Recent Obituaries
Lorraine Swanson
Mar 5, 2012
Former Iola resident, Lorraine S. Swanson, 93, of Overland Park, Kansas died on Monday, March 5, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, March 9, 2012, at the Waugh-Yokum and Friskel Memorial Chapel in Iola, Kansas. Chaplain Lloyd W. Houk will officiate. Burial will follow in Highland Cemetery in Iola, Kansas. Lorraine Swanson was born September 22,...
Irene Shipps
Mar 1, 2012
Irene Betty Botham Shipps, age 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, March 1, 2012, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Irene was born February 7, 1925, near Wakefield, Kansas, the daughter of George Avery and Marie (Christensen) Babb. The family moved from Wakefield to Fiscus, Iowa, then to the Junction City, Kansas area until she was 12. She settled...
Earlene A. Johnson
Feb 29, 2012
Earlene Ann Johnson, age 80, of Savonburg, Kansas, died Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, Chanute, Kansas. She was born December 21, 1931, in Chanute, the daughter of Earl and Verna Danielson Munson. Following graduation from Elsmore High School in 1949, Earlene married Harold LaVerne Johnson on May 7, 1950. He preceded her in death on...
James O'Dell
Feb 29, 2012
James O'Dell, age 76, of Greeley, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 29, 2012, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. James was born on July 11, 1935, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, the son of H. Claude and Bertha Pearl (Crawford) O'Dell. He was united in marriage to Carolyn Gilner on May 21, 1975, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Jim worked...
Elaine Cannon
Feb 28, 2012
Elaine Theresa Cannon, 90, of Elsmore, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Elaine was born December 25, 1921, in Muskegon, Michigan, the daughter of John Lawrence and Laura (Johnson) Pearo. She married Jarvis Eugene Cannon and they lived in Michigan before moving to Elsmore in 1984. He preceded her in death...
Celia Coronado
Feb 27, 2012
Celia Melendez Coronado, 72, of Humboldt, Kansas went to be with Her Lord on Monday, February 27, 2012 at her daughter's home. Celia, "La Guera" in Mexico and "Sally" in Kansas, was born on October 21, 1939 in Jimenez, Chihuahua Mexico to Mauro Melendez Leyva and Cruz Villa de Melendez. She married Cleto D. Coronado on April 30, 1960 and...
Jack Womack
Feb 24, 2012
Jack F. Womack, 83, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 24, 2012, at Windsor Place in Iola. Jack was born February 23, 1929, in Iola, the son of Francis Walter "Fritz" and Doris Alma (Park) Womack. He grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1947. He served in the United States Navy and the Kansas Air...
Susan Traw
Feb 23, 2012
Susan D. "Sue" Traw, 65, of Iola, Kansas, passed from this life into the presence of the Lord, on Thursday, February 23, 2012, at her home. She was born February 2, 1947, at Humboldt, Nebraska, the daughter of Harlan Jacob and Alice M. (Strahm) Wittmer. She grew up on the family farm at Bern, Kansas, where she graduated from high...
Rosalee Leonard
Feb 22, 2012
Rosalee Leonard, age 73, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at her home. She was born on September 14, 1938, in Selma, Kansas, the daughter of Paul William and Juanita Ayers. She attended school at Welda High School and graduated from Garnett High School. Rosalee was united in marriage to Clifford Milton Wells on January 21,...
Melba Heath
Feb 22, 2012
Melba Jan Heath, 69, of Iola, Kansas, died Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Melba was born October 1, 1942, in Madill, Oklahoma, the daughter of Otto Wall and Roberta Christine (Collins) Byrd. She graduated from high school in Pratt, Kansas. In 1960, she married Clayton Eugene Dunham and they made their home in the...
Laverta W. Ackerman
Feb 20, 2012
Laverta W. Ackerman, age 82, of Lawrence, Kansas, formerly of Savonburg, Kansas, passed away on Monday, February 20, 2012, at Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence, Kansas. She was born on June 30, 1929, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the daughter of Gullis Despain and Lennie Wyse Despain Hayes. She graduated from Richmond High School in Richmond, California. Laverta was united in marriage to...
Sheila Rae Thoele
Feb 18, 2012
Sheila Rae Thoele, age 44, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2012, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on August 8, 1967, in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of George Lawrence and Carolyn "Carol" (Moore) Thoele. Sheila grew up in the Turner area before moving DeSoto where she graduated from DeSoto High School in...
L. LaRee Thexton
Feb 17, 2012
L. LaRee Thexton, age 92, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2012, at the Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Missouri. She was born on July 19, 1919, in LeRoy, Kansas, the daughter of Henry Ray and Lula (Griffith) Newlan. LaRee was united in marriage to John Thomas Thexton on July 21, 1937 at Welda, Kansas. This union...
Mildred Rombach
Feb 17, 2012
Mildred D. Rombach, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 17, 2012, at Tara Gardens in Iola. Mildred was born October 5, 1918, at Piqua, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph E. and Frances (Bux) Kress. She grew up on the family farm west of Piqua. On November 15, 1939, Mildred married George C. Rombach at Piqua. They made their home...
Shirley Chase
Feb 15, 2012
Shirley Nelson Chase, 81, died February 15, 2012, with her family by her side in Iola, KS. She was born April 9, 1930 in Lake Andes, South Dakota to James and Lena Nichols. After graduating from East High in Sioux City, Iowa in 1948, she married Donald L. Nelson. As a cattle buyer, Don and Shirley made their homes in...
Rita Luquinn Marmon
Feb 13, 2012
Rita Luquinn Marmon, age 78 of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2012, at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. She was born on March 8, 1933, in Richmond, Kansas, the daughter of M.C. "Bud" and Irene (Brown) Holloran. She grew up in the area, graduating from Garnett High School in 1951. Luquinn was united in marriage...
Leah Keagle
Feb 13, 2012
Leah Marie (Steward) Keagle, 78, of Iola went home to the Lord on Monday, February 13, 2012. Leah was born October 26, 1933 to Charles Dewey and Suzan Rebecca (Page) Steward. She was born at the family home in LaHarpe. As a toddler, the family moved to a home in Iola. This would be the same home where she spent...
Catherine Emert
Feb 13, 2012
Catherine (Kate) Emert passed away at the home of her daughter Monday, February 13, 2012. Kate and her family moved to Iola in 1961. She worked at H.L. Miller's and then was office manager at Columbia Metal Products for 24 years, retiring from there in 1993. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Sorority and enjoyed her hobbies of bowling,...
Claron G. Cole
Feb 10, 2012
Claron Glenn Cole, age 98 was born Dec. 29, 1913 to Ray D. and Edna M. Cole of Westphalia and Garnett. He lived his entire life in Garnett and was an educator in Anderson County for over 42 years. He graduated from Garnett High School in 1932 where he had taken teacher training his senior year and consequently took and...
Carol Stone
Feb 10, 2012
Carol J. Stone, 76, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 10, 2012, at the Allen County Hospital. Carol was born September 18, 1935, at rural Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Hula John and Leona Sophia (Roberts) McHenry. She grew up near the Mapleton and Fulton communities. Carol married Billy G. Meech and they made their home in the Mapleton area....
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