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,...
Evelyn Irene Purcell
May 4, 2006
Evelyn Irene Purcell was born March 3, 1930 in Tarkio, Missouri, the daughter of Howard and Jessie Frances (Campbell) Reeves. She lived in Ottawa since the late 1940's, moving in 1971 to Topeka, where she made her home, until her death, Thursday, May 4, 2006 at the age of seventy-six years. Evelyn attended Baldwin City High School with the...
Harriet Ilo Harkins
May 3, 2006
Harriet Ilo Harkins was born November 23, 1913, in Rantoul, Kansas. She was the daughter of Benjamin Floyd and Jennie June (Needham) Carter. She grew up on a farm in Rantoul, Kansas, and at the time of her husband's discharge from the service, they purchased a farm near Lane, moved to Emporia, Kansas in 1964, and Ottawa in 1980....
Helen Esther Kline
May 3, 2006
Esther was born August 23, 1930, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, a small town 35 miles north of Philadelphia. She was raised in the culture of a fundamentalist General Conference Mennonite Church. Her first pastor was a recent graduate of Moody Bible Institute. She believed on the name of Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord at an early age under...
Shirley Jean Brooks
May 2, 2006
Shirley Jean Brooks, 69, Ottawa, died Tuesday, May 2, 2006, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 12, 1936, to Troy and Fleeta (Bones) Brooks in Princeton. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1954. She was a life-long Franklin County resident and lived in Ottawa many years. She was a cook for the Franklin County Sheriff's Department...
Donal Wayne Horne
Apr 28, 2006
Donal Wayne Horne was born on Sunday, June 14, 1953, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Donal D. and Geraldine Francis (Spring) Horne. Except for five years, from 1960 to 1965, when he lived in Tonganoxie, Wayne was a lifelong resident of Pomona, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death on Friday, April 28, 2006, at the age...
Richard Chaney Hollon
Apr 26, 2006
Richard Chaney Hollon was born on Saturday, July 2, 1949, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Ernest and Betty Jean (Caleb) Hollon. He was a lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident. From 1975 to 1994, he lived in Pomona, moving to Ottawa in 1994, where he made his home until his death on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at...
Jane Paulette Garcia
Apr 21, 2006
Jane Paulette Garcia was born on Wednesday, October 10, 1945, in Long Lane, Missouri. She was the daughter of Joseph E. and Mary C. (Dalton) Graves. She lived in Paola, Kansas, moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1964, where she made her home until her death Friday, April 21, 2006, at the age of sixty years. She...
Wanda Lorraine Anderson
Apr 16, 2006
Lorraine Anderson, 77, Ottawa, died Sunday, April 16, 2006, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born Sept. 17, 1928, at Ottawa to James Henry and Dessie T. (Jones) Baker. She was a lifelong Ottawa resident. She attended Ottawa schools through the eighth grade. She cleaned houses. In earlier years, she worked for Mode O'Day and H.D. Lee, both of...
Delma Dorine Ware
Apr 14, 2006
Delma Dorine Ware was born on Thursday, September 5, 1912, in Centerville, Kansas. She was the daughter of John Burton 'J.B.' McMillin and Ethel (McCrabb) McMillin. Delma lived in the Linn and Anderson County areas until moving to Franklin County in 1942 and Ottawa in 1955. She moved to Augusta, Kansas in 2003, where she made her home until...
Shirley Marie Hicks
Apr 8, 2006
Shirley Marie Hicks, 74, Ottawa, died Saturday, April 8, 2006, at Ransom Memorial Hospital, Ottawa. She was born Oct. 11, 1931, at Ottawa, to Theodore and Mary (Hobbs) Foltz. Shirley was a lifelong Ottawa resident, except for a time from 1947 until 1953, living in Topeka. As a child, she lived in California. Shirley attended Ottawa schools. Shirley was...
James Knowles Peckham
Apr 4, 2006
Jim was a lifelong resident of Rantoul, Kansas. He graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1936 and went on to two years of college, attending Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas and Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. Jim was a farmer. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church, serving on various committees over the years,...
Roberta Ann Bechtle
Apr 3, 2006
Roberta was a near lifelong Ottawa, Franklin County, resident. She graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1946. Roberta owned and operated Roberta`s Antiques on Highway 68 five years and was also a self-employed interior decorator. She and her husband, Max, previously owned and operated Kaw Landing Marina four years on the Kaw Lake at Ponca City,...
Rodney Gene Simmons
Apr 1, 2006
He was a lifelong Centropolis, Kansas resident. Rod attended Appanoose Grade School and graduated from Pomona High School with the class of 1978. He was an outdoorsman who enjoyed camping, hunting and fishing with his son. Rod was highly skilled in many different areas and never found a problem he couldn`t master. He worked in various occupations until the...
Wilsey Phil Mccracken
Apr 1, 2006
Wilsey Phil McCracken was born on Friday, March 4, 1910, near Sterling in Rice County, Kansas, to James Ernest McCracken and Mary Eliza (Johnson) McCracken. He moved with his family to a farm near Vandalia, Missouri in 1919 and a farm near Rantoul, Kansas on January 20, 1920. In 1940, he moved to Ottawa, where he made his home...
Olla Mae Keenan
Mar 31, 2006
She has lived in Ottawa since 1950, moving from Williamsburg. Olla graduated from Williamsburg High School with the class of 1932. She was a homemaker, assisting her husband with the dairy farm, beef cattle, and horses. She also co-owned and helped operate Keenan Sanitation Service in Ottawa. She was a member of North Baptist Church in Ottawa, former member...
