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Dale Lynn "Smiley" Walters

Dale Lynn "Smiley" Walters

Nov 11, 2016

Dale Lynn "Smiley" Walters, 68, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 11, 2016, at his home. Dale was born June 8, 1948, in Iola, the son of Herman and Ramona (Reno) Walters. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School. He entered the U.S. Air Force June 1, 1966 and served in Vietnam as an Air...

Roberta Phyllis Poss

Roberta Phyllis Poss

Nov 10, 2016

Roberta Phyllis Poss, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, November 10, 2016, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Roberta was the first of two daughters born to Robert and Erna (Meyer) Legan. She was born on May 20, 1925, at San Antonio, Texas. Roberta grew up in San Antonio. At the age of 18 she moved...

Anna Marie Kratzberg

Anna Marie Kratzberg

Nov 9, 2016

Anna Marie (Sommer) Wolken-Kratzberg, age 86, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, November 9 2016, at Parkview Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on December 23, 1929, in Greeley, Kansas, along with her twin brother, Paul. Anna is the daughter of Louis and Theresa (Schraml) Sommer. She was born on a farm just north of Greeley and lived...

Donald Jones

Donald Jones

Nov 9, 2016

Donald Eugene "Don" Jones, 64, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, August 3, 2015, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Don was born January 28, 1951, in Iola, Kansas, the son of James Allen and Loretta Loraine ( Lee ) Jones. He was diagnosed with polio at the age of six but never let that hold him back throughout his life. Out...

Donald E. Jones

Donald E. Jones

Nov 9, 2016

Donald E. Jones, 81, of Gas, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, November 9, 2016, at Olathe Hospice House. Don was born May 8, 1935, in LaHarpe, Kansas, the son of Elmer and Fern (Searcy) Jones. He grew up on the family farm northwest of Moran and graduated from Moran High School. On June 8, 1958, Don married Sharon Lavon Leslie and...

Spencer Vincent Newman, Jr.

Spencer Vincent Newman, Jr.

Nov 8, 2016

Spencer Vincent Newman, Jr., 61, of LaHarpe, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at his home. Spencer was born February 17, 1955, in Abilene, Kansas, the son of Spencer Vincent and Rita Ann (Gravett) Newman, Sr. He grew up in the Iola and LaHarpe areas. Over the years, he worked at Tysons, IMP Boats, Hi-Lo in Chanute and in...

Donald Richard Dole

Donald Richard Dole

Nov 7, 2016

Donald R. Dole, 81, of Yates Center, Kansas, passed away Monday, November 7, 2016. He was born October 2, 1935, in Gypsum, Kansas, the son of Clem and Margaret (Kessler) Dole. Don Dole and ex-wife Marjorie (Smoot) Dole had two children. He is survived by his son Gary and wife Stacy of Black Hawk, South Dakota, his sister Patricia Larson...

Tim "Tim" McDermeit

Tim "Tim" McDermeit

Nov 6, 2016

Timothy Shane McDermeit, 39, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Sunday, November 6, 2016. He was born August 2, 1977 in Wheatridge, Colorado the son of Douglas and Lauralee (Fox) McDermeit. The family moved to Iola in 1979. He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Clifford and Waunita McDermeit, Richard and Enaze Fox and his father, Douglas. Tim is survived...

Dorothy May Bingham

Dorothy May Bingham

Nov 5, 2016

Dorothy Bingham, age 96, formerly of Iola died Saturday, Nov 5, 2016 at Centralia, KS. Dorothy was born in Fort Scott, KS on Feb 3, 1920 to William and Oma (Eisenbrant) Crim, and was raised by stepfather Ira Bolling and her mother Oma. She grew up in the Fort Scott area where she graduated from high school in 1938. She...

Delbert Deane Harris

Delbert Deane Harris

Nov 5, 2016

Delbert D. Harris, 80, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 5, 2016, at Greystone Residential Care Community in Iola. Delbert was born October 24, 1936, in Ashland, Oregon, the middle child of seven children born to Samuel and M. Marie (Ruble) Harris. He has made his home in Springfield, Neosho, Granby and Kansas City, Missouri before moving to Iola....

Donald D. McGhee

Donald D. McGhee

Nov 4, 2016

Donald Dean McGhee, 79, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 4, 2016, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Don was born September 24, 1937, in Bloomfield, Iowa, the son of Carl and Wilma (Gilliland) McGhee. The family moved to Colony where he graduated from high school. On July 10, 1955, Don married Patricia I. Crotts at the LeRoy Christian Church....

Edward M. Mann

Edward M. Mann

Nov 4, 2016

Edward M. Mann, 84, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 4, 2016, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Ed was born September 16, 1932, in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Hunter and Elizabeth (Moore) Mann. He grew up in the Atlanta area and served in the U.S. Army. He was a certified public accountant and had his own accounting firm...

Hilda Mabel Cooper

Hilda Mabel Cooper

Nov 3, 2016

Hilda M. Cooper, formerly of Neosho Falls passed away Thursday, November 3, 2016 in Springfield, MO. She was 90 years of age. Hilda was born July 6, 1926 in Lincoln, KS to James and Ruth M. (Eslinger) Klameth. She grew up in Neosho Falls and attended a one room schoolhouse, Punkin College. She helped with the work on her family's...

Paula Annette Sigler

Paula Annette Sigler

Nov 3, 2016

Paula A. Sigler, 60, of La Harpe passed away Thursday, Nov 3, 2016 at her home. Paula was born in Iola, KS on Nov 22, 1955 to Russell and Lauramae (Moore) Sigler Anderson. When Paula was in the second grade her family moved to Wisconsin. Paula attended Ricks College in Idaho. She moved in 1985 to Augusta, GA and lived...

Etta Marie Egidy

Etta Marie Egidy

Oct 31, 2016

Etta Marie Egidy, age 93, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Monday, October 31, 2016 at Olathe Hospice House, Olathe, Kansas. She was born March 26, 1923, at Scipio, Kansas, the oldest of five children of Oscar and Rose (Hochstatter) Setter. She attended St. John's School and Greeley High School. She was a member of St. John's Church and Altar...

David Lee Ball

David Lee Ball

Oct 30, 2016

Former Moran, Kansas resident David Lee Ball passed away Sunday, October 30, 2016, at his home in El Dorado, Kansas, surrounded by his family following a lengthy illness. He was 87 years old. David was born Oct. 24, 1929 in Iola, Kansas, the son of Clint and Romolia Modesta (Arbuckle) Ball. He grew up in Iola and attended Iola schools...

Max V. Snodgrass

Max V. Snodgrass

Oct 29, 2016

Max V. Snodgrass of Iola died October 29, 2016, at Windsor Place in Iola. He was born November 16, 1929, in Isabel, Kansas to Leslie R. and Lillie L. (Lefever) Snodgrass. He moved with the family to Allen County in 1932, attending the Iola Schools and graduating from Iola High School in 1948. He served with the U.S. Army during...

Edward Clifford "Bud" Nott, Jr.

Edward Clifford "Bud" Nott, Jr.

Oct 22, 2016

Edward C. "Bud" Nott, Jr., 84, passed away Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, at Greystone Assisted Living Center in Iola after a long battle with Parkinson's disease and cancer. He was born March 4, 1932, in Abilene, Texas, to Clifford and Alene (Drennen) Nott. He graduated from Abilene High School and the University of Texas, and earned a master's in business...

Patty Jean Talley

Patty Jean Talley

Oct 21, 2016

Patty Jean Talley, age 87, of Moran, KS passed away the afternoon of October 21, 2016, at Meadowlark Hills, in Manhattan, KS, following a long illness. She was born, in Joplin, MO, November 13, 1928, the daughter of Mary Helen (Kemper) Cormack and Kirk Shackleford Cormack. Her parents divorced and Helen remarried later, to Arthur H. Brassfield. She was a...

Paul R. Scheibmeir

Paul R. Scheibmeir

Oct 21, 2016

Paul R. Scheibmeir, age 85, of Iola, Kansas, passed away October 21, 2016 at the Allen County Regional Hospital, Iola. Paul was born on May 27, 1931 at Neosho Falls, Kansas. He was the first of two sons born to Herman J. and May C. (Henson) Scheibmeir. Paul grew up in the Neosho Falls and Piqua area, graduating from Neosho...