Viola Davidson
Mar 13, 2011
Viola May Knoche Davidson, 92, died March 13, 2011, in her sleep at her home on the Davidson farm east of Paola. She was born May 25, 1918 at her family"s farm south of Somerset, the third of five children of George Louis and Clara Arnold Knoche. She attended and graduated from the Beaver Creek schoolhouse and Paola High...
Clarence Bleyenberg
Mar 13, 2011
Clarence J. Bleyenberg age 93 of Paola passed away Sunday March 13 memorials to the Miami County Cancer Foundation. Clarence was born Nov. 18, 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, to Renil and Martha Taton Bleyenberg. He attended school in the Kansas City Area and moved to Paola in the late 1950"s. Clarence was united in marriage to Grace Renner which...
Alex Russle Bowles-Gregg
Mar 12, 2011
Alex Russle Bowles-Gregg was born on Friday, April 14, 2006, in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Tanis Gregg and Tammy Payne. His home was in Ottawa until his death on Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the age of four years. Alex attended Franklin County Day Care and Preschool in Ottawa, where he was an exceptionally...
Josephine B. Prothe
Mar 12, 2011
Josephine Betty Prothe, age 97, long time resident of Paola, KS, passed away at North Point Skilled Nursing Center on March 12, 2011. She was the born on May, 2, 1913 in the Block community to Robert William and Rebecca Ann (Miller) Overbeck. She graduated from Paola High School with the Class of 1931. She was baptized, June 28,...
Patricia "Pat" Griffin
Mar 12, 2011
Patricia Ann “Pat” Griffin, age 73, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on Sunday, July 18, 1937, in Osage City, Kansas. She was the daughter of Edward Donald and Marion Jennie (Vanderslice) DeCock. She was a near lifelong Ottawa resident, moving as a child from Osage County...
Paul Summers
Mar 9, 2011
Paul Randall Summers was born on Thursday, November 20, 1924, in Prathersville, Missouri. He was the son of Roy and Nancy (Hart) Summers. Paul lived in rural Miami County, Kansas, prior to moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas in 2009, where he made his home until his death on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at the age of eighty-six...
Helen M. Crawford
Mar 7, 2011
Helen M. Crawford was born on Sunday, October 8, 1922, in Gove County, Kansas. She was the daughter of the late George C. and Hazel Ann (Huston) Rhine. Helen lived in the Centropolis, Kansas area for thirty-six years, moving to Overbrook, Kansas in 1966, where she made her home until her death on Monday, March 7, 2011, at the...
Roger L. Nelson
Mar 6, 2011
Roger L. (Bean) Nelson, age 70, of Louisburg, KS died Sunday, March 6, 2011 at his home. He was born October 7, 1940 in Louisburg, the son of Walter Allen and Annetta M. "Margie" Nelson. Roger worked for Paxton Lumber Company as a truck driver for 32 years before retiring. He loved working on cars and motorcycles most of...
Otis Bosley Jr.
Mar 4, 2011
Otis Guy Bosley Jr. age 94 died March 4th 2011 at North Point Nursing Facility in Paola, Kansas where he had been since breaking his hip on January 4th, 2011. Otis was born March 23rd, 1916, to Otis Guy Bosley Sr. and Esther Maude (Foster) Bosley in Exchange, West Virginia. He was the second of six sons in the...
Evelyn R. Daley
Mar 4, 2011
Evelyn R.Daley age 81 of Paola passed away at the North Point Care Center.(cremation)She was born Oct.12, 1929 in Louisville, KY. to Steve and Ruth Pickerrell. Evelyn grew up in Kentucky and was united in marriage to John J. Daley Jr.in 1946. She was a homemaker and mother of four,and after her husbands passing in 1989 she made her...
Mary E. Woodard
Mar 4, 2011
Mary E. Bearickx Woodard, 87, of Ottawa, KS passed away Friday, March 4, 2011. Mrs. Woodard had formerly lived in Fort Wayne, IN, Payne, Ohio and after retirement she and her husband moved to Bonita Springs, FL. Following the death of her husband, Paul in 2002, she lived in Tennessee and in 2006 she moved to Kansas where she...
Larry Welch
Mar 4, 2011
Larry Welch, age 70, of Hillsdale, Kansas passed away on March 4, at his home after a two year battle with merkel cell carcinoma. Memorials may be made in his name to Miami County Cancer Foundation, American Diabetes Association, or the American Heart Association. Larry was born at the family residence in Hillsdale, Kansas on Dec. 13, 1940 to...
William S. Bowers
Mar 4, 2011
William S. Bowers, age 93, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Friday, March 4, 2011, at his residence. He was born on May 30, 1917, in Ottawa, the son of Ben F. and Carrie (Sheldon) Bowers. He attended Ottawa public schools and graduated from Ottawa High School in 1935 and Ottawa University in 1939. He received his juris doctorate from the...
Warren Dean Steanson
Mar 3, 2011
Warren Dean Steanson was born on Thursday, June 29, 1922, on a farm north of Calumet, Oklahoma. He was the sixth of seven children born to Stean M. and Edna M. (Canning) Steanson. He lived in Glendale, California while going to school; served in the South Pacific during World War II; and returned to Oklahoma following the war. In...
Michael Pitzer
Feb 28, 2011
Michael D. Pitzer age 44 of Paola, Kansas passed away Monday, Feb. 28, 2011 at home after a courageous battle with brain cancer, memorials may be made in lieu of flowers to the Pitzer Memorial Fund (Children's Education Fund, First Lutheran Church, Catholic Community Hospice and Miami County Cancer Foundation) in care of Penwell-Gabel 305 N. Pearl Paola Kansas...
Bryan Harris
Feb 26, 2011
Bryan Harris, age 41, of Louisburg, KS, passed away Saturday February 26th, 2011 at Olathe Medical Center. Memorial Service will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, March 3, 2011 at the First Baptist Church 406 S. Vine Louisburg, KS. Visitation will be 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Thursday at the church. Bryan was born August 11, 1969 in Kansas City, MO and...
Lawrence "Larry" Tenk
Feb 26, 2011
Lawrence O. Larry Tenk, Jr. was born on Monday, July 26, 1920, in Quincy, Illinois, the son of Lawrence O. and Florence E. (Holt) Tenk. In the late 1970’s, Larry moved from the south central Kansas area to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home until his death on Saturday, February 26, 2011, at the age...
George Kester Graves
Feb 21, 2011
The long life of George Kester Graves, age 94, came to an end on February 21, 2011. George was born in Pomona, Kansas on August 13, 1916, son of Percy Earl and Edna Graffham Graves. He spent his early years on the farm of his parents in the Greenwood neighborhood and attended Greenwood school. He graduated from Pomona High...
"K.T." Keenan Shoemaker
Feb 18, 2011
K.T. Keenan Shoemaker was born on Monday, December 15, 1980, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Roger and Edith (Keenan) Shoemaker. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, he lived in the Williamsburg and Pomona areas until his death on Friday, February 18, 2011, at the age of thirty years. K.T. graduated from Williamsburg High School with the...
Richard L. "Rich" Toland
Feb 15, 2011
Richard L. Rich Toland, age 54, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 15, 2011, at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. He was born on Thursday, July 5, 1956, in Kingman, Kansas, the son of Gayford and Virginia (Potter) Toland. He grew up in Hutchinson, Kansas, moving to Salina, Kansas in 1976 and Ottawa in 2002. Rich graduated from Hutchinson...
