Goldia D. Newton
Sep 18, 2012
Goldia D. Newton, 88, of Emporia, Kansas, died on September 18, 2012 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Goldia was born on June 29, 1924 in Moreland, Kansas, the daughter of Gilbert and JoAnn McGuire Brown. She married Dominick Conway on April 1947 in Emporia. They later divorced. She then married Elmer A. Newton on October 10, 1969 in Emporia....
Imogene "Imo" Mccosh
Sep 14, 2012
Imogene (Imo) McCosh passed away peacefully on September 14, 2012 at The Sterling House of Emporia, Kansas. She was 94 years old. Imo was born to Walter and Edna Dunn on February 23, 1918 in Center Township of Lyon County, Kansas. The Flint Hills nurtured her roods. She loved them and the people here throughout her life. She moved to...
George William Ensminger, Jr.
Sep 9, 2012
George William Ensminger, Jr., 85, of Emporia, Kansas, died on September 9, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. George was born on November 4, 1926 in La Harpe, Kansas, the son of George William, Sr. and Pauline Ruth Phillips Ensminger. He married Carol Remsberg on May 24, 1947 in Iola, Kansas. She survives. Other survivors include: son, John R. Ensminger of...
Bettye June Hilton
Sep 9, 2012
Bettye June Hilton of Emporia, Kansas, died September 9, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 82. Bettye June Morgan was born July 13, 1930 in Oswalt, Oklahoma, the daughter of Clarence Elbert “C.E.” & Betty Dosha (Bearden) Morgan. Bettye June married Elbert Lee “Elb” Hilton on July 16, 1948, in Gainesville, Texas. He died January 19, 1985, in Marietta,...
Warren Wayne Rathke
Sep 7, 2012
Warren Wayne Rathke, 83, of Olpe, Kansas, died September 7, 2012 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Warren Wayne Rathke was born September 28, 1928, on the family farm outside Olpe, the son of William and Alvina Kuhn Rathke. Warren spent most of his working years on that farm, later retiring to Olpe with two brothers. He is survived by...
Fred R. Hitzeman
Sep 5, 2012
Funeral services for Fred R. Hitzeman, 92, Emporia, Kansas, will be held at the West Side Baptist Church, Emporia, on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 2:00 P.M. The service will be conducted by Pastor Kenneth Armstrong, of the church. Interment will follow at Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia. The family will receive friends Sunday afternoon, September 10, 2012 from 2:00 until...
Paul Lavern Burris
Sep 2, 2012
Paul Lavern Burris, 87, passed away peacefully at his home in Emporia, Kansas, on September 2, 2012. He was born May 28, 1925 in McDonald KS to Edgar and Gladys (Jayne) Burris. He graduated from Emporia High School in 1943 and was drafted into the Army, where he served in the 8th Air Force as a tail gunner on a...
Dudley R. Young
Sep 2, 2012
Dudley R. Young, 88, of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, September 2, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Dudley R. Young, the son of Silver Richard and Lola May Stowe Young, was born on December 26, 1923 in Ottawa, Kansas. He married Elosia M. Dwyer on November 26, 1956 in Miami, Oklahoma. She preceded him in death on February 16,...
Vernon H. Buck
Aug 26, 2012
Vernon H. Buck, 91, of Emporia, Kansas, died at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, on Sunday, August 26, 2012. Vernon Howard Buck, the son of William M. and Minnie (Hammond) Buck, was born in Emporia on August 2, 1921. He married Norma Jean Dowell at the First Presbyterian Church, Emporia, on June 6, 1950. She died December 16, 2010. Surviving...
James L. Jensen
Aug 25, 2012
James L. Jensen, 69, passed away August 25, 2012 at his home in rural Eskridge, Kansas, with his wife and sons at his side. Jim was born June 15, 1943, at Jacksonville, Iowa, the eldest of six sons of Grover and Mary Harter Jensen. At the age of 12 the family relocated to Arlington, Nebraska, where Jim grew up in...
George Henry Mechtley
Aug 25, 2012
George Henry Mechtley passed away Saturday, August 25, 2012 in Emporia, Kansas. He was 91. George was born in El Dorado, Kansas, September 22, 1920, to Clair Mechtley and Irene Taylor Mechtley. He married Erma Gene Grimmett on July 10, 1942 in Emporia. He is survived by a brother, Theodore Mechtley, of Emporia; three daughters, Georgene Verlin of Marshfield, Missouri,...
Wayne Nicholas
Aug 13, 2012
Wayne Nicholas, 81, of Emporia, Kansas, died on August 13, 2012 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Wayne was born on October 25, 1930 in Emporia, the son of William Harold and Lucile Hattie Watkins Nicholas. He married Nina Blevins on July 29, 1985 in Miami, Oklahoma. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: mother, Lucile Hattie Talbard...
Claude Lee Harris
Aug 10, 2012
Claude Lee Harris, Emporia, Kansas, died at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, on Friday, August 10, 2012 at the age of 86. Claude was born May 1, 1926 in Caddo County, Oklahoma, the son of Jesse Henry and Nancy Ellen (Buffer) Harris. He married Mary I.”Jean” Marbut at her parents’ home in Lyon County, Kansas on December 16, 1953. She survives....
Betty Lou Akers
Aug 5, 2012
Betty Lou Bond Akers, 80, of Madison, Kansas, passed away at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday, August 5, 2012 following a brief illness. The daughter of Lon H. Bond Sr. and Nancy Carol French Bond, she was born in Fairland, Oklahoma on July 27, 1932 and graduated from Fairland High School. She attended NEO A&M College in...
Helen R. Metcalf
Aug 2, 2012
Helen R. Metcalf, 92, Emporia, Kansas, and formerly of Fort Scott, Kansas, passed away Thursday, August 2, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Helen Rosella Elder, the daughter of Charles and Bessie (Kinion) Elder, was born in Woodson, Kansas on March 23, 1920. She married Otis Metcalf at Fort Scott on December 22, 1941. He died in June of 1960. Surviving...
Tyrus Raymond Barnhart
Jul 31, 2012
Tyrus Raymond Barnhart, 94, of rural Emporia, Kansas, died on July 31, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Tyrus was born on January 9, 1918 in Neosho Rapids, Kansas, the son of Ross and Della Son Barnhart. He married Ruth E. Keller on October 25, 1935 in Burlington, Kansas. She died on June 13, 2012 in Emporia. Survivors include:...
Mary T. Cuadra
Jul 30, 2012
Mary T. Cuadra, 81, of Emporia, Kansas, went to be with her Heavenly Father on July 30, 2012 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Mary was born on May 18, 1931 in rural Franklin County, Kansas, the daughter of John and Kathryn Wagner O’Neil. She married Kenneth D. Cuadra on November 14, 1953 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Emerald, Kansas....
Philip Matile
Jul 29, 2012
Philip Matile, 67, died Sunday, July 29, 2012 at his home in rural Americus, Kansas. Philip Matile, the son of Alfred and Marjorie (Thomas) Matile, was born in Emporia, Kansas on December 16, 1944. He married Dee Redelfs January 14, 1995 at Americus. She survives. Other surviving family members include his son, Jeff (Rachel) of Americus, stepdaughter, Brooke (Shawn) Wilson,...
Alfred Eugene Mcclintick
Jul 28, 2012
Alfred Eugene McClintick, Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, July 28, 2012 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia, at the age of 74. Mr. McClintick was born in Chillicothe, Missouri, on July 30, 1937, the son of Alfred Evert and Mable Arizona (Cox) McClintick. He married Betty Jo Gaffney in Emporia on April 28, 1962, and they later divorced. Surviving family members...
Marie L. Williams
Jul 28, 2012
Marie L. Williams, Emporia, Kansas, died at the Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, Kansas, Saturday morning, July 28, 2012, at the age of 86. Funeral services will be held at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, Emporia, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 1, 2012. The service will be conducted by Pastor Andrew McHenry, First Congregational Church. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery, south...
