Recent Obituaries
Bill Spears
Apr 18, 2009
Wilmont H. "Bill Spears, Jr., 85, of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, at Tara Gardens in Iola, Kansas. Bill was born April 6, 1924 in Kansas City's Waldo area. He was the only child of Wilmont H. Spears, Sr., and Viola Alice Ross Spears. In 1930 the family moved from Warsaw, Missouri to Bucyrus, Kansas. Bill graduated from...
Faye M. Stephens
Apr 18, 2009
Faye Mildred Stephens, age 86, of Kincaid, Kansas, died Saturday, April 18, 2009, in Hutchinson, Kansas. Faye was born on March 1, 1923, at Udall, Kansas, the daughter of Howard and Lila (Adams) Stout. The family later moved to the Stout home place southwest of Udall until 1934, when they moved to the Douglass, Kansas community. Two years later they...
Leta L. Shinkle
Apr 17, 2009
Leta Lucille Shinkle, age 74, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on April 17, 2009 at the Golden Heights Living Center, Garnett, Kansas. She was born on May 2, 1934, in Scipio, Kansas, the daughter of Leo Ferdinand and Magdalina Mary (Mersman) Steinbacher. She grew up in the Scipio and Garnett area, graduating from Garnett High School in 1952. Leta was...
Walter Crick
Apr 17, 2009
Walter F. Crick, 93, of Burwell, Nebraska, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Friday, April 17, 2009, at the Community Memorial Health Center in Burwell, Nebraska. Walt was born July 27, 1915, in Iola, Kansas. His father, Carlton, was a postal clerk in Iola, and his mother, Margaret, was a stay home mom. Walter had one brother who was ten years...
Clarence Bruenger
Apr 16, 2009
Clarence W. Bruenger, 90, of Humboldt, Kansas, died Thursday, April 16, 2009, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. Clarence was born November 13, 1918, on the family farm east of Humboldt, to Louis F. and Agnes M. (Mueller) Bruenger. He grew up on the family farm. He served in the United States Army during World War...
Edith Dellinger
Apr 14, 2009
Edith L. Dellinger, 92, of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Windsor Place Nursing Center in Iola. Edith was born February 12, 1917, on a farm near Mapleton, Kansas, the daughter of Roy and Pearl (Haxton) Powell. On February 19, 1935, she married Sam Dellinger and they made their home in Iola. He preceded her in death on...
Golda Hermreck
Apr 12, 2009
Golda Lawhead Hermreck, age 79, passed away April 12, 2009, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She was born January 13, 1930 in Elwood, NE, the daughter of Beryl and Mary Taft Lawhead. She attended schools in Nebraska before moving to Cheyenne where she met and married Gerald "Jerry" Hermreck at age 18 in 1948 and spent many happy years between farming in...
Denise Sherrill
Apr 11, 2009
Denise Ann Sherrill, 46, of Overland Park, Kansas, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Saturday morning, April 11, 2009, in an apartment fire. Denise was born April 24, 1962, in Iola, to Sally Ann and Robert E. Sherrill. She graduated from Iola High School in 1980. She completed her degree at Pittsburg State University, receiving a bachelor of science in education...
Charles Hess
Apr 10, 2009
Charles E. "Chuck" Hess, 58, of rural LaHarpe, Kansas, died Friday, April 10, 2009, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Chuck was born March 31, 1951, in Iola, Kansas, the son of James G. and Genevieve (Ellis) Hess. He grew up on the family farm southwest of LaHarpe. He attended Zillah Grade School and graduated from Humboldt High School...
Minnie Grizzle
Apr 9, 2009
Minnie M. Grizzle, 97, of LaHarpe, Kansas, died Thursday, April 9, 2009, at the Moran Manor. Minnie was born December 3, 1911, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, the daughter of James and Laura (Vail) Jones. At an early age she moved with her family to a farm northeast of LaHarpe in the Diamond community. On March 16, 1929, Minnie married George F....
Harry Mays
Apr 8, 2009
Harry Clyde Mays of Iola, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at Windsor Place of Iola. He was born on August 8, 1920, in Greeley, KS, the son of Harry Warren Mays and Cora (Pratt) Mays. At age 14, he moved with his family to Garnett, KS. He attended Garnett High School and graduated in 1938. In 1940 he was employed...
Trena Ulery
Apr 8, 2009
Trena Lee Ulery, 33, of Chanute, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at her home in Chanute. Trena was born December 22, 1975, in Chanute, the daughter of Charles and Marilyn (Reed) Ulery. She grew up in Iola and graduated from Iola High School in 1994. She moved to Chanute in 1995. Trena has worked at Country Mart, Tramec, Haldex,...
Randy Nelson
Apr 7, 2009
Randall Keith Nelson, 61, of Richmond, Kansas, formerly of Iola, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at his home. Randy was born January 3, 1948, at Iola, Kansas, the son of Carl A. and Wanda M. (Alumbaugh) Nelson. He grew up in Iola and attended Iola High School. On September 16, 1967, Randy married Virginia L. "Ginny" Potter at the...
Helen Maloney
Apr 6, 2009
Helen Maloney, 92, former Iola, Kansas resident, died Monday, April 6, 2009, at Mercy Health Care in Ft. Scott, Kansas. Helen was born July 9, 1916, in the farm home of her parents near Colony, Kansas. Her parents were Joseph and May (Irwin) Gregory. She graduated from Colony High School in 1935 and then taught rural school for one year...
Mickey Lynn
Apr 6, 2009
Mickey J. Lynn, age 78, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, April 6, 2009, at her home. She leaves her husband of 59 years, Emerson Lynn, Jr. She was born September 9, 1930, to Nell Watson and Walter William Killough in Elk City, Oklahoma. The family followed her father's career with International Harvester to Des Moines, Iowa, and Melbourne, Australia. She...
Kenneth William Barsch
Apr 2, 2009
Kenneth William Barsch, age 71, of Moran, Kansas, died on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at the Midland Hospice Care Facility of Topeka, Kansas. Kenneth was born August 30, 1937 at Thayer, Kansas, the son of Kenneth Thomas and Ethel Pearl (Ragan) Barsch. He grew up in Thayer attending school there, graduating from Thayer High School in 1953. He then attended...
Nick Brown
Apr 2, 2009
Nicholas Lee Brown, 30, of rural Piqua, Kansas, died Thursday, April 2, 2009, from injuries he received in a two vehicle accident a mile west of Piqua on U.S. Highway 54. Nick was born August 29, 1978, at the Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas, the son of Nathan L. and Glenda M. (Chriestenson) Brown. He grew up at Neosho...
Mary A. Smith
Apr 1, 2009
Mary A. (Henderson) Smith, age 96, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at the Guest Home Estates in Garnett, Kansas. Mary was born on November 10, 1912, in the Bush City area, the daughter of Boyd and Altha Henderson. She was united in marriage to Claude L. Smith on November 10, 1940 in Iola, Kansas. To...
Billie Adams
Mar 31, 2009
Kincaid, KS - Billie Adams, age 95, of Kincaid, Kansas passed away Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at the St. Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. Willamena Mae Bogan was born December 1, 1913, at Selma, Kansas, the daughter of Charles T. and Minnie (Smith) Bogan. She grew up in the Selma area attending grade school there and then Kincaid High School. Following...
Nancy Evans
Mar 30, 2009
Nancy J. Evans, 62, of Iola, Kansas, died Monday, March 30, 2009, at her home. Nancy was born March 16, 1947 in Iola, Kansas, the daughter of Albert W. and Eva A. (Porter) Conner. She graduated from Iola High School in 1965 and then from the Mt. Carmel School of Nursing in Pittsburg. She worked as a registered nurse at...
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