Recent Obituaries
Susan Erhart
Feb 15, 2009
Susan Jane Erhart, 61, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday morning, February 15, 2009, as the result of a traffic accident seven miles east of Yates Center, Kansas. Susie was born November 17, 1947, in Iola, Kansas, the daughter of John L. and Stella F. (Leake) Folk. She grew up in Iola. Susie married Daniel Cox and they divorced. She then...
Loyd Albert Peters
Feb 14, 2009
Loyd Albert Peters, age 87, of Richmond, passed away on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at his home. He was born on December 29, 1921, in Anderson County, Kansas, the son of Maurice and Ida (Benjamin) Peters. Loyd graduated from the Garnett High School with the Class of 1940, enlisting in the U.S. Navy on May 6, 1941 serving for six...
Arthur Jockman
Feb 11, 2009
Arthur F. Jockman, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at the Richmond Healthcare Facility in Richmond, Kansas. He was born on October 16, 1917, in rural Greeley, Kansas, the son of Joseph Jacques Jockmans, a Belgian immigrant, and Adelherti Ellen (Peine) Jockman. Art was united in marriage to Elizabeth A. Lickteig on January 5, 1937....
Ethel Lavanchee Poovey
Feb 10, 2009
Ethel Lavanchee Poovey, age 90, formerly of Westphalia, Kansas, died on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at the Valley Vista Good Samaritan Home in Wamego, where she had been a resident since August of 2007. She was born on September 1, 1918 at 6:15 p.m. to Charles Orthello (Dick) Green and Bertha Matilda (Drollinger) Green, in their home at 503 Normal...
Michael Shirley
Feb 10, 2009
Michael Scott Shirley, age 42, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at his home. Scott was born March 26, 1966, in Garnett, Kansas, the son of William A. and Roberta J. (Morgan) Shirley. He graduated from Iola High School in 1984 and then joined the United States Air Force where he served for over twenty-two years retiring as...
Margaret Cole
Feb 9, 2009
Margaret A. Cole, 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, February 9, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Margaret was born April 9, 1921, at Neosho Falls, Kansas, to Andrew and Minnie (Beardon) Fields. She moved to Iola with her family and attended school here. Margaret married Raymond L. Cole in Iola, and they made their home in Chanute...
Alvina Peters
Feb 8, 2009
Alvina Frances Peters, 89, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, February 8, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Alvina was born October 25, 1919, at Ost, Kansas, to Arthur William and Madeline Mary (Evertz) Orth. On August 10, 1944, Alvina married Francis Fredrick "Pete" Peters at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Wichita. They made their home in Wichita until...
Rhoda Mae Raymond
Feb 6, 2009
Rhoda Mae Raymond, age 90, of Garnett, Kansas, died Friday, February 6, 2009 at Guest Home Estates in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on January 1, 1919, at the family home in rural Anderson County, Kansas, the daughter of John Merton Raymond and Iva May (Tyler) Raymond. Rhoda Mae lived most of her life in the Garnett area, with exception...
Edward Carlson
Feb 5, 2009
Edward Frank Carlson, 86, formerly of Elsmore, Kansas, died Thursday, February 5, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Edward was born August 26, 1922, on the family farm west of Elsmore, Kansas, to Oscar Frank and Signild Marie (Nielson) Carlson. He attended Old Elsmore and Skyrocket Grade Schools. Edward married Virginia Lee Lipsett and they made their...
Dr. Robert L. Stevens
Feb 5, 2009
Robert Louis Stevens, M.D. was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas, on January 14, 1923, the son of Dr. Delos Meeker Stevens M.D., and Blanche Estelle (Combs) Stevens. He attended grade and high school in Oskaloosa where he was valedictorian of his high school class. He attended the University of Kansas where he earned a B.A. in 1944 and an M.D. in...
Edith C. Miller
Feb 1, 2009
Edith C. Miller, age 86, of Richmond, Kansas, died on Sunday, February 1, 2009, at the Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on October 30, 1922, at Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Arthur B. Rockers and Hilda Katherine (Feuerborn) Rockers. She grew up in the Garnett area and attended the Junction School. Edith worked as a...
Jeanie Insley
Jan 31, 2009
Jeanie Toedman Insley, 64, former Iola resident, passed away peacefully at her home in Pocatello, Idaho on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Jeanie was born February 2, 1944, in Iola, Kansas, the younger of two children to Clifford Joseph and Gladys Lucille (Walker) Toedman. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1962. She worked as a...
H.W. Pannell
Jan 25, 2009
Harold Wesley "Hal" Pannell, 84, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, January 25, 2009, at his home. Hal was born April 30, 1924, at Joplin, Missouri, to John Benson and Nellie (Goodrich) Pannell. He grew up in the Joplin area, attended MU and completed his master's degree at Pittsburg State. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during WWII, where...
Ruby A. Demoret
Jan 22, 2009
Ruby A. Demoret, age 64, of Garnett, KS, died Thursday, January 22, 2009 at Anderson County Hospital, Garnett, KS. She was born April 9, 1944 in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Lester C. and Alma Fern (Hart) Demoret. She attended a country school near Lone Elm before attending the Welda Grade School. Ruby graduated from Welda High School with the...
Margaret Mewhinney
Jan 22, 2009
Margaret Katherine Mewhinney, 84, of Gas, Kansas, died Thursday, January 22, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Margaret was born September 7, 1924, at LaHarpe, Kansas, to Asa and Marie Ellen (Lundy) Skeen. She grew up at LaHarpe and attended school there. On May 4, 1940, Margaret married W.P. "Bill" Mewhinney in Iola. They made their home...
Mary Jane Holloway
Jan 22, 2009
Mary Jane Holloway, age 75, of Lone Elm, Kansas, died Thursday, January 22, 2009 at the Moran Manor, Moran, Kansas. She was born March 30, 1933 at Iola, Kansas, the daughter of Oscar and Irene (Maddox) New. Mary Jane graduated from the Colony High School and graduated with her nursing degree as a Registered Nurse in 1952 from Mercy Nursing...
Evelyn Wilkins
Jan 22, 2009
Evelyn L. Wilkins, 87, former area resident, died Thursday, January 22, 2009, at Royal Terrace Care Center in Olathe, Kansas. Evelyn was born May 18, 1921, on a farm south of LaHarpe, Kansas, the daughter of Laurence F. and Iva J. (Richmond) Kalm. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1940. In 1942, Evelyn married...
Lloyd Swanson
Jan 20, 2009
Lloyd Swanson, 89, of Overland Park, Kansas, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 20, 2009, at Manor Care in Overland Park. Lloyd was born January 21, 1919, in Savonburg, Kansas, to Ernest and Agnes Swanson of Savonburg, Kansas. He was the beloved husband of Lorraine S. Swanson; loving father of Tom Swanson & wife, Bobbi of Coffeyville, KS and...
Connie B. Hermreck
Jan 19, 2009
Connie B. Hermreck, age 77, of Garnett, died on Monday, January 19, 2009, at her home in Garnett, Kansas. Connie was born on October 28, 1931 in Richmond, Kansas, the daughter of M.C. "Bud" and Irene (Brown) Holloran. She grew up in the Garnett area, graduating from Garnett High School in 1949. She graduated from the Mt. Carmel School of...
Marjorie Norman
Jan 17, 2009
Marjorie "Marge" R. Norman, 88, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, January 17, 2009, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Marge was born October 7, 1920, in Iola, Kansas, the daughter of Frank W. and Forrest (Wiggins) Anderson. She graduated from Iola High School and Iola Junior College and then received her bachelors and masters degrees from Emporia State University....
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