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Bill R. Phillips
Apr 12, 2009
Bill R. Phillips, age 70, was born (sunrise) Feb. 17, 1939 and died (sunset) April 12, 2009 at Linn County, Ks. He was born, one of 14 children, in Pittsburg, KS, the son of Bert & Bertha Hackworth Phillips. He was united in marriage to Arnola Woods Phillips on Oct. 3, 1960 in Kansas City, MO. Bill retired from...
Michael Alt
Apr 10, 2009
Michael Laird Alt, age 84, of Paola, Kansas passed away at his home on Friday, April 10th. The funeral service will be Monday, April 13 at 1:00 pm with visitation from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at the Penwell-Gable Paola Chapel. Burial will follow in the Paola Cemetery. Mike was born June 12, 1924 in Tacoma, Washington to Angelo...
Agnes Guarinello
Apr 9, 2009
Agnes Sue Guarinello, age 60, of Paola, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, April 9, 2009 at North Point Skilled Nursing Home, Paola, Kansas. Service will be Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at 11:00 AM with visitation from 10-11AM at the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home, Paola, Kansas. Burial will be in Leavenworth Cemetery. To leave a special message for the family please visit...
Gloria Evans
Apr 8, 2009
Gloria Evans, 67, of Ottawa, Kansas died on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. She was born on Monday, June 30, 1941, in Ottawa, Kansas. She was the daughter of Everett Max Sink, Sr. and Norma Jacob. She was a lifelong Ottawa resident. Gloria graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1959. She was a stocker at Wal-Mart for...
Berenice Conner
Apr 7, 2009
Berenice Benz Hastings Conner, 90, a life time resident of Paola, passed away April 7, 2009, at the Ottawa Retirement Village, in Ottawa, Kansas. Funeral services will be 1:30 PM Thursday, April 9, 2009, at the Paola Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Midland Hospice, of Ottawa, Kansas. Berenice was born April 27, 1918 to William & Minnie...
Maliveene "Sammy" Chapman
Apr 5, 2009
Maliveene E. Sammy Chapman, 88, of Eudora, Kansas, died on Sunday, April 5, 2009. She was born on Sunday, April 18, 1920, at Linn Creek, Missouri. She was the daughter of Madison Edward and Jennie Lee (Houser) Johnson. She and the family moved with her husband, Carl, on construction projects in Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. Following retirement, from 1972...
Glenna Virginia Seely
Apr 4, 2009
Glenna Virginia "Ginny" Seely, age 78, passed away Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Grand Wood Sunrise Assisted Living. She was born June 16, 1930 in Joplin, MO., the daughter of Wm. Harry & Florence Pearl Deems. She spent her childhood in Pittsburg, KS. with 2 sisters and lots of cousins. Her father worked for the Kansas City Southern Railroad...
Violet Fern Johnson
Apr 3, 2009
Fern Johnson, 95, of Williamsburg, Kansas died on Friday, April 3, 2009 at Village Manor Nursing Home in Ottawa, Kansas. She was born on Monday, February 16, 1914, in Wallace County, Kansas, the daughter of Ira Thompson and Mabel (Burruss) Thompson. RESIDENCE HISTORY: Fern moved from Wallace County in 1926 to the area south of Pomona, and in 1932...
Lawrence Gast
Apr 1, 2009
Lawrence L. Gast, 76, Ottawa, died Wednesday, April 1, 2009. A funeral mass will be 10 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Ottawa. He was born Tuesday, March 7, 1933, at Conception, Mo., to Albert V. and Margaret (Meyer) Gast. He was a resident of Franklin County since 1962, moving from Waverly. He moved from Missouri to Waverly...
Wesley H. Burgoon
Apr 1, 2009
Wesley H. Burgoon, 86, Ottawa, died Wednesday, April 1, 2009. He was born Tuesday, May 23, 1922, at Rantoul to Lon and Ada (Latson) Burgoon. He was a lifelong Franklin County resident. He lived in Ottawa since the 1930s. He served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army during World War II, stationed in state of Washington....
Forrest E. Ware
Mar 31, 2009
Forrest E. Ware, 84, of Greeley, Kansas died on Tuesday, March 31, 2009. He was born on Thursday, February 19, 1925, in Rosendale, Missouri. He was the son of Charles and Edna Ware. He moved from Kansas City to Greeley in 1972. Forrest graduated from high school in Kansas City, Missouri, with the class of 1942. He worked as...
Audrey Ercole
Mar 29, 2009
Audrey Pichon Ercole, 82, of Ottawa, Kansas died on Sunday, March 29, 2009 at Village Manor Nursing Home in Ottawa, Kansas. She was born on Wednesday, October 6, 1926, in Carencro, Louisiana. She was the daughter of Richard and Eloise (Frances) LaMury. Audrey lived in St. Bernard Parish, Chalmette, Louisiana, moving to Ottawa, Kansas in 2005. Audrey graduated from...
Lexie Rene' (Droddy) Mason
Mar 26, 2009
Lexie Renée Droddy-Mason was born on Wednesday, December 10, 1969, in Topeka, Kansas. She was the daughter of Carrol and Imogene (Smith) Droddy. A lifelong resident, Lexie made her home in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, until her death on Thursday, March 26, 2009, at the age of thirty-nine years. Lexie graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of...
Ruth E. Brown
Mar 26, 2009
Ruth Evelyn Brown, 97, of Louisburg, KS passed away March 26, 2009 at Sweet Life of Rosehill, Shawnee, KS. Ruth was born on January 21, 1912 in Parsons, Ks. to William Harvey Barnes and Ethel Liddel Barnes. She was raised by her grandparents John and Sara Agnes Price of Freeman Mo, when her mother died from complications in childbirth....
Dorothy Benner
Mar 25, 2009
Dorothy was born, Dec. 9, 1929, in Miami County, to Roby and Esteleen Moraine Stone. She graduated from Osawatomie High School, in 1947, and in 1950, she was united in marriage to Walter Adams, in Osawatomie. Together they had two children, before his passing in 1960. In 1975, Dorothy was united in marriage, to Tom Benner, in Paola. She...
Ray Bendorf
Mar 24, 2009
Ray Dean Bendorf, age 80, formally of Louisburg, KS and currently of Paola, KS, died on March 24, 2009 at the Life Care Center in Osawatime, KS. Visitation will be at 10 AM, Saturday, April 4, at the First Baptist Church, 406 Vine, Louisburg, KS. A 11:00 AM memorial service will be held at the church followed by a...
Alma L. Ware
Mar 21, 2009
Alma L. Ware, 81, of Greeley, Kansas died on Saturday, March 21, 2009. She was born on Tuesday, October 4, 1927, in Kansas City, Missouri. She was the daughter of Clarence and Tillie Worth. Alma moved from Kansas City to Greeley, Kansas in 1972. Alma graduated from Westport High School in Kansas City, Missouri, with the class of 1944....
Gordon A. Allan
Mar 18, 2009
Gordon A. Allan, 88, Ottawa, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at the Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. He was born Sunday, March 6, 1921, at Melvern to Arthur and Mary (Talley) Allan. He grew up in Melvern. He lived in Ottawa for 45 years after his military service. He graduated from Melvern High School....
M. Frances Gaunce
Mar 18, 2009
M. Frances Gaunce, 97, of Louisburg died Wednesday March 18, 2009, at the rural Louisburg home of her daughter G. Susan Ewing and son-in-law Robert K. Ewing, Sr. She was born April 10, 1911, in her maternal grandmother Kieffaber"s home in Kansas City, Kansas, the 1st born daughter of Opal Julia and George Burton Mitchell. She married George Gaunce...
Belle Mae Bean
Mar 16, 2009
Belle was born December 15, 1922 in Lee"s Summit, MO the daughter of Roy and Nora Gosney Arnett. She was married to Louie Bean for 53 years and resided in Kennewick, WA. all but a few of those. Their life together was full of outdoor adventures from hunting arrow heads to hunting deer, fishing, camping and traveling in their...
