Recent Obituaries
Leslie Wayne Watts
Apr 29, 2009
Leslie Wayne Watts, the son of Jake Watts and Ashley Croan was born and departed this life on April 29, 2009 at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kansas. He is survived by his parents, Jake Watts and Ashley Croan of Kincaid, Kansas; maternal grandparents, Terry and Verna Frye of Kincaid, Kansas; paternal grandmother, Cindy Dowghty of Kincaid, Kansas; great grandparents...
Joshua Smith
Apr 28, 2009
Joshua L. Smith, 20, of Piqua, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 28, 2009, near Quincy, Kansas, in eastern Greenwood County, after the vehicle he was a passenger in was swept off the road by high water. Joshua was born December 10, 1988, at Burlington, Kansas, the son of Robert L. & Denise M. (Karmann) Smith, Jr. He grew up on the...
Charles Turley
Apr 28, 2009
Charles W. Turley, 88, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Charles was born February 20, 1921, in LaHarpe, Kansas, the son of William Lawson and Linnie Ellen (Tate) Turley. After graduating from LaHarpe High School he served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII where he received two...
Ronald Smith
Apr 27, 2009
Ronald D. Smith, 55, of Chanute, Kansas, died Monday, April 27, 2009, at his home. He was born May 21, 1954, in Iola, Kansas, the son of Nathaniel W. and Mildred V. (Rogers) Smith. He grew up in Iola where he attended school and lived most of his life. Over the years he worked for Columbia Metals, Tramec, U.S.D. #257,...
Virginia Foster
Apr 26, 2009
Virginia Foster, 84, of Lone Elm, Kansas, died Sunday, April 26, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Virginia was born July 12, 1924, on a farm south of LaHarpe, Kansas, the daughter of George B. and Pearl D. (Kennedy) Rose. She graduated from LaHarpe High School. On August 8, 1942, Virginia married Elvin Foster and they made...
Robert Yokum
Apr 23, 2009
Robert Neal Yokum, 88, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Thursday, April 23, 2009, at his home. He was born July 7, 1920, at Nowata, Oklahoma, the son of Eli A. Delbert & Nancy Jane (Capps) Yokum. He grew up in the Westphalia area. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII where he was stationed in New Guinea as a combat...
Lloyd Claunch
Apr 21, 2009
Lloyd O. Claunch, 58, of rural Colony, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 21, 2009, at his home. Lloyd was born December 4, 1950, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of John and Helen (Snyder) Claunch. He graduated from William Chrisman High School. On April 12, 1968, Lloyd married Jeanette Caldwell and they made their home in Independence, Missouri. He continued his...
Ruth Ann Barnum
Apr 19, 2009
Ruth Ann Barnum, age 60, of Savonburg, Kansas passed away, Sunday, April 19, 2009 at the Allen County Hospital, Iola, Kansas. She was born September 11, 1948 at Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of Howard and Virgie Marie (Lees) Stinson. She grew up in Missouri, graduating from high school in Louisiana, Missouri. On July 10, 1966 she was united in marriage...
Glenna Harclerode
Apr 18, 2009
Glenna Ann "Penny" Harclerode, 60, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at her home. She was born July 14, 1948, at Iola, Kansas, the daughter of Roy and Pauline (Damron) Blevins. She grew up between Toronto and Iola. Penny was married to James Harclerode and they made their home in Florida. After his death, she moved to Missouri...
Dean Flack
Apr 18, 2009
Russell Dean Flack, 67, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Dean was born January 4, 1942, at Ft. Scott, Kansas, the son of Russell Robert and Virginia Lee (Twineham) Flack. He grew up at Moran and graduated from Moran Rural High School in 1960. He attended Washburn University for a semester...
Bill Spears
Apr 18, 2009
Wilmont H. "Bill Spears, Jr., 85, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Tara Gardens in Iola, Kansas. Bill was born April 6, 1924 in Kansas City's Waldo area. He was the only child of Wilmont H. Spears, Sr., and Viola Alice Ross Spears. In 1930 the family moved from Warsaw, Missouri to Bucyrus, Kansas. Bill graduated from...
Faye M. Stephens
Apr 18, 2009
Faye Mildred Stephens, age 86, of Kincaid, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, in Hutchinson, Kansas. Faye was born on March 1, 1923, at Udall, Kansas, the daughter of Howard and Lila (Adams) Stout. The family later moved to the Stout home place southwest of Udall until 1934, when they moved to the Douglass, Kansas community. Two years later they...
Leta L. Shinkle
Apr 17, 2009
Leta Lucille Shinkle, age 74, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on April 17, 2009 at the Golden Heights Living Center, Garnett, Kansas. She was born on May 2, 1934, in Scipio, Kansas, the daughter of Leo Ferdinand and Magdalina Mary (Mersman) Steinbacher. She grew up in the Scipio and Garnett area, graduating from Garnett High School in 1952. Leta was...
Walter Crick
Apr 17, 2009
Walter F. Crick, 93, of Burwell, Nebraska, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, April 17, 2009, at the Community Memorial Health Center in Burwell, Nebraska. Walt was born July 27, 1915, in Iola, Kansas. His father, Carlton, was a postal clerk in Iola, and his mother, Margaret, was a stay home mom. Walter had one brother who was ten years...
Clarence Bruenger
Apr 16, 2009
Clarence W. Bruenger, 90, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Thursday, April 16, 2009, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Clarence was born November 13, 1918, on the family farm east of Humboldt, to Louis F. and Agnes M. (Mueller) Bruenger. He grew up on the family farm. He served in the United States Army during World War...
Edith Dellinger
Apr 14, 2009
Edith L. Dellinger, 92, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Edith was born February 12, 1917, on a farm near Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Roy and Pearl (Haxton) Powell. On February 19, 1935, she married Sam Dellinger and they made their home in Iola. He preceded her in death on...
Golda Hermreck
Apr 12, 2009
Golda Lawhead Hermreck, age 79, passed away April 12, 2009, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was born January 13, 1930 in Elwood, NE, the daughter of Beryl and Mary Taft Lawhead. She attended schools in Nebraska before moving to Cheyenne where she met and married Gerald "Jerry" Hermreck at age 18 in 1948 and spent many happy years between farming in...
Denise Sherrill
Apr 11, 2009
Denise Ann Sherrill, 46, of Overland Park, Kansas, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday morning, April 11, 2009, in an apartment fire. Denise was born April 24, 1962, in Iola, to Sally Ann and Robert E. Sherrill. She graduated from Iola High School in 1980. She completed her degree at Pittsburg State University, receiving a bachelor of science in education...
Charles Hess
Apr 10, 2009
Charles E. "Chuck" Hess, 58, of rural LaHarpe, Kansas, died Friday, April 10, 2009, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Chuck was born March 31, 1951, in Iola, Kansas, the son of James G. and Genevieve (Ellis) Hess. He grew up on the family farm southwest of LaHarpe. He attended Zillah Grade School and graduated from Humboldt High School...
Minnie Grizzle
Apr 9, 2009
Minnie M. Grizzle, 97, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Thursday, April 9, 2009, at the Moran Manor. Minnie was born December 3, 1911, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the daughter of James and Laura (Vail) Jones. At an early age she moved with her family to a farm northeast of LaHarpe in the Diamond community. On March 16, 1929, Minnie married George F....
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