Otto Hammann
Jan 15, 2013
Otto Heinrich Hammann, age 88 of Overland Park, KS, passed away January 15, 2013. He was born on December 13, 1924 in Lachen/Pfalz, Germany. He was preceded in death by his wife, Gisela Hammann, and is survived by 2 step-daughters, Gabriele Deramus, Stilwell, Kansas, and Charlotte Linhart, Munich, Germany. As an architect and engineer, while living in Germany after...
Dolores J. Demoret
Jan 12, 2013
Dolores J. Demoret, age 84 of Williamsburg, Kansas, died Saturday, January 12, 2013 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Kansas. She was born on Monday, March 26, 1928 in Jefferson City, Missouri, the daughter of Hugh and Blanche (Faulkner) Tarbet. She has been a near lifelong resident of Franklin and Osage County. Dolores graduated from Princeton High School with...
Roger William Millbern
Jan 11, 2013
Roger William Millbern, age 69 of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away Friday, January 11, 2013. He was born on Friday, February 26, 1943 in Vinland, Kansas, the son of Jerald and Frances (Cooley) Millbern. Roger was a lifelong Franklin County, Ottawa resident. He graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1961. On June 28, 1975 Roger was united...
Lawrence J. Guenther
Jan 11, 2013
Lawrence James Guenther, 85, died Friday, January 11, 2013 at North Point Skilled Nursing Facility in Paola, Kansas. Lawrence was born April 2, 1927 in Gary, Indiana the youngest of nine children, born to Theodore and Lillian (Janssen) Guenther. A child of the depression era, Lawrence grew up in the Gary and Fort Wayne, Indiana areas. During his teenage...
Evelyn J. Watts
Jan 9, 2013
Evelyn Josephine Watts, age 83 of Ottawa, Kansas, died January 9, 2013 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on Friday, September 20, 1929 in Olpe, Kansas the daughter of John G. and Anna C. (Scheve) Nuessen. She grew up in Olpe, Kansas later moving to Franklin County where she lived most of her life, residing...
Steven Hood
Jan 9, 2013
Steven L. Hood, age 43, of Gardner, Kansas passed away at Olathe Medical Center on Wednesday January 9, 2013. Steven was born February 22, 1969 in Paola, Kansas to Ray Hood and Linda Henry Mundell. He grew up in the Princeton area and graduated from Central Heights High School in 1988. After high school he enlisted in the United...
Margaret Ann Apple
Jan 7, 2013
Margaret Ann Alexander Apple, age 85, Louisburg, KS, passed peacefully from this world February 7, 2013 with family by her side. Margaret was born December 2, 1927 to Robert Lee Alexander and Ruth Lalia Miller Alexander in the community of Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana. Growing up in rural northern Louisiana, Margaret graduated from Harris High School in 1945. With...
Ellen C. Hickman
Jan 7, 2013
Ellen C. Hickman, age 104 of Ottawa, Kansas, died Monday, January 7, 2013 at Ottawa Retirement Village. She was born on Saturday, November 14, 1908 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Aloysious and Agnes (Levell) Oestreicher. She has been a resident of Ottawa since 1946, moving from Princeton, Kansas. Ellen graduated from Princeton High School with the class...
Aloysius Massoth
Jan 6, 2013
Aloysius J. Massoth age 87 passed away January 6th at Villa St. Joseph in Overland Park, Kansas. Al as he was known was born November 7, 1925 in Piqua, Kansas to Frank and Elizabeth Weber Massoth. He was united in marriage on May 7, 1952 to Julia Mae Korphage in Chanute, Kansas They moved to Paola in 1955, where...
Doris Wobker Summers
Jan 6, 2013
Doris Pauline Hills Wobker Summers, 84, of Ottawa, KS died January 6, 2013. She was born October 16, 1928 near Lane, Kansas, the daughter of Ansel and Jessie Doman Hills. She married Lawrence Dewaine Wobker on June 30, 1947 in Osawatomie, Kansas. They had three children, Larry Dean, James Lyle and Tony Lynn. Lawrence died on September 30, 1973,...
Jolene D. Burnett
Jan 4, 2013
Jolene D. Burnett, age 54, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Friday, January 4, 2013. She was born on Saturday, July 26, 1958, in Ottawa, the daughter of Marvin and Eileen (Kellerman) Roberts. Jolene was a lifelong Franklin County resident living in Ottawa since the early 1980’s. She graduated from Central Heights High School with the class of 1977. On December...
Myrtle L. Whirley
Jan 4, 2013
Myrtle Lee Whirley, age 76, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Friday, January 4, 2013. She was born on Thursday, February 6, 1936 in California, the daughter of John and Hazel (Bell) Jones. Myrtle was a near lifelong resident of Franklin County living in Williamsburg, Peoria, Pomona and Ottawa. Myrtle was united in marriage with Howard Cleveland Griffin, he preceded her...
Ivan Eugene Boydston
Jan 2, 2013
Ivan Eugene Boydston, age 77, of Paola, Kansas, died Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at his home. Ivan was born December 14, 1935. He was the son of Rufus Boydston and Mary (Hammar) Boydston. He graduated from Paola High School in 1954 and was a member of the Kansas National Guard. He married Sharon (Walker) Boydston on October 3, 1980....
Bernadine G. "Bernie" Evans
Jan 1, 2013
Bernadine G. Bernie Evans, age 74 of Homewood, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 1, 2013. She was born on Thursday, May 19, 1938 in Groom, Texas, the daughter of Bernard Joseph and Beatrice Marie (Bohr) Hermesmeyer. Bernie grew up in Rantoul, Kansas moving, to Ottawa in 2006, and recently to Homewood, Kansas. Bernie graduated from Rantoul High School. She worked...
Robert Nicholson
Jan 1, 2013
Robert I. Nicholson, Jr. of Paola, Kansas passed away January 1, 2013. He was born in Paola, Kansas on August 14, 1947 to Robert and June Shinkle Nicholson (Powell). Bob, as he was known to everyone, graduated Paola High School of 1965. After attending Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, he graduated from the University of Kansas where he earned...
Monty L. Isham
Jan 1, 2013
Monty L. Isham, age 64, passed away January 1, 2013 at Life Care Center of Osawatomie, Kansas. Monty was born on September 17, 1948 in Paola, Kansas to Nelce and Norma Jean Koelsch Isham. He graduated from Ottawa High School in 1967. As a youth Monty worked for Danny Wilson at the Paola Pool, as a lifeguard and helper....
Irene Marie Dunn
Dec 30, 2012
Irene Marie Dunn, age 79 of Wellsville, Kansas died Sunday, December 30, 2012. She was born on Sunday, September 17, 1933 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Carol O. and Ethal P. (Ellis) Furman. Irene grew up on the family farm in rural Wellsville since 1950 moving there from Ottawa. She attended Ottawa High School with the class...
Rollo Franklin Knight
Dec 30, 2012
Rollo Franklin Knight, age 100 of Pomona, Kansas died Sunday, December 30, 2012. He was born on Monday, January 22, 1912, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Bertie Almerson and Edith Maye (Harvey) Knight. Rollo was a lifelong Osage/Franklin county resident living in the Pomona area for the last 50 years. He graduated from Quenemo High School with the...
Robert "Bob" Cooper
Dec 29, 2012
Robert L. “Bob” Cooper, age 84 of Richmond, Kansas, died Saturday, December 29, 2012 at the Ottawa Retirement Village in Ottawa, Kansas. He was born on Monday, August 13, 1928 in Marshall, Oklahoma, the son of Louis C. and Alice Frances (Burns) Cooper. Bob was a lifelong resident of Richmond until moving to Ottawa Vintage Park four years ago....
Dennis Floyd Barnes
Dec 27, 2012
Dennis Floyd Barnes, 65, of Louisburg, KS died Thursday, December 27, 2012, at his home. He was born September 29, 1947 in Independence, KS, the son of Kenneth and Dorothy (White) Barnes. He was united in marriage to Vicki Bendure on August 8, 1981 in Parsons, KS. Dennis worked for Wal-Mart for 16 years before retiring. Prior to that,...
