Carmen Tabares
Oct 4, 2010
Carmen Tabares, of Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, October 4, 2010, at the Jones Health Care Center, Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 89. Carmen Torres was born March 4, 1921, at Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Felipe and Socorro M. (Contreras) Torres. She married Antonio Tabares at Emporia, Kansas on March 10, 1942. He died February 17, 2008. Surviving members of...
Erline Yvonne Stow
Oct 3, 2010
Erline Yvonne Stow, 83, of Emporia died on October 3, 2010 at the Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. Erline was born on December 9, 1926 the daughter of Harold and Cecial Hollingsworth Maxson in Coffeyville, Kansas. She later married Stanley Stow on March 17, 1956 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. He died in 1983 in Emporia, Kansas. Survivors include: Daughter, Nancy...
Merle Lee Sayre
Oct 2, 2010
Mr. Merle L. Sayre, 82 of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, died October 2, 2010, at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. He was a life-long farmer and stockman, farming in Lyon and Coffey counties in Kansas. Merle Lee Sayre was born August 21, 1928, to Ernest E. and Rosa E. Whetherholt Sayre at Burns, KS. In 1945, he moved with his...
Richard "Doc" Keeling
Sep 22, 2010
Richard P. “Doc” Keeling, 79, Emporia, Kansas, died at his home Wednesday, September 22, 2010. Richard P. Keeling was born at Crawfordsville, Indiana on September 17, 1931, the son of Clifford and Bessie (Paire) Keeling. He married Judith Faulkner March 22, 1952, at Long Beach, California. She survives. Other family members include: Daughter: Joanne Denise “Jody” Gross and husband Tim...
Donald Edward Fanestil
Sep 21, 2010
Donald Edward Fanestil was born in Hoisington, KS on November 4, 1926 to Edna Olive and Edward Emmanuel Fanestil. Mr. Fanestil, 83, died of natural causes on September 21, 2010, in Chandler, AZ. Throughout his life, Don lived in Nebraska, Kansas, and Sun Lakes, Arizona. Don graduated from Emporia High School in 1943, and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Business...
Mary Madge Shaw
Sep 16, 2010
Mary Madge Shaw (92) formerly of Emporia, passed away Thursday, September 16, 2010, at the Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. Mary Madge Wining, the daughter of William Richard and Amy M. (Rehn) Wining, was born September 18, 1917, in Canton, Kansas. She spent her early life around Canton, graduating from Canton High School and later graduating from the Asbury Hospital...
Marilyn K. Dieker-Hall
Sep 13, 2010
Marilyn K. Dieker-Hall, Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, September 13, 2010, at Stormont Vail Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas. She was 59. Marilyn K. Dieker was born at Emporia, Kansas on August 28, 1951, the daughter of Donald H. and Cleta R. (Moon) Dieker. She married Terry Joe Hall at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Emporia, Kansas, on January 15, 1972. He survives...
Debra C. Downs
Sep 11, 2010
Debra C. Downs, 58 of Emporia, died on September 11, 2010, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Debra was born on February 16, 1952 in Enid, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles and Joyce Morlan Schneider. She married Gale Clair Downs on July 22, 1972 in Council Grove, Kansas. He survives of the home. Other survivors include:...
Marie J. Waterman
Sep 10, 2010
Marie J. Waterman, 82 of Lake Ronkonkoma, New York, died on Friday, September 10, 2010 at the Good Shepherd Hospice Center in Port Jefferson, New York. Marie was born on March 20, 1928 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the daughter of Roland and Ivy (Stanley) Johnson. In 1964 she married Edward L. Waterman in Anaheim, California. He died on February...
Joanna Lee Posey
Sep 8, 2010
JoAnna Lee Posey, 17, a Northern Heights High School Senior, was killed Wednesday, September 8, 2010 in an auto accident north of Americus. JoAnna Lee Posey, the daughter of Camden David and Tracy Diane (McKee) Posey, was born July 15, 1993 in Clinton, Missouri. She attended Northern Heights High School and worked at the Emporia Wendy’s. She is survived by...
Kasidy "Kasi" Rae Hart
Sep 8, 2010
Kasidy Rae “Kasi” Hart, 16, Americus, Kansas, died Wednesday, September 8, 2010, as a result of injuries received in an auto accident north of Americus, Kansas. Kasi was born at Emporia, Kansas on March 18, 1994, the daughter of Steven G. Hart and Amie L. Germann Hart. Surviving family members include: her parents, Amie Hart, Americus, Kansas and Steven Hart,...
Jacquelyn Wamser
Sep 5, 2010
Jacquelyn Wamser, 99, of Denver, Colorado died September 5, 2010 at Apple Ridge Assisted Living in Denver, Colorado. Jacquelyn was born on November 12, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri, the daughter of John P. (Swede) and Nell L. (Stephens) Nelson. She married Clarence H. Wamser in Emporia, Kansas on April 25, 1944. They later divorced. Surviving family members include: Son:...
Norman Joseph Brinkman
Sep 5, 2010
Norman Joseph Brinkman (87), Lyon County egg producer, farmer, and livestock owner, died Sunday, September 5, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Norman Joseph Brinkman, the son of Joseph and Anna Fladung Brinkman was born October 1, 1922 on the family farm west of Olpe. He attended St. Joseph School and graduated in 1940. He married Mary Dee Archer on...
Mildred Lydia Bura
Sep 4, 2010
Mildred Lydia Bura, 88, of Emporia, died on Saturday, September 4, 2010 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Mildred was born February 2, 1922, the daughter of Walter and Lydia (Schultz) Bahre. She married Aaron Alfred Bura on September 15, 1946 in McPherson, Kansas. He survives of the home. Other survivors include: Son: Dennis Bura of Lilburn, Georgia Daughters: Rose...
Evelyn D. Scheve Rodgers
Aug 31, 2010
Evelyn D. Scheve Rodgers of Olpe passed away Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at the Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. She was 76. Evelyn Dora Hoch, the daughter of Clem A. and Agnes Schneider Hoch was born Feb. 18, 1934 in Madison, Minnesota and grew up in Lacona, Iowa. She married Edward Scheve August 13, 1955 in Bauer, Iowa....
H. Justine Curry
Aug 30, 2010
H. Justine Curry, 91, of Emporia, died on August 30, 2010 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor in Emporia, Kansas. Justine was born on February 17, 1919 in Greenwood County, southwest of Madison, the daughter of Daniel J. Curry, Jr. and Hazel Kates Curry. She is survived by several cousins. She is preceded in by her father Daniel J. Curry, Jr....
Mary Lorene Bethurem
Aug 29, 2010
Mary Lorene Edwards Bethurem M. Lorene Bethurem died Sunday, August 29, 2010 at her home in Emporia. She was 101. M. Lorene Edwards, the daughter of Robert John and Beatrice C. (Courtner) Edwards, was born May 28, 1909 in Lebo, Kansas. She Married William J. Bethurem in Lebo on October 18, 1928. He died August 22, 1987. She is survived...
Margaret B. Brown
Aug 28, 2010
Margaret B. Brown, 93, Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, August 28, 2010 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, Kansas. Margaret B. Simpson was born at Clifton, Kansas on November 14, 1916, the daughter of Ezra and Try-Phena (Wagner) Simpson. She married Loren W. Brown at Manhattan, Kansas on October 2, 1935. He died May 4, 1987. Surviving family members include a daughter,...
Alvena Helen Ahrens Williams
Aug 27, 2010
Alvena Ahrens Williams, Emporia, Kansas, went home to be with her Lord on August 27, 2010. Alvena Helen Ahrens Williams was born September 7, 1931 in Alamos, Colorado to Alfred and Helen Jussel Ahrens. The Oldest Child, she grew up in the McCook, Nebraska area. She went to grade school in McCook. She moved to St. Francis, Kansas where she...
Elizabeth Elinor Lewis
Aug 23, 2010
Elizabeth Elinor Lewis, Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, August 23, 2010 at her home. She was 92. Elizabeth Elinor Hughes was born in Emporia, Kansas on January 22, 1918, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Lloyd Hughes. She married James Trevor Lewis at Emporia, Kansas on September 29, 1940. He survives of the home. She is also survived by a daughter,...
