Ethel "Boots" Smith
Feb 13, 2011
Ethel “Boots” Smith, 93, Emporia, died at the Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia on Sunday, February 13, 2011. Boots was born at Reading, Kansas on May 13, 1917, the daughter of Joseph and Frieda Michelfelder Smith. She was preceded in death by: four brothers, John, William, James, and Harry Smith; and two sisters, Josephine “Josie” Smith, and Mary Love....
Ruby Lee Herrick
Feb 10, 2011
Ruby Lee Herrick of Emporia passed away Thursday, February 10, 2011 at Newman Regional Health emergency room. She was 78. Ruby Lee Lindsey, the daughter of Samuel Buford and Viola Edna (Diver) Lindsey was born June 15, 1932 in Rockville, Texas. She married Herman Hardung in 1948 in Texas. He preceded her in death. She later married Denny Gossett, who...
Kenneth E. Hoffman
Feb 9, 2011
Kenneth E. Hoffman of Emporia, Kansas died at University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas on February 9, 2011. He was a career business teacher including service at Arkansas City High School Arkansas City, Kansas; Cowley County Community College; Burlingame High School Burlingame, Kansas; and Emporia State University Emporia, Kansas. A graduate of Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas...
Dale Eugene Nuessen
Feb 5, 2011
Dale Eugene Nuessen (68) of Emporia passed away Saturday, February 5, 2011 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. Dale Eugene Nuessen, the son of Herman Joseph and Margaret Evelyn (Hammer) Nuessen, was born April 22, 1942 in Emporia, Kansas. He married Elizabeth Ann Scharenberg on July 19, 1969 in Emporia, Kansas. She survives of the home. He is also survived by...
Coralea E. Cranz
Feb 2, 2011
Funeral Services for Coralea E. Cranz will be held Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at the First United Methodist Church. The service will be conducted by Pastor Nancy Gammill and Pastor Jayne Duncan of the church. The family will receive friends at the church an hour before the service. Private interment, later that day, will be in the...
Wonnia Mae Williams
Feb 1, 2011
Wonnia Mae Williams, 69, of Emporia, died on February 1, 2011 at her home. Wonnia Mae Shields was born on December 6, 1941 in Cruger, Mississippi, the daughter of William and Olivia (Randle) Shields. She married Isaac Williams, Jr. in 1963 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on October 11, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois. Surviving family members include: sons, Larry Williams,...
Leon Ramirez, Sr.
Jan 27, 2011
Leon Ramirez, Sr., 88, of Emporia, Kansas died January 27, 2011 at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia, Kansas. Funeral Services will be held in Monterrey, Mexico. Leon Ramirez was born July 9, 1922, the son of Pedro and Maria Ramirez, in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. He married Graciela Aguirre in Monterrey, Mexico on April 29, 1959. She died...
Catherine A. Brown
Jan 25, 2011
Catherine A. Brown, Emporia, Kansas, died at the Jones Health Center of Emporia Presbyterian Manor on Tuesday, January 25, 2011. She was 80. Catherine A. Linehan was born at Topeka, Kansas on January 3, 1931, the daughter of James and Margaret (Wagenroot) Linehan. She married Leonard W. Brown at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia on June 19, 1954. He died...
Myrna L. Taunton
Jan 25, 2011
Myrna L. (Watts) Taunton, Emporia, Kansas, died at her home the morning of Tuesday, January 25, 2011. She was 63. Myrna L. Watts was born in Kansas City, Kansas on March 4, 1947, the daughter of Frederick L. and Irma L. (Cash) Watts. She married Phillip W. Taunton at Junction City, Kansas on April 5, 1969. He survives of the...
Simon P. Rodriguez
Jan 25, 2011
Simon P. Rodriguez, 67 of Emporia died on January 25, 2011 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, Kansas. Simon was born on July 9, 1943 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Simon and Maria Guadalupe Murillo Rodriguez. He married Lupe Mendoza on April 29, 1967 at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Emporia, Kansas. She survives at the home. Other survivors include:...
Mary Ellen Phipps
Jan 25, 2011
Mary Ellen Phipps, 85, formerly of Emporia, and Matfield Green, died on January 25, 2011 at the Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Mary Ellen was born on October 4, 1925 in Springfield, Colorado, the daughter of Frank Diener and Nettie Erma Adams Swanson. She married Lloyd Nathan Phipps in June 2, 1946 in Ottawa, Kansas. He died on...
Mary L. Adkins
Jan 24, 2011
Mary L. Adkins, Emporia, died Monday Morning, January 24, 2011 at her home. She was 89. Mary L. Cook was born January 14, 1922 in rural Emporia, the daughter of Jerry Franklin and Clara Elizabeth Wagner Cook. She married Sam C. Adkins at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas on January 24, 1940. He died June 8, 1990 in Emporia. Surviving family members...
Patricia Ann Gomez
Jan 23, 2011
Patricia Ann Gomez of Emporia passed away Sunday, January 23, 2011 at her home. She was 69. Patricia Ann Kinney, the daughter of Ralph & Veva E. Vogel Kinney, was born Nov. 22, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She married Anthony Gomez on Dec. 13, 2001 in Miami, Oklahoma. He survives of the home. Other surviving members of the family include:...
Sue S. Mackiewicz
Jan 19, 2011
Sue S. Mackiewicz, 94 of Olathe, Kansas died on January 19, 2011 at the Good Samaritan Center in Olathe, Kansas. Sue was born on October 31, 1916 in Neodesha, Kansas the daughter of J.M. and Emma E. Lerch Smith. She married Charles Casimir Mackiewicz on August 18, 1941 in Wichita, Kansas. He died on February 9, 1995 in Emporia, Kansas....
Raymond Otis Mccall
Jan 19, 2011
Raymond Otis McCall, 86, Munjor, Kansas, died Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. Raymond Otis McCall was born at Concordia, Kansas on December 22, 1924, the son of Ralph Otis and Frances Edith (Howell) McCall. He married Constance Louise Dallke at the Nazarene Church in Salina, Kansas on November 2, 1946. She survives of the home....
Vernon Eugene Matson
Jan 18, 2011
Vernon Eugene Matson, 85, of Emporia died on January 18, 2011 at his son’s home in rural Chase County under hospice care. Vernon Eugene was born on October 14, 1925 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Westy Frank and Mary Elizabeth King Matson. He married Mary Jo Exline Overstake on January 17, 1949 in Emporia, Kansas. She died on July...
Gregory M. Gerleman
Jan 16, 2011
Gregory M. Gerleman, Emporia, Kansas, died at Newman Regional Health Emergency Department on January 16, 2011. He was 62. Gregory M. Gerleman was born at Emporia, Kansas on April 4, 1948, the son of Albert J. and Loretta Rues Gerleman. Surviving family members include: his son, Austin Gerleman of Cleves, Ohio; brothers, Jerry Gerleman, Leavenworth, Kansas, Jim Gerleman, San Francisco,...
Mary Elizabeth Hoelting
Jan 16, 2011
Mary Elizabeth Hoelting, 91, of Rural Olpe, Kansas died on January 16, 2011 at her home. Mary Elizabeth Birkenfeld was born on July 5, 1919 in Nazareth, Texas the daughter of Bernard and Elizabeth (Leinen) Birkenfeld. She married Norbert Hoelting on October 17, 1939 in Nazareth, Texas. He survives at the home. Other survivors include: sons, Floyd (JoEllen) Hoelting of...
Fred Harris Howard Ii
Jan 14, 2011
Fred Harris Howard II, a resident of Lawrence, Kansas, died at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence on Friday, January 14, 2011. He was 82. Fred was born September 19, 1928 on his family’s Chase County ranch near Matfield Green, the son of Fred and Anna Marie (Crocker) Howard. He was raised in Chase County and graduated from Strong City Rural...
Glenn Eugene Barrett
Jan 13, 2011
Glenn Eugene Barrett, Hartford, Kansas, died Thursday, January 13, 2011 at the Coffey County Hospital, Burlington, Kansas. He was 74. Glenn was born at Emporia, Kansas on July 1, 1936, the son of Fred J. and Vivian (Wagner) Barrett. He married Patsy Rich at Emporia, Kansas in August of 1958, they later divorced and she survives. He later married Marie...
