Donald Gene Rosenboom
Oct 29, 2011
Donald Gene Rosenboom, 83, of Emporia, Kansas, died on October 29, 2011 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Don was born on August 3, 1928 in Okabena, Minnesota, the son of Henry and Reka Doyen Rosenboom. He married Tennice Toleff in 1946 in Ft. Dodge, Iowa, they later divorced. He later married Margaret “Peggy” Ingles on September 29, 1964...
Raye Lucille Bates
Oct 28, 2011
Raye Lucille Bates, 99, Emporia, Kansas, died at Emporia Presbyterian Manor Friday morning, October 28, 2011. Raye Lucille Gilbert was born in Grandview Township, Morris County, Kansas, on April 15, 1912, the daughter of Cecil and Gladys Eubank Gilbert. She married Alfred L. Bates at Council Grove, Kansas on June 7, 1930. He died December 4, 1978. She is preceded...
Mack Yenzer
Oct 27, 2011
Mack Yenzer (93) of Emporia, Kansas, formerly of Saffordville, Kansas, passed away Thursday, October 27, 2011 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Mack Yenzer, son of Seward and Margaret Wilson Yenzer, was born January 22, 1918 in Saffordville. He married Leona M. Payton on April 6, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas. She preceded him in death on July 19, 2003. He...
Marjorie Ann Arndt
Oct 26, 2011
Marjorie Ann Arndt, 84, of Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Marjorie Ann Burden was born February 22, 1927 in Emporia, the daughter of Clifford and Primrose (Jones) Burden. Marjorie was a graduate of Emporia High School and worked as a bookkeeper at J.C. Penney’s, Westamerica Securities and Didde Graphics, all in Emporia. Marjorie married...
Tom Wilson
Oct 26, 2011
Tom Wilson, 66, of Emporia, Kansas, died on October 26, 2011 at the Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Tom was born on August 25, 1945 in Widen, West Virginia, the son of Daniel Thomas and Maycil Hunt Wilson. He married Linda S. Mercer on February 2, 1974 at First Friends Church in Emporia. She survives of the home. Other survivors...
Eleanor Emma Brown
Oct 22, 2011
Eleanor Emma Nuessen Brown was born September 21, 1916 at Olpe, Kansas and died October 22, 2011 in Presbyterian Manor, Emporia, Kansas. She was the daughter of Barbara Brown Nuessen & J. Herman Nuessen. She married Seraphin “Sam” J. Brown January 25, 1943 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Olpe, where they were members for 30 years. They moved to Emporia,...
Ingeborg May
Oct 21, 2011
Ingeborg May, 72, Emporia, Kansas, passed away October 21, 2011, at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas Ingeborg Martin was born April 17, 1939 at Freiburg, Germany, the daughter of Fritz and Anna Rüde Martin. She married Karlton Mac May at Wolfgang, Germany, December 12, 1963. He died September 13, 1997 at Topeka, Kansas. Surviving family members include a daughter,...
Norma Jeanne Ross, Ph.D.
Oct 20, 2011
Norma Jeanne Ross, Ph. D., daughter of the late Cathryn (Bailey) and Ralph Smith died peacefully in Sarasota, Florida on October 20, 2011. She was diagnosed with melanoma cancer earlier this year. Norma was born in Emporia, Kansas, April 18, 1928. She attended Emporia Grade School, Friends Haviland Academy, Fort Hays State University and Kansas State University. After marrying Ronald...
Inez Elizabeth King
Oct 19, 2011
Inez Elizabeth King, 99, of Emporia, Kansas, died on October 19, 2011 at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Inez was born on June 6, 1912 in Emporia, the daughter of Rudolph J. and Adelaide Totsche Redman. She married Keith Oran King on March 6, 1938 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Emporia. He died on October 17, 1992 in...
Daniel Lee Mitchell
Oct 15, 2011
Spec. Daniel L. Mitchell, 22, of Emporia, Kansas, was found at his home Saturday, October 15, 2011. Daniel Lee Mitchell, son of Douglas Yearout and Brenda Mitchell, was born January 12, 1989 in Mesa, Arizona. He attended school in Goodland, Kansas until the age of eight, and then went to school in Overland Park, Kansas. From eighth grade on, he...
Rex Lee Bailes
Oct 15, 2011
Rex L. Bailes, 64, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Saturday, October 15, 2011 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Rex Lee Bailes, son of Roy L. and Genevieve M. Davis Bailes, was born August 8, 1947 in Hardtner, Kansas. He married Vicky J. Rhodes on May 18, 2001, in Miami, Oklahoma. She survives of the home. Other surviving family members include:...
Gerald Louis Siebenaler
Oct 13, 2011
Gerald Louis Siebenaler, 73, of Madison, Kansas and formerly of Olpe, Kansas, died on October 13, 2011 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Gerald was born on November 29, 1937 in Olpe, Kansas, the son of Jake and Barbara Elizabeth Brown Siebenaler. He married Nellie Lou Wilhite on April 28, 1962 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Emporia. She died...
Heather Marie Barrett
Oct 12, 2011
Heather Marie Mercer Barrett, 36, of Neosho Rapids, Kansas died October 12, 2011 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Heather Marie Mercer was born May 4, 1975 in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Kenneth LeRoy and Rhonda Gayle (Edington) Mercer. She married Donald Bess on October 23, 1993 in Hartford, Kansas, and they later divorced. She then married Wade Allen...
Eugene Murl Farr
Oct 9, 2011
Eugene Murl Farr, 84, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home Sunday, October 9, 2011. Eugene was born at Virgil, Kansas on February 2, 1927, the son of Murl and Sophia Mae (Fechter) Farr. He married Betty Jane Vogts at the Zion Lutheran Church, west of Olpe, Kansas on April 29, 1951. She died January 11, 2000 in Emporia. Surviving family...
Farrice I. Cornwell
Oct 9, 2011
Farrice I. Cornwell, 105, a resident of Emporia, Kansas, since 1981, and formerly of the Bushong area, died at Emporia Presbyterian Manor Sunday, October 9, 2011. Farrice I. Beumer was born at Bushton, Kansas on June 25, 1906, the daughter of William A. and Ida (Springer) Beumer. She married Manly E. Cornwell at Winfield, Kansas on September 20, 1939. He...
Helen A. Price
Oct 5, 2011
Helen A. Price, 93, of Emporia, Kansas, died October 5, 2011 at Holiday Resort Care Center. Helen Amelia Droll, the daughter of Dr. Walter M. and Hannah Wetzig Droll, was born in Alta Vista, Kansas on September 18, 1918. She married Neil Price in 1942 and they later divorced in 1971. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from...
Wayne Gatewood
Oct 4, 2011
Wayne Gatewood, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at the age of 91. Wayne Gatewood was born north of Emporia on September 2, 1920, the son of Roy and Grace (Stead) Gatewood. He married Joan Butler on May 10, 1941 at the Butler family home. Mrs. Gatewood survives. Other surviving family members include his daughter, Cathy...
D. Todd Cannon
Oct 3, 2011
D. Todd Cannon, 49, died Monday, October 3, 2011 at his home in Emporia, Kansas. Todd was born on March 7, 1962 in Emporia, the son of Donald E., and Bonnie J. Horton Cannon. They survive in Emporia. Todd graduated from Emporia High School in 1980, and then graduated from the University of Kansas in May of 1985. In July...
Grayson Milton Spade
Sep 28, 2011
Grayson Milton Spade, 92, of Rural Reading, Kansas, died on September 28, 2011 at his home in Reading. Grayson was born on March 12, 1919 in Admire, Kansas, the son of Milton and Delsie McCray Spade. He married Dorothy May Rees on July 20, 1952 in Emporia, Kansas. She survives at the home. Other survivors include: son, Milton E. Spade...
Harold O. Woods
Sep 26, 2011
Harold O. Woods peacefully passed away on September 26, 2011 in Emporia, Kansas, at the age of 90. Harold was born September 12, 1921 in Cement, Oklahoma to Chester M. & Mary Grace Courtney Woods. They soon moved to Chickasha, Oklahoma where he graduated from Chickasha High School. Harold went on to graduate from Oklahoma A & M (now Oklahoma...
