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Richard Baxter Bowden
Apr 1, 2002
Richard Baxter Bowden, III, was born February 17, 1935, at Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of Richard Baxter `Pete` and Freda Margaret (Kremsreiter) Bowden. He lived in Kansas City, Kansas for thirty-six years and Shawnee, Kansas six years. In 1978, he moved to Rantoul, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home until his death Monday,...
John Lewis Shenk
Mar 29, 2002
John Lewis Shenk was born September 7, 1931, at Rantoul, Kansas. He was the son of Cletus Jerome and Sally (Haughn) Shenk. A lifelong Franklin County resident, he made his home in Ottawa, Kansas, until his death Friday, March 29, 2002, at the age of seventy years. John graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1949. He...
William Elmer Sutton
Mar 27, 2002
William Elmer Sutton was born October 4, 1915, at Agricola, Kansas. He was the son of William S. and Cora Florence (Vanderslice) Sutton. He grew up in Agricola, Homewood, and Williamsburg, Kansas, moving to Princeton, in Franklin County, Kansas in 1945, where he made his home until his death Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at the age of eighty-six years....
Joseph Raymond Mock
Mar 25, 2002
Joseph Raymond Mock was born April 10, 1913, at Imes, Kansas. He was the son of George and Mary (Imes) Mock. He lived in Rantoul, Kansas several years, moving to his farm in Wellsville, north of Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home for fifty years, until his death Monday, March 25, 2002, at the age...
Henry Harold Shomber
Mar 25, 2002
Henry Harold Shomber was born January 4, 1908, to Henry Oliver and Nellie Lucinda (Hanne) Shomber, in their home, located 2 miles E of Homewood (East side of Iowa Rd, between Haskell and Hamilton) ' the first of three boys and one girl. He attended Acorn school into the 6th grade, and then Hood school and Ottawa High School,...
Gayle I. Clark
Mar 24, 2002
Gayle Ilene Clark was born April 9, 1945, at Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Harley and Pauline (Goodwine) Blankenbeker. In 1968, she moved to Spring Hill, Kansas, and later to Olathe, Kansas for five years. Gayle then moved to Osawatomie, Kansas, where she made her home the past ten years, until her death Sunday,...
Juanita Ybarra
Mar 20, 2002
Juanita was born May 17, 1925, at Ottawa, Kansas. She was the daughter of Eutimio and Josefa (Torrez) Barron. A lifelong resident, she made her home in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, until her death Wednesday, March 20, 2002, at the age of seventy-six years. Juanita attended Ottawa schools. She enjoyed all the pleasures of being a homemaker and was...
Nina B. Hughes
Mar 18, 2002
Nina Belle Hughes, 93, of Pomona, KS, died Monday, March 18, 2002 at Sunset Manor Nursing Home in Waverly, KS. She was born September 23, 1908 in Rural Pomona, Kansas. Nina was a life long Franklin County resident. She was raised in the Appanoose area until moving to Pomona in 1955 and in September of 2000 she moved to...
Ruby Lee Pederson
Mar 14, 2002
Ruby Pederson was born October 20, 1905, in Renfro, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of John and Marie (Peterson) Mayse. In the 1932, Ruby and her husband moved from Medford, Oklahoma to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where she made her home until her death Thursday, March 14, 2002, at the age of ninety-six years. Ruby graduated from Medford...
Floyd E. Meier
Mar 14, 2002
Floyd Edward Meier was born May 14, 1931, at Holton, Kansas. He was the son of Henry and Augusta (Conrade) Meier. He grew up in the Holton area, lived in Topeka after high school, in the 1960`s moved to Mission, Kansas, and to Ottawa in 1969. He was a resident of the Ottawa-Williamsburg area, until his death Thursday, March...
William Marks
Mar 13, 2002
William J. 'Bill' Marks was born August 14, 1913, in Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of William Jennings Marks, Sr. and Mabel (Glasser) Marks. He was a life long Franklin County resident, until his death March 13, 2002, at the age of eighty-eight years. Bill was a lifelong farmer and construction worker. During World War II, he...
Carter Austin Keith
Mar 9, 2002
Carter Austin Keith was born September 26, 1924, at Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of William Earl and Oda M. (Boyd) Keith. At a young age, Carter moved from Kansas City to the Pomona and Ottawa, Franklin County areas, where he made his home until his death Saturday, March 9, 2002, at the age of seventy-seven years....
Roberta J. Adcock
Mar 9, 2002
Roberta J. Adcock was born January 24, 1943, at Rantoul, Kansas. She was the daughter of Robert H. and Betty J. (Hulcy) Hubbard. A lifelong Franklin County resident, she made her home in Ottawa, Kansas, until her death Saturday, March 9, 2002, at the age of fifty-nine years. She graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1961....
Mary Frances Swallow
Mar 8, 2002
Mary Frances Swallow was born June 15, 1922, at Mount Washington, Missouri. She was the daughter of Samuel W. and Myrtle (Burns) Coltrane. A near lifelong resident, Mary moved with her family to rural Pomona at the age of three years, where she made her home until her death Friday, March 8, 2002, at the age of seventy-nine years....
Clyde Berry
Mar 7, 2002
Clyde Leland Berry was born March 24, 1912, at Garnett, Kansas. He was the son of George Edward Ed and Harriett Floy (Walker) Berry. A lifelong resident, he made his home in Richmond, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death Thursday, March 7, 2002, at the age of eighty-nine years. Clyde graduated from Garnett High School with the class of...
Courtney Ray Anderson
Mar 7, 2002
Courtney Ray Anderson was born December 3, 2001, at Olathe, Kansas. She was the daughter of Jeremy and Cathleen (Johnson) Anderson. Courtney made her home in Overland Park, Kansas, until her death Thursday, March 7, 2002, at the age of three months and four days. She is survived by her parents; paternal grandfather, Charles C. Anderson of Ottawa; maternal...
Carrol Martin Blakeman
Mar 5, 2002
Carrol Martin Blakeman was born March 2, 1921, at Edgerton, Kansas. He was the son of Golder and Mabel (Rohe) Blakeman. From 1939 to 1951, Carrol lived in the Gardner, Wellsville, and Edgerton, Kansas areas. In 1951, he moved to the Franklin County, Kansas area, where he made his home until his death Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at the...
Helen Mary Hogan
Feb 28, 2002
Helen Mary Hogan, 78, of Garnett, KS, died Thursday, February 28, 2002 at Menorah Medical Center in Overland Park, KS. SERVICES: A Funeral Mass will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 4, 2002, at St. Patrick`s Catholic Church, Emerald Community. OFFICIANT: Fr. Michael Hawken. IN STATE: Mrs. Hogan will lie in state at the Dengel & Son Mortuary after...
Lee Edward Taylor
Feb 23, 2002
Lee Edward Taylor, 76, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Saturday, February 23, 2002 at Wellsville Manor Care Center in Wellsville, Kansas. He was born February 11, 1926 in Rantoul, Kansas. Lee was a lifelong Franklin County resident. He graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1947. Lee worked as an assembler twelve years for Duke Manufacturing in Ottawa...
Chester Arnold Furrow
Feb 22, 2002
Chester Arnold Furrow was born September 13, 1917, at Waynolka, Oklahoma. He was the son of Harry Perry and Christa Bell (Spafford) Furrow. For several years, he lived in Riverside, California, moving to Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1970`s and Lawrence, Kansas, in 1988. In April of 2001, he moved to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made...
