Harry L. Stephens
Aug 29, 2020
Harry L. Stephens of Emporia died on Saturday, August 29, 2020 at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka. He was 78.
Harry was born on July 14, 1942 in Winfield, Kansas to John James and Nina E. Powers Stephens. He married Sharon Sue Helmer on May 29, 1966 in Augusta, Kansas. He is survived by his wife, Sharon...
Bonnie Sue Morray
Aug 29, 2020
Bonnie Sue (Colwell) Morray was born into this world November 27, 1929. She died August 29, from complications of Covid-19. She was the daughter of Willard and Stella (Darnell) Colwell and the youngest of five children. Bonnie was also the last aunt of this generation to many nieces and nephews. Bonnie grew up west of Emporia on the Colwell...
Willa Mae Pierce
Aug 28, 2020
Willa “Mae” Pierce of Emporia, Kansas passed away August 28, 2020 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia at the age of 90.
Mae was born November 11, 1929 in Dunlap, Kansas. She was the middle child of the late William and Iva (Worcester) Miller. Mae spent most of her child and adult life in Americus, Kansas. She attended...
James E. Emley
Aug 27, 2020
James E. Emley of Emporia died on Thursday, August 27, 2020 at Newman Regional Health. He was 81.
Jim was born on May 1, 1939 the son of Ray W. (Sr.) and Clayoma (Pope) Emley. He married Paula Balliod on November 5, 1961 in Emporia, Kansas. They later divorced. He later married Harriet Kessler Johnson on June...
Norman L. Betty
Aug 25, 2020
Norman L. Betty of Emporia died on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. He was 94.
Norman was born on August 4, 1926 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Jesse N. and Ethel L. Wilson Betty. He married Vera Joan Vail on January 30, 1946 in Emporia. She died on October 18,...
Charles William Ristau
Aug 24, 2020
Charles William Ristau of Emporia died on Monday, August 24, 2020 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia.
Charlie was born on June 11, 1928 in St. Joseph, Missouri, the son of Ervin Otto, Sr., and Fern Francis Kohlasch Ristau. He married the love of his life, Viola Verda Macke on February 18, 1957 in Corinth, Mississippi. She...
Elizabeth Jean Geraghty
Aug 24, 2020
Elizabeth Jean Geraghty, Emporia, passed away at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia on Monday, August 24, 2020 at the age of 83.
Private family services will be held at Saint Joseph Catholic Church, Olpe, with inurnment in the Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery in Olpe. There will be no viewing.
Elizabeth Jean Haag was born July...
Ruby "Sally" Ellen Bozarth
Aug 23, 2020
Ruby Ellen “Sally” Bozarth passed away on August 23, 2020 at Midland Hospice in Topeka, Kansas. She was born on April 5, 1930, to Gordon and Lucy Willard. She married Ralph Bozarth, Jr. on September 18, 1948. He predeceased her in 2002. Until moving into a retirement community in Topeka in 2012, Sally had spent her life in Eskridge....
Clara Earldene Stiner
Aug 22, 2020
Clara Earldene Stiner, former longtime resident of Emporia, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2020 at the Village Manor Memory Care Center in Abilene, KS. She was 87 years old. She was born on April 6, 1933 in Webb City, Missouri to Earl and Bessie Elston Harrington.
Earldene married Bob R. Stiner on January 5, 1952 and...
Sherryl Mckee
Aug 20, 2020
Sherryl Diane VanEaton McKee passed to her eternal life in heaven on August 20 th , 2020. She was born on January 13 th 1945 to Samuel VanEaton and Irene Kettleson VanEaton. She later moved with her father and stepmother Geraldine VanEaton to Adrian, Mo where she spent her teenage years. She was united in marriage to Jerry Lee...
Richard Arlen Drummond
Aug 20, 2020
Richard Arlen Drummond, 70, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at the Colmery-O’Neil Veterans Administration Medical Center in Topeka on Thursday, August 20, 2020.
Cremation is planned. Graveside Services will be held at the Strong City Cemetery, Strong City, Kansas on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. The service will be conducted by Mr. Martin Holler, Marion, Kansas....
Tammy Jo Birk Jensen
Aug 18, 2020
Tammy Jensen of Scranton died early Tuesday morning, August 18, 2020, in Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. She was 56.
Tammy Jo Birk, daughter of Marvin D. and Roberta A. Kyle Birk, was born Nov. 8, 1963, in St. Mary’s Hospital in Emporia. She married Craig Jensen on Aug. 16, 1986, in Lake Tahoe, Nev. He survives of...
Leo James "Jim" Siebenaler
Aug 15, 2020
Leo James “Jim” Siebenaler, 88, Olpe, Kansas, passed away at Holiday Resort, Emporia, on Saturday, August 15, 2020.
Jim was born on the family farm near Olpe, Kansas on July 25, 1932, the son of Jacob “Jake” and Barbara (Brown) Siebenaler. He married Jackie Mitchell on February 14, 1957 in Elkhart, Kansas. She passed away on September...
Rose Mary Senn
Aug 14, 2020
Rose Mary Scheve Senn, 98, Emporia, Kansas, passed away on Friday, August 14, 2020 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor.
Rose Mary Hohne was born near Olpe, Kansas on July 8, 1922, the daughter of Theodore and Elizabeth K. (Lutz) Hohne. She married Fred J. Scheve at Emporia, Kansas on September 19, 1946. He died July 3, 1980. ...
James Keith Duane Mikulecky
Aug 13, 2020
James “Mik” Mikulecky, 84, Emporia, died Wednesday, August 13, 2020 at the Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia, Kansas.
James Keith Duane Mikulecky was born February 5, 1936 in Ellsworth, Kansas, the son of Joe (Jr.) and Edith (Palmgren) Mikulecky. He married the love of his life Sharon F. Wamhoff on November 25, 1956 Saint Peter Lutheran Church,...
Beverly Ann Leeds
Aug 11, 2020
Beverly Ann Leeds of Emporia died on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. She was 64.
Beverly was born on October 2, 1955 in Olathe, Kansas the daughter of Russell H. Morgan Jr. and Doris Irene McDaniel. She married Darrell V. Leeds of May 23, 1976 in Wellsville, Kansas. He survives.
Surviving...
Connie Marie Myers
Aug 11, 2020
Connie Marie Myers of rural Hartford died on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. She was 73.
Connie was born on January 1, 1947 in Levelland, Texas the daughter of Raymond and Edna Marie Birdsong Dennis. She married Mark H. Myers on October 20, 2001 in Levelland, who survives her.
Surviving...
Louis Edward Trear
Aug 10, 2020
Louis Edward Trear of rural Olpe died on Monday, August 10, 2020. He was 93.
Louis, the son of John J. and Martha Roschek Trear, was born on March 21, 1927 on the family farm 5 miles southeast of Olpe that his parents homesteaded in the Maydale Community. He married Bertha Scheve on May 26, 1951 at...
Melrose H. Humphrey Iii
Aug 9, 2020
Melrose H Humphrey III (Trey) aka Marc Mitchell Mann, born May 3, 1968 in San Francisco, California, came in like a screeching eagle and didn’t let up until he’d had enough of this world. He passed peacefully in his sleep Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Merriam Gardens in Merriam, Kansas with a smile on his face that we are...
Evelyn Goldsmith
Aug 9, 2020
Evelyn Goldsmith, Emporia, passed away Sunday, August 9, 2020 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, at the age of 86.
Evelyn Mobley was born in Grady, New Mexico on June 3, 1934, the daughter of C.J. and Zula (Ball) Mobley. She married B. J. Goldsmith at Portales, New Mexico on April 16, 1952. He died December 9,...
