Recent Obituaries
Aaron Hosley
Nov 3, 2020
Aaron Hosley, age 94, passed away Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Aaron was born August 3, 1926 to John Russell and LouAda (Blunt) Hosley in Kincaid, Kansas. He graduated from Kincaid Rural High School before beginning his life-long career of being a farmer. Aaron married Sandra (Anderson) Hosley on July 6, 1952 in...
Phyllis M. Carney
Oct 31, 2020
Phyllis M. Carney, age 81, passed away Saturday, October 31, 2020, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. Phyllis was born June 16, 1939 to Roy A. and Grace L. (Tyree) Hayes in Bland, Missouri. She grew up in Cooper Hill, Missouri and graduated from high school in Belle, Missouri. She worked at Normandy Hospital in St....
John Kersley
Oct 28, 2020
John Henry Kersley passed away at his home on Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 at the age of 53. John was born on October 2nd, 1967 in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of Jane and Herb Kersley and the late John Shultz Jr. John graduated from Crest High School in Colony, Kansas in 1986. During his senior year of high...
Peter Grant Schumann
Oct 27, 2020
Peter’s “health adventure” with cancer ended October 27, 2020, at his home in Garnett, Kansas. Peter Grant Schumann, age 77, was born March 17, 1943, in Stoneham, Massachusetts, the son of Harold Grant and Jean Elizabeth (Lent) Schumann. Mourning his loss is his fiancé, Theresa Warner, of 20 years and her three daughters, Stephanie and Allen Young, Stacie and R.B....
Robert Eugene (Gene) Bennett
Oct 27, 2020
Robert Eugene (Gene) Bennett, age 90, Humboldt, Kansas, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, at the Catholic Care Center, Wichita, Kansas. Eugene was born on December 22, 1929, on his grandparent’s farm west of Humboldt, Kansas, to Robert Bennett and Alice Ruth (Strack) Bennett. Eugene grew up on a farm in Woodson County, Kansas, and enjoyed living and...
Dorothy (Pemberton) Scovill
Oct 26, 2020
Dorothy (Pemberton) Scovill, age 92, passed away Monday, October 26, 2020 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Dorothy was born April 12, 1928 to Alfred and Edna (Wisdom) Pemberton in Kansas City, Kansas. She grew up in the Kansas City, Kansas where she attended various schools before going to work for Lydia’s Café where she met her...
Rollin Eugene Henderson
Oct 26, 2020
Rollin Eugene Henderson, age 98, of Kincaid, Kansas passed away on Monday, October 26, 2020, at the Residential Living Center in Garnett, Kansas. He was born in Selma, Kansas, on May 26, 1922, the son of James Monroe and Lela (Rosell) Henderson. He grew up in Selma, Kansas, and went to school through the 8th grade. The high school was...
Sheldon Caudell
Oct 23, 2020
Sheldon Caudell, age 78, of Colony, Kansas passed away Friday, October 23, 2020, at the St. Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. Neil Sheldon Caudell was born in Buffalo, Kansas to John Thomas and Wilma Moffitt Caudell on August 16, 1942. His grandparents were Tom and Bessie Caudell and Wallace and Mildred Moffitt. Sheldon graduated from Altoona-Midway High School with the...
Keith Locke
Oct 23, 2020
Keith Locke, age 91, of Iola, Kansas left the bonds of Earth to pursue his passion-flying. Keith passed away in the early morning hours on Friday, October 23, 2020, at Windsor Place, Iola, Kansas. Robert Keith Locke was the son of Claude G. Locke and Anita (Dunnington) Locke, born July 29, 1929, in Prescott, Kansas. Keith married Beverly Wolfe on...
Lorna Nokes Brecheisen
Oct 22, 2020
Lorna Nokes Brecheisen, age 94, passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2020. Lorna Nokes Brecheisen was born August 13, 1926 to Bertha and Orville Nokes in Welda, Kansas. She was the first of 6 children. Lorna grew up in farming communities around Welda, Kansas. She was graduated as salutatorian from Welda High School in 1944 and attended the University of...
Adam (A.C.) R. Church
Oct 20, 2020
Adam (A.C.) Russell Church, age 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away Tuesday, October 20, 2020, in a motorcycle accident near Owasso, Oklahoma, Adam was born December 7, 1976, in Iola, Kansas, to Fred K. Church and Janet G. (Lord) Church. Adam graduated from Iola High School in 1995. He ran track and competed in high jump. Adam still holds a...
Ruby Stubbs-Shackelford
Oct 20, 2020
Ruby Mae Stubbs-Shackelford of Moran, Kansas, daughter of Arthur and Grace (Welborn) Hilt, was born May 7th, 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas and departed this life on October 20th, 2020 at the age of 85. Ruby was a resident of the Iola area for over 20 years. She was a member of the Rob and Gun Club in Moran, Kansas....
Ruth C. Shanahan
Oct 20, 2020
Ruth Colleen Shanahan, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, died on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, at the age of 89. Born in Colony, Kansas on October 3, 1931, she was the oldest daughter of Vernon Chatterton and Hazel (Markley) Chatterton. Ruth celebrated her life to the fullest by devoting herself wholeheartedly to the wellbeing of her family and friends. After growing...
Larry Frank Polfer, Sr.
Oct 19, 2020
Larry Frank Polfer, Sr., age 80, of Bucyrus, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 19, 2020, at his home. He was born on February 24, 1940, in Miami County, Kansas, the son of Frank and Ruth (Young) Polfer. Larry graduated from Spring Hill High School in Spring Hill, Kansas. Larry married Carolyn I. Baldwin on March 23, 1963 in Olathe,...
Helen Louise Weide
Oct 18, 2020
Helen was born December 9, 1955 in Iola to LeRoy Vernon and Helen Pauline (Anderson) Hill. She graduated from Iola High School. Helen married Timothy Pilcher in 1973, they later divorced. In April 1976, she married Galen Watts and were blessed with three daughters. They divorced in 1988. She married Robert Heiman in November 1999. He preceded her in death....
David Zimmerman
Oct 16, 2020
David Matthew Zimmerman, age 55, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2020, at KC Hospice House, Kansas City, Missouri. Dave was born on July 25, 1965, he was the first of two sons born to William Arthur Zimmerman and Juanita (Hilt) Zimmerman. Dave grew up in Fairway, Kansas, graduating from Shawnee Mission East High School. Dave loved music and enjoyed...
Janet Lynn Chriestenson
Oct 16, 2020
Janet Lynn Chriestenson, age 69, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on October 16, 2020, at her home. Janet was born on December 18, 1950, at Gardner, Kansas. Janet was the first of six children born to Dick Leslie Perdue and Pauline Joyce (Dana) Perdue. Most of her growing up years were in Roeland Park and Olathe, Kansas. She especially enjoyed...
Agnes M Lickteig
Oct 14, 2020
Agnes Madglena Lickteig, age 85, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, October 14, 2020, at St. Luke’s South Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born on August 29, 1935, in Scipio, Kansas, the daughter of Edward and Madglena (Wolken) Rockers. She attended East Scipio School and graduated from Greeley High School with the Class of 1953. After graduation she...
John Shields
Oct 13, 2020
John Christopher Shields, age 63, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, October 13, 2020. John, better known as "Johnny", was born on March 26, 1957, in Elgin, Illinois, the son of Raymond and Florence (Hermreck) Shields. John moved to Garnett from northern Illinois in 1966, with his family. He attended Holy Angels School and then Garnett High School, graduating...
Patricia Lynn Hammer
Oct 12, 2020
Patricia Lynn Hammer, age 69, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on October 12, 2020, at Anderson County Hospital. Lynn was born October 12, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri. She moved with her family to Iola, Kansas, the summer she was seven years old. She graduated from Iola High School and Allen County Community College. She married Lavon Hammer of rural...
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