Esther Patterson
Aug 27, 2012
ESTHER MILREE WILSON Patterson, age 92, passed away August 27, 2012. Esther was born December 10, 1919 in Louisburg, Kansas, the oldest child and only daughter of David A. Wilson and Phon Kilgore Wilson. She grew up in Louisburg, attending Louisburg schools, the Ursuline Academy in Paola, Baker University in Baldwin City, and graduating from the University of Kansas...
Mildred Alice Brown
Aug 25, 2012
Mildred Alice Brown, age 93, of Princeton, Kansas, went to heaven Saturday, August 25, 2012, at her home. She was born Saturday, March 15, 1919, in Princeton, Kansas, the daughter of David L. and Ada Mary (Kennedy) Mathias. Mildred was a lifelong Franklin County resident. Mildred was a homemaker and a wonderful mom and loving wife. Mildred was a...
Joseph Neal Dyer
Aug 24, 2012
Joseph Neal Dyer, age 31, of Pomona, Kansas, died Friday, August 24, 2012, surrounded by his family. He was born Monday, December 15, 1980, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Michael and Barbara (Mowat) Dyer. Joseph was a lifelong Franklin County resident. Joseph attended preschool at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas for two years; preschool and some grade...
Robert Dale "Bob" Kunard
Aug 23, 2012
Robert Dale “Bob” Kunard, age 64, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Thursday, August 23, 2012. He was born on Monday, July 12, 1948, in Ottawa, the son of Elmo Francis and Lucille (Hazen) Kunard. Bob was a lifelong resident of Ottawa. Bob graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1967. Bob served in the United States Air Force...
Irma Player
Aug 22, 2012
Irma Marie Player, 93, a Miami County native, died August 22, 2012 after a brief illness. Irma was born April 17, 1919 to Clifford and Etta Wright in Osage Township. She attended Liberty School District 20 and Fontana High School, graduating in 1937. She attended her 75th class reunion this year. She worked in Kansas City, where she met...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
