Recent Obituaries
Donna Holinsworth
Oct 26, 2010
Donna Carole Holinsworth, 59, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Donna was born March 11, 1951, at Fort Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Harlan B. and Bessie Revona (Odam) Stokes. She grew up in the LaHarpe area. On March 25, 1995, Donna married H.E. Holinsworth in Humboldt where they made their home. She has worked at Everbrite Electronics...
Dorothy E. Dalton
Oct 25, 2010
Dorothy E. Dalton, age 90, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 25, 2010, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. Dorothy was born on July 8, 1920, in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Ralph and Mable (Harrison) Murphy. She graduated from Garnett High School with the Class of 1938. She graduated from Halstead Hospital School of Nursing in Halstead,...
Kenneth W. Knight
Oct 22, 2010
Kenneth Wayne Knight, age 82, of Centerville, Kansas, died on October 22, 2010 at the Anderson County Long Term Care Facility in Garnett, Kansas. He was born June 1, 1928, in Centerville, Kansas, the son of Harry Austin Knight and Minnie Belle (Kline) Knight. Kenneth graduated from Parker High School and worked part-time for the railroad. He went to Idaho...
Grace M. Macklin
Oct 21, 2010
Grace Mae Macklin, age 95, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, October 21, 2010, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. Grace was born on August 27, 1915, in Greeley, Kansas, the daughter of Orn and Margaret Leah (Nolte) Fox. She graduated from Parker Rural High School in 1933. She was united in marriage to Ralph T. Macklin on May...
Gordon Larson
Oct 21, 2010
Gordon Vaughn "Sam" Larson, 87, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Thursday, October 21, 2010, at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt. Gordon was born September 13, 1923, in Chanute, Kansas, the son of Harold and Ina (Vaughn) Larson. He grew up in the Petrolia and Iola areas and graduated from Iola High School in 1942. He served as a Merchant Marine during...
Carl William Leim
Oct 18, 2010
Carl William Leim, age 95, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 18, 2010, at the Girard Medical Center in Girard, Kansas. Carl was born in 1915, in New York, New York, the son of Carl William Leim Sr. and Gertrude (Heck) Leim. He grew up and went to school in Upper New York and served in the U.S....
Rex Shisler
Oct 17, 2010
Rex Shisler, 88, of Gas, Kansas, died Sunday, October 17, 2010, at his home. Rex was cremated and his memorial services will be 3:30 p.m. on November 6 at the Iola, Kansas Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. Rex was born Feb. 9, 1922, in Stanberry, Missouri, the son of Paul Morris Shisler and Ila Christina Kenyon McGhay. His father died...
Joseph Eric White
Oct 9, 2010
Joe White, age 33, of Roeland Park, Kansas, formerly of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, October 9, 2010. Joe was born on March 21, 1977, at Topeka, Kansas, the son of Eric White and Betty Gilpin. He grew up in Garnett, and graduated from Anderson County High School in 1995. Joe was a member of Anderson County Wrestling for...
Edwin Nord
Oct 8, 2010
Edwin J. "Ed" Nord, 90, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, October 8, 2010 at his home. Ed was born June 3, 1920 at Milan, Missouri the son of Joseph Martin and Neville Sperry (McNeiley) Nord. He grew up in Utah until age 11 when the family returned to Milan. He attended Oak Grove Rural School and graduated from Milan High...
Maurice Samson
Oct 6, 2010
Maurice Albert "Al" Samson, Jr., 68, of Colony, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at his home. Al was born February 14, 1942, at St. Albans, Vermont the son of Maurice Albert and Lucille (Benoit) Samson, Sr. He grew up at St. Albans where he graduated from Holy Angels Catholic High School. He served in the United States Air Force...
Richard Tomlinson
Oct 6, 2010
Dick Tomlinson, 81, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. He was born July 5, 1929 in Atchison, Kansas the son of Roy N. and Sylvia F. (Jackson) Tomlinson. Dick graduated from high school in Rushville, Missouri and then received an associate degree from Highland Junior College in Kansas. He taught school...
Sharon Trester
Oct 5, 2010
Sharon Kay Trester, 64, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at her home. Sharon was born May 13, 1946 in Wichita, Kansas the daughter of Charles and Edith Lavon (Hudlin) Burkholder, Sr. She grew up in the Wichita area. Sharon married Glen Barnes and they lived in Wichita until moving to Iola in 1976 and to Cheney, Kansas...
Loraine Cleaver
Oct 5, 2010
Loraine Grimm Cleaver, 75, died early Tuesday morning, October 5, 2010, at his home near Geneva, Kansas, on the farm where he was born and raised. He was the only son of Glen Loraine Cleaver and Minnie Inez Grimm. Along with his younger sister Henrietta, he grew up working the family farm, enduring all of the hardships that came with...
Vernon Kyle
Oct 3, 2010
Vernon D. Kyle, age 55, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at his home in Garnett. He was born on September 24, 1955, in Garnett, the son of Chester and Edna (Scates) Kyle. Vernon later moved to Moran, Kansas where he graduated from Moran High School in 1973. He joined the US Army 82nd Airborne division...
Mary Bass
Oct 3, 2010
Mary Ann Bass, 51, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, October 3, 2010 at Via Christi Regional Medical Center St. Francis Campus in Wichita, Kansas. Mary was born April 24, 1959 in Marshfield, Missouri the daughter of Joe and Mary Arline (Silkey) Vestal. She grew up in the Marshfield area where she started interior and exterior home painting. She returned to...
William Allen
Oct 2, 2010
William D. Allen, 85, of Iola, Kansas died early Saturday morning, October 2, 2010 at the Moran Manor. William was born September 27, 1925, in Longmont, Colorado to James and Helen (Stover) Allen. One of 14 children, he grew up in the Loveland, Colorado area. He served in the United States Army during World War II and in the National...
Eleanor Swanson
Sep 30, 2010
Eleanor Alvina Swanson, 91, of Gas, Kansas entered her heavenly home Thursday, September 30, 2010 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Eleanor was born November 29, 1918 in Boone County, Iowa the daughter of Charles and Minnie (Arhens) Hasstedt. She grew up in the Boone, Iowa area. On September 6, 1936, Eleanor married Leslie...
Linda Trainor
Sep 28, 2010
Linda Mae Trainor, 52, of Iola, Kansas died Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at her home. Linda was born October 8, 1957, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the daughter of Daniel and Yvonne (Cook) Kelly. She grew up in New Jersey. On July 20, 1974 Linda married Michael Trainor at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Croydon, Pennsylvania. They made their home in New...
George Meiwes
Sep 27, 2010
George Joseph Meiwes, 83, of rural Moran, Kansas, died Monday, September 27, 2010, at his home. George was born May 19, 1927, in rural Okarche, Oklahoma the son of Steve and Margaret Ann (Rausch) Meiwes. He grew up in the Canadian County, Oklahoma area. On October 7, 1947, George married Gertrude E. Lagaly in St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Union...
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