Ruth N. Barrett
Jul 23, 2013
Ruth N. Barrett, 83, of Emporia, Kansas, died on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at Rose Estates in Overland Park, Kansas. Ruth was born on December 8, 1929 in Emporia, the daughter of Cyril J. and Lola Tucker Bedner. She married Eugene C. Barrett on May 23, 1951 in Emporia. He died on May 14, 2001. Surviving family members include: a...
Mildred "Milly" L. Hollembeak
Jul 22, 2013
Mildred (Milly) L. Hollembeak, 96 of Emporia, Kansas, died on July 22, 2013 at her home. Milly was born on November 15, 1916 in Emporia, the daughter of Charles W. and Mildred S. Kenworthy Burnap. She married Hal D. Hollembeak on October 4, 1941 in Wichita, Kansas. He died on June 5, 2000 in Emporia. She is survived by a...
Betty F. Mathena
Jul 18, 2013
Betty F. Mathena, 78, of Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, July 18, 2013 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Betty F. Rouse was born October 11, 1934 in Little Creek, Kentucky, the daughter of Judge and Omoa Rouse. She worked in housekeeping in area nursing homes and has been retired for 20 years. Betty married Jo Bargo and he preceded her...
Helen Eileen Van Sickle
Jul 17, 2013
Helen Eileen Van Sickle, 88, died at her home in Emporia, Kansas on July 17, 2013. Helen Eileen Briggs was born July 10, 1925 at Reading, Kansas, the daughter of Harry Harvey and Clarice Fuller Briggs. She graduated from Reading High School in 1942. She married Coburn Van Sickle on May 28, 1944. During the 1940s, she worked at Fort...
Florence M. Schadt
Jul 17, 2013
Florence M. Schadt, aged 98, died July 17, 2013 at her home in Emporia, surrounded by love. Florence Maurine Kirby was born May 17, 1915 in Miltonvale, Kansas to Grace Dale Gorrell Kirby and Osborne Eddy Kirby. Her younger siblings were Vernon, Elinor, and Donald. She attended elementary school primarily in Miltonvale. At the age of thirteen, Florence was stricken...
Forest "Sonny" Arnold
Jul 11, 2013
Forest “Sonny” Arnold, a resident of Hartford, Kansas, died at his home on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at the age of 77. Forest was born in Emporia, Kansas on June 28, 1935, the son of Alex and Cora Fern (Blackburn) Arnold. He married Connie Sue Smith in Newkirk, Oklahoma on February 16, 1973. She died November 4, 1985. Mr. Arnold...
Larry D. Howard
Jul 10, 2013
Larry D. Howard of Emporia, Kansas, died on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at his home. He was 78. Larry was born on November 25, 1934 in Lincoln, Kansas, the son of Clinton and Lora Chard Howard. He married Patricia Gibson at the First United Methodist Church in Emporia. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: son, Kirk Howard of...
Barbara Jean Dilts
Jul 8, 2013
Barbara Jean Dilts, 67, of Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, July 8, 2013 at her home. Barbara was born on February 15, 1946 in Woodward, Oklahoma, the daughter of Wesley and Edna McKenna Mathews. She married William “Bill” Albert Dilts on January 27, 1970 in Emporia. He died on December 13, 1997 in Emporia. Surviving family members include: sons, Mark Danford...
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...
