Alvaro Garcilazo Gil
May 14, 2020
Alvaro Garcilazo Gil de Emporia Ks., murió el Jueves Mayo 14, 2020 en el hospital Stormont Vail de Topeka. El tenia 48 anos.
Alvaro nació el 26 de Febrero de 1972 en La Viga Michoacan, Mexico. Hijo de Rogelio Garcilazo Espino y Maria Socorro Gil.
Alvaro le sobreviven sus padres Rogelio Garcilazo y Maria Socorro...
Joe Minor
May 13, 2020
Joe R. Minor died Wednesday, May 13, at his home in Olpe, Kansas, in the loving company of his wife and children, following a prolonged illness. He was 93.
Joe was born July 10, 1926, in Miami, Oklahoma, son of Nelson and Minnie Mae Minor. The family moved to Coffeyville and Winfield, Kansas, where Nelson ran commercial...
Mary Ellen House
May 9, 2020
Mary Ellen House passed away on May 9 th , 2020 at Presbyterian Manor in Emporia. She was born April 16 th , 1930 near Olpe, Kansas, and the daughter of William A. Bolz and Mary Alice (Borsdorf) Bolz. Until age 8, Mary and her family lived with her grandparents on the Borsdorf farm near Reading, Kansas. She began...
Nellie Belle Owens
May 7, 2020
Nellie Belle Owens passed into glory May 7, 2020 at Newman Regional Hospital, Emporia, KS. She was 92. Nellie Soles was born July 16, 1927 at Windsor Missouri. Her Father was Melbourne Roy Soles and her Mother was Anna Belle Robinson Soles.
Nellie Soles married William (Bill) Evan Owens, September 1947 and they lived South of Emporia...
Warren Robert Shown, Jr.
May 4, 2020
Warren Robert Shown, Jr., of Americus died on Monday, May 4, 2020 as results of a automobile accident on I-35 by Beto Junction. He was 65.
Warren was born on June 29, 1954 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Warren Robert and Hazel Katherine Maxwell Shown. He married Beverly Hoff on October 4, 1985 but later divorced....
Joyce G. Kennedy
Apr 29, 2020
Joyce G. Kennedy, Emporia, passed away Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor at the age of 88.
Joyce G. Leiss was born December 7, 1931 in Greensburg, Kansas, the daughter of George S. and Velma (Richardson) Leiss. She married Bernard J. Green May 31, 1954 in Emporia; they later divorced. On March 31, 1984...
Marion Wood
Apr 25, 2020
Marian Wood of Emporia died on Saturday, April 25, 2020 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. She was 70.
Marian was born on August 14, 1949 in Marion, Kansas the daughter of Earl and Dorothy Denner Lawrence. She married Michael Earl Wood on October 24, 1971 in Marion, Kansas. He died on August 17, 2019 in...
E. Delores Gibson
Apr 23, 2020
Delores Gibson (85) passed at her home in Maize surrounded by family, April 23, 2020. Delores was born on February 20, 1935 in Olpe, Kansas, the daughter of Roy Emmett and Jennie Lee Mays Langley. She was a graduate of Emporia High School. On June 13, 1954, she was united in marriage with Don Gibson. Together, they owned and...
Kent Eugene Williamson
Apr 23, 2020
Kent E. Williamson, 82, Emporia, Kansas formerly of Casper, Wyoming, passed away Thursday, April 23, 2020, at the Emergency Department of Newman Regional Health, Emporia.
Kent Eugene Williamson was born in Stafford, Kansas on December 30, 1937, the son of Marion and Colleen (Peake) Williamson. He married Jana Welch at Saint John, Kansas on June 8, 1958....
Carol Lou Thomas
Apr 20, 2020
Carol Lou (Houser) Thomas, of Emporia, went to be with her Lord and sisters, Monday, April 20, 2020. She was born to the late Robert and Mildred (Benedict) Houser on December 19, 1938 in Moline, Kansas.
She was married to James M Thomas April 7, 1957 in Emporia, Kansas. Together they made a home and worked hard...
Norma Jean Stinnett
Apr 19, 2020
Norma Jean (Burch) Stinnett, 80, of Emporia, entered Heaven peacefully on Sunday, April 19 surrounded by her family in spirit and love. Norma was born on March 12, 1940, in Emporia, the daughter of Jarvis and Anna (Brewer) Burch. She attended school in Council Grove for many years before the family moved to Wichita where she graduated high school,...
Ambrose Lopez
Apr 17, 2020
Ambrose Lopez, passed away at his home in Emporia on Friday morning, April 17, 2020 at the age of 94.
Ambrose, the son of Sylvester and Damacia (Rubalcaba) Lopez, was born in Emporia, Kansas on December 8, 1925. On September 28, 1946 he married Virginia Tabares at Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Emporia. They happily celebrated 73 years...
James Dee Bowden
Apr 14, 2020
James Dee Bowden passed away Tuesday, April 14, 2020. Jim was born to Marjorie (Huyett) Bowden and Leon W. Bowden at the family farm on August 3, 1943. He graduated from Neosho Rapids High School and went on to graduate from Emporia State University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Following graduation, Jim joined...
Susan Lee (Markowitz) Schulze
Apr 11, 2020
Susan Lee Schulze, 65, of Dakota Dunes, SD passed away peacefully on Saturday, April 11, 2020 at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center in Sioux City, IA, whose staff lovingly provided her an incredible atmosphere of care, comfort, and faith.
Susan was born December 21, 1954 in Emporia, KS, the daughter of Fred Anthony and Ima Jean (Varner)...
Karl Lyn Witten
Apr 9, 2020
Karl Witten, 65, a long-time resident of Emporia, passed away April 9, 2020 at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.
Karl Lyn Witten was born September 12, 1954, in Trenton, Missouri to Gerald Witten and Polly (Warren) Witten. Following the family’s move to Emporia, Karl attended Emporia schools including Roosevelt High School before graduating from Emporia High...
Robert Karl Spain
Apr 8, 2020
Robert Karl Spain of Strong City, Kansas died on Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at his home. He was 66.
Robert was born on September 22, 1953 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Ralph and Dorothy Hubert Spain. He married Margaret Katherine Fox Dunn on March 4, 2000. She survives at the home.
Surviving family members...
Ronald "Ron" Eddie Guthrie
Apr 7, 2020
Ronald “Ron” Eddie Guthrie, 72 of Emporia passed away Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.
Ron was born February 6, 1948 in Claremore, Oklahoma the son of Clarence Eddie and Neta (Grantham) Guthrie. He received his bachelor’s degree from Emporia State University. Ron worked in the Grocery Industry having worked in management at...
Mary Alice Weller
Apr 4, 2020
Mary Alice Mounkes Weller went to be with her Heavenly Father on Saturday, April 4, 2020. She was a resident of E.W. Thompson Health & Rehabilitation Center in Sedalia, Missouri. She was 80.
Mary, daughter of John W. and Mary E. Mounkes, was born on July 23, 1939 in Neosho Rapids, Kansas. Mary graduated from Americus High...
Robert Hughes "Bob" Doudican
Apr 2, 2020
Robert Hughes “Bob” Doudican passed away April 2nd at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. He was 88. Bob was born July 20, 1931 in Sapulpa, Oklahoma to Robert B. and Louise Hughes Doudican. He graduated from high school in Joplin, Missouri in 1949. It was there that he met the love of his life, Ann Barbee. Following Bob’s service in the...
Leonarda Marie Henderson
Apr 2, 2020
Emporia – Leonarda Nuessen Henderson, 88, passed away at Emporia Place Assisted Living on April 2, 2020.
Leonarda Marie Schmidt was born on March 15, 1932 in Emporia, Kansas to Leonard and Ida (Sterbenz) Schmidt. She was the oldest girl of 10 children and grew up on the family farm east of Olpe, KS helping her mother...
