Norma M. Klein
Mar 3, 2024
Norma M. Klein, Leawood, Kansas, formerly of Emporia, passed away Sunday, March 3, 2024, at her home at Colonial Oaks, a senior living community in Leawood at the age of 90.
Norma Murlene Walker was born at the family home in Fowler, Kansas on September 25, 1933, the daughter of Eldon and Lola Muriel (Flinn) Walker. Norma...
Clara Marie Wagner
Feb 29, 2024
Clara Marie Brown Wagner, 85, of Olpe, Kansas, passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family on Thursday, February 29, 2024.
Clara Marie was born on November 9, 1938, in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Nicholas and Clara Boes Brown. She graduated from Olpe High School in 1956 and married Earl Wagner...
Roger Ernest Buffum
Feb 29, 2024
Roger Ernest Buffum, of Emporia, passed peacefully on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Roger was 77.
Born on October 17, 1946, in Ft. Madison, IA, his family relocated from Nauvoo, IL to Wichita, KS where he graduated from Wichita East High School. Roger proudly served in the U.S. Navy during Vietnam from 1964-1967. He...
Betty Joan Ludy
Feb 27, 2024
Betty Joan Ludy, 91, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at Homestead of Emporia.
Betty was born on October 3, 1932, in Burdick, Kansas, the daughter of Harold Calvin and Laura Katherine (Cunningham) LaBrant. She married Ross. H. Ludy in Council Grove, Kansas, on November 25, 1965. He passed away on March 13, 2013....
Randy Lee Edmunds
Feb 25, 2024
Randy Lee Edmunds of rural Allen, Kansas passed away Sunday morning at his home surrounded by those he loves. He was 64.
Randy was born on January 31, 1960, the son of Lester and Betty Fitch Edmunds. He married Linda Lea Hopper on April 12, 1980, in Emporia.
Surviving family members include his wife Linda...
John Burdette Bowne
Feb 24, 2024
John Burdette Bowne of Emporia, died on Saturday, February 24, 2024, at his home. He was 72.
John was born on January 13, 1952, in Ottumwa, Iowa, the son of Benjamine and Jane Rosemary Roscoe Bowne. He married Kathy McKeever on January 13, 1973, in Ottumwa, Iowa. She survives at home.
Surviving family members include...
Anastacia M. Aldrete
Feb 22, 2024
Anastacia M. Aldrete, 89, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at her home on Thursday, February 22, 2024.
Anastacia was born April 15, 1934 at Santa Maria de Valle Jalisco, Mexico, the daughter of Emeterio Murillo and Cura Arias. She married Pedro Aldrete in 1949 in Santa Maria del Valle Jalisco, Mexico, he passed away September 28, 1978 in...
Judith Ann "Judy" Price
Feb 15, 2024
Judith Ann “Judy” Price, 85, Emporia, passed away Thursday, February 15, 2024 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia.
Judy Horrell was born in Ottawa, Kansas on September 18, 1938, the daughter of Maurice J. and Vivian (Tyler) Horrell. She married Jack Davidson Price on June 5, 1956 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. He died April 25, 2000. She...
Renee Denise Stockwell
Feb 15, 2024
Renee Denise Stockwell of Emporia died on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. She was 60.
Renee was born on January 17, 1964, in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Roger and Sharon Headley Stockwell.
She is survived by her son, Casey (Elizabeth) Headley of Emporia; grandsons, Eli and Blake Headley; brothers,...
Geraldine "Gerry" Hagemann
Feb 13, 2024
Geraldine “Gerry” Hagemann, 80, Wichita, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at Saint Francis Via Christi Hospital, Wichita, Kansas,
Gerry Johnson was born in Paola, Kansas on July 14, 1943, the daughter of Otis and Tropha (Burris) Johnson. She married James A. Hagemann in Olpe, Kansas on June 22, 1963. He survives and lives in...
Daryl Dean Hahn
Feb 13, 2024
Daryl Dean Hahn, 71, passed away at his home in Allen, Kansas, on February 13, 2024.
Daryl was born on June 15, 1952, in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Lester and Wanda (Gerkin) Hahn. Daryl is survived by sons Brian Hahn of Garden City, KS; Brandon (Victoria) Hahn of Hallsville, TX; Henry (Cari) Cook of North...
Virginia Lopez
Feb 7, 2024
Virginia (Tabares) Lopez, 95, passed in her home Wednesday, February 7, 2024, surrounded by tremendous love, all her beautiful plants, and counters full of food. She lives on in the enormous lineage of people she had a hand in raising, nine generations of stories and photos, and all the “a handful of this” and “a pinch of that”, “just...
Debra Lynne Blackwell
Feb 4, 2024
Debra Lynne Workman Blackwell died on Sunday, February 4, 2024, at Flint Hills Care Center in Emporia. She was 69.
Debra was born on August 30, 1954, in Emporia, Kansas at St. Mary’s Hospital the daughter of Martel “Okie” and Elsie Margaret Stehlik Workman. She married Richard Blackwell but later divorced.
Surviving family members include...
Virginia M. Johnson
Feb 4, 2024
Virgina M. Johnson, 67, Emporia, passed away at Newman Regional Health, Emporia
Virginia was born in Bakersfield, California on January 4, 1957, the daughter of Donald and Dolly (Trader) Brackett. She is survived by her daughter; Kim Johnson, Emporia, brothers; Cary (Mary) Brackett, Las Vegas, NV, Max Brackett, Midville, UT, and Nathan Holmes, Santa Paula, CA. She...
Bessie Jean Winkler
Feb 3, 2024
Bessie Jean Winkler, 89, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at the Holiday Resort Care Center on Saturday, February 3, 2024.
Bessie Jean Fiant was born at Stark, Kansas on November 15, 1934, the daughter of Joseph Francis and Marie (White) Fiant. She married Delvin Dale Delfs, whom she later divorced, and he died December 1, 1990. On October...
Raymond Dennis Pember
Feb 2, 2024
Raymond Dennis Pember of Emporia died on Friday, February 2, 2024, at his home in Emporia. He was 71.
Dennis was born on February 24, 1952, in Jetmore, Kansas, the son of Raymond Earl and Jessie Lorene Stewart Pember. He married Kim Wendler on October 11, 1970, in Dodge City, Kansas.
Surviving family members include...
Montana Jean Cole
Jan 30, 2024
Montana Jean Cole was born August 23, 2002. She was the fourth child born to Joe and Carolyn Cole. She was one of six children. She attended Olpe Elementary through Olpe Jr. /Sr. High. She loved horses, playing with her siblings, swimming, being highly active in her younger years and her FAMILY!! She loved attending all Olpe sports activities...
Imogene Eunice Britton
Jan 30, 2024
Imogene Eunice Britton formerly of Waverly, died January 30, 2024, at Park View Nursing Home in Garnett, Kansas.
Known as Imo to most or Jean was born January 26, 1938, at Aulne, Kansas the daughter of Henry J. and Agnes Elizabeth (Just) Gaede. At the age of 4 she moved with the family to Peabody, where she...
Vernon E. "Rick" Buck
Jan 30, 2024
Longtime Emporia attorney and lifetime Emporian Vernon E. “Rick” Buck died Tuesday, January 30, 2024 at Newman Regional Health. He was 71 years of age.
Rick was born January 8, 1953, the elder son of Vernon H. and Norma J. (Dowell) Buck. His brother, Chad C. Buck of Emporia, survives.
He was a graduate of...
Jerome "Jerry" Norbert Redeker
Jan 28, 2024
Jerome “Jerry” Norbert Redeker of rural Olpe died on Sunday, January 28, 2024, at Sunflower Care Legacy in Emporia, KS. He was 89.
Jerry was born September 29, 1934, in Olpe, Kansas, the son of John and Theresa Hagemann Redeker. He married Doris Kuhlmann on February 20, 1954, at Maydale. She died on February 21, 2023, in...
