Martha Nell Lewis
May 29, 2012
Martha Nell Lewis, 65, of Kansas City, Kansas, died on May 29, 2012 at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Martha was born on September 8, 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of Price and Elizabeth (Osgood) Lewis. She is survived by her brother, David P. and wife Sandra Lewis of Crandall, Texas; one niece, Meredith...
Merlen L. Turley
May 29, 2012
Merlen L. Turley, 89, of Americus, Kansas, died on May 29, 2012 at his home in Americus. Merlen was born on March 4, 1923 in western Kansas, the son of Uless Spicer and Daisy Florence Coffee Turley. He married Mildred Scott in 1954 at Raton, New Mexico. They later divorced. Surviving family members include: son, Merlen L. Turley of Americus;...
Peggy Orine Wygle
May 25, 2012
Peggy O. Wygle, 82, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Friday, May 25, 2012 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor, after a short illness. Peggy Orine Kaub, the daughter of Forrest and Edelyne Short Kaub, was born June 25, 1929 in Hamilton, Kansas. She married R.W. “Bill” Wygle August 31, 1947 at Hamilton, Kansas. He survives of Emporia. Other surviving members of the...
Evelia Trujillo
May 25, 2012
Evelia Trujillo, 60, of Emporia, Kansas passed away Friday, May 25, 2012 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Evelia Vega, the daughter of Bernardino and Jesusita Bedolla Vega, was born May 20, 1952 in Colonia Lazaro Cardinaz Michuacan, Mexico. She married Roberto Trujillo on Valentine’s Day, 1969 in Colonia Lazaro Cardinaz Michuacan, Mexico. He survives of the home. Other surviving...
Jessie "Jean" Naylor Hollern
May 21, 2012
Jessie (Jean) Naylor Hollern, 79, of Emporia, Kansas, died on May 21, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Jean. the daughter of James and Fannie Smith Naylor, was born on September 16, 1932 at Arvonia, KS. Jean moved with her family to Emporia in 1944. She married Charles D. Hollern on June 17, 1956 in Emporia and they...
Lisa Marie James
May 17, 2012
Lisa Marie James, 51, of Emporia, Kansas, died on May 17, 2012 at her mother’s home in Emporia. Lisa was born on August 12, 1960 in Emporia, the daughter of Robert Eugene and Marguerite Emily Price James. She was divorced. She is survived by: her parents, Robert Eugene James and Marguerite Emily James of Emporia; daughter, Christina Rarick of Emporia;...
Rosemary M. Kelso
May 16, 2012
Rosemary M. Kelso, 72, of Emporia, Kansas, died on May 16, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Rosemary was born on August 27, 1939 in Des Moines, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Mabel Free Flander. She married Ken Kelso on October 26, 1984 at Ranch House Club in Emporia. He survives of the home. Other survivors include: son,...
Timothy D. Esterly
May 15, 2012
Timothy D. Esterly, 67, of Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on May 15, 2012. Tim was born on October 15, 1944, the son of Earl and Ethel Shively Esterly. He married Mary Jane Halpin in 1963 at Allentown, Pennsylvania; they later divorced. He is survived by: common law wife, Freda Goza of the home; sons, Timothy D. Esterly Jr....
Deborah Rodak
May 15, 2012
Deborah Rodak, 45, of Emporia, Kansas, died at her home on May 15, 2012. Deborah was born on April 20, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Leon and Jean DeGroot Justice. She married Robert Rodak on May 22, 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri. He survives of the home. Other survivors include: mother, Jean Justice of Onarga, Illinois; son, Phillip...
Merle C. Martin
May 12, 2012
Merle C. Martin, of Emporia, Kansas, died on May 12, 2012 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. She was 95. Merle Smith, daughter of Frank O. and Myrtle Baysinger Smith, was born in the Hartford area on May 13, 1916. She attended grade school in the Gumbo District area and graduated from Hartford High School in 1935. She married...
Warren J. Horton
May 9, 2012
World War II Veteran, Warren J. Horton, 87, of Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on May 9, 2012. He was born in Greenwood County, Kansas, February 20, 1925 to Neva (Smith) and William L. Horton on the family farm. He was married to Maxine Schroer, on September 24, 1950, at the Schroer family farm in Marion County, Kansas. He...
Michael H. Shane
May 6, 2012
Michael H. Shane, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home Sunday morning, May 6, 2012, at the age of 66. Mike was born at Southgate, California on August 4, 1945, the son of George Russell and Georgia (Miller) Shane. He married Trudy Sue Bjorkback in 1972 in Emporia; they later divorced. On September 8, 2007, Mike and Shawna Deann Smith were...
David Joe Wear
May 5, 2012
David Joe Wear, 71, Rural Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on Saturday, May 5, 2012. David was born at Kansas City, Kansas, on March 14, 1941, the son of Clark C. and Marcia Alice (Burnaw) Wear. Surviving family members include his daughter, Marcia Wear Canaday, Emporia; brothers, Gary Wear and Roger Ramsel, Kansas City, Kansas; and grandchildren, Ruth and...
Helen Victoria Woods
Apr 30, 2012
Helen Victoria Woods, 90, Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, April 30, 2012 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Helen Victoria White was born March 10, 1922 at Ottawa, Kansas, the daughter of Earl and Queen of Victoria (Andrews) White. She married Harlan C. “Tex” Woods in Ottawa, Kansas on October 2, 1954. He died September 6, 1991. She is survived by her...
Gene R. Foxen
Apr 23, 2012
Gene R. Foxen, 52, of Emporia, Kansas, died on April 23, 2012 at his home in Emporia. Gene was born on March 30, 1960 in Osage, Iowa, the son of Leo and Mary Jane Thome Foxen. He married Shannon D. Dycus on August 4, 2005 in Big Springs, Kansas. She survives, of the home. Other survivors include: mother, Mary Jane...
Glenda Lee Medlen
Apr 20, 2012
Glenda Lee Medlen, 57, of Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, April 20, 2012 at her home. Cremation is planned, with no service scheduled at this time. Glenda Lee Belt was born March 16, 1955 in Emporia, the daughter of Glenn and Bonnie (Cole) Belt. She married William J. Medlen on June 19, 1973 in Emporia. He died February 21, 2011 at...
Elizabeth Mae Schroeder
Apr 20, 2012
Elizabeth Mae Schroeder, of rural Olpe, Kansas, died at her home Friday Morning, April 20, 2012 at the age of 84. Elizabeth Mae Kinsey was born at Bazaar, Kansas on June 6, 1927, the daughter of Virgil and Hattie “Pat” (Cooper) Kinsey. She graduated from Matfield Green Rural High School in 1945, and taught at the Atyeo School in rural...
Jonce Curtis Haas
Apr 15, 2012
Jonce Curtis Haas, 88, of Emporia, Kansas, and formerly of Denver, Colorado, died on April 15, 2012 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Jonce was born on October 1, 1923 in Bridgeport, Nebraska, the son of Earl Wolpert and Violet Delana Hill. He married Kathleen Francis Dudley in Evansville, Colorado on September 16, 1943. She died in 1967 in Henderson,...
Opal Marie Lipson
Apr 7, 2012
Opal Marie Lipson, 85, Emporia, Kansas, died at Emporia Presbyterian Manor on Saturday, April 7, 2012. Opal Marie Bailey was born in Detroit, Michigan, on October 13, 1926, the daughter of Edward James and Amanda Marie (LeDuc) Bailey. Mrs. Lipson worked in the banking and accounting profession in Kentucky and Michigan. When she retired, she joined the Peace Corps, and...
Lori Denise Baysinger
Mar 28, 2012
Lori Denise Baysinger, 46, of Emporia, Kansas, died at her home on March 28, 2012. Lori was born on January 11, 1966 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Gary and Sandra Buchman Burton. She married William Ray Baysinger in 1985 in Emporia, they later divorced. Surviving family members include: common law husband, Harvey Grandstaff of the home; mother, Sandra...
