Leona Adaline Roach
Dec 4, 2010
Leona Adaline Roach, Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday morning, December 4, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 84. Leona Adaline Conner was born at Ericson, Nebraska on June 17, 1926, the daughter of Forest Milo and Mohida M. (Yost) Conner. She married Charles W. Roach at Hutchinson, Kansas on July 23, 1945. He died October 29, 2009. Surviving family...
Clinton Calvin Dean Yeager
Dec 4, 2010
Clinton Calvin Dean Yeager, 22, of Neosho Rapids, Kansas, died December 4, 2010 from injuries he sustained in a boating accident while duck hunting at John Redmond Reservoir in Coffey County, Kansas. Clinton Calvin Dean Yeager was born on May 30, 1988 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Calvin & Patricia (Colglazier) Yeager. Clint graduated from Hartford High School and...
Francis "Shorty" Richard Kehres
Dec 2, 2010
Francis Richard “Shorty” Kehres, 88, Olpe, Kansas, died at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas on Thursday, December 2, 2010. Francis Richard Kehres was born in Maydale, Kansas on December 7, 1921, the son of Joseph and Mary (Scheve) Kehres. He married Patricia Matheis at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, Olpe, Kansas on May 26, 1962. She survives. Other surviving family...
Gretta May Thomas
Dec 2, 2010
Gretta May Rees Thomas, 94, Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, December 2, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Gretta May Rees was born July 21, 1916 on the family farm south of Emporia. She was the daughter of Conwy C. and Hattie (Richards) Rees. She married Howard W. Thomas on June 5, 1945 at her parents home south of Emporia. He...
Patricia "Patty" I. Vandalsem
Dec 1, 2010
Patricia I. “Patty” VanDalsem, 63, of Topeka, Kansas formerly of Emporia, KS died on December 1, 2010 at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas. Patricia I. Detwiler was born on October 3, 1947 in Anthony, Kansas, the daughter of Virgil and Pat (Hyatt) Detwiler. Patty married John H. VanDalsem on August 23, 1969 at Kanopolis, Kansas. They moved to Emporia, Kansas...
William "Bill" B. Brooks
Nov 29, 2010
William B. “Bill” Brooks, 87, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on Monday, November 29, 2010. William B. Brooks was born at Emporia, Kansas on April 30, 1923, the son of Clyde J. and Grace L. (Harris) Brooks. He married Marie Elizabeth Mietchen February 3, 1946 in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia. She survives of the home. Other family members...
Lois Magdalene Schlender
Nov 29, 2010
Lois Magdalene Schlender, 78, of Emporia, Kansas died on November 29, 2010 at the Holiday Resort Care Center. Lois Magdalene Voth was born on January 16, 1932 in Halstead, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Duerksen Voth and Bertha Voth Voth (Maiden Name is the same as the Married Name). Lois and her family moved to La Fontaine, Kansas (nine miles...
Delna Irene Thiessen
Nov 23, 2010
Delna I. Thiessen, Emporia, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 88. Delna Irene Tillery was born at the family farm near Turon, Kansas on October 1, 1922, the daughter of Roy and Sylvia (Lamont) Tillery. She married Nick Thiessen at Wichita, Kansas on October 27, 1948. He died February 22, 1999 at Emporia....
Laverne "Vern" H. Miltz
Nov 23, 2010
Laverne H. “Vern” Miltz, former Emporia and Bella Vista, Arkansas resident, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 at the Wamego City Hospital. He was 88. Vern Miltz, the son of Walter & Mollie (Bernhardt) Miltz, was born Feb. 23, 1922 in Lost Springs, Kansas. He married Irene A. Navrat in Leavenworth, Kansas on April 22, 1946. He is survived by:...
Louis Joseph Marin, Jr.
Nov 22, 2010
Louis Joseph Marin, Jr. Emporia, and formerly of Chicago, Illinois, died Monday morning, November 22, 2010 at Holiday Resort, Emporia, Kansas. He was 78. Louis Joseph Marin, Jr. was born at Osage City, Kansas on May 25, 1931 the son of Louis Joseph (Sr.) and Elizabeth (Rifenbark) Marin. He married Carol Zimmerman, they later divorced. Surviving family members include: Daughter,...
J. Trevor Lewis
Nov 22, 2010
J. Trevor Lewis, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home on Monday, November 22, 2010. He was 94. James Trevor Lewis was born August 9, 1916 at his parents’ home at 23 Union Street. He was the son of James Lewis and Elizabeth Williams Lewis. He married Elizabeth E. Hughes September 29, 1940 at Emporia, Kansas. She died August 23, 2010...
Mildred "Midge" Joy Naylor Pagan
Nov 20, 2010
Mildred Joy “Midge” Naylor Pagan, Emporia, Kansas, died at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at the age of 80. Mildred Joy Naylor was born on October 7, 1930 at Arvonia, Kansas, the daughter of James and Fannie Smith Naylor. She married E. C. Pagan in 1949; they later divorced. Surviving family members include:...
Richard Blair
Nov 19, 2010
Richard Blair, Emporia, Kansas, died November 19, 2010 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas. He was 80. Richard Blair was born December 1, 1929 at Emporia, Kansas, the son of Earl and Delpha D. (Crain) Blair. He married Eleanor Frances Gamer at Strong City, Kansas on January 23, 1949. She died at Saint Francis Hospital, Topeka, Kansas on February...
Margaret "Peggy" Ann Rosenboom
Nov 13, 2010
Margaret Ann “Peggy” Rosenboom, 87, Emporia, Kansas, died at Holiday Resort Saturday, November 13, 2010. Margaret Ann Ingles was born July 9, 1923 at Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Robert and Bertha Walker Ingles. She married Robert Nichols, then Melvin Coleman, both of whom she later divorced. She married Donald Rosenboom at Miami, Oklahoma September 29, 1964. He survives. Other...
Dorris Vivian Barnett
Nov 12, 2010
Dorris Vivian Barnett, Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, November 12, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 96. Dorris Vivian Reid was born at Carrollton, Missouri on July 20, 1914, the daughter of S.B. and Alcy Ann (Tomlin) Reid. She married William F. Hirsch on October 6, 1935 at Jefferson City, Missouri. He died in Mesa, Arizona January 13, 1978....
Maria Esperanza Ramirez
Nov 10, 2010
Maria Esperanza Ramirez, the infant daughter of Francisco Ramirez and Laura Garza, died at the family home Wednesday morning November 10, 2010. Maria was born at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, on October 12, 2010. Surviving family members include: her parents; brothers, Marco Garza, and Francisco Ramirez, Jr. of the home; sisters, Jaslyn and Silvia Ramirez, Wichita, KS; grandparents,...
Elizabeth Maurine Hollar
Nov 10, 2010
Elizabeth Maurine Hollar, 79, Emporia, Kansas, died November 10, 2010 at her home. Elizabeth Maurine Price was born May 7, 1931 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Lloyd Berryman & Mary V. (Wiley) Price. She married Norman C. Smith in Emporia, Kansas on May 28, 1950. They later divorced. She then married James W. Hollar in...
Marjorie Wilma Price
Nov 2, 2010
Marjorie Wilma Price, Eskridge, Kansas, died Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at Midland Hospice House, Topeka, Kansas. She was 85. Marjorie Wilma Degraw was born August 29, 1925 at Wheaton, Kansas, the daughter of Oshe and Etta Degraw. She married Jack L. Price on February 12, 1949. He survives of the home. Other family members include Son, Vernon Price, Emporia, Kansas;...
Lois Fern Starkey
Nov 2, 2010
Lois Fern Starkey, 86, of Emporia, Kansas, and former resident of Latham, Waverly, and Burden, Kansas, died on November 2, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia. Lois Fern was born of April 15, 1924 in Butler County, Kansas, the daughter of Samuel Charles and Ora King Wright. She married Thomas M. Starkey, Jr. on May 26, 1944 in...
James Tilden Wyatt
Oct 28, 2010
James Tilden Wyatt, 75, of Plymouth, Kansas, died Thursday October 28, 2010 at his home. James Tilden Wyatt was born on December 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, the son of Tilden and Letha (Gossett) Wyatt. He married Nancy Gosser in Topeka, Kansas 43 years ago. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: Sons, Tilden Wyatt of Sacramento, California; Scott...
