Richard Mccrackin
Apr 9, 2012
Richard A. McCrackin, age 36, passed away April 9, 2012 in an automobile accident in Miami County. Funeral service will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 14, 2012 at Paola Christian Church, 302 E. Peoria, Paola, Kansas. Richie had many recreational activities that he loved, one of which was fishing. He had a love for all creatures so he was...
Gary Hire
Apr 8, 2012
Gary Joshua Hire of Paola, Kansas passed away Sunday afternoon April 8, 2012 at the Meadowlark Valley Pines Tree Farm, Paola, Kansas in the environment that he loved. He was born Sept 16, 1980 in Kansas City, Kansas. His birth mother was from Kansas City, Kansas. He was blessed with the gift of a loving family in March of...
Darlene Jones
Apr 8, 2012
Darlene Jones, age 85 of Ottawa, Kansas, died Sunday, April 8, 2012 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on Friday, November 19, 1926 in Ottawa, Kansas the daughter of William and Alma (Christie) West. Darlene was a near lifelong Franklin County resident. She attended Ottawa schools. Darlene was a homemaker and with and her husband,...
John F. Ward
Apr 4, 2012
John F. Ward, age 93 of Ottawa, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 04, 2012 at Ottawa Retirement Village in Ottawa, KS. He was born on Saturday, December 21, 1918 in Springfield, Missouri, the son of Cecil Raymond and Mary Ellen (Govier) Ward. John grew up in Springfield, Missouri, moving with his family to Boliver, Missouri as a child. He also...
Dororthy Nadine Nitcher
Apr 4, 2012
Dorothy Nadine Nitcher, age 87 of Ottawa, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. She was born on Tuesday, January 20, 1925 in Agricola, Kansas the daughter of Wilbur Harry Kristenson and Juanita Lucille (Hartpence) Kristenson. Dorothy was a lifelong resident of Franklin County. She attended rural grade schools and Ottawa High School and...
Bruce E. Waymire
Apr 3, 2012
Bruce E. Waymire, age 57, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 3, 2012. He was born on Tuesday, November 23, 1954, in Olathe, Kansas, the son of Donald and Norma (Page) Waymire. He was a near lifelong resident of Ottawa, also living in Emporia, Kansas. Bruce graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1973. Bruce has done...
James Smith-Dillard
Apr 1, 2012
James Smith-Dillard, 24, of Kansas City, Kansas, died April 1, 2012 after being hit by a car while crossing 470 Hwy near Raytown Rd, Kansas City, Missouri. James was born on August 30, 1987 to Lester Smith and Brenda Dillard in Kansas City, Kansas. He lived most of his life in Paola, Kansas before moving to Kansas City, Kansas...
Jay Bacon
Mar 30, 2012
John Alvin “Jay” Bacon, IV, was born on Wednesday, November 27, 1968, in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of John A. Bacon, III and Mary Ann (White) Bacon. Due to his father’s military career, Jay and his family lived in several locations including Greece, Spain, Japan, and Ft. Meade, Maryland. In 1986, Jay moved from Ft....
Terry Ann Fickel
Mar 28, 2012
Terry Ann Fickel, 83, native of Paola, Kansas, died March 28, 2012 at the Richmond Nursing Home and Rehabilitative Center, Richmond, Kansas. Terry was born June 28, 1928 at Paola, Kansas. She was the daughter of Terry Amos and Elsie (Warren) Waugh. Terry graduated from Paola High School with the Class of 1946. After graduating from high school, she...
Louise Mcclintic
Mar 28, 2012
Louise Neola McClintic, 81, of Paola, Kansas, died March 28, 2012 at Heart to Heart Home Plus in Pomona, Kansas after battling cancer. A cremation and private service for family and friends is planned. Louise was born December 23, 1930 at Lawrence, Kansas. She was the fifth of 11 children born to Arthur Henry and Cecil Leona (Deshazer) Wiswell....
Carol Ann Mason
Mar 23, 2012
Carol Ann Mason, age 66, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Friday, March 23, 2012. She was born on Thursday, January 31, 1946, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Kenneth and Margaret (DeVaroe) Kime. She was a resident of Ottawa since 1967, moving from Detroit. Carol graduated from a high school in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan two years....
Blaine B. Phillips, Jr.
Mar 21, 2012
Blaine B. Phillips, Jr., age 86, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Wednesday, March 21, 2012. He was born on Saturday, April 25, 1925, in Ottawa, the son of Blaine B. Phillips, Sr. and Gertrude (Gilliland) Phillips. He was a Wichita, Kansas resident for many years prior to retiring in Ottawa in 2004. Blaine graduated from Ottawa High School with the...
Michael “Mikey” Steven Schulz
Mar 20, 2012
Michael Steven “Mikey” Schulz, age 31, of Garnett, Kansas, died Tuesday, March 20, 2012, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. He was born on Wednesday, December 31, 1980, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Billie Ernest Schulz, Jr. and Marilyn Sue (Baker) Schulz-Gellhaus. He was a lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, growing up in Rantoul....
Evan Joseph Prochnow
Mar 18, 2012
Evan Joseph Prochnow, age nine days, the son of Joshua W. and Kayla M. (Miller) Prochnow of Ottawa, died Sunday, March 18, 2012, at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on Friday, March 9, 2012, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Parents – Joshua W. and Kayla M. Prochnow of the home;...
Douglas W. Rains
Mar 15, 2012
Douglas Rains, 74, of Cleveland, MO died March 15, 2012 at Kansas City Hospice House, Kansas City, MO. He was born May 16, 1937 at Ennis, TX, the son of Ferrell and Cleo (Hardin) Rains. He was united in marriage to Sandra Seal on June 28, 1958 at Visalia, CA. Doug was a 1956 graduate of Mt. Whitney High...
Dale Vest
Mar 15, 2012
Dale "Whitey" S. Vest, 86, of Osawatomie, Kansas, died March 15, 2012 at Miami County Medical Center in Paola. Whitey was born May 7, 1925 at Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Ralph and Pearl (Burnett) Vest. He attended school in Osawatomie. He served his country with the United States Navy during World War II. He was...
Wilma J. Willett
Mar 14, 2012
Wilma J. Willett, 89, of Louisburg, KS died March 14, 2012 at Kansas City Hospice House. She was born December 7, 1922 at Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Augustus and Nanny (Ross) Smith. Wilma Willett was an enrolled full blood member of the Cherokee Nation who retained the Indian allotments assigned to her mother and grandmother one hundred and...
Dola Elaine Chambers
Mar 13, 2012
Dola Elaine Chambers, age 83, of Richmond, Kansas, formerly of Ottawa, died Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on Sunday, May 6, 1928, in Tescott, Kansas, the daughter of Byron R. and Blanch H. (Pierce) Strait. Dola and her husband lived in Washington County, Kansas for many years. Following his death...
Loveda Stepaniak
Mar 11, 2012
Hearing the trumpets and God"s call home, Loveda entered the gates of Heaven on March 11, 2012. The first child of Claude & Ethel Cole Austin, Loveda was born August 13, 1912 in Conway, Missouri. The family moved to Ozark, Missouri and later to Paola, Kansas in 1916. Loveda attended grade school in Paola, at District 47 and graduated...
Carol A. Mille
Mar 11, 2012
Carol A. Mille, age 79, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Sunday, March 11, 2012. She was born on Wednesday, December 7, 1932, in Princeton, Kansas, the daughter of Narva Alvin and Emma Agnes (Sassaman) Sellers. Carol was a lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident. She attended area rural schools. She worked twenty-nine years for the H. D. Lee Company until it...
