Irene Mary Brown
Mar 4, 2011
Irene M. Brown (97) of Emporia passed away Friday, March 04, 2011 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor Jones Health Center. Irene Mary Brinkman, the daughter of Joseph and Anna Fladung Brinkman, was born June 25, 1913 in Olpe. She married Joseph Matthew Brown on April 11, 1934 in Emporia. He preceded her in death on December 2, 1997. Irene is...
Jimmie "J.D." Dale Dawes
Mar 4, 2011
J.D. went to be with his Lord and Savior, March 4, 2011. He was 60. Jimmie Dale Dawes was born April 29, 1950 in Yale, Oklahoma, to Vernon Russell & Alice Florence Bobo Dawes. He graduated from Americus High School and married his high school sweetheart, Wilma Jeanne Finney on July 14, 1968 at the Presbyterian Church in Americus. J.D....
Victor John Sterbenz
Mar 2, 2011
Victor John Sterbenz, 87, of Emporia died on March 2, 2011 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia. Victor was born on June 18, 1923 in Olpe, Kansas, the son of John M. and Mary Haag Sterbenz. He married Patricia Tholen on May 21, 1955 in Emporia, Kansas. She died on March 14, 1998 in Topeka, Kansas. Surviving family members include:...
Loren Dean Merry
Feb 26, 2011
Loren Dean Merry, Emporia, Kansas, died at Holiday Resort Care Center on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the age of 88. Mr. Merry was born in Emporia, Kansas on May 25, 1922, the son of Dean E. and Vera (Hensley) Merry. He married Novella E. Lodle at Cottonwood Falls, Kansas on June 20, 1942. She survives of the home. Other...
Sheila Sue White
Feb 26, 2011
Sheila Sue White, 62, of Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Sheila Sue Waters was born February 26, 1949 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of David Waters, Jr. and Wanda (Warnake) Waters. Sheila was a graduate of Emporia State University and had worked as a Respiratory Therapist at Newman Regional Health...
Anna Kayser Harder
Feb 24, 2011
Anna Kayser Harder, of the Bushong/Americus area , died at her home on Thursday, February 24, 2011. She was 92. Anna Kayser was born north of Americus on April 15, 1918, the daughter of Karl Henry and Antonie (Ohlhoff) Kayser. She married Calvin Spencer Harder at Topeka, Kansas on September 16, 1943. He died at the family farm north of...
Catherine Ann Hagemann
Feb 22, 2011
Catherine Ann Hagemann, Olpe, died Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor at the age of 102. Catherine Ann Lawler was born December 12, 1908 at Lebo, Kansas, the daughter of Jeffrey and Minnie (McGrew) Lawler. She married Joseph F. Hagemann at Olpe, Kansas on June 16, 1936. He died January 8, 1996 at Newman Hospital, Emporia. Surviving family...
William Joseph Medlen
Feb 21, 2011
William Joseph Medlen, 61, rural Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, February 21, 2011 at his home. He was born at Bartlesville, Oklahoma on July 12, 1949, the son of Floyd and Margaret Little Medlen. He married Glenda Lee Belt at Emporia, Kansas June 19, 1973. She survives of the home. Other surviving family members include: a son, Nathan A. Medlen, Emporia,...
Robert Jay Murphy
Feb 18, 2011
Robert Jay Murphy, 66, of Emporia, died on February 18, 2011 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, Kansas. Robert was born on December 3, 1944 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Roy M. and Lorene Schmidt Murphy. Surviving family members include: brothers, Dennis Murphy of Emporia, and Gary Murphy of Olpe, Kansas; sisters, Greta Bone of Tecumseh, Kansas, Norma Schreiner of...
Adrian Marcel Lewis Solano
Feb 18, 2011
Adrian Marcel Lewis Solano, 13, of Emporia, Kansas died on February 18, 2011 at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Adrian was born on May 26, 1997 in Topeka, Kansas, the son of David and Sandra Knight Solano. They survive at the home. Other survivors include: sister, Samantha Lewis Solano of Emporia; grandparents, Bill and Alice Fauerbach of Emporia,...
Ruth Mary Riley
Feb 18, 2011
The graveside service for Ruth Mary Riley, Emporia, will be held at the Patio Garden of Memorial Lawn Cemetery on Tuesday, February 22, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. The service will be conducted by Pastor Norbert Tegtmeier, Messiah Lutheran Church. Interment will be in Memorial Lawn. Mrs. Riley was 90. Ruth Mary Buchanan was born in Marquette, Kansas on September 11,...
Martha Ann Leek
Feb 17, 2011
Martha Ann Leek, 57, of Emporia, died on February 17, 2011 at her home after an extended battle with breast cancer. Martha was born on August 17, 1953 in Clarinda, Iowa, the daughter of Kenneth and Joetta Mascher Wills. She married Rodger A. Leek on February 5, 1972 in Clarinda, Iowa. He survives of the home. Other survivors include: son,...
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...
