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Dennis Michael Plummer
Jul 28, 2012
Dennis Michael Plummer, age 61, of Winfield, Kansas passed away July 28, 2012. Mike, as he was known, was born February 10, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri to Michael Edward and Jeanette Marie Lankford Plummer. He was raised in Paola until he was eight years old and then moved to Winfield. Mike was disabled, but had a love of...
John David Hileman
Jul 28, 2012
John David Hileman, age 78, passed away July 28, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Tom Hileman Scholarship Fund 9 N. Brayman, Paola, KS 66071 David, as he was known by, was born March 6, 1934 in Topeka, Kansas to Keil and Nellie Davidson Hileman. He graduated from Cherryvale...
Paul Edward Adamson
Jul 27, 2012
Paul Edward Adamson, age 67 of Pomona, Kansas, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. He was born on Saturday, October 21, 1944 in Creston, Iowa. He is the son of Clifford Elza and Ethel Irene (Spicer) Adamson. He has been a resident of Pomona, Kansas for thirty years, moving from Ottawa. Prior to...
Marolyn E. Foster
Jul 27, 2012
Marolyn Elizabeth Foster, age 65 of Pomona, Kansas, died Friday, July 27, 2012. She was born on Saturday, March 22, 1947 in Redfield Kansas. She was the daughter of Ivan and Louise (Horseman) Brittingham. She has been a resident of Pomona, Kansas since 1966 moving there from Ottawa, Kansas. Marolyn graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of...
Lourena Kettler
Jul 27, 2012
Lourena Kettler, age 97, passed away July 27, 2012 at Olathe Medical Center. Lourena was born May 22, 1915, the youngest of five children. Her father died when she was two. Lourena married Clarence Kettler, a Miami county farmer on May 15, 1937. Lourena and her husband farmed in the Paola area for 25 years, moving in 1961 to...
B. K. Clark
Jul 26, 2012
B. K. Clark Jr., age 69, of Spring Hill, Kansas, passed away July 26, 2012 at Royal Terrace Care Center. Inurnment will be at Wagstaff Cemetery, Miami County, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his father B. K. Clark and his wife Nina Jean Clark. He is survived by his mother Virginia A. Clark of Spring Hill, Kansas;...
Antoni "Tony" J. Van Leiden
Jul 24, 2012
Antoni J. “Tony” Van Leiden was born on Monday, August 21, 1922, in Almelo, Netherlands. He was the son of Harm and Sophia (Spenkelink) Van Leiden. Tony lived in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, since 1948 where he made his home until his death on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the age of eighty-nine years. He graduated high school and...
William D. "Bill" Beal
Jul 23, 2012
William D. “Bill” Beal, age 69, of Bellbrook, Ohio, died Monday, July 23, 2012, at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. He was born on Saturday, December 26, 1942, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Walter Evered and Susie Elfrieda (Wilber) Beal. From a young age he was raised by his step mother Doris (Ramsey) Beal. Bill grew up in Lane,...
Hilda Eckhoff
Jul 22, 2012
Hilda Eckhoff, age 97, of Paola, Kansas passed away July 22, 2012 at North Point Skilled Nursing Center. Hilda was born in Miami County, Kansas on the family farm March 28, 1915 to John and Bertha Schultz Gerken. On March 24, 1929 she had her confirmation to the Lutheran Church. She was united in marriage to Richard Eckhoff on...
Gary Wendell Stoneking
Jul 22, 2012
Gary Wendell Stoneking, age 74, of Pomona, Kansas, died Sunday, July 22, 2012, at Lawrence, Kansas after a short illness. He was born on Thursday, August 12, 1937, in Baldwin City, Kansas, the son of Peter “Pete” Francis and Dorothy Ruth Hurrelbrink Stoneking. Gary resided in Pomona most of his life, graduating from Pomona High School in 1955. He...
Marjorie Gross
Jul 17, 2012
Marjorie Deloris Gross, age 91, of rural Parker, Kansas, died July 17, 2012 at the Life Care Center in Osawatomie. Marjorie was born July 6, 1921 at Conway, Missouri. She was the daughter of Virgil and Vina (Evans) Phillips. She grew up in Long Lane, Missouri and attended school at Flatwoods, Missouri. She was united in marriage to Jack...
Eulalia June Mills
Jul 16, 2012
Eulalia June Mills, age 80, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Monday, July 16, 2012 at Ottawa Retirement Village, Ottawa, Kansas. She was born on Sunday, November 15, 1931, in Wathena, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence Calvin and Opal Marie (Moss) Engeman. June grew up in the Wathena area until her marriage, moving several times before living in Wellsville for many...
Cecel N. Landess
Jul 14, 2012
Cecel N. Landess, age 97 of Ottawa, Kansas, died Saturday, July 14, 2012 at Ottawa. She was born on Saturday, July 10, 1915 in Lane, Kansas she was the daughter of John Ezra Hay and Missouri (Hollinger) Hay. Cecel was a resident of Franklin County for over sixty years. Cecel attended Clark Valley School east of Lane in Miami...
Edith L. Hogle
Jul 10, 2012
Edith L. Hogle, age 79, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, July 10, 2012. She was born February 17, 1933, in Pomona, Kansas, the daughter of Robert and Shirley (Heckman) Hogle. Edith graduated from East High School, Wichita, Kansas with the class of 1951 and Wesley Nursing School of Wichita, Kansas. Edith was a Doctor of Nursing and taught...
Bruce Lee Dickey
Jul 8, 2012
Bruce L. Dickey, 93, died peacefully Sunday, July 8, 2012, at North Point Skilled Nursing, Paola, Kansas in the company of his children. Bruce was born March 6, 1919, to Bruce V. and Ota L. Dickey in Osawatomie, Kansas. He graduated from Osawatomie High School in 1937. He studied at Kansas State University until the passing of his father....
Ron Nicholas
Jul 7, 2012
Ron Nicholas, age 68, of Waverly, Kansas, died Saturday, July 7, 2012. He was born on Wednesday, June 7, 1944, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Wayne and Bessie (Withington) Nicholas. Ron was a Shawnee, Kansas resident for 30 years, prior to moving to rural Waverly in 1996. Ron attended Shawnee Mission North High School graduating with the...
Charles Lester Snouffer
Jul 6, 2012
Charles Lester Snouffer of Louisburg, Kansas, passed away July 6, 2012 at North Point Skilled Nursing Care in Paola, Kansas at the age of 97. Lester was born May 12, 1915, to Verlin V. and Mary Alice Phillips Snouffer, on the family farm near Somerset, Kansas, becoming the third generation of Snouffers to live there. Two of his great-grandchildren...
Kylee Jo Mader
Jun 28, 2012
Kylee Jo Mader, 19 years old, of Paola, KS, passed away Thursday, June 28, 2012. Kylee was born August 25, 1992, in Shawnee, KS, to parents Jeff and Gayla (McGlynn) Mader. She attended Hillsdale Elementary School, Paola Middle School and graduated from Paola High School in 2010. Kylee Jo went on to Johnson County Community College where she was...
Mary Beverley Willoughby
Jun 25, 2012
Mary Beverley Willoughby, age 71, of Ottawa, Kansas departed this earth on Monday, June 25, 2012. She is survived by her son, Robin Golden and Mary’s common law husband, Kenneth L. Hopkins of the home. She is also survived by her daughters, Paula Stubblefield and Melinda Calumet; six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Mary is preceded in death by...
Lola E. Beets
Jun 24, 2012
Lola E. Spratt-Beets, age 85, of Rantoul, Kansas, died Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Rantoul, Kansas. She was born on Saturday, January 1, 1927, in Paola, Kansas, the daughter of Clyde J. and Edith V. (Edgell) Beets-Bartlett. Lola was a lifelong resident of Franklin County, Kansas, living in the Rantoul area for many years. Lola attended grade school at...
