Recent Obituaries
Blane Anthony Lewis
Mar 5, 2018
Blane Anthony Lewis, infant son of James Lewis and Destinie Vargas passed away on Monday, March 5, 2018 at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center of Chanute, Kansas. Blane was born at 3:24 AM, he later passed away at 4:32 AM. Blane was preceded in death by his step-grandfather, John B. Griffith and a brother, Rusbel Vargas, Jr. He is survived...
Daniel Edward Creitz
Mar 5, 2018
Daniel "Dan" Edward Creitz, age 81, of Iola, Kansas, passed away unexpectedly on March 5, 2018, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Dan was born on July 8, 1936, in Emporia, Kansas, to Dale P. Creitz and Opal Marie Roberts Creitz. Dan married his high school sweetheart, Jeannene Ann Brazil, on December 23, 1956, at the First Methodist...
Solomon A Evans
Mar 4, 2018
Solomon Aaron (Sol) Evans, age 84, of Yates Center, Kansas, passed away on March 4, 2018, at Windsor Place, Iola, Kansas. Sol was born on April 11, 1933, in Park Hill, Oklahoma, to Carmon N. Evans and Ora F. Hensley Evans. Sol was married to Barbara George in 1958 and they later divorced. He married Leinetta Ferree on June 26,...
Myrtle Francis
Mar 4, 2018
Myrtle Ilean Shepard Francis, age 91, formerly of Colony, passed away on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at Greystone Residential Care in Iola, Kansas. Myrtle was the sixth of nine children born to Madison Pail and Bessie (Offield) Shepard. She was born on November 2, 1926 in Mercer County, Missouri. The family lived in the Coffey/Anderson county area where Myrtle and...
Jerry Lee Whitworth
Mar 4, 2018
Jerry Lee Whitworth, 75, passed away surrounded by his family at Allen County Regional Hospital in Iola on Sunday, March 4, 2018. Jerry was born on January 18, 1943 in El Dorado, Arkansas, the son of W.J. (Whit) and Fannie Sue Whitworth. He grew up in El Dorado and graduated from El Dorado High School in 1961. He attended and...
Mary Mildred Haen
Mar 2, 2018
Mary Mildred Haen, age 97, of Piqua, Kansas, passed away on March 2, 2018, at Greystone Assisted Living in Iola, Kansas. Mary was born to Joseph A. Bruggeman and Hattie Rose Wolz Bruggeman on July 23, 1920, at Piqua, Kansas. Mary and Hubert J. Haen were united in marriage on November 16, 1949, at St. Martin's Catholic Church in Piqua,...
Alma Herschberger
Feb 27, 2018
Alma Herschberger, 92, of Iola passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at the home of her daughter in Ottawa. She was born September 15, 1925 in Weatherford, Oklahoma to Ezra Yoder, Sr. and Jemima (Mullet) Yoder. She married Noah Herschberger February 26, 1952 in Garnett. Together they made their home in Anderson County, and moved to Iola in the mid...
Decker Booth Spillman
Feb 27, 2018
Decker Booth Spillman, 85, of Iola, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at his home. He was born September 26, 1932 in rural Kincaid to Dewey Edward and Wilma Anna (Decker) Spillman. He graduated from Kincaid High School in 1950. He served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956. He married Sandra McGhee on March 19, 1970...
Roma June Fincher
Feb 26, 2018
June Fincher, age 82, of Sterling, Kansas, formerly of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, February 26, 2018, at Sterling Presbyterian in Sterling, Kansas. Roma June Holt was born on March 17, 1935, at Satanta, Kansas, the daughter of LeRoy and Winifred (Black) Holt. She grew up on a farm near Lone Elm with her four brothers, graduating from Welda...
Alisha Lynn Finney
Feb 25, 2018
Alisha Lynn Finney, age 27, of Greeley, passed away on February 25, 2018, at her home. She was born on September 23, 1990 in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of James E. and Jackie (Irish) Finney. She graduated from Lakemary Center, Paola, Kansas in 2011. Alisha was one of thirteen foster children and the one of the four children that were...
Jonathan Stephen Gray
Feb 25, 2018
Jonathan Stephen Gray, age 44, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, February 25, 2018, at his home. He was born on April 6, 1973, in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Melvin and Vickie (Allen) Gray. Jonathan graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. He was an electronics and software engineer in Emporia at...
Dennis E. McBride
Feb 20, 2018
Dennis E. "Denny" McBride, age 80, of Yates Center, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at Windsor Place, Iola, Kansas. He was born in Yates Center, Kansas, on June 13, 1937, to William "Hap" McBride and Lucille Moore McBride. He graduated from the Yates Center High School. He and Nancy Shaffer were married in 1960 in Miami, Oklahoma. Denny...
Linda Carter
Feb 19, 2018
Linda L. Carter, age 73, of Olathe, Kansas, passed away on Monday, February 19, 2018, at her home. Linda Lou Kipper was born January 23, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was the only child of George and Marjorie (Kincheloe) Kipper. She grew up in Kansas City, Kansas Linda attended Maccochaque grade school in Kansas City, Kansas, graduating from Rosedale...
Charlotte Arvada Swift
Feb 18, 2018
Charlotte Arvada (Lammon) Swift, age 86, of Colony, Kansas, passed away Sunday, February 18, 2018, at Parkview Heights, Garnett, Kansas. She was born in Hartman, Colorado on January 29, 1932, to Jay Lammon and Ora Dill Lammon. She met the love of her life while still in high school, and married Robert Elmer "Bob" Swift on April 15, 1950, in...
Dan Barcus
Feb 17, 2018
Dan Stephen Barcus, age 62, passed away on Saturday, February 17, 2018, at Richmond Healthcare in Richmond, Kansas. Dan was born October 26, 1955, to Leo and Mary Barcus of Agency, Iowa. He graduated from Cardinal High School in Eldon, Iowa in 1973. After high school, Dan attended Ottumwa Heights Junior College in Ottumwa, Iowa. While there he met his...
Lucille Rockers
Feb 16, 2018
Lucille Rockers, age 77, of Garnett, Kansas passed away Friday, February 16, 2018 at her home in Garnett. Helen Lucille Volz was the tenth of thirteen children born to Paul and Teresa E. (Hastert) Volz. She was born on January 22, 1941 at Greeley, Kansas. She grew up at Greeley, graduating from Greeley High School with the class of 1959....
Lola F. Thornton
Feb 14, 2018
Lola F. Thornton, age 90, of Topeka, Kansas, formerly of Garnett, passed away on Wednesday, February 14, 2018, at Stormont-Vail Hospital, Topeka. She was born October 8, 1927, near Virgil, Kansas, the daughter of William R. and Mabel E. (Young) Phillips. Lola graduated from Madison High School with the Class of 1944. She continued her education at Kansas State Teacher's...
Jeffery S. Haen
Feb 13, 2018
Jeffery S. Haen, age 47, of Iola, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at his home. Jeff is the second of two children born to Nancey Haen. Jeff was born on June 25, 1970 at Allen County Hospital, Iola, Kansas. He grew up in Iola and Uniontown before they moved to Missouri, where he attended school at Patton....
Roberta West
Feb 11, 2018
Roberta Mariea West, 90, of Colony, Kansas, passed away in the presence of her family at St. Luke's Hospice House on February 11, 2018. Roberta was born May 18, 1927, in rural Kansas. The eldest child of Claude and Mary (O'Dell) McGhee, she grew up near rural Colony and graduated from LeRoy High School at age 17 in 1944. On...
Kip Coleman "Kippy" Betts
Feb 9, 2018
Kip C. Betts, 58, of Savonburg, Kansas, went home to his heavenly Father on Friday, February 9th, 2018. He was born January 24, 1960, in Piqua, Ohio, to William and Marcia (Walker) Betts. He leaves behind numerous siblings and extended family in Ohio and enjoyed visiting with them on social media. He dearly loved his sister Miriam Raymond and they...
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