Recent Obituaries
Joseph L "Joe" Shrum
Mar 17, 2018
Joseph L. Shrum, age 60, of Iola, Kansas, passed away at his home on March 17, 2018. Joe was born on April 15, 1957, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to Arthur Shrum and Mildred McErackly Shrum. He attended school in Eureka Springs. Joe worked as a custodian for the Iola Schools for 38 years. Joe was known for his friendliness, his...
Michael E Johnson
Mar 15, 2018
Michael Eric Johnson, age 62, of Pittsburg, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, March 15, 2018, losing his battle to cancer at Yates Center Health and Rehab Center in Yates Center, Kansas. He was born March 23, 1955, in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Ward and Jean (White) Johnson. Michael graduated from Wichita South High with the Class of 1973. He...
Raymond L Dix
Mar 15, 2018
Raymond L. Dix, age 73, formerly of Iola, Kansas, went to be with the Lord on March 15, 2018, at Arrowood Lane Residential Care in Humboldt, Kansas. Raymond was born on April 1, 1944, in Iola, Kansas, to Van Dix and Juanita Henry Dix. Raymond married Mary Ellen Powers on January 6, 1968, in Iola, Kansas. Raymond was a member...
Earl Dean Rossman
Mar 13, 2018
Earl Dean Rossman, age 74, of Richmond, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at Freedom Behavioral Hospital, Topeka, Kansas. He was born January 3, 1944, in Franklin County, Kansas, the son of John and Agnes (Wolken) Rossman. Earl graduated from Richmond High School and worked on the family farm until moving to town to care for his mother....
Haily Marie Jean Reiter
Mar 13, 2018
Haily Marie Jean Reiter, age 13, of Iola, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola, Kansas. Haily was born January 17, 2005, in Iola, Kansas, to Adam Reiter and Amanda Bass Reiter. Haily attended school in Iola for two years before being home-schooled by her mother. Haily was very loved. She was best-known for...
Robert Henry Roush
Mar 12, 2018
Robert Henry Roush, 64, of Emporia died on Monday, March 12, 2018 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Bob was born on December 30, 1953 in Colony, Kansas the son of Henry Oliver and Arlene Culler Roush. Surviving family members include: mother, Arlene Allen of Emporia, Kansas; sisters, Shirley Marsh, and Sandy (Ray) Hines both...
Fern L Orr
Mar 10, 2018
Fern Louise Orr, age 92, formerly of Iola, Kansas, passed away on March 10, 2018, in Arkansas City, Kansas. Fern was born on November 7, 1925, in Butler, Missouri, to Howard Zinn and Leona Main Zinn. On July 10, 1945, she and Leon B. Orr were married. Fern graduated from the Kincaid High School, Kincaid, Kansas. She worked in Iola...
Madalene M. Mader
Mar 7, 2018
Madalene M. Mader, age 90, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, March 7, 2018, at Parkview Heights in Garnett. She was born September 26, 1927 in Greeley, the daughter of Joseph and Anna (Schrader) Seifert. Madalene graduated from Greeley High School in 1946. She taught school for two years, one year in Greeley and one year in Rantoul. She...
Bailey Nichole Collins
Mar 6, 2018
Bailey Nichole Collins, age 2 months, passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at Hospital District No. 5, in Harper, Kansas. She was born December 27, 2017 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Christopher Michial Collins and Kristin Schainost. Bailey was a beautiful, happy, spoiled baby and knew she was very well loved. Bailey was preceded in death by great...
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...
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