Recent Obituaries
Joy Gibson
Oct 15, 2011
Joy Rain Gibson, 53, of Westphalia, Kansas, died Saturday, October 15, 2011, at Coffey County Hospital in Burlington, Kansas. Joy was born June 14, 1958, in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of James Albert and Shirley Sue (Culver) Young. On May 9, 1974, Joy married Larry Gibson and they made their home in Arkansas for 20 years before moving to...
Virgil Grizzle
Oct 14, 2011
Virgil L. Grizzle, 82, of Chanute, Kansas, died Friday, October 14, 2011, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Virgil was born September 19, 1929, in Iola, Kansas, the son of George F. and Minnie M. (Jones) Grizzle. He graduated from LaHarpe High School. On November 13, 1949, Virgil married Wanda Lee Larkey and they made their home...
Larry William Mains
Oct 12, 2011
Larry Mains, age 73, of Garnett, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at his home. He was born on October 22, 1937, in Garnett, Kansas, the son of Ralph and Thelma (Sanders) Mains. He grew up in the area, graduating from Garnett High School. Larry was in the U.S. Army for two years following high school. Larry was...
Glenda Laver
Oct 10, 2011
Glenda Laver, "Pug", age 64, of Moran, Kansas, passed away at home surrounded by her loving family Monday, October 10, 2011. She will always be remembered as a devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother. Glenda was born May 29, 1947, in Kansas City, Kansas to Ezra and Mary Phillips. Glenda accepted Christ at an early age. Her faith guided her...
Frank Clubine
Oct 10, 2011
Frank P. Clubine, 74, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, October 10, 2011, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. Frank was born November 14, 1936, at Independence, Kansas, the son of Clyde Corwin and Edna "Viola" (Romig) Clubine. He grew up on the family farm at rural Havana. He was a charter member and first president of...
Jack McBride
Oct 10, 2011
Jack H. McBride, 68, of Moran, Kansas, died Monday, October 10, 2011, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Jack was born November 25, 1942, in Texarkana, Texas, the son of John Henry and Vila Mae (Farren) McBride. He grew up in Texas and married Ruth Alred and they were later divorced. He served in the United States Air...
Frances Smith
Oct 9, 2011
Frances Pauline Smith, age 90, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, October 9, 2011, at the Moran Manor. Frances was born September 14, 1921 at Colony, Kansas, the daughter of Lloyd and Ethel (Heath) Weatherman. She grew up in Colony and graduated from Colony High School, Iola Community College, and began teaching school at Moran. On September 24, 1944, Frances married...
Max Nichols
Oct 8, 2011
Max Alan Nichols, 58, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, October 8, 2011, in Bourbon County. Max was born February 18, 1953, in North Platte, Nebraska, the son of Malcolm C. and Virginia Lee (Boeker) Nichols. He grew up at Mulvane and graduated from Mulvane High School in 1971. Max attended Wichita Technical Institute and received his certification in heating and...
Betty Leslie
Oct 4, 2011
Betty Jean Leslie, 89, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at Iola Nursing Center. Betty Jean was born February 16, 1922, in Iola, the daughter of William Lloyd and Inez Isabell (Ransom) Gardner. She grew up in Iola. On October 17, 1937, Betty Jean married James A. "Orb" Leslie and they made their home in Iola. She worked...
Leota M. Waddell
Oct 4, 2011
Leota Mae Waddell, age 94, of Moran, Kansas, formerly of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, October 4, 2011, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. She was born on July 5, 1917, in the old Allen County Hospital of La Harpe, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Stella (Leake) Adams. Leota married George S. Waddell on June 5,...
Theadore E. Pope II
Oct 3, 2011
Theadore E. (Teddy) Pope, II, age 22, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 3, 2011, at Midland Hospice House in Topeka, Kansas. Teddy was born on February 28, 1989, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Theadore E. and Esther M. (Finley) Pope. He was preceded in death by his father, Theadore E. Pope; nephew, Cooper Boeck; two...
Braden Rae Hunt
Oct 1, 2011
Braden Rae Hunt, age 16, of Kincaid, Kansas passed away Saturday, October 1, 2011, the result of an automobile accident. Braden was born January 22, 1995 at Garnett, Kansas the son of Dusty and Dee (Bowen) Hunt. Braden grew up in the Kincaid area attending school at Crest elementary in Kincaid. He attended Anderson County Junior High. He was currently...
Neil Bedenbender
Oct 1, 2011
William Neil Bedenbender, 85, of rural Neosho Falls, Kansas, went to be with our Lord on October 1, 2011. Neil was born February 24, 1926, on a farm in southeast Coffey County, the son of Oscar and Ethel Kate Bradley Bedenbender. He graduated from Colony High School and served in the United States Navy during World War II in the...
Paul Goodspeed
Sep 27, 2011
Paul Martin Goodspeed, age 49, of rural Colony, Kansas, passed away at Olathe Medical Center on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Paul was born January 9, 1962 in Munich, Germany, the son of William Hunter and Ruth Marie (Martin) Goodspeed, while his father was stationed there with the United States Army. Paul grew up in southern California and joined the United...
Harold Deemer
Sep 25, 2011
Harold F. Deemer, age 75, of Olathe, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at his home. He was born on October 11, 1935, in Ravenna, Ohio, the son of Alva H. and Sarah L. (Kellar) Deemer. Harold married the love of his life, Barbara Griffith, on December 16, 1955 in Orange, Texas. Their devotion to one another was...
Kevin Murry
Sep 25, 2011
Darold Kevin Murry, 52, of Gas/Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, September 25, 2011, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Kevin was born September 1, 1959, in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Darold and June (Herron) Murry. He grew up in the Iola and Gas areas and graduated from Iola High School in 1977. He had one child, Dustin, born...
Ann Vest
Sep 22, 2011
Ann Vest, 71, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Thursday, September 22, 2011, at the home of her daughter in Iola. Ann was born April 9, 1940, in LaHarpe, Kansas, the daughter of John and Lynn (Conner) Mapes. She grew up in the Moran area. On November 7, 1956, Ann married George L. Vest, Sr. and they lived on several Allen County...
Duane McGhee
Sep 19, 2011
Duane O'Dell McGhee, 78, of Iola, Kansas, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, September 19, 2011. Duane was born January 9, 1933, on a farm at rural Colony, Kansas, the son of Claude Robert and Mary Jane (O'Dell) McGhee. He grew up at rural Colony and attended rural Anderson County schools. He was baptized at the Northcott Church...
Ron Daniels
Sep 18, 2011
Ronald E. "Ron" Daniels, 68, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at his home. Ron was born October 25, 1942, in Ft. Scott, Kansas, the only child of Chester E. and Fern V. (Anderson) Daniels. He grew up in the Savonburg and Elsmore areas. After high school, he received his bachelor's degree in business from Emporia State University...
Wayne McVey
Sep 18, 2011
Wayne Lee McVey, 86, of Wichita, Kansas, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at his home. Wayne was born July 20, 1925, in Allen County, Kansas, the son of Clarence and Pauline (Davis) McVey. He grew up in the LaHarpe area. On July 9, 1944, Wayne married Verna Belle Crone. After farming for several years in the Bronson, Colony and LaHarpe...
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