Veta M. Reece
Jun 21, 2013
Veta M. Reece, 88, of Emporia died Friday, June 21, 2013 at Holiday Resort Care Center. Cremation is planned. Veta Maude Cowperthwaite, the daughter of Norma R. and Dovie Pendleton Cowperthwaite, was born July 29, 1924 in Silver Lake, Kansas. She married Marvin L. Reece in Topeka on September 18, 1946. He survives of the home. Veta is also survived...
Raymond "Bud" M. Brown
Jun 19, 2013
Raymond M. “Bud” Brown, Emporia, died Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at Sterling House of Emporia at the age of 98. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia, on Monday, June 24, 2013 at 11:00 A.M., with Father Rich Warsnak, Celebrant. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery with military graveside honors by the United...
Albert William Vogts
Jun 18, 2013
Albert William Vogts, 90, of rural Madison, Kansas, died on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Albert was born on November 28, 1922 in Canton, Kansas, the son of William and Mary Jahn Vogts. He married Josephine Hinrichs Vogts on June 3, 1945 at Zion Lutheran Church in rural Olpe. She survives. Other survivors include:...
Franz Rockford Donelson
Jun 17, 2013
Franz Rockford Donelson, 45, of Emporia died on Monday, June 17, 2013 at Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. Franz was born on November 1, 1967 in Emporia, the son of Marvin Dean and Nancy Walkup Donelson. Survivors include his parents of Americus; a sister, Rachel Donelson Nichols and husband Shane; and two nephews, Noah and Nathan Nichols. He is...
William "Kenny" Kenneth Timbrook
Jun 10, 2013
William Kenneth “Kenny” Timbrook, 86, Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, June 10, 2013 at the emergency department, Newman Regional Health, Emporia. William Kenneth Timbrook was born at Emporia, on December 17, 1926, the son of William Robert and M. Alice (McCluskey) Timbrook. He married Elfrieda M. Borell at Saint Mark’s Lutheran Church in Emporia on December 25, 1947. She survives. Surviving...
Frank M. Powell
Jun 7, 2013
Frank M. Powell, a resident of Roeland Park, Kansas, and formerly of Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, June 7, 2013 at a Lenexa care center at the age of 84. Frank was born on May 25, 1929 at Emporia, the son of Perry and Thelma (Touche) Powell. He married Patricia June VanCleave at Emporia on March 14, 2003. Mr. Powell was...
Patricia Lynn Hill
Jun 1, 2013
Patricia Lynn Hill, 57, of Allen, Kansas, died on June 1, 2013 at Midland Hospice House in Topeka, Kansas. Patricia was born on September 6, 1955 in Russell, Kansas, the daughter of Robert Aurther Goza and Dorothy May Price-Goza-Chambers. She married Jerry Hill in Emporia in 1978. They later divorced. Surviving family members include: her son, Jacob M. Hill and...
William H. Walker
May 25, 2013
William H. Walker, 77, of Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, May 25, 2013 at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas. William Hobert Walker, the son of Charles and Edith Hobert Walker, was born on December 31, 1935 in Ellsworth, Kansas. He married Lola Brown on June 30, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada. William made his career in the military, first with the...
Mica Lee Parks
May 24, 2013
Mica Lee Parks, 30, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Friday, May 24, 2013 at his home. Mica Lee Parks, the son of Alfred Wesley and Anita Louise Surritt Parks, was born January 29, 1983 in Emporia. He married Nicole Arthur in October of 2007 in Emporia. They later divorced. He is survived by a son, Cale Jorge Lewis Parks of...
Theresa Marie Redeker
May 24, 2013
Theresa M. Redeker, 92, of Olpe, Kansas, passed away Friday, May 24, 2013 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Theresa Marie Scheve, the daughter of John and Martha Thill Scheve, was born October 15, 1920 in rural Lyon County. She married Joseph John Redeker on May 6, 1941 at the St. Mary Catholic Church in the Maydale community south of Olpe. He...
Hildred Mary Cook
May 13, 2013
Hildred Mary Cook passed away on May 13, 2013 at the age of 96. She died peacefully at the Congregational Home in Brookfield, WI. Hildred had spent the last few years in Wisconsin with her two sons and her late husband Cleve, who passed away earlier this year. Hildred was born November 5, 1916, the daughter of Roy and Flave...
Carol Frances Herman
May 12, 2013
Carol Frances Herman, 91, of Emporia, Kansas, died on Sunday, May 12, 2013 at the Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas. Carol was born on March 21, 1922 in Lyon County, Kansas, the daughter of James R. and Mary E. Lapsley Eaton. She married August LeRoy Hermann on October 6, 1941 in Emporia, he died on September 26, 1989 in...
Donna Holton
May 8, 2013
Donna Holton, 71, Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Mrs. Holton moved to Emporia in August of 2009 from Chicago. Cremation is planned. Memorial services will be held at a later date in Illinois.
Brenda Street
May 7, 2013
Brenda Street passed away at her home in Emporia, Kansas on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at the age of 56. Brenda Brehob was born December 12, 1956 at Beech Grove, Indiana, the daughter of John William and Wilma (Kokemohr) Brehob. She married Todd David Street at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on January 4, 1986. He survives of the home. Other surviving...
Lester E. Ritter
May 7, 2013
Lester E. Ritter passed from this life May 7, 2013 at his home north of Bushong, Kansas. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Nancy Howell Ritter of the home; sons, Ronald Ray Ritter and wife Catherine of Elgin, Oklahoma, and Richard Rey Ritter, of Augusta, Kansas; and grandsons, Ryan Ray, Rocco Ron and Regan Rex of Elgin,...
Carl Hensley
May 6, 2013
Carl Hensley, 82, Emporia, Kansas, died at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia, on Monday, May 6, 2013. Carl was born April 4, 1931 in Matfield Green, Kansas, the son of Walter Lee and Vera (Laughridge) Hensley. He was the loving father of Carol Anne Turner, who passed away earlier, Patricia M. Hardin, Hunnewell, Kansas, Carl James Hensley, Wellington, Kansas, Donald...
Beryl Edwina Childears
May 4, 2013
Beryl Edwina Tipping Childears, 82, a resident of Emporia, Kansas, passed away at her home Saturday morning, May 4, 2013. Beryl Edwina Tipping was born in Yiewsley, Middlesex, England on February 12, 1931, the daughter of Edward Charles and Ada Rosa Tidbury Tipping. She married Maurice A. Childears in the Saint Mathews Church, Church of England, Yiewsley, Middlesex, England on...
Wilma Jean Bixler
May 4, 2013
Wilma Jean Bixler, 93, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, May 4, 2013 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor Health Center. She was born In Allen, Kansas on December 21, 1919, the daughter of Jeff and Helen Echols Wheat. Wilma graduated from Allen High School and attended Emporia State. She married Hugo Bixler on May 5, 1938. He died December 12,...
Mary Elizabeth Sowers
May 4, 2013
Mary Elizabeth Sowers passed away on May 4, 2013 in Conroe, Texas. She was 89. Mary was born in Americus, Kansas on February 15, 1924, the daughter of Elmer Clayton and Evelyn Marie Finney. Mary was a homemaker and she loved being with her family and her extended family. She was a lifetime member of The Eternal Order of Eastern...
Leonard Roy Chamberlain
May 3, 2013
Leonard Roy Chamberlain, 78, of Olpe, Kansas, died Friday, May 3, 2013 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Leonard Roy Chamberlain was born March 8, 1935 in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Roy and Blanche (Melton) Chamberlain. Leonard married Susan Jane Dannecker in Topeka, Kansas on October 23, 1981. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: daughters, Lynette...
