Recent Obituaries
Verba Newsome
Jan 8, 2010
Verba L. Newsome, 74, of Colony, Kansas, died Friday, January 8, 2010, at the University Of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Verba was born April 19, 1935 in Allen County, Kansas, the daughter of George W. and Dannie J. (Gregg) Wilson, Sr. She grew up in Gas City and was married to Johnnie Trester. They lived in Allen...
Father Norbert Lickteig
Jan 7, 2010
Rev. Norbert Lickteig, age 75, a priest with the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas for 48 years, passed away January 7, 2010 at his home in Shawnee. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Angels Catholic Church, Garnett, Kansas. Wake Service and visitation will also be at Holy Angels on...
Martha Sheern
Jan 5, 2010
Martha A. Sheern, age 86, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at Golden Heights in Garnett. She was born on February 11, 1923 at Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Charles and Inez (Boucher) Neal. Martha graduated from Garnett High School in 1941. She was the Salutatorian of her class. Following high school Martha attended Baker University...
Erma Meadows
Jan 5, 2010
Erma (Peggy) Meadows, 83, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 5, 2010, at her home. She was born February 24, 1926, at El Dorado, Kansas, the daughter of Herman A. and Sadie E. (Bryan) Folk. She attended school in Gas, Kansas, before moving to Illinois where she married Earnie R. Meadows on September 2, 1944 at Salem, Illinois. They started...
Beulah Moore
Jan 2, 2010
Beulah Mildred Moore, 91, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, January 2, 2010, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Beulah was born January 24, 1918, in Iola, the daughter of John A. and Hattie L. (Ratliff) Scoville. She grew up in the Colony and Iola areas. On July 30, 1937, Beulah married R. Harold Moore at Garnett, Kansas. They made...
Dotette "Dot" S. Roberts
Jan 1, 2010
Dotette "Dot" Roberts, age 94, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday evening, May 7, 2010, at Golden Heights Living Center, Garnett, Kansas. She was born on January 3, 1916, at Welda, Kansas, the daughter of George S. and Edith Oretta (Vines) Fox. She graduated from Garnett High School. She held several jobs out of school. Dot married Westley "T.W."...
Geraldine "Dean" Dean Whalen
Jan 1, 2010
Geraldine "Dean" Whalen, age 84, of Beagle, Kansas, passed away at the Villa St. Joseph in Overland Park, Kansas, on Monday, May 10, 2010. She was born on January 21, 1926, at Gainesville, Missouri, the daughter of John Thomas Chisam and Edgie (Smith) Chisam. Dean grew up in Gainesville moving to Kansas City, following school. She was united in marriage...
Mary "Lizzie" Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ray
Jan 1, 2010
Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ray, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, September 27, 2010, at Anderson County Long Term Care in Garnett. She was born on December 14, 1918, at Creighton, Missouri, the daughter of Oscar and Myrtle (Fenner) Cornett. She was the next to the youngest of nine children. At the age of three Lizzie made the...
Daniel Jacob Bishop
Dec 30, 2009
Daniel J. Bishop, age 70, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on December 30, 2009 at his home. Dan was born on May 25, 1939, near Centerville, Kansas, the son of Jacob Thomas and Erma (Giffen) Bishop. He grew up in the Blue Mound area, graduating from Blue Mound High School in 1957. He worked on his family's dairy farm while...
Fayma Vaughn
Dec 26, 2009
Fayma I. Vaughn, 86, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, December 26, 2009, at her home. Fayma was born January 20, 1923, in Mt. Vernon, Missouri, the daughter of Walter and Edna Creo (Hadlock) Garner. She lived in Mt. Vernon and was married to Henry Yancey who preceded her in death. She later married Tom C. Cornell and he also preceded...
Coletta Sprague
Dec 25, 2009
Coletta Sprague, age 79, of Lone Elm, Kansas passed away December 25, 2009 at the Menorah Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born June 25, 1930 at Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Thomas E. and Anna E. (Haffey) O'Mara. Coletta grew up in Colony graduating from high school there in 1948. She then earned her teaching certificate from the...
Ralph L. Tilton
Dec 22, 2009
Ralph L. Tilton, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, at the Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett, Kansas. Ralph was born on August 23, 1918, at Mont Ida, Kansas, the son of Roy and Hazel (Hartman) Tilton. He graduated from Welda High School in 1937. He served in the U.S. Army from December 30,...
Glenn Heffernon
Dec 22, 2009
Glenn Lee Heffernon, 87, of Piqua, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 22, 2009, at Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt, Kansas. Glenn was born July 14, 1922, at Neosho Falls, Kansas, the son of James A. and Anna (Cooper) Heffernon. He was the youngest of five children. The family moved to Iola when he was a child and he attended Iola High...
Kathryn Eckroat
Dec 20, 2009
Kathryn F. Eckroat, 95, of Piqua, Kansas, passed away at 5:00 p.m., Sunday, December 20, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Kathryn Frances Zawisza was born December 30, 1913, at Harrah, Oklahoma, the daughter of Mike and Frances Ann (Pauli) Zawisza. At the age of five, the family moved to Choctaw, Oklahoma, which is where she graduated...
Opal Chastain
Dec 19, 2009
Opal Ilean Chastain, 78, of Savonburg, Kansas, died Saturday, December 19, 2009, at her son's home near Mapleton, Kansas. Opal was born April 4, 1931, in Iola, Kansas, the daughter of Isaac N. and Effie Bell (Vanderslice) Conner. She grew up in the Iola, LaHarpe, Gas and Savonburg areas. When she was young, she worked at the honey factory in...
Katherine Hill
Dec 18, 2009
Katherine Louise Hill, 81, of Colony, Kansas, died Friday, December 18, 2009, at the Anderson County Hospital - Long Term Care Unit in Garnett, Kansas. Katherine was born March 15, 1928, at Warrensburg, Missouri, the daughter of Harry O. and Flossie Irene (Bradshaw) Hensley. She grew up in the Warrensburg area. On October 29, 1945, Katherine married James Riley Hill,...
Kellie Jo Sander
Dec 15, 2009
Kellie Jo Sander, age 24, of Moran, Kansas, passed away on December 15, 2009. Kellie was born on November 12, 1985, at Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of Paul and Kathryn (Bolte) Sander. As a young girl she enjoyed horse back riding and barrel racing at local rodeos. Kellie graduated from Marmaton Valley High School in 2004. While in high school...
Virginia Gault Cunningham
Dec 10, 2009
Virginia Gault Cunningham, age 91, of Richmond, Kansas, died on December 10, 2009, at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas. She was born on September 28, 1918, at Hamilton, Ohio, the daughter of Robert S. and Elsie (Dietrich) Gault. Her family moved to Richmond when she was nine months old; making her the longest living resident of the Richmond...
Sieglinde P. Kelly
Dec 8, 2009
Sieglinde P. Kelly, age 72, of Blue Mound, Kansas, died on December 8, 2009, at the Anderson County Hospital in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on October 27, 1937, at Ulm, West Germany. She attended schools in West Germany. Sieglinde was united in marriage to William J. Kelly II on November 20, 1978 in Garnett, Kansas. She was a hard...
Ruth Ward
Dec 8, 2009
Ruth Ward, 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 8, 2009, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Ruth was born January 24, 1922, on a farm in Graham County, Kansas. She grew up in Marysville, Kansas and was married to Charles Ward. They were later divorced. She lived in Marysville, Topeka, Wichita and Fall River before moving to Iola...
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