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James L. Slankard
Jul 10, 2006
James L. 'Jim' Slankard, 71 ,of Pomona, Kansas died on Monday, July 10, 2006 at his residence in Pomona, Kansas. He was born on Tuesday, March 5, 1935, in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Clarence Slankard and Opal (Decker) Slankard. Jim grew up in Franklin County, moving in 1960 to Houston, Texas, returning in 1975. He lived the rest...
Eunice P. Johnson
Jul 8, 2006
Eunice has lived in Ottawa since 1988, moving here from Pomona where she had lived since 1932. Eunice was a homemaker and also was an Avon representative. Eunice was a member of Appanoose Baptist Church, Boyd Ladies` Aide, Flower Club in Pomona, Rebekah Lodge of Pomona. On January 31, 1932 Eunice was united in marriage with Karl Johnson at...
Marie Harbison
Jul 3, 2006
Marie Harbison was born on Thursday, December 31, 1914, in Caplinger Mills, Missouri. She was the daughter of Charles and Alice (Barrow) Vickers. Marie grew up in Missouri, moving to the LeLoup, Kansas area with her family when she was a child. At the time of her marriage, she and her husband moved to Ottawa. They moved to Eagle...
Terryll Lynn 'Rock' Richards
Jul 3, 2006
Terryll Lynn 'Rock' Richards was born on Tuesday, October 22, 1946, in Junction City, Kansas. He was the son of Harold T. and Barbara (Wahl) Richards. He grew up in Alta Vista, Kansas and lived in many locations around the world. He lived in Ottawa two years and Vassar the past twelve years, until his death Monday, July 3,...
Nathan Foster Coons
Jun 25, 2006
Nathan Foster Coons was born on Wednesday, May 10, 1950, in Olathe, Kansas. He was the son of Robert Lee and Francis Bernice (Meyers) Coons. A lifelong resident, Nathan made his home in Wellsville, Kansas, until his death on Sunday, June 25, 2006, at the age of fifty-six years. Nathan attended Wellsville High School with the class of 1969....
Raymond Glenn Brown
Jun 22, 2006
Raymond Glenn 'Ray' Brown was born on Sunday, December 30, 1917, in Falls City, Nebraska. He was the son of Elza Ray and Lena M. (Wells) Brown Bennett. Ray lived in Paola, Overbrook, Emporia, and Osawatomie, all in Kansas, and Clinton and Harrisonville, both in Missouri, moving to Ottawa in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1966, where he made his...
Cecile Catherine Anderson
Jun 22, 2006
Cecile Catherine (Altic) Anderson was born on Tuesday, May 26, 1914, in Franklin County, Kansas. She was the daughter of William Penn and Sadie Jane (Wray) Altic. She was a lifelong resident of the Pomona and Appanoose area and made her home in rural Pomona, Franklin County, Kansas, until her death on Thursday, June 22, 2006, at the age...
Carol Sue East
Jun 1, 2006
At the age of three, she moved with her family from Mexico, Missouri, to Ottawa, where she lived all of her life with the exception of a year when she lived in Wichita. Carol attended Ottawa schools and, in 1979, earned a General Equivalency Degree and attended one year at Neosho County Community College in Ottawa. She was a...
Wyatt Walker Wright
May 29, 2006
Wyatt was twenty-two months old and lived with his family at Williamsburg Kansas. He is survived by his mother, Laura Walker, and his father, Robert Wright, and two brothers, Tyler Logan and Tanner Wright, all of the home in Williamsburg, Kansas. He is also survived by his maternal grandmother, Jean Komala of Lawrence, Kansas, paternal grandparents, Esther McClure and...
Betty Imogene Sweetwood
May 28, 2006
Betty grew up in Ottawa and the surrounding area. She has lived at Hartford, Kansas since 1980 moving there from Kansas City, Kansas where she had lived for 30 years. She was a seamstress employed with the Gay-Gibson Company, Kansas City, Kansas for 20 years, retiring in 1975. Betty was a charter member of the Calvary Baptist Church, Ottawa....
Robert Leon Andrews
May 27, 2006
Robert Leon 'Bob' Andrews was born June 30, 1922 at Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Charles 'C.E.' and Martha (Sluder) Andrews. Bob was a life long Ottawa resident, making his home here until his death on Saturday, May 27, 2006 at the age of eighty-three years. Bob attended Ottawa High School with the Class of...
Emma Mae Cook
May 27, 2006
Emma Mae Cook was born on Tuesday, February 23, 1926 at Quenemo, Osage County, Kansas. She was the daughter of John and Helen (Norton) Kline. Emma Mae made her home in Franklin County, Kansas nearly all of her life, living in Ottawa since 1991, moving here from Pomona, where she had lived for many years. Emma Mae was a...
William R Cowdrey
May 22, 2006
William Robert 'Bill' Cowdrey, Jr. was born August 7, 1933, at Newton, Kansas, the son of William Robert, Sr. and Marie Christine (Hunter) Cowdrey. In his youth, he lived in several locations, including Morris, Wichita, and Emporia, Kansas. Due to his job, he and his family lived in several states, including Utah, Colorado, Texas and California. He lived in...
John Franklin Zielsdorf
May 20, 2006
John F. Zielsdorf, 73, Arkansas City, died Saturday, May 20, 2006, at his home. He was born Nov. 6, 1932, to Clyde F. and Esther M. (Jacoby) Zielsdorf at Wellsville. He attended state schools in Missouri and Kansas during his childhood. He lived at Arkansas City since 1989, when he moved from Winfield, where he had lived for many...
Myron Ernest Mccall
May 19, 2006
Myron E. McCall, 90, Kansas City, Mo., died Friday, May 19, 2006, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Shawnee Mission. He was born Nov. 28, 1915, at Wellsville, to William Keeling and Phoebe (Evans) McCall. He grew up in Richmond and later moved to Garnett, then Radcliffe, Va. He moved to Ottawa in 1944. He moved to Kansas...
Coburn William Parkin
May 19, 2006
Coburn W. 'Cobe' Parkin, Sr. was born January 3, 1927, at Osage City, Kansas. He was the son of John Henry and Theresa L.L. (Wagg) Parkin. He grew up in Ottawa, and lived in Pomona from the mid 1940's until 1961, when he moved to the Williamsburg area, where he lived until his death at the age of seventy-nine...
John D. Briggs
May 12, 2006
John D. Briggs, 77, Ottawa, died Friday, May 12, 2006, at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born March 14, 1929, to John Dewey and Bertice (McGuire) Starne at Joplin, Mo. He grew up in Fort Scott and graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1947. He later attended Fort Scott Junior College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City....
Mary Jean Taylor
May 9, 2006
Mary Jean Taylor was born January 21, 1932 in Everton, Arkansas, the daughter of Melvin Ada (O'Daniel) Robertson. She lived in Kansas City, Missouri before moving Ottawa in 1962, where she made her home, until her death, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at the age of seventy-four years. She graduated from Bruno High School in Bruno, Arkansas with the class...
Sara Lynn Vallier
May 6, 2006
Sara Lynn Vallier was born February 10, 1954, at Horton, Kansas, the daughter of W.F. and Claudine (Jarvis) Critchfield. In her youth, she lived in many locations, including the Effingham, Kansas area. She later lived in Overland Park, Kansas, moving to the Richmond, Kansas area in 1974, where she made her home until her death Saturday, May 6, 2006,...
Loyd L. Keefer
May 5, 2006
Loyd L. Keefer, Sr. was born January 24, 1922 the son of Arthur and Edna (Farling) Keefer. He grew up in Rexford, Kansas, Rantoul, Kansas and Ottawa, Kansas. He lived a short time after World War II in Kansas City, Kansas before moving to Fort. Riley, Kansas. From there he moved to Washington, D.C., Korea, Fort Polk, Louisiana, Baumholder,...
