Recent Obituaries
Buford Peck
Nov 30, 2012
Ira Buford Peck, 84, passed away on November 30, 2012. He was born on September 4, 1928, to Ira and Velma (Slack) Peck in Iola. He spent his early childhood in Iola before the family moved to Pleasanton, where he graduated. After graduation he returned to the Iola area where he remained. In 1949 Buford married Doris Crowl. They had...
Esther Maloney
Nov 27, 2012
Esther Elizabeth Maloney, 88, of Humboldt, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, November 27, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Esther was born November 3, 1924, at Winterset, Iowa, the daughter of Archie and Lottie (Johnson) Rockwell. She came to Kansas with her family in a covered wagon. On May 20, 1942, she married William R. "Russ" Maloney and...
Larry J. Knox
Nov 27, 2012
Larry J. Knox, age 55, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on November 27, 2012, at KU Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. He was born March 14, 1957, in Yakima, Washington, the son of Joseph Frank and Clarice Ruth (Enright) Knox. He graduated from Wapato High School, in Wapato, Washington. Larry played many sports in high school. He was a talented...
Charlene Hirt
Nov 27, 2012
Charlene Hirt, age 85, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at Golden Heights in Garnett. She was born March 1, 1927, at Scipio, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Gertrude (Setter) Pickert. She grew up in the Scipio area, attending country schools before graduating from Garnett High School in 1945. Following school Charlene worked in Kansas...
Rev. Bernard Lickteig, O. Carm.
Nov 26, 2012
Reverend Bernard (Fabian Phillip) Lickteig, O.Carm., died at the age of 91 on November 26, 2012, in Olathe, Kansas. Fabian was born to (the late) Francis Joseph Lickteig and (the late) Elizabeth (Wolken) Lickteig on January 7, 1921, in Greeley, Kansas. His given name at baptism was Fabian Phillip Lickteig. He is pre-deceased by his sisters; Beatrice (Lickteig) Gilner, Agatha,(Lickteig)...
Allen Stokes
Nov 25, 2012
Allen R. Stokes, 86, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Sunday, November 25, 2012, at his home. He was born February 6, 1926 on a farm outside of Latham, Kansas to Bertlum L. and Lois M. (Ryan) Stokes. He was the third born in a large family of fourteen children, eleven boys and three girls. Allen grew up on several different...
Mary Lambright
Nov 22, 2012
Mary Elizabeth Lambright, 80, of Humboldt, Kansas, passed away Thursday, November 22, 2012. Mary was born July 13, 1932, in Neodesha, Kansas, the daughter of Milo and Opal (Chapman) Veley. She graduated from Humboldt High School and married Oswald "Oz" Bryant Lambright in 1950. They made their home in Humboldt where she worked as a CNA, administrator and activity director...
Helen Gilpin
Nov 21, 2012
Helen Elizabeth (Moore) Gilpin, 96, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, November 21, 2012, at Windsor Place, Iola, Kansas where she was in hospice care after a recent fall at her home. Born August 8, 1916 in Topeka to Roy R. and Birdie (Greenough) Moore, she was the youngest of three children. After graduating from KU and working for two years...
Betty Gilpin
Nov 17, 2012
Betty J. Gilpin, age 59, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on November 17, 2012, at the Coffey County Hospital, Burlington, Kansas. She was born March 20, 1953 at Colony, Kansas, the daughter of Junior Lee and Imogene (Sutton) Gilpin. Betty graduated from Garnett High School. Betty's jobs expressed her personality as a caregiver, helping any way she could. She was...
Charles Hiestand
Nov 12, 2012
Charles Hiestand, age 95 of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 12, 2012, at the Anderson County Long Term Care Facility in Garnett, Kansas. He was born on March 31, 1917, at Walker, Vernon County, Missouri, the son of Gideon Elmer and Lillie Myrtle (Ball) Hiestand. He grew up west of Montevallo, Missouri where he attended Science Hill School...
Richard Andres
Nov 12, 2012
Richard Lee Andres, 65, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Monday, November 12, 2012, at Lebo, Kansas. Richard was born February 4, 1947, at rural Max, Nebraska, the son of Lyle Dean and Virginia Louise (Stokes) Andres. He grew up in the LaHarpe area and graduated from LaHarpe High School in 1965. In June of 1966, Richard began serving in the...
Elsie M. Fraker
Nov 12, 2012
Elsie Fraker, age 87, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 12, 2012, at Anderson County Long Term Care in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on May 19, 1925, at Welda, Kansas, the daughter of Charles and Elva (Johnson) Cox. Elsie graduated from Welda High School in 1943. Following high school Elsie moved to San Diego, California to live...
Scott D. Adams
Nov 11, 2012
Scott Douglas Adams, age 50, of Welda, Kansas passed away at his home in Welda on November 11, 2012. He was born June 10, 1962 at Garnett the son of Ralph G. and Sharon K. (Holmes) Adams. Scott grew up in Garnett attending school there. He was a lifetime resident of Anderson County, living in Garnett or Welda all of...
John Works
Nov 9, 2012
John Robert (Jack) Works, 94, of Humboldt, died peacefully Friday morning, November 9th at his home. He was born December 4, 1917 in Humboldt, the son of George C. and Amelia (Tholen) Works. He graduated from Humboldt High School in 1936, Iola Junior College in 1938, and Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in 1940. After college, Jack...
Earl Robinett
Nov 5, 2012
Earl E. Robinett, age 91, of Kincaid, Kansas, passed away on Monday, November 5, 2012, at Anderson County Long Term Care in Garnett, Kansas. He was born on December 8, 1920, at Hartville, Missouri, the son of Jesse and Bessie (Long) Robinett. Earl lived in Johnson County, Kansas until the age of ten, moving to Coffey County, Kansas attending a...
Georgia Cleaver
Nov 3, 2012
Georgia M. Cleaver, 92, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 3, 2012, at Windsor Place in Iola. Georgia was born June 3, 1920, on the family farm at Geneva, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Anthony and Anna Thresa (Mabie) Fitzpatrick. On October 20, 1941, Georgia married Harlan F. Cleaver in Iola. They made their home and farmed most of...
Dorothy Ellis
Nov 2, 2012
Dorothy E. "Dot" Ellis, 92, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 2, 2012, at Fountain Villa in Iola. Dorothy was born March 5, 1920, in Iola, the daughter of Aloysius "Al" and Rose Clara (Zeller) Ketter. She grew up in Iola where she graduated from Iola High School in 1938 and Iola Junior College in 1940. On April 28,...
Rachel Diebolt
Nov 1, 2012
Eva Rachel Diebolt, 91, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Thursday, November 1, 2012, at the Allen County Hospital. She was born on July 3rd, 1921 to Jessie Lenore Trowbridge and Albert Benton Hutchison in Yates Center, Kansas. She attended school and later moved to Princeton, Kansas, where she finished school, graduating in 1940. She was attending nurses training school in...
Wanda Nevans
Nov 1, 2012
Wanda Nevans, 66, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012, at her home. She was born Sept. 2, 1946, at St. John's, Newfoundland. On April 14, 1979, she married Tom Nevans and they made their home in Iola. Wanda and her husband owned and operated the County Seat Restaurant in Iola for ten years. She then worked for...
June Wichman
Oct 29, 2012
June L. Wichman, 89, of Iola, Kansas, passed away Monday, October 29, 2012, at Windsor Place in Iola. June was born June 23, 1923, at Deshler, Nebraska, the daughter of Vernon and Gertrude (Brown) Coit. She moved with her family to Kansas City, Missouri and she graduated from Southeast High School. On December 29, 1945, June married Dale Wichman and...
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