Recent Obituaries
David A. Leitch
Feb 20, 2009
David Alexander Leitch II, age 45, of Garnett, Kansas passed away Friday, February 20, 2009 at Garnett. He was born November 21, 1963 at Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Dr. David A. and Alice Mershon Leitch. David graduated from Garnett High School with the class of 1982. He worked as a carpenter and welder. He was an avid hunter...
Earl C. Conner
Feb 18, 2009
Earl C. Conner, age 86, of Bronson, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, February 18, 2009, at Mercy Health Center in Fort Scott, Kansas. He was born on October 11, 1922 at LaHarpe, Kansas, the son of Isaac and Effie (Vanderslice) Conner. Earl married Dorothy Madgeline Lowe on November 22, 1941 at Nevada, Missouri. This union was blessed with three daughters....
Kevin Ray Brock
Feb 18, 2009
Kevin Ray Brock, age 32, of Richmond, Kansas, lost his ongoing battle with cancer on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Kevin was born on May 13, 1976 in Garnett, Kansas, the son of Jerry and Marie (Peine) Brock. He graduated from Central Heights High School with the Class of 1994. Immediately following his graduation Kevin was a dedicated employee of Jarit...
Ada Hoffmeier
Feb 17, 2009
Ada M. Hoffmeier, 93, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Ada was born September 15, 1915, in Paola, Kansas, the daughter of George and Rachel (Feltenberger) McAninch. She moved to Colony with her family and graduated from high school there. On July 9, 1934, Ada married Glen H. Hoffmeier and they...
Frank Ball
Feb 16, 2009
Frank L. Ball, 80, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, February 16, 2009, at Wilson Medical Center in Neodesha, Kansas. Frank was born November 12, 1928, at Neodesha, Kansas, the son of George and Nellie (Johnson) Ball. He grew up at Neodesha and graduated from Neodesha High School. In June of 1948, Frank married Patricia L. Knuth and they made their...
Susan Erhart
Feb 15, 2009
Susan Jane Erhart, 61, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday morning, February 15, 2009, as the result of a traffic accident seven miles east of Yates Center, Kansas. Susie was born November 17, 1947, in Iola, Kansas, the daughter of John L. and Stella F. (Leake) Folk. She grew up in Iola. Susie married Daniel Cox and they divorced. She then...
Loyd Albert Peters
Feb 14, 2009
Loyd Albert Peters, age 87, of Richmond, passed away on Saturday, February 14, 2009 at his home. He was born on December 29, 1921, in Anderson County, Kansas, the son of Maurice and Ida (Benjamin) Peters. Loyd graduated from the Garnett High School with the Class of 1940, enlisting in the U.S. Navy on May 6, 1941 serving for six...
Arthur Jockman
Feb 11, 2009
Arthur F. Jockman, age 91, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2009, at the Richmond Healthcare Facility in Richmond, Kansas. He was born on October 16, 1917, in rural Greeley, Kansas, the son of Joseph Jacques Jockmans, a Belgian immigrant, and Adelherti Ellen (Peine) Jockman. Art was united in marriage to Elizabeth A. Lickteig on January 5, 1937....
Ethel Lavanchee Poovey
Feb 10, 2009
Ethel Lavanchee Poovey, age 90, formerly of Westphalia, Kansas, died on Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at the Valley Vista Good Samaritan Home in Wamego, where she had been a resident since August of 2007. She was born on September 1, 1918 at 6:15 p.m. to Charles Orthello (Dick) Green and Bertha Matilda (Drollinger) Green, in their home at 503 Normal...
Michael Shirley
Feb 10, 2009
Michael Scott Shirley, age 42, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 10, 2009, at his home. Scott was born March 26, 1966, in Garnett, Kansas, the son of William A. and Roberta J. (Morgan) Shirley. He graduated from Iola High School in 1984 and then joined the United States Air Force where he served for over twenty-two years retiring as...
Margaret Cole
Feb 9, 2009
Margaret A. Cole, 87, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, February 9, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Margaret was born April 9, 1921, at Neosho Falls, Kansas, to Andrew and Minnie (Beardon) Fields. She moved to Iola with her family and attended school here. Margaret married Raymond L. Cole in Iola, and they made their home in Chanute...
Alvina Peters
Feb 8, 2009
Alvina Frances Peters, 89, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, February 8, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola. Alvina was born October 25, 1919, at Ost, Kansas, to Arthur William and Madeline Mary (Evertz) Orth. On August 10, 1944, Alvina married Francis Fredrick "Pete" Peters at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Wichita. They made their home in Wichita until...
Rhoda Mae Raymond
Feb 6, 2009
Rhoda Mae Raymond, age 90, of Garnett, Kansas, died Friday, February 6, 2009 at Guest Home Estates in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on January 1, 1919, at the family home in rural Anderson County, Kansas, the daughter of John Merton Raymond and Iva May (Tyler) Raymond. Rhoda Mae lived most of her life in the Garnett area, with exception...
Edward Carlson
Feb 5, 2009
Edward Frank Carlson, 86, formerly of Elsmore, Kansas, died Thursday, February 5, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Edward was born August 26, 1922, on the family farm west of Elsmore, Kansas, to Oscar Frank and Signild Marie (Nielson) Carlson. He attended Old Elsmore and Skyrocket Grade Schools. Edward married Virginia Lee Lipsett and they made their...
Dr. Robert L. Stevens
Feb 5, 2009
Robert Louis Stevens, M.D. was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas, on January 14, 1923, the son of Dr. Delos Meeker Stevens M.D., and Blanche Estelle (Combs) Stevens. He attended grade and high school in Oskaloosa where he was valedictorian of his high school class. He attended the University of Kansas where he earned a B.A. in 1944 and an M.D. in...
Edith C. Miller
Feb 1, 2009
Edith C. Miller, age 86, of Richmond, Kansas, died on Sunday, February 1, 2009, at the Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett, Kansas. She was born on October 30, 1922, at Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Arthur B. Rockers and Hilda Katherine (Feuerborn) Rockers. She grew up in the Garnett area and attended the Junction School. Edith worked as a...
Jeanie Insley
Jan 31, 2009
Jeanie Toedman Insley, 64, former Iola resident, passed away peacefully at her home in Pocatello, Idaho on Saturday, January 31, 2009. Jeanie was born February 2, 1944, in Iola, Kansas, the younger of two children to Clifford Joseph and Gladys Lucille (Walker) Toedman. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1962. She worked as a...
H.W. Pannell
Jan 25, 2009
Harold Wesley "Hal" Pannell, 84, of Iola, Kansas, died Sunday, January 25, 2009, at his home. Hal was born April 30, 1924, at Joplin, Missouri, to John Benson and Nellie (Goodrich) Pannell. He grew up in the Joplin area, attended MU and completed his master's degree at Pittsburg State. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corp during WWII, where...
Margaret Mewhinney
Jan 22, 2009
Margaret Katherine Mewhinney, 84, of Gas, Kansas, died Thursday, January 22, 2009, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. Margaret was born September 7, 1924, at LaHarpe, Kansas, to Asa and Marie Ellen (Lundy) Skeen. She grew up at LaHarpe and attended school there. On May 4, 1940, Margaret married W.P. "Bill" Mewhinney in Iola. They made their home...
Ruby A. Demoret
Jan 22, 2009
Ruby A. Demoret, age 64, of Garnett, KS, died Thursday, January 22, 2009 at Anderson County Hospital, Garnett, KS. She was born April 9, 1944 in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Lester C. and Alma Fern (Hart) Demoret. She attended a country school near Lone Elm before attending the Welda Grade School. Ruby graduated from Welda High School with the...
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