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...
Robert E. Peterson
Sep 26, 2011
Robert E. Peterson, 52, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on Tuesday, September 27, 2011. Robert was born at Manhattan, Kansas on November 2, 1958, the son of Lyle E. and Alma A. (Park) Peterson. He married Kolleen Dierking at Clay Center, Kansas, on July 11, 1981. She survives of the home. Other surviving family members include his children: Jake...
Ruth Elaine Perrault
Sep 25, 2011
Ruth Elaine Perrault, Emporia, Kansas, died at her home on Sunday, September 25, 2011. She was 61. Ruth Elaine Reinartz was born October 7, 1949 in Austin, Minnesota, the daughter of David Eugene and Elaine (Otteson) Reinartz. Survivors include her daughter, Andrea Wagoner, Plano, Illinois; her mother, Elaine Reinartz, Longville, Minnesota; brothers, Michael Reinartz of Texas, Patrick Reinartz of North...
Beulah May Spillman
Sep 21, 2011
Beulah May Phillips Spillman, a resident of the Cottonwood Community west of Emporia, Kansas, died at her home on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at the age of 88. Beulah May Phillips was born in Emporia, Kansas, on May 14, 1923, the daughter of Will and Ovoilette (Ruse) Phillips. Beulah and Virgil Spillman were married in Council Grove, Kansas, on April...
Agnes Helen Hensler
Sep 20, 2011
Agnes H. Hensler, 97, of Emporia, passed away Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in rural Emporia. Agnes Helen Hensler, the daughter of Louis Jacob and Mary Theresia Gamer Hensler, was born May 25, 1914 in the Homestead Community in Chase County. Her family moved to Lyon County in 1919. She attended Sacred Heart School and graduated from Emporia High School. She...
Beverly A. Burke
Sep 18, 2011
Beverly A. Burke, 79, of Emporia, Kansas, died on September 18, 2011 peacefully surrounded by her family at Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia. Beverly A. Gamblian was born on October 10, 1931 in Eureka, Kansas, the daughter of John H. and Bessie (Heath) Gamblian. She married Murrell A. Young on April 9, 1949 in Eureka. He later died in...
Ronald Lee Miller
Sep 15, 2011
Ronald Lee Miller, 70, of Emporia, Kansas, died September 15, 2011 at his home. Ronald Lee Miller was born May 20, 1941 in Strong City, Kansas, the son of William Leroy & Shirley Carolyn (Cooper) Miller. He married Sharon Kay Gomez on June 5, 1960 in Emporia, Kansas and they later divorced. He then married Virginia Clark in Miami, Oklahoma...
Frances Mary Kehres
Sep 13, 2011
Frances Mary Kehres, 91, of Olpe, Kansas, died Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Frances Mary Langley was born July 10, 1920 in Olpe, Kansas, the daughter of Preston and Mary (Duggan) Langley. Frances married Walter C. Kehres in Olpe, Kansas on June 18, 1941. He died December 22, 2002 in Olpe. Frances was a...
Fred Gerard Burenheide
Sep 12, 2011
Fred Gerard Burenheide, 77, Olpe, Kansas, died Monday, September 12, 2011 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas. Fred was born at Olpe, on October 5, 1933, the son of Fred J. and Caroline (Nuesssen) Burenheide. Fred married Barbara Lynn on October 1, 1955. They later divorced. She died in January of 2005. He later married Anita L. Haag Haley...
Richard Solis
Sep 9, 2011
Richard Solis of Emporia, Kansas, died peacefully in his sleep Friday morning, September 9, 2011. He was 77. Richard was born on May 11, 1934, to Aurelio and Rosa (Quintana) Solis in Emporia. On August 30, 1958, he married Delores Rangel. After high school, Richard entered the U.S. Air Force where he received training as a jet fighter mechanic. While...
Marie Isabel Keller
Sep 9, 2011
Marie Isabel Keller, 92, of Reading, Kansas, died on September 9, 2011 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia. Marie was born on June 11, 1919 in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Lewis Ernest and Edith Gertrude Jones VanSickle. She married Charles Mingle Keller on October 13, 1937 in Reading, Kansas. He died on September 14, 1970 in Emporia. Surviving family...
Doris Lucene Hunter
Sep 8, 2011
Doris Lucene Hunter, 93, Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, September 8, 2011 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Doris Lucene Drummond was born at Elmdale, Kansas on April 1, 1918, the daughter of William L. and Mable E. Beach Drummond. She married Everett E. Hunter at the parsonage of Grace United Methodist Church, Emporia, on March 1, 1953. Everett died March...
Helen Berrie Wilson
Sep 7, 2011
Helen Wilson, Emporia, Kansas, died at her home on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at the age of 96. Helen Berrie was born at Trail, Oklahoma on February 27, 1915, the daughter of David Admiral and Sally Belle (Coakley) Berrie. She married Wesley Edward Getz on September 26, 1936 in Kansas City, Kansas. He died January 25, 1946 in Emporia. She...
