Joseph Schwartz
Mar 3, 2008
Joseph Richard Schwartz, 79, passed away at his home on Monday, March 3, 2008. He was born Oct. 21, 1928 to Joseph and Mary Frick Schwartz at the same home where he resided all of his life. On Oct 21, 1951 he married Margaret Vollmer. They were married 56 years. While continuing to farm, he was employed as a...
Robert Dean Burns
Mar 2, 2008
Robert Dean 'Bob' Burns was born on Wednesday, September 28, 1960, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Dale Loren and Opal Illene (Ledom) Burns. A lifelong resident, Bob made his home in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death on Sunday, March 2, 2008, at the age of forty-seven years. He graduated from Ottawa High School with...
Leonard Eugene Shuck
Feb 26, 2008
Leonard Eugene Shuck was born on Wednesday, October 30, 1946, in Lawrence, Kansas. He was the son of Byron B. and Dorothy 'Beth' (Kring) Shuck. A lifelong resident, Leonard made his home in the Centropolis, Kansas area until his death on Tuesday, February 26, 2008, at the age of sixty-one years. Leonard graduated from Pomona High School with the...
William Ivel Hink
Feb 26, 2008
William Ivel 'Bill' Hink was born on Thursday, December 7, 1911, on a farm near Rosston, Oklahoma. He was one of seven children born to William Louis and Alice (Booth) Hink. He lived in Williamsburg, Kansas from 1949 to 1992, moving to Garnett, Kansas in 1992 and Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas in 2006, where he made his home...
Irene Spinks
Feb 26, 2008
Irene C. Spinks Irene C. Spinks, 95, of Louisburg, Ks passed away Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2008 Irene was born Feb. 23, 1913 in Decatur, Arkansas to Bufford and Nettie Sawkill Patterson, one of six girls. She graduated from Decatur High School and was later united in marriage to Walter O. Spinks on May 25, 1946 in Girard, Ks. Irene...
John Ott
Feb 25, 2008
John Ott, 94, Richmond, died Monday, Feb. 25, 2008, at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa. He was born March 12, 1913, at New York City, N.Y., to Albert Joseph and Johanna (Sheriff) Ott. John grew up in Council Grove, Kansas with his foster parents, Della J. and William E. Nix, and lived in Matfield Green, Kansas for about five years;...
Robert Conley
Feb 25, 2008
Robert "Bob" Simmons Conley Robert "Bob" Simmons Conley, 102, Louisburg Kansas, went home to be with the Lord on Monday February 25, 2008 at the Louisburg Health Care and Rehabilitation Center where he lived since January 12, 2007. In Lieu of flowers the family request memorials are made to the Baptist Temple. Bob was born Aug. 23, 1905 in...
Rev. James William Howie
Feb 23, 2008
The Rev. James William Howie, 69, Ottawa, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa. A requiem mass will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Grace Episcopal Church, Ottawa, with the Rt. Rev. Dean E. Wolfe, Bishop of Kansas, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Gail E. Davis, rector of Grace Episcopal Church. A second requiem mass will be...
Dewey Stanley Cook
Feb 23, 2008
Dewey S. Cook, 73, Ottawa, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008, at his home. He was born Jan. 26, 1935, in Boone County, Neb., to George S. and Laura M. (Miller) Cook. He had lived in Ottawa since January 1962. He also lived at Albion, Neb., for 20 years; Norfolk, Neb., for three years; Omaha, Neb., for a year; Topeka,...
Connie Butler
Feb 21, 2008
Connie N Butler, 65, of Osawatomie, Kansas, passed away on February 21, 2008 at the Life Care Center in Osawatomie, Kansas after a brief illness. The funeral services will be held at Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 2pm. The visitation will be held on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 from 6-8pm. To leave a special message...
Edward Kaiser
Feb 18, 2008
Edward W. Kaiser, Jr. died peacefully on February 18, 2008, at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe, KS. He was 88. Ed was born on September 27, 1919 to Edward and Rose Caenen Kaiser of Paola, KS. A life-long Miami County resident, Ed attended Grade School at the St. Patrick"s Catholic School and graduated from Paola High School in 1937. He...
Ruth Elaine Jamison
Feb 17, 2008
Ruth Elaine Jamison was born on Friday, December 27, 1929, in Quinter, Kansas. She was the daughter of Joseph M. and Ruth M. (Miller) Jamison. She passed away on Sunday, February 17, 2008, at the age of seventy-eight years. Elaine attended elementary school in Quinter, Kansas, and was graduated from Quinter High School with the class of 1947. In...
John Courtney Jr.
Feb 16, 2008
John was born December 1, 1930 in Paola Kansas to John R. Sr. and Ethel Lottie Kern Courtney. He was a life long resident of Paola and on December 11, 1949 he was united in marriage to Barbara Frye in Paola. John worked at the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant for 22years. Then he started his own plumbing business in...
Wallace F. Crow
Feb 16, 2008
Wallace F. Crow, 82, Lawrence, died Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community, Lawrence. He was born July 29, 1925, to Russell P. and Ruth V. (Little) Crow in Pomona. He graduated from Ottawa High School in 1943. He lived in the Pomona and Ottawa areas most of his life. Wallace helped his parents with their grocery...
Edward Haselrick Sr.
Feb 15, 2008
Edward E. Haselrick Sr. Edward E. Haselrick Sr., 81 of Gardner, Ks passed away on Friday, Feb. 15, 2008 after a long battle with cancer, pneumonia, and kidney failure. Edward was born Sept. 20, 1926 in Bristol, Conn. To Fredrick and Olga Bielert Haselrick He is survived by Doris S. (Stecker) Haselrick, his wife of 53 years, his eldest...
Blanche Darlene. Clough
Feb 13, 2008
Darlene Clough was born on Thursday, September 8, 1932, in Atchison, Kansas. She was the daughter of Carl and Mildred Blanche (Davey) Matthias. In 1967, Darlene moved from Burlingame, Kansas to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where she made her home until her death on Wednesday, February 13, 2008, at the age of seventy-five years. She graduated from Atchison...
Patricia Ann Stoffer
Feb 12, 2008
Patricia Ann Stoffer was born on Sunday, December 31, 1933, in Quenemo, Kansas. She was the daughter of Jack Nathaniel and Ruth Roena May (Fanning) Hamilton. Patricia grew up in Quenemo, and also lived around Lebo, Waverly and Burlington, all in Kansas. She also lived in New Mexico and Texas and around Drexel, Missouri, until moving to Olathe, Kansas,...
Ralph D. Garland
Feb 12, 2008
Ralph Devillin Garland was born on Tuesday, February 4, 1941, in Mound Valley, Kansas, where he was raised. He was the son of Orville Devillin and Maxine Clara (Elliott) Garland. He spent his youth in Southeast Kansas before making his way to Kansas City, Missouri, moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1973, where he made his home...
Bessie Marguerite Johnson
Feb 10, 2008
Bessie Marguerite Johnson was born on Thursday, May 7, 1914, in Mansfield, Missouri. She was the daughter of Arthur and Maude (Vining) Hogle. Traveling in a covered wagon, Bessie moved from Missouri to Franklin County, Kansas, where she made her home until her death on Sunday, February 11, 2008, at the age of ninety-three years. Bessie was a homemaker....
Jay Eaker
Feb 8, 2008
Jay Allen Eaker Jay Allen Eaker passed away February 5th at 9:15 pm Tuesday at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe Ks. Jay was born in Wheaton Illinois August 12th 1956. He moved to Paola in 1970 where he attended Paola High School. He joined the Marines in 1973 serving 4 years as Lance Corporal. (LCPL) He the3n became a...
