Recent Obituaries
Bonnie Fay Conaway
Aug 15, 2018
Bonnie Fay Conaway, age 78, Iola, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, August 15, 2018, at Windsor Place in Iola. Bonnie was born October 9, 1939, in Neil's Creek, Missouri, near Bixby, Missouri, to Quincy and Rosie Parks Sumpter. Bonnie graduated from the Viburnum High School, Viburnum, Missouri. She and Raney P. (Buck) Conaway, Jr. were married April 21, 1958, in St....
Brittany Kathryn Wales
Aug 12, 2018
Brittany Kathryn Wales, age 28, of Augusta, Georgia, entered into rest on Sunday, August 12, 2018. Brittany was a 2008 graduate of Greenbrier High School. She attended Augusta State University. Family members include her soulmate of 11 years Joshua Patton; her father, Laurence Walter Wales of Palos Heights, Illinois; mother, Kathryn Elizabeth Harvey and stepfather James Carter Harvey of Richmond...
Joel Mersmann
Aug 9, 2018
Joel Christopher Mersmann – Died August 9, 2018, at the age of 52. He died peacefully, in his sleep at his home in Denver, Colorado. Joel was loved and will be missed terribly by his family and literally hundreds of friends from St. Louis to Denver, and across the country. Joel was born in Kansas City, Missouri, July 14, 1966....
Emma Ella Rayburn
Aug 5, 2018
Emma Ella Rayburn, age 4, LaHarpe, Kansas, passed away on August 5, 2018, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Emma was born prematurely at two pounds, ten ounces, with a rare genetic syndrome on November 9, 2013, in Iola, Kansas, to Kyle and Cassidy Cole Rayburn. Emma will be remembered for her beautiful smile and her sweet giggle....
Margery M. Hunt
Jul 31, 2018
Margery Hunt, age 88, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, July 31, 2018, at Parkview Heights in Garnett, Kansas. Margery May (Ewbank) Hunt was born June 3, 1930, in Baldwin City, Kansas, the eldest of eight children born to Oliver Freeman and Leone (Barner) Ewbank. Margery's school began at Cherry Mound School finishing 1st grade at Cedar Point rural...
Barbara Setter
Jul 27, 2018
Barbara Jan Setter of Belton, Missouri (formerly of Kansas City, Missouri and Scipio, Kansas) passed away peacefully surrounded by family on July 27, 2018 after a courageous battle against breast cancer. Barbara was born March 26, 1941 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Barbara was preceded in death by her parents Richard and Lorene Strobel. She is survived by her husband of...
Mary Lou Strunk
Jul 25, 2018
Mary Lou Strunk, age 91, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Iola, Kansas. She was born January 17, 1927, in Hamilton, Kansas, to George and Ethel (Hughes) Noble. She attended school at Leon, Kansas. Mary Lou was united in marriage to Dillon Strunk on October 27, 1945, in Iola. She resided in Iola with her husband, Dillon,...
Melvin Dean Smoot
Jul 25, 2018
Melvin Dean Smoot, age 61, of Iola, Kansas, passed away July 25, 2018, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center Emergency Room in Chanute, Kansas. Melvin was born August 5, 1956, in Iola, Kansas, to Malvin Albert Smoot and Mary Ulrich Smoot LaCrone. Melvin graduated from the Iola High School in 1974. He and Melinda Robb were married on February...
Sheldon Lee Jones
Jul 24, 2018
Sheldon Lee Jones, age 57, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, July 24, 2018. He was born on December 15, 1960, in Garnett, Kansas. Sheldon was the second of four children born to Roscoe Jones and Beverley (Teter) Nobles. Sheldon attended/survived school, starting at Greeley then Irving Elementary and Garnett High School. He was known to be a frequent...
Ruby M Foster
Jul 23, 2018
Ruby M. Foster, age 77, Humboldt, Kansas, passed away July 23, 2018, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, surrounded by her loving family. Ruby was born July 29, 1940, in Iola, Kansas, to Floyd Culbertson and Pearl Creason Culbertson. She and Gail R. "Dick" Foster were married on August 7, 1958, at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Humboldt,...
Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Thornhill
Jul 22, 2018
Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Thornhill, age 78, of Iola, Kansas, passed at her home on July 22, 2018. Betty was born on May 21, 1940, in Ogdensburg, New York, to Hilton Wylie and Dorothy (Steele) Wylie. Betty graduated high school in Buffalo, New York. She and Carl Thornhill were married on April 21, 1966, in Iola, Kansas. Betty worked at H....
Richard Eugene Abbe
Jul 15, 2018
Richard Eugene Abbe, age 71, Chanute, Kansas, passed away July 15, 2018, at Diversicare of Chanute. Richard was born June 20, 1947, in Iola, Kansas, to Clarence Abbe and Ellen Vanderslice Abbe. Richard attended school in Iola. Richard and Mary Chapman were married on March 1, 1979, in Iola. Richard was in the Kansas Army National Guard, serving from 1974...
Jewell Francis Springston
Jul 14, 2018
Jewell Francis Springston, age 91, Iola, Kansas, passed away at her home on July 14, 2018. She was born October 2, 1926, in Mountain Grove, Arkansas, to Noah W. Adams and Eller Blanche Sanders Adams. Jewell married Kenneth H. Springston on September 24, 1945, in Iola, Kansas. He passed away on July 15, 1987. Jewell graduated from the Iola High...
Mable Othick
Jul 12, 2018
Mable Othick, age 93, of Lawrence, Kansas, formerly of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, July 12, 2018, at The Windsor of Lawrence in Lawrence, Kansas. She was born October 10, 1924 in Anderson County, Kansas the daughter of Sam and Cynthia (Pittsenbarger) Stauffer. She spent her early years in Anderson and Allen Counties. She attended rural schools until 6th...
Oleata Hope Hiser
Jul 11, 2018
Oleata Hope Hiser, age 88, passed away July 11, 2018, at Greystone Assisted Living, Iola, Kansas. Oleata was born March 5, 1930, in Joplin, Missouri, to Joshua Roberts and Ollie May Rice Roberts. Oleata graduated in 1948 from the Altoona High School, Altoona, Kansas. She worked a few years as a telephone operator. Oleata and Wayne Hiser were married on...
Lowana Minckley
Jul 9, 2018
Lowana Minckley, age 78, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on July 9, 2018 at her home. Lowana Elvena Minckley was born on December 4, 1939 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Kansas to Olin and Lowana (Sherer) Minckley. Lowana attended the Ottawa Public School system, graduating from Ottawa High School in 1956. While a student, she participated in various school...
Kenneth A Ling
Jul 9, 2018
Kenneth Alto Ling, age 91, passed away at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Kenny was born August 29, 1926, southwest of Iola, Kansas, to Alto Amos Ling and Retha Butterfield Ling. He grew up on a farm north of Piqua, Kansas, and attended Star School, a one-room country school. Kenny graduated from the Neosho Falls High School in...
Susan Hiser Diebolt
Jul 7, 2018
Susan Hiser Fursman Diebolt, age 70, of Iola, Kansas, died on Saturday, July 7, 2018, at K.U. Medical Center at Kansas City, Kansas, with her family by her side. She was born April 16, 1948, to John A. Fursman, Jr. and Florence Laura Hiser Fursman and was the oldest of their four children. She graduated from Colony High School in...
Joanna Huston
Jul 5, 2018
Joanna Huston, age 79, of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, July 5, 2018, at her home. She was born October 2, 1938, at Excelsior Springs, Missouri, the daughter of Slone Irving and Margaret Geraldine (Buck) Murray. Joanna graduated from Kansas University with a degree in nursing. Joanna received a post graduate certificate in pharmacology in 1969. She married Ivan...
Gladys Zwiener
Jul 4, 2018
Gladys E. Zwiener, age 96, of Garnett, Kansas passed away Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at Guest Home Estates, Garnett. Gladys was born on March 13, 1922 at Wirt. Oklahoma. She was the second of three children born to Ernest and LaVelle (Swisher) Talbot. Her family moved to Slick, Oklahoma for a brief time before moving to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. When...
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