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...
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...
