David Michael Evans
Oct 30, 2012
David Micheal Evans, 68, died Tuesday October 30, 2012 at Stormont Vail Healthcare Topeka, Kansas after a short illness. David was the oldest of four sons born to Wilbur Ernest and Annie Ruth (Cravy) Evans. He was born July 15, 1944 in San Saba, Texas. He lived in Louisiana, Texas, California and Kansas. David graduated from Highland Park High School...
Walter D. Rathke
Oct 30, 2012
Walter D. Rathke, 94, of rural Olpe, Kansas, died on October 30, 2012 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Walter was born on June 23, 1918 in rural Olpe, the son of Samuel and Lydia Belle Cooper Rathke. He married Violet McElfresh on June 21, 1953 in Cottonwood Falls. They later divorced; she died in 2012. He later married Mary Wecker...
Ryan Hutchinson Seastrom
Oct 29, 2012
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, November 3, 2012, at First United Methodist Church, Emporia, Kansas, for Ryan Hutchinson Seastrom, who died Monday evening, October 29, 2012, in Emporia at the age of 35. The service will be conducted by Pastor Jeannie Jensen of the church. Cremation will follow services. Ryan’s family will receive friends at the...
Joyce Ann Wempe
Oct 29, 2012
Joyce Ann Wempe, 50, of Emporia, Kansas died on October 29, 2012 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Joyce was born on April 23, 1962 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the daughter of Oll and Ann Major Wilson. She married Conrad L. Wempe on May 23, 1980 in Eureka, Kansas. He survives of the home. Surviving family members include: son, Brett...
Fred J. Nilges
Oct 23, 2012
Fred J. Nilges, 88, passed away at his home in Emporia, Kansas, Tuesday morning, October 23, 2012. Fred was born in Rural Garnett, Kansas on August 1, 1924, the son of Samuel and Mary (Peine) Nilges. He married Lorrine Armstrong at Emporia on February 26, 1972. She died November 5, 2006. Surviving family members include: his step-daughter, June Delgado, and...
Patricia "Patti" L. Collins
Oct 18, 2012
Patricia L. “Patti” Collins, Foster City, California, and formerly of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Thursday, October 18, 2012 at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, California, at the age of 86. Patricia James was born in Normal, Illinois on February 18, 1926, the daughter of H. Francis and Judith (Pregaldin) James. She married William Michael Collins at the...
Warren Wayne Thomas
Oct 17, 2012
Warren Wayne Thomas, 66, died at his home in Emporia, Kansas, on Wednesday, October 17, 2012, after battling cancer the last two years. Warren was born September 27, 1946 in Berryville, Arkansas, the son of William Hugh and Stella Irene (Babcock) Thomas. Number 11 of 12 children, he was raised with his sister LaVonne in Wetmore, Colorado after his parents...
Charles "Chuck" D. Gilligan
Oct 15, 2012
Charles D. “Chuck” Gilligan, 71, of Emporia, Kansas, died on October 15, 2012 at his home. Chuck was born on September 18, 1941 in Emporia, the son of Charles V. and Iona M. Schultz Gilligan. He married Mary Gayle Gorman on September 16, 1961 in Hartford, Kansas. They were divorced. He later married Carol Warrensburg Mahoney on July 9, 1976...
Dorothy Lee Peak
Oct 15, 2012
Dorothy Lee Marcellus Peak, 89, passed away October 15, 2012 in Emporia, Kansas. Dorothy was born on February 22, 1923 in Emporia, to Charles Melvin and Nancy Mae Bell Smith Marcellus. She attended Emporia schools and graduated from Emporia Senior High School in 1941. She married Homer Peak on December 24, 1941 in Emporia. He passed away on November 23,...
Joseph Richard Blanck
Oct 14, 2012
Joseph Richard Blanck, 90, formerly of Lamont, Kansas passed away Sunday, October 14, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Joseph Richard Blanck, the son of Joseph Daniel and Mildred Elizabeth Weaver Blanck, was born September 12, 1922 at the family homestead in Lamont. Richard was an infantry man with the U.S. Army in WWII, serving from 1942 to 1945. He was...
William "Bill" W. Votaw
Oct 14, 2012
William “Bill” W. Votaw, 86, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Sunday, October 14, 2012 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Bill was born on April 23, 1926 in Wellfleet, Nebraska, the son of Walter and Ethel Johnson Votaw. He married Janice Rice on August 11, 1957 in North Platte, Nebraska, they divorced, and he later married Roma Ury on May 12,...
Milton Edward Vahsholtz
Oct 14, 2012
Milton Edward Vahsholtz, 87, of Emporia, Kansas, died on October 14, 2012 at Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. Milton was born on June 24, 1925 in Herington, Kansas, the son of Henry Leonard and Lena Caroline Jung Vahsholtz. He married Joan Baldwin on January 27, 1951 at Messiah Lutheran Church in Emporia. She survives. Other survivors include: son, Wayne,...
Robert "Bob" S. Johnson
Oct 11, 2012
Robert “Bob” S. Johnson, 89, of Emporia, Kansas died October 11, 2012 at Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas. Bob was born on September 5, 1923 in Winfield, Kansas, the son of Seldon Lupher and Ada (Henry) Johnson. He married DeLores C. Blackett on May 14, 1943 at Grace Episcopal Church in Winfield. She survives of the home. Other...
Dwane "Knocky" "Red" Robinson
Oct 10, 2012
A visitation for Dwane “Knocky”, “Red” Robinson, 90, Emporia, Kansas, will be held from 1:00 to 2:00 P.M., Sunday, October 14, 2012 at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home in Emporia. Dwane passed away on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. He chose cremation, and his family has honored those wishes. Dwane was born on April 8, 1922 in Emporia, the...
Harriet Rumford
Oct 10, 2012
Harriet Rumford, 83, Emporia, Kansas, and formerly of Americus, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kansas. Harriet Gould was born in Pratt, Kansas on April 26, 1929, the daughter of Harry and Sibyl (Greene) Gould. She married Albert Jay Rumford on March 30, 1953 in Kingman, Kansas. He died September 30, 1981....
John Lewis Scheve
Oct 8, 2012
John Lewis Scheve, 78, of Emporia, Kansas died Monday, October 8, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. John Lewis Scheve was born November 15, 1933 on the family farm south of Olpe, Kansas, the son of John and Martha (Thill) Scheve. John married Mary Ann Ripperger on April 14, 1956 in Rose Mount, Iowa. She survives of the...
Alvin A. Vogts
Oct 7, 2012
Alvin A. Vogts, 95, of Olpe, Kansas, died October 7, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia, Kansas. Alvin was born November 20, 1916 in Canton, Kansas, the son of Pete & Lena (Wendte) Vogts. He married Ella D. Hinrichs at Zion Lutheran Church, west of Olpe, on August 6, 1939. They enjoyed 70 years together, until her death...
Paul L. Plummer
Oct 6, 2012
Paul L. Plummer, 53, of Seattle, Washington, and formerly of Emporia and Burlington, Kansas, died at his home in Seattle on Saturday, October 6, 2012. Paul was born at Emporia on February 21, 1959, the son of Robert M. and Paula L. (Lowe) Plummer. He is survived by his father of Emporia, and his sister, Jennifer Shields, Springfield, Missouri. Paul’s...
James "Jim" Lee Kinder
Oct 3, 2012
James Kinder, a resident of Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 3, 2012 at Stormont-Vail Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas. He was 79. James Lee Kinder was born at Moline, Kansas, on November 15, 1932, the son of George Lee and Elizabeth Maude (Beechner) Kinder. He married Ann Kennedy at the First United Methodist Church, Emporia, on July 17, 1955. She survives....
Donald C. Krueger
Oct 2, 2012
Donald C. Krueger, 66, of Emporia, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 2, 2012 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Don was born on December 20, 1945 in Emporia, the son of Charles William, Sr. and Rita Mary Kuhlmann Krueger. He is survived by: his life partner, Debra O’Connor of the home; and her children, Jarod O’Connor...
