 in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Joseph L. Humbert, Sr. and Lenora (Finch) Humbert. He attended Greeley High School, graduating in 1950. Joe was a member of the U.S....
Martha Seaton
Mar 17, 2012
Martha Seaton, 90, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, March 17, 2012, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. She was born August 3, 1921 near Conway, Missouri, the daughter of John Martin and Sarah Margie (Essary) Hawk. She graduated from Conway High School in 1940. On May 12, 1944, Martha married Deane R. Seaton from Abilene, Kansas, and lived in...
Warren Johnson
Mar 13, 2012
Warren M. Johnson, 88, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Warren was born July 4, 1923, at Saunders County, Nebraska, the son of Swan A. and Dora T. (Nelson) Johnson. The family moved to a farm in the Moran area in 1925 from Nebraska. On October 6, 1945, Warren married Myrtle...
Nancy Smith
Mar 11, 2012
Nancy L. Smith, 65, of Iola, Kansas, passed away peacefully at her home on Sunday, March 11, 2012, surrounded by her family after a two year battle with cancer. Nancy was born January 25, 1947, at Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of Leonard W. and Ella Mae (Marsh) Colvin. She grew up in Chanute and graduated from Chanute High School in...
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