Maggie Grace Schnakenberg
Jul 25, 2012
Maggie Grace Schnakenberg was born on July 24, 2012 at Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado. She died July 25, 2012. Maggie Grace is the daughter of Luke Parker and Tara Ann McCarthy Schnakenberg of Emporia, Kansas. She is survived by her parents of Emporia; grandparents, Mark and Ann Schnakenberg of Emporia, and Dan and Karen McCarthy of Olathe, Kansas; great-grandparents,...
Donna M. Shaw
Jul 23, 2012
Donna M. Shaw, 92, of Emporia, Kansas, died on Monday, July 23, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. The daughter of Joseph J. and Cornelia Phillips Schmidt, Donna was born on August 27, 1919 in Emporia, where she was the first baby born at St. Mary’s Hospital. She married Walter E. Shaw on November 12, 1938 at St. Joseph Catholic Church...
Ramona Aguilar
Jul 17, 2012
Ramona Aguilar, Emporia, Kansas, died Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor, Emporia, at the age of 77. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia, at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, July 21, 2012 with Father Ray May, celebrant. Interment will follow in Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, Emporia. The rosary will be recited at...
Reuben Eugene Willis
Jul 15, 2012
Reuben Eugene Willis, Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, July 15, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, at the age of 87. The son of Reuben McNeil and Emma Louise (Schramm) Willis, Reuben Eugene Willis was born in Chanute, Kansas on January 18, 1925. He and Wadean Elizabeth Hayworth were married at the Lutheran Church in Humboldt, Kansas on June 22,...
Eva M. Palmer
Jul 15, 2012
Eva M. Palmer, 91, of Emporia, Kansas, died on July 15, 2012 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Eva was born on September 13, 1920 in Hollenburg, Kansas, the daughter of Herman and Dorothea Damman Grefe. She married Elmer L. Palmer on May 7, 1944 in Iola, Kansas. He died on July 30, 1966 in Emporia. Survivors include: sons, William and...
Paula Davidson
Jul 8, 2012
Paula Davidson, Allen, Kansas, died at her home Sunday afternoon, July 8, 2012 at the age of 62. Paula Wilkerson was born in Wichita, Kansas on August 11, 1949, the daughter of Ira and Marjorie (Turner) Wilkerson. She married Mark Telfer, and they later divorced. She married Ronald Davidson in Emporia on August 11, 1990. He survives. Other family members...
Glendon S. Iverson
Jul 6, 2012
Glendon S. Iverson, 87, of Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, July 6, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Glendon Stevenson Iverson, the son of George and Gladys Stevenson Iverson, was born January 17, 1925 in Emporia. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Eunice and John Stevenson, and grew up with their children Beulah, Herbert, and Avis, as brothers and sisters. He...
Violet Butter
Jul 6, 2012
Violet McElfresh Butter of Emporia Kansas died on Friday, July 6, 2012. She was 80. Violet was born on January 2, 1932 in Lyon County, Kansas, the daughter of John and Annalee Tompkins McElfresh. She married Walter Rathke on June 21, 1953, they later divorced. She then married Leroy Butter, he precedes her in death. Survivors include: son, Daniel Rathke...
Herbert L. Moerer
Jun 29, 2012
Herbert L. Moerer, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on Friday, June 29, 2012 at the age of 56. Herbert L. Moerer was born in Iola, Kansas on September 23, 1955, the son of Robert E. (Sr.) and Patricia Ann (Marion) Moerer. Herb was raised on the family farm near Yates Center, Kansas by his grandparents, Ronald and Helen Moerer....
Helen Elizabeth Webb
Jun 26, 2012
Helen Elizabeth (Kidd) Webb, 76, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Helen was born September 25, 1935, the daughter of Raymond Ellsworth and Julia Grace (DeGraffenreid) Kidd. She attended Milford schools and graduated from Milford Rural High School in 1953. She attended A&M Junior College in Miami, Oklahoma, where she met...
Margaret Quirarte
Jun 26, 2012
Margaret Quirarte was called home to be with her Lord and Savior on June 26, 2012, at her home in Emporia, Kansas. She was 89. Margaret was born in Mexico, in the state of Durango on June 17, 1923, the daughter of Petra Rodriguez. Margaret attended school in Durango, where she received her teaching degree and taught first grade in...
Georgia Frazier
Jun 25, 2012
Georgia Frazier, 89, formerly of Emporia, Kansas, and a resident at the Good Samaritan Society of Olathe, Kansas, died Monday morning, June 25, 2012 in Olathe. Georgia was born in Emporia on August 16, 1922, the daughter of Walter H. and Atha E. Merrell Martin. She married Ivan Harold Frazier on December 4, 1940 in Emporia. He died on April...
Jack "J.D." Dillian Bales
Jun 23, 2012
Jack Dillian “J.D.” Bales (84) of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Saturday, June 23, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. He was born on July 19, 1927 in Caney, Kansas, the son of James Dillian “Dillie” & Doris (Helmick) Bales. He graduated from College High School in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1945. Upon graduation, he enlisted in the US Navy during...
Jacqueline "Jackie" Robidou
Jun 21, 2012
Jacqueline (Jackie) Robidou (70) Americus, Kansas, passed away in her home Thursday, June 21, 2012. The daughter of David and Nellie Wilson Simmons, she was born December 3, 1941 in Birmingham, England. She immigrated to the USA on July 4, 1959, and married Frank L. Robidou in the St. Rose Catholic Church in Council Grove, Kansas, October 15, 1960. In...
Ruth E. Barnhart
Jun 13, 2012
Ruth E. Barnhart, 93, of rural Emporia, Kansas, died on June 13, 2012 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Ruth was born on September 21, 1918 near Lebo, Kansas, the daughter of Marion and Luella Arb Keller. She married Tyrus Barnhart on October 25, 1935 in Burlington, Kansas. He survives. Other survivors include: sons, Larry and Robert Barnhart, both...
Linnie M. Freeman
Jun 13, 2012
Linnie M. Freeman, Emporia, Kansas, died at her home in Emporia on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, at the age of 95. Linnie Mable Palmer was born at Northcott, Anderson County, Kansas, on May 23, 1917. She was the daughter of Franklin Grant and Addie Mae (Ames) Palmer. She married Harold Francis Freeman at Burlington, Kansas, on August 9, 1933. He...
Larry Dean Vanpelt
Jun 9, 2012
Larry Dean VanPelt, 74, of Emporia, Kansas, died on June 9, 2012 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Larry was born on August 20, 1937 in Wichita, the son of Harry M. and Vivian Faye Reynolds VanPelt. He married Janis Lovett on February 19, 1977 in Wichita. She survives of the home. Other surviving family members include: son, Don...
M. Jean Frederiksen
Jun 8, 2012
M. Jean Frederiksen, 82, formerly of rural Americus, Kansas, died on June 8, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Jean was born on October 28, 1929 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Theodore and Ada Piper Williams. She married Edward W. Frederiksen on June 6, 1948 in Salina, Kansas. He passed away at their home in rural Americus...
Cleo Clifford Jacob
Jun 5, 2012
Cleo Clifford Jacob, 94, of Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas, and formerly of rural Americus, Kansas, died Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Cleo was born December 12, 1917, the son of Joe and Coral (Batch) Jacob in the same house he lived in for 87 years in rural Americus. Cleo attended Wheeler District #42...
Lucille Ibarra
May 31, 2012
Lucille Ibarra, Wichita, Kansas, formerly of Emporia, Kansas, died at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, on Thursday, May 31, 2012. She was 53. Lucille Granado was born at Sinton, Texas on June 28, 1958, the daughter of Eluterio N. (Sr.) and Hortencia (Ramirez) Granado. She was divorced. Mrs. Ibarra is survived by two daughters, Gabriela and Mireya Ibarra, Wichita; her mother,...
