Recent Obituaries
Robert Hester
Feb 22, 2010
Robert Earl Hester, 85, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Monday, February 22, 2010 at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Bob was born October 15, 1924 in Bowling Green, Kentucky the son of Virgil E. and Maude (Butler) Hester. He grew up in Kentucky and then served with the U.S. Army during WWII. He married Aberta Strong and they made...
Opal Holt
Feb 21, 2010
Opal Lucille Holt, 85, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Sunday, February 21, 2010, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Opal was born April 4, 1924 at Paola, Kansas the daughter of Roley and Marguarite (Stalker) Parrish. She lived and attended school in Yates Center until the age of sixteen. She then moved to Missouri where she finished high school and...
Elvis Gregory
Feb 21, 2010
Elvis "Ray" Gregory, 48, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, February 21, 2010, at his home. He was born January 3, 1962, at Iola, Kansas, the son of George Robert "Bob" and Vena Faye (Cuppy) Gregory, Jr. He grew up in LaHarpe until his mother's death. He graduated from Linwood High School and served in the United States Army from 1980...
Nicole Sigg
Feb 19, 2010
Nicole Kaylee Sigg, 25, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 19, 2010, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Nicole was born November 19, 1984 at Ft. Scott, Kansas and grew up in Iola where she attended school. She had completed the certified nurse's aide program at Neosho County Community College in Chanute. SURVIVORS: Her 3...
Mary Boyd
Feb 18, 2010
Mary Elizabeth Boyd, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Thursday, February 18, 2010 at the Allen County Hospital. Mary was born June 17, 1916 on a farm near Neosho, Missouri the daughter of Adelbert and Gladys (Barlow) Weston. She graduated from Neosho High School and attended Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Missouri and then the University of Arkansas. On September 20,...
Pauline M. Ulses
Feb 17, 2010
Pauline Mary Ulses, age 95, of Westphalia, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 17, 2010, at Golden Heights in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on November 27, 1914 at Colony, Kansas, the daughter of Kilian and Frances (Fritz) Ulses. She graduated from Colony High School in 1932. Pauline lived and worked in Wichita, Kansas most of her adult life. During...
Shirley Grewing
Feb 12, 2010
Shirley A. Grewing, 81, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 12, 2010, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. She had Parkinson's disease. Born December 20, 1928 at Colony, she was the daughter of Leon and Laura (Smith) Persinger. She graduated from Kincaid High School and worked in Kansas City for a year before returning to marry Edwin F. Grewing...
Don Byron Newton Sr.
Feb 11, 2010
Donald Byron Newton Sr., age 94, died February 11, 2010. He was born on November 21, 1915, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the son of George Russell Newton and Aurelia Charlotte (Krejci) Newton. He was married to Margret Heloise Baker, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 20, 1941 in Mason City, Iowa. They made their home in the Minneapolis area and Southern...
Virgil Uriah Kimberlin
Feb 8, 2010
Virgil Uriah Kimberlin, age 67 of Moran, Kansas passed away, Monday, February 08, 2010 at the Allen County Hopsital, Iola, Kansas. Virgil was born July 4, 1942 at Harrisonville, Missouri, the son of Loren Estel and Helen Fay (Yeates) Kimberlin. He grew up in the Dayton community in Cass County, Missouri. In 1967 he moved to Oskaloosa, Kansas with his...
Elmer Levi Flora
Feb 8, 2010
Elmer Levi Flora, son of Brother Owen and Sister Ida (Wray) Flora was born December 27, 1915, near Baldwin City, Kansas. He suddenly departed this life on February 8, 2010, in his daughter's home near Westphalia, Kansas, at the age of 94 years, 1 month, 12 days. In August of 1930, he with his parents moved to Sawyer, Kansas. He...
Arline Nusbaum
Feb 8, 2010
Arline B. "Leanie" Nusbaum, 76, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, February 8, 2010, at the Chanute Healthcare Center. Arline was born June 25, 1933, at Owatonna, Minnesota the daughter of Albert and Sophia (Malakowsky) Kilmer. She grew up in Owatonna and graduated from high school there in 1951. On June 2, 1951, Arline married David E. Nusbaum in Owatonna. They...
Bonnie Jepson
Feb 7, 2010
Bonnie R. Dannels Shepard Jepson passed away February 7, 2010. She was born August 8, 1922 in Altoona, Kansas the oldest child of Guy and Estella Lewellen Dannels. She attended Hatler school in Wilson County south of Altoona, KS and graduated salutatorian of the Altoona High School class of 1940. After graduation she came to Iola and graduated from Allen...
Lewis Tindell
Feb 7, 2010
Lewis Tindell, age 69 of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, February 7, 2010, at the K.C. Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri. Lewis was born on September 6, 1940, at Burlingame, Kansas, the son of Roy and Carol (Oeser) Tindell. He grew up in the Burlingame area, graduating with the Class of 1958. He served in the U.S. Army...
Amanda Wolford
Feb 5, 2010
Amanda E. Wolford, 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, February 5, 2010 at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Amanda was born March 9, 1922, at Potosi, Missouri, the daughter of Elmer and Edna (Dowell) Huskey. On June 11, 1939, Amanda married June Wolford in Girard, Kansas and they made their home on a farm south of Gas, Kansas. He...
Ruth Smith
Feb 2, 2010
Ruth Elizabeth Smith, 71, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at the Moran Manor Nursing Center. Ruth was born June 5, 1938, at Ft. Scott, Kansas, the daughter of Lee Roy and Ruth Elizabeth (Daw) Williams. She grew up at Ft. Scott. On January 7, 1956, Ruth married Otis Smith at Nevada, Missouri. They made their home in...
Robert E. Varvel
Feb 2, 2010
Robert "Bob" E. Varvel, age 76, of Colony, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at his residence. Robert was born on May 6, 1933, in rural LeRoy, Kansas, the son of Glen Wilson and Vera Lily (Johnson) Varvel. He grew up in the LeRoy area, graduating from LeRoy High School. Robert was married to Marcella Houston in 1953....
Glen B. Peterson
Jan 31, 2010
Glen B. Peterson, age 89, of Welda, Kansas, passed away on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at the Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Glen was born on September 21, 1920, at Glenburn, North Dakota, the son of Carl E. and Mary Ellen (Johnson) Peterson. Glen graduated from Welda High School and he also attended Allen County Community College. He was...
Helga Mowat
Jan 29, 2010
Helga Mowat, age 67, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Friday, January 29, 2010, at the St. Lukes South Hospital, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born on October 28, 1942, the daughter of Ferdinand Rudolf Alexander Hauser and Lieselotte Kathe Dagmer (Holdack). Helga graduated from high school in Berlin, Germany; marrying Jerry VanNorman, who was an enlisted soldier. This union...
Thelma L. Davison
Jan 28, 2010
Thelma L. Davison, age 89, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at the Richmond HealthCare and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Kansas. She was born on September 26, 1920, near Westphalia, Kansas, the daughter of Henry J. and Viola Jane (Boots) Filbrun. She was baptized by Brother Ira Hirt into the Old German Baptist Brethren Fellowship, on...
Lucille Hallemann
Jan 28, 2010
Lucille Hallemann, age 87, of Southfield Michigan, formerly of Harris, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, January 28, 2010, at Southfield, Michigan. Lucille was born in Amiot, Kansas on December 7, 1922, the daughter of Michael Joseph Mulcahey and Rose Ella Minnehan. She had been a resident of Southfield, Michigan for 46 years where she had been a very active member...