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,...
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...
