Recent Obituaries
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...
Daniel M. Arbuckle
Mar 11, 2012
Daniel M. Arbuckle, age 82, of Moran, Kansas passed away on March 11, 2012 at the Allen County Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Dan was born on March 11, 1930 at Iola, Kansas the son of Stuart V. and Inez M. (Jackson) Arbuckle. Dan grew up in the Iola area graduating from the Iola High School. He served in the US Army...
Josephine C. Katzer
Mar 10, 2012
Josephine C. Katzer, age 100, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, March 10, 2012, at Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett, Kansas. She was born March 19, 1911, in St. Cloud, Minnesota, the daughter of Henry and Theresa (Zormier) Egidy. In 1893, Josephine's father, Henry, at the age of 16, came over by boat to the United States from...
Karen Whitcomb
Mar 8, 2012
Karen Elaine Whitcomb, age 47, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, March 8, 2012, at her home. Karen was born on October 5, 1964, in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Darell Wayne and Mary Louise (Schomaker) Young. She grew up in the area, and graduated from Garnett High School in 1983. She worked as a CNA at Arkhaven in...
Rose Phipps
Mar 8, 2012
Rose Ann Phipps, 67, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Thursday, March 8, 2012, at Olathe Medical Center. Rose Ann was born July 21, 1944, at Leon, Iowa, the daughter of Ernest and Mary (Purdue) Owens. She grew up at DesMoines, Iowa. On March 31, 1962, Rose Ann married Ronald E. Phipps. Her husband worked construction and consequently they made their home...
Anna Mae Hirt
Mar 6, 2012
Anna Mae Hirt, age 75, of Westphalia, Kansas, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. She was born on January 3, 1937, in Quinter, Kansas, the daughter of William and Anna (Garber) Jamison. She attended school in Quinter. Anna Mae was united in marriage to Leon Hirt on September 12, 1959 in Quinter, Kansas. This union...
Lorraine Swanson
Mar 5, 2012
Former Iola resident, Lorraine S. Swanson, 93, of Overland Park, Kansas died on Monday, March 5, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 9, 2012, at the Waugh-Yokum and Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola, Kansas. Chaplain Lloyd W. Houk will officiate. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery in Iola, Kansas. Lorraine Swanson was born September 22,...
Irene Shipps
Mar 1, 2012
Irene Betty Botham Shipps, age 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, March 1, 2012, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Irene was born February 7, 1925, near Wakefield, Kansas, the daughter of George Avery and Marie (Christensen) Babb. The family moved from Wakefield to Fiscus, Iowa, then to the Junction City, Kansas area until she was 12. She settled...
Earlene A. Johnson
Feb 29, 2012
Earlene Ann Johnson, age 80, of Savonburg, Kansas, died Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, Chanute, Kansas. She was born December 21, 1931, in Chanute, the daughter of Earl and Verna Danielson Munson. Following graduation from Elsmore High School in 1949, Earlene married Harold LaVerne Johnson on May 7, 1950. He preceded her in death on...
James O'Dell
Feb 29, 2012
James O'Dell, age 76, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. James was born on July 11, 1935, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, the son of H. Claude and Bertha Pearl (Crawford) O'Dell. He was united in marriage to Carolyn Gilner on May 21, 1975, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jim worked...
Elaine Cannon
Feb 28, 2012
Elaine Theresa Cannon, 90, of Elsmore, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Elaine was born December 25, 1921, in Muskegon, Michigan, the daughter of John Lawrence and Laura (Johnson) Pearo. She married Jarvis Eugene Cannon and they lived in Michigan before moving to Elsmore in 1984. He preceded her in death...
Celia Coronado
Feb 27, 2012
Celia Melendez Coronado, 72, of Humboldt, Kansas went to be with Her Lord on Monday, February 27, 2012 at her daughter's home. Celia, "La Guera" in Mexico and "Sally" in Kansas, was born on October 21, 1939 in Jimenez, Chihuahua Mexico to Mauro Melendez Leyva and Cruz Villa de Melendez. She married Cleto D. Coronado on April 30, 1960 and...
Jack Womack
Feb 24, 2012
Jack F. Womack, 83, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 24, 2012, at Windsor Place in Iola. Jack was born February 23, 1929, in Iola, the son of Francis Walter "Fritz" and Doris Alma (Park) Womack. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1947. He served in the United States Navy and the Kansas Air...