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Mary Boyd

Mary Boyd

Feb 18, 2010

Mary Elizabeth Boyd, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, February 18, 2010 at the Allen County Hospital. Mary was born June 17, 1916 on a farm near Neosho, Missouri the daughter of Adelbert and Gladys (Barlow) Weston. She graduated from Neosho High School and attended Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri and then the University of Arkansas. On September 20,...

Pauline M. Ulses

Pauline M. Ulses

Feb 17, 2010

Pauline Mary Ulses, age 95, of Westphalia, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on November 27, 1914 at Colony, Kansas, the daughter of Kilian and Frances (Fritz) Ulses. She graduated from Colony High School in 1932. Pauline lived and worked in Wichita, Kansas most of her adult life. During...

Shirley Grewing

Shirley Grewing

Feb 12, 2010

Shirley A. Grewing, 81, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 12, 2010, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. She had Parkinson's disease. Born December 20, 1928 at Colony, she was the daughter of Leon and Laura (Smith) Persinger. She graduated from Kincaid High School and worked in Kansas City for a year before returning to marry Edwin F. Grewing...

Don Byron Newton Sr.

Don Byron Newton Sr.

Feb 11, 2010

Donald Byron Newton Sr., age 94, died February 11, 2010. He was born on November 21, 1915, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of George Russell Newton and Aurelia Charlotte (Krejci) Newton. He was married to Margret Heloise Baker, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 20, 1941 in Mason City, Iowa. They made their home in the Minneapolis area and Southern...

Elmer Levi Flora

Elmer Levi Flora

Feb 8, 2010

Elmer Levi Flora, son of Brother Owen and Sister Ida (Wray) Flora was born December 27, 1915, near Baldwin City, Kansas. He suddenly departed this life on February 8, 2010, in his daughter's home near Westphalia, Kansas, at the age of 94 years, 1 month, 12 days. In August of 1930, he with his parents moved to Sawyer, Kansas. He...

Arline Nusbaum

Arline Nusbaum

Feb 8, 2010

Arline B. "Leanie" Nusbaum, 76, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, February 8, 2010, at the Chanute Healthcare Center. Arline was born June 25, 1933, at Owatonna, Minnesota the daughter of Albert and Sophia (Malakowsky) Kilmer. She grew up in Owatonna and graduated from high school there in 1951. On June 2, 1951, Arline married David E. Nusbaum in Owatonna. They...

Virgil Uriah Kimberlin

Virgil Uriah Kimberlin

Feb 8, 2010

Virgil Uriah Kimberlin, age 67 of Moran, Kansas passed away, Monday, February 08, 2010 at the Allen County Hopsital, Iola, Kansas. Virgil was born July 4, 1942 at Harrisonville, Missouri, the son of Loren Estel and Helen Fay (Yeates) Kimberlin. He grew up in the Dayton community in Cass County, Missouri. In 1967 he moved to Oskaloosa, Kansas with his...

Bonnie Jepson

Bonnie Jepson

Feb 7, 2010

Bonnie R. Dannels Shepard Jepson passed away February 7, 2010. She was born August 8, 1922 in Altoona, Kansas the oldest child of Guy and Estella Lewellen Dannels. She attended Hatler school in Wilson County south of Altoona, KS and graduated salutatorian of the Altoona High School class of 1940. After graduation she came to Iola and graduated from Allen...

Lewis Tindell

Lewis Tindell

Feb 7, 2010

Lewis Tindell, age 69 of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, February 7, 2010, at the K.C. Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri. Lewis was born on September 6, 1940, at Burlingame, Kansas, the son of Roy and Carol (Oeser) Tindell. He grew up in the Burlingame area, graduating with the Class of 1958. He served in the U.S. Army...

Amanda Wolford

Amanda Wolford

Feb 5, 2010

Amanda E. Wolford, 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 5, 2010 at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Amanda was born March 9, 1922, at Potosi, Missouri, the daughter of Elmer and Edna (Dowell) Huskey. On June 11, 1939, Amanda married June Wolford in Girard, Kansas and they made their home on a farm south of Gas, Kansas. He...

Ruth Smith

Ruth Smith

Feb 2, 2010

Ruth Elizabeth Smith, 71, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at the Moran Manor Nursing Center. Ruth was born June 5, 1938, at Ft. Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Lee Roy and Ruth Elizabeth (Daw) Williams. She grew up at Ft. Scott. On January 7, 1956, Ruth married Otis Smith at Nevada, Missouri. They made their home in...

Robert E. Varvel

Robert E. Varvel

Feb 2, 2010

Robert "Bob" E. Varvel, age 76, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at his residence. Robert was born on May 6, 1933, in rural LeRoy, Kansas, the son of Glen Wilson and Vera Lily (Johnson) Varvel. He grew up in the LeRoy area, graduating from LeRoy High School. Robert was married to Marcella Houston in 1953....

Glen B. Peterson

Glen B. Peterson

Jan 31, 2010

Glen B. Peterson, age 89, of Welda, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Glen was born on September 21, 1920, at Glenburn, North Dakota, the son of Carl E. and Mary Ellen (Johnson) Peterson. Glen graduated from Welda High School and he also attended Allen County Community College. He was...

Helga Mowat

Helga Mowat

Jan 29, 2010

Helga Mowat, age 67, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday, January 29, 2010, at the St. Lukes South Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born on October 28, 1942, the daughter of Ferdinand Rudolf Alexander Hauser and Lieselotte Kathe Dagmer (Holdack). Helga graduated from high school in Berlin, Germany; marrying Jerry VanNorman, who was an enlisted soldier. This union...

Lucille Hallemann

Lucille Hallemann

Jan 28, 2010

Lucille Hallemann, age 87, of Southfield Michigan, formerly of Harris, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Southfield, Michigan. Lucille was born in Amiot, Kansas on December 7, 1922, the daughter of Michael Joseph Mulcahey and Rose Ella Minnehan. She had been a resident of Southfield, Michigan for 46 years where she had been a very active member...

Thelma L. Davison

Thelma L. Davison

Jan 28, 2010

Thelma L. Davison, age 89, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at the Richmond HealthCare and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Kansas. She was born on September 26, 1920, near Westphalia, Kansas, the daughter of Henry J. and Viola Jane (Boots) Filbrun. She was baptized by Brother Ira Hirt into the Old German Baptist Brethren Fellowship, on...

James Hardesty

James Hardesty

Jan 28, 2010

James "Jim" Hardesty, age 50, of Paola, formerly of Parker, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at the Golden Living Center in Spring Hill, Kansas. He was born on December 4, 1959 at Garnett, Kansas, the son of Carl and Joyce (Ashburn) Hardesty. He graduated from Prairie View High School in LaCygne, Kansas. After graduation, he went to...

Martha Garber

Martha Garber

Jan 26, 2010

Martha Maxine Garber, 72, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Martha was born May 12, 1937, at Arcadia, Kansas the daughter of William B. and Mary Carolina (Crites) Ross. She grew up in Arcadia and attended school there. Martha was married to Fred Marsh and they had a son before they...

Roberta Dewey

Roberta Dewey

Jan 25, 2010

Roberta Dewey, age 78, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, January 25, 2010, at the St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. She was born on April 20, 1931 at Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Earl Vernon Kelly, Sr. and Vera Mae Radcliffe. Roberta was united in marriage to Lester Hodson and three children were born to this union....

Nina Ewing

Nina Ewing

Jan 22, 2010

Nina D. Ewing, 77, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, January 22, 2010, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Nina was born September 4, 1932, at Jewell County, Kansas, the daughter of Albert M. and Ida M. (Schoen) Cameron. At the age of four, she moved to Iola with her parents. In 1950, Nina married Orville Zornes and they were...

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