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Dolores Kaufman
Aug 21, 2012
Dolores Celeste Cudney Kaufman, 85, of Greeley, Kansas passed away August 21, 2012 at her home. Dolores was born October 31, 1926 to Wallace and Vera May Hiddleston Cudney in Olathe, Kansas. She attended Olathe High School. On April, 1961 she married John Kaufman in Miami, Oklahoma. She worked as a cook in the restaurant business throughout the area....
Donald Ringey
Aug 21, 2012
Donald Ringey, 84, of Marshfield, Missouri, formerly of Fontana, Kansas died Tuesday, August 21, 2012 at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. His family was with him. Don was born to Ralph Richard and Sarah Esther Worley Ringey on August 19, 1928 in Lyndon, Kansas. He attended grade school in Lyndon and graduated from Osawatomie High School. He married Esther...
James E. Stewart
Aug 21, 2012
James E. “Jim” Stewart was born February 1, 1961, at Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Ralph Dean and Kathryn L. (Teter) Stewart. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, he made his home in Ottawa, until his death Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at the age of fifty-one years. Jim attended Appanoose Grade School and Pomona High School; he...
Burl Slawson
Aug 21, 2012
Burl Harlan Slawson, age 92, of Spring Hill, Kansas, died August 21, 2012. He was born May 26, 1920 IN Wellsford, KS, the son of Claude C. and Beulah (Martin) Slawson. When he was 8 years of age they moved to Adrian, MO. It was there they struggled through the great depression. In 1939 he left Adrian and went...
Theodore Nay
Aug 19, 2012
Theodore "Ted" Davis Nay, 65, of Spring Hill, KS, passed away August 19, 2012 at his home after battling prostate cancer for 23 years. He was born September 23, 1946 at Paola, KS, the son of Albert Nay and Helen (Weaver) Wood. Ted moved to Louisburg, KS in 1954 graduating from Louisburg High School with the class of 1964....
Ricky D. Eneihen
Aug 14, 2012
Ricky D. Eneihen, age 60, passed away Tuesday, August 14, 2012, at his home in Rantoul, Kansas, with his family at his side. He was born Saturday, April 19, 1952, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Laurence and Delores (Kline) Eneihen. Ricky was a lifelong resident of Rantoul. Ricky attended Wellsville High School. A lifelong self-employed farmer, Ricky was...
Muriel Stephens Craven Mischke
Aug 10, 2012
Muriel Mischke, age 94, passed away August 10, 2012 at the John Knox Village Hospice House in Lees Summit, MO. Memorial contributions may be made to the Paola Free Library Foundation or John Knox Village Hospice. Muriel was born Juanita Muriel Stephens on June 22, 1918 in Hillsdale KS, to William and Effie May Richardson Stephens. She was the...
Grace Hornbuckle
Aug 9, 2012
Grace W. Hornbuckle, 90, of Kearney, MO, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2012 at Kindred Northland Hospital in Kansas, City, MO. She was born October 4, 1921 in Topeka, KS, the daughter of Roy Lemm and Ethel (Grace) Webb. She was united in marriage to Earl Hornbuckle on June 1, 1940 at Manhattan, KS. They celebrated 58 years of...
Jim Hasty
Aug 8, 2012
Robert James “Jim” Hasty, age 74, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012, in Kansas City Kansas. He was born on Saturday, January 8, 1938, in Denver, Colorado, the son of Robert and Helen (Fisher) Hasty. Jim has lived in Ottawa since 1978 moving from Lakewood, Colorado. He had previously lived in Eaton, Colorado from 1962 to 1970;...
Wayne Ronald Bruner
Aug 8, 2012
Wayne Ronald Bruner, age 77, of Rantoul, Kansas, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012. He was born on Saturday, June 29, 1935 in Rantoul, Kansas, the son of Earl and Geneva (Lockwood) Bruner. Wayne lived all of his life in the Rantoul area. Wayne graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1952. Wayne was a self employed carpenter...
Ellen Seamands
Aug 7, 2012
Ellen G. Seamands, age 90, of Spring Hill, Kansas passed away at the Golden Living Center on August 7, 2012. Ellen was born April 14, 1922 to Lester and Edith Vroman Herndon in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. She moved to Idaho in 1937 and later moved to Kansas when she was in her 20s. She was a homemaker and also...
John Lyder
Aug 5, 2012
John L Lyder, age 92, of Paola,Kansas, passed away August 5, 2012 at the Ottawa Retirement Center, Ottawa, Kansas. John was born on October 9, 1919 to John and Edna Ullom Lyder in Paola, Kansas. He graduated from Paola High School in 1937. While in high school he was active in football and basketball, and was an avid KU...
Leroy Wayne Roecker
Aug 5, 2012
LeRoy Wayne Roecker of Louisburg, Kansas, died August 5, 2012, at home in Johnstown, Colorado. He was born December 5, 1941 in Garnett, Kansas, to Ernest and Jessie (Merscham) Roecker. LeRoy graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1959. He married Sharon Kay Bloomer on November 13, 1961, in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, while serving in the...
Mark Meek
Aug 3, 2012
Mark David Meek, age 50, a resident at Lakemary Center in Paola, Kansas, former resident of Louisburg, Kansas, died Friday, August 3, 2012 at his home peacefully in his sleep. Mark was born March 22, 1962 in Osborne, Kansas. He was the first of three children born to Donald D. and Carolyn (Comstock) Meek. Mark attended school at Lakemary...
Donald E. Jones
Aug 2, 2012
Donald E. Jones was born on September 22, 1927 to William Charles (Billy) Jones and Claris Mae Burgoon in Ottawa, Kansas. He was a lifelong Ottawa resident and attended Ottawa schools. He was in the Maritime Merchant Marines and employed by Hercules Powder Plant, Singer Sewing Machine Co. and Meeker Construction. In 1963 Don started working at Litwins in...
David H. Brown
Aug 2, 2012
David H. Brown, age 78, of Ottawa, Kansas, died peacefully at his home with his family by his side, Thursday, August 2, 2012. He was born on Saturday, February 24, 1934 in Lawrence, Kansas, the son of Dorance and Rose (Copp) Brown. David moved to the Lawrence area from the Eudora family farm where he had lived since 1941....
Letha May Mccracken
Jul 30, 2012
Letha May McCracken passed away peacefully at the Ottawa Retirement Village on Monday, July 30, 2012. She was 100 years old. She was born on Tuesday, January 9, 1912, in Pratt County, Kansas, the daughter of Horace Elmer and Lyta Frances (Peters) Womble. She was a lifelong Franklin County and Ottawa resident. She graduated from Old Rantoul Grade School...
David R. Blake
Jul 29, 2012
David R. Blake, 73, of Stilwell, Ks died July 29, 2012 at his home. He was born July 11, 1939 at Neosho, MO, the son of Earl Ray and Eleanor (Staatz) Blake. He was united in marriage to Donna Ruth Cohee on June 17, 1966 at the Methodist Church in Neosho, MO. David worked for Coca Cola Enterprises for...
Dwight D. Fredricks
Jul 29, 2012
Dwight D. Fredricks, age 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, formerly of Ottawa, Kansas, died Sunday, July 29, 2012. He was born on Wednesday, June 25, 1969 in Ottawa, the son of Clint and Pat (Swope) Fredricks. Dwight has lived in Fayetteville since November 2011 after moving from Lawrence, Kansas, he had spent most of his life in Ottawa. Dwight...
Clyde Beatty
Jul 28, 2012
Clyde E. Beatty, age 65, of Paola, Kansas passed away July 28, 2012 at the Specialty Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas. Clyde was born November 2, 1946 in Paola, Kansas to Stanley and Georgia Francis Weaver Beatty. He grew up in Paola and graduated in 1965. He worked for the Fluor Corporation and the Marley Corporation for many years...
