Recent Obituaries
Roy W. Leake
Jun 8, 2016
Roy W. Leake, Jr., 67, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Roy was born September 9, 1948, in Colony, Kansas, the son of Roy Wilson and Elsie Lavon (Morris) Leake. He grew up in Iola and Moran, graduating from Moran High School in 1968. He joined the U.S. Navy after graduation and served on the USS Kitty Hawk...
Virginia Helen Weatherman
Jun 4, 2016
Virginia Helen Hale Weatherman, 91, of Colony, Kansas, passed away Saturday, June 4, 2016, at Allen County Regional Hospital. Virginia was born June 2, 1925, in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Jacob Elijah and Ada Bell (Moore) Hale. She grew up in Turner, Kansas, and graduated from Turner High School in 1943. On January 9, 1944, Virginia married Robert...
Darlos R Aldrich
Jun 2, 2016
Darlos “Dot” Aldrich died on June 2, 2016 at the Westview Care Center in Derby, KS. She was 91 years old. She was the youngest of four children born to Blanche (Armour) and Joseph Elvin Westervelt on January 31, 1920 on a farm near Altamont, KS. She attended Altamont Grade School and graduated from Labette County High School. At 17,...
Tracy Eleanor Rawlings
Jun 2, 2016
Tracy Eleanor Sloan Rawlings, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, June 2, 2016, at the Allen County Regional Hospital. Tracy was born October 4, 1922, in Elsmore, Kansas, the daughter of James Austin and Nora Ellen (Rhodes) Sloan. She grew up south of Moran, Kansas. On October 4, 1939, she married Roy Rawlings and they made their home in Moran....
Marie Miriam Mercuro
May 31, 2016
Marie Miriam Mercuro, 75, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the Allen County Regional Hospital. Marie was born July 30, 1940, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the daughter of Raymond and Marie (Dering) Smith. She grew up in New Jersey and worked at Community Medical Center in Toms River, New Jersey before moving to Iola in 2004....
Delores Wilson
May 31, 2016
Delores Ruth Wilson, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. She was born November 15, 1931, in Elsmore, Kansas, the daughter of Fred F. and Anna Emily Caroline (Seastedt) Tippie. Delores attended Elsmore schools, graduating from Elsmore High School in 1949. After graduation, she worked for a brief...
Virginia Ellen Larson
May 28, 2016
Virginia Ellen Larson, 75, of Savonburg, Kansas, passed away on May 28, 2016, at her home surrounded by the family she loved. Virginia was born on October 11, 1940, near Urbana, Kansas, to parents Alfred and Ellen Rost. During her childhood, the family resided in several Neosho County communities, ultimately settling on a farm west of Stark. She graduated from...
Doris Robertson
May 24, 2016
Doris Wolf Mitchell Robertson, age 90, of Eudora, Kansas, formerly of Iola, completed her life journey on this earth at Medicalodge in Eudora, Kansas and went home to be with Jesus on May 24, 2016. Doris was born on August 8, 1925, to David and Rissie Wolf, in rural Gate, Oklahoma. She was the sixth of ten children. One sister,...
Robert E. Wilper
May 22, 2016
Robert Edward Wilper, age 58, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2016, The House at Midland Care, in Topeka, Kansas. Robert Wilper was born Klaus Ewe Kaulen on March 23, 1958 in Cologne, Germany. Edward John and Agnes Mae (Korte) Wilper adopted Klaus Ewe and Ralf Joseph on October 26, 1962 and loved them with all their...
Dorothy M. Schuster
May 21, 2016
Dorothy M. Schuster, age 95 of Garnett passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at her home in Garnett. Dorothy was born May 25, 1920. She was the first of two daughters born to Fred and Mary (Light) Brown. Her father worked for the railroad; thusly the family made their home in several Kansas towns while Dorothy was young. She...
Stephen Ray Moyer
May 21, 2016
Stephen Ray Moyer, 64, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, May 21, 2016, at Stormont Vail Healthcare in Topeka. Steve was born April 13, 1952, in Iola, the son of William Edward and Doris Jean (Schuster) Moyer. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1970. He has always made his home in Kansas, most recently...
Richard D. Crabtree
May 18, 2016
Richard D. Crabtree, age 80, of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at Garnett, Kansas. He was born July 25, 1935, at LeRoy, Kansas, the son of William and Myrtle (Rohr) Crabtree. Richard graduated from LeRoy High School with the Class of 1954. He joined the Marine Corps in 1954 serving for eight years as a mortorman...
Dorothy Catron
May 14, 2016
Dorothy J. Catron, 78, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, May 14, 2016, at her home surrounded by her loving family. Dorothy was born June 29, 1937 at Iola, the daughter of Edward "Eddie" Frank and Helen Elizabeth (Sicka) Smith. Her mother died at childbirth and she was raised by her grandparents, John and Hannah Smith on the family farm...
Mignonette Kelley
May 13, 2016
Mignonette "Mig" L. Kelley, age 80, of LaHarpe, Kansas passed away May 13, 2016 at her home. Mig was born July 26, 1935 at Roseville, California, the daughter of Charles "Carlos" Ralph Schmitt and Celia (Cirby) Schmitt. She grew up in Roseville, graduating from high school there. She earned her Associates Degree from the American River Community College. On January...
Wayne Brown
May 12, 2016
Wayne Richard Brown, Sr., 68, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, May 12, 2016, at his home. Wayne was born May 7, 1948, in Mason City, Iowa, the son of Theodore Paul and Leona Irene (Fewings) Brown. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. In 1970, he married Edna Ann Curtis and they had three children before they divorced after twenty-three...
Catherine Yocham
May 11, 2016
L. Catherine Yocham L. Catherine Belcher Yocham went for a walk with the angels into her heavenly home, Wednesday May 11, 2016. Born in Howell County, Missouri Nov. 4, 1925 to John T. and Willa Rena Belcher, the 3rd child of 9, whom have all preceded her in death but one sister, Norma Goodenough of Great Bend, KS. July 4,...
Doris Shay
May 10, 2016
Doris Arlene Shay July 24, 1931 - May 10, 2016 Doris was born July 24, 1931, in Topeka, KS, the daughter of Mark and Ruth Rankin. Doris devoted her life to her family as a loving wife, mother, grandmother. She graduated from Highland Park High School and spent most of her life in the Tecumseh and Topeka areas. She is...
Kathy Spencer
May 10, 2016
Kathy Spencer passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at her home in Iola. Kathy was born Oct. 25, 1952, in Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of Bertha Burgherr and Paul Wilson, both deceased. She graduated from Shawnee Mission Northwest in 1970 and attended Emporia State University where she met her future husband, Richard Spencer. She and Richard were married...
Nadine Poss
May 10, 2016
Nadine Teter Poss, age 85, of Richmond, Kansas passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at Guest Homes Estates, Garnett, Kansas. Nadine was born October 23, 1930 in Garnett, Kansas. She was the fourth of nine children born to Tom and Anna (Sobba) Teter. She graduated from Garnett High School with the class of 1948. She worked at the Garnett...
Carl Elmore
May 9, 2016
Carl Allen Elmore, age 86, formerly of Erie, Kansas died Monday, May 9, 2016 at Sunset Manor in Waverly, Kansas. Carl was born May 25, 1929 in McCune, Kansas the son of Harvey and Violet (Wells) Elmore and grew up north of Erie, Kansas. He spent his early years working in the oil fields and on various farms before settling...
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