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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...
Marian Lucille Finlay
Oct 26, 2010
Marian Lucille Finlay, 70, of rural Emporia, died on Tuesday October 26, 2010 at her home. Marian Lucille Hamilton was born on December 19, 1939 in Denver, Colorado, the daughter of Marion Paul and Nellie Faye (Hutchens) Hamilton. She married Robert L. Finlay on October 26, 1958 in Augusta, Kansas. He survives at the home. Other survivors include: Daughters: April...
Elda M. Rolf
Oct 22, 2010
Elda M. (Stohs) Rolf, Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, October 22, 2010 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 96. Elda Stohs was born September 30, 1914 at Argonia, Kansas, the daughter of Herman and Bertha (Dill) Stohs. She moved with her family to Aliceville, Kansas in 1919. Elda attended school through the 8th grade at Saint John Lutheran School, Aliceville, Kansas....
Gladys Pearl Collins
Oct 22, 2010
Gladys Pearl (Hensley) Collins, 91, of Carbondale, Kansas, passed away October 22, 2010 at Brookside Retirement Center in Overbrook, Kansas. Gladys was born November 25, 1918 at Royal, Nebraska to John M. & Pearl Mae (Forney) Hensley. She married Lee Richard Craig on October 17, 1940. On January 1, 1955, they moved to Emporia, Kansas. He died in May, 1985....
Elmer Joseph Bolz
Oct 21, 2010
Elmer Joseph Bolz, Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, October 21, 2010 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. He was 79. Elmer Bolz was born October 16, 1931 in Olpe, Kansas, the son of Henry C. and Frances A. (Kiene) Bolz. He married Maxine Lang in Emporia, Kansas in 1954. She died September 16, 1974. On July 30, 1983 he married Martha Krueger...
Shirley L. Helmer
Oct 21, 2010
Shirley L. Helmer, 89, of Emporia, died Thursday, October 21, 2010 at the St. Francis Via Christi Hospital in Wichita. Shirley L. Helmer, the son of Roy and Allie Kennard Helmer, was born September 29, 1921 in Burlington, KS. He married Maxine Bischoff on October 10, 1969 in Emporia. She survives of the home. He is also survived by one...
Carrol Eugene Koch
Oct 18, 2010
Carrol Eugene Koch, 63, of Emporia passed away Monday, October 18, 2010, at his home. Carrol Eugene Koch, the son of Ruben and Pearl Stinle Koch, was born September 21, 1947, in Hillsboro, KS. He married Carolyn Sigler on November 1, 1968, in Cottonwood Falls, KS. She survives of the home. Other surviving members of the family include: a Son,...
Roy Earl Crank
Oct 15, 2010
Roy Earl Crank, 70, of Emporia died Friday, October 15, 2010, at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Roy E. Crank, son of Halla and Ann (Hanshell) Crank, was born on February 17, 1940, in Dayton, Ohio. He married Pamela Stockton on July 14, 1961, in Winterhaven, California. She survives of the home. Other surviving members of the family include: two...
Marcella "Sally" Peet
Oct 14, 2010
Marcella M. “Sally” Peet, Emporia, died at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia, Kansas on Thursday, October 14, 2010. She was 85. Marcella M. Aufleger was born May 29, 1925, in Olpe, Kansas, the daughter of John and Catherine (Resenader) Aufleger. She married Willis G. Peet at Kansas City, Missouri, on April 9, 1949. He died September 20, 1996. Surviving family...
Raphael Henry Conrade
Oct 10, 2010
Raphael Henry Conrade, 90, of Emporia went to be with the Lord on October 10, 2010, at Newman Regional Hospital in Emporia. Raphael was born on February 5, 1920, in Olpe, Kansas, the son of Jacob and Bertha Meier Conrade. He married Leona Schmidt on February 21, 1944, at the Messiah Lutheran Church, Emporia, Kansas. She survives of the home....
Emelia Rangel
Oct 8, 2010
Emelia Rangel, 89, Emporia, Kansas, died Friday, October 8, 2010, at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Kansas. Emelia Luna was born in Emporia, Kansas on May 30, 1921, the daughter of Epitacio and Felipa Avaloz Luna. She married John Rangel August 22, 1942, in Emporia, Kansas. He died November 3, 1982, in Emporia. Surviving family members include four Sons:...
Kimberly Jo Olson-Schneider
Oct 7, 2010
Kimberly Jo Olson – Schneider, 39, Americus, Kansas died as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident northwest of Emporia on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Kimberly Jo Olson was born in Council Grove, Kansas on December 31, 1970, the daughter of Kenneth and Kathi (Otto) Olson. She married Glenn Schneider and they later divorced. Surviving family members include...
Albert "Lee" Andrews
Oct 6, 2010
Albert Lee “Lee” Andrews, Emporia, Kansas, died at Newman Regional Health on Wednesday, October 6, 2010. He was 81. Albert Lee Andrews was born March 3, 1929, at Emporia, Kansas, the son of Edwin Earl and Dorothy Lucile Spencer Andrews. Lee married Dorothy May Burden at the First United Methodist Church, Emporia, Kansas on September 11, 1948. She survives of...
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