Roy E. Helums
Dec 22, 2017
Roy E. Helums, 81 of Emporia, Kansas died Friday, December 22, 2017 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Roy was born January 12, 1936 in Norwood, Missouri the son of Noel and Verba (Hurt) Helums. He worked in maintenance at the Kansas Turnpike Authority for 23 years. Retiring 24 years ago. Roy served in the US Army during the Korean...
Sylvia S. Klumpe
Dec 21, 2017
Sylvia S. Klumpe passed away at her home on Thursday, December 21, 2017 surrounded by her family after a courageous 16 month battle with bile duct cancer. She was 81. The daughter of Elizabeth C. Decker Lantz and Melvin E. Lantz, Sylvia was born August 23, 1936 in Emporia, KS and graduated from Hartford High School in 1954. She married...
Glenn E. Johnson
Dec 19, 2017
Glenn E. Johnson, 92, of Emporia, died Tuesday, December 19, 2017 at Holiday Resort Care Center. Glenn Edward Johnson, the son of Edward O. & Fern Austin Johnson was born April 11, 1925, on the family farm near Miller. He married Lois Florine Galutia on June 22, 1952 in Miller. She preceded him in death on January 8, 2017. He...
Twila Lou Fowler
Dec 18, 2017
Twila Lou Fowler of Emporia died on Monday, December 18, 2017 at the Rosewood Health Center in Independence, Missouri. She was 85. Twila was born on June 18, 1932 in rural Osage City, Kansas the daughter of John and Gladys Bloomquist Wills. She married Raymond Fowler on April 8, 1956 in Osage City, Kansas. He died on September 26, 2009...
Rolland Neil Gibson
Dec 18, 2017
Rolland Neil Gibson of Emporia died on Monday, December 18, 2017 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. He was 96. Rolland was born on November 3, 1921 in Mercedes, Texas the son of Wallace E. and Hazel F. Pearce Gibson. He married Carrie Burris on July 10, 1945 in Emporia. She died on July 2, 2016 in Emporia. Surviving...
Ray H. Woods, Jr.
Dec 17, 2017
Ray H. Woods, Jr., 81 of Overbrook, Kansas formerly of Neosho Rapids, Kansas died Sunday, December 17, 2017 at Doctors Hospital of Renaissance Health in Edinburg, Texas. Ray was born April 19, 1936 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Ray Hulley and Ruth B. (Shellman) Woods. Ray was a farmer and a welder. He served 6 years in the U.S....
Imogene M. Wyatt
Dec 13, 2017
Imogene M. Wyatt, 92, Emporia, KS passed into Heaven on Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Jeanie was born May 15, 1925 near Lebo, Kansas, the daughter of Roy and Bessie (Burton) Wallace. She married George Wyatt on January 1, 1946 in Emporia. They had been married 60 years. She is survived by three daughters; Sharilyn...
Josephine "Jo" Dell
Dec 11, 2017
Josephine (Jo) Dell was born March 31, 1926 in Emporia, Kansas to Myrtle Mack Ross and McKinley Ross. Jo was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Marilyn Sue (Ross) Dorsey and her husband of 63 yrs., Moris E. Dell. Jo attended the Emporia Public Schools and graduated from Emporia High School. She also attended the College of Emporia....
Esmeralda Ruiz
Dec 7, 2017
Esmeralda Ruiz, 13 died December 7, 2017 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Esmeralda was born October 25, 2004 in Emporia, Kansas the daughter of Juvenal and Ruicelia (Vargas) Ruiz. She was a student at Emporia Middle School and played saxophone in the middle school band. Esmeralda loved to play her saxophone and was talking about going out for...
Francis S. "Franny" Baker
Dec 6, 2017
Francis S. “Franny” Baker, 68, of Emporia died Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at Newman Regional Health. His funeral service will be 3:30 P.M. Monday, December 11, 2017 at the Grace United Methodist Church. Pastors Brenda Ulrich and Pastor Gene McIntosh will officiate. Burial will follow at the Hartford Cemetery with military honors by Ball-McColm Post #5, American Legion and Lowry-Funston...
Elaine Virginia Edwards
Dec 4, 2017
Elaine Virginia (Cray) Edwards, 87, of Emporia passed away Monday, December 04, 2017, at Emporia Presbyterian Manor, Emporia, Kan. Elaine was born May, 6, 1930, in Burlington, Iowa, the daughter of Glenn and Nell (Leibengood) Cray. She married Charles Franklin Edwards in 1959 and later divorced. Surviving family members include: sons, Marc Edwards (Sheri) of Kansas City, Missouri, and Eric...
Janice Yvonne Elliott
Dec 3, 2017
Janice Yvonne Elliott, 71 of Hartford, Kansas died Sunday, December 3, 2017 at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Janice was born April 19, 1946 in Cotton Plant, Arkansas, the daughter of Robert Glen and Yula Yvonne (Watkins) Little. She was a homemaker. Janice was a member of the First Congregational Church in Emporia and she loved to read....
Norman C. Mason
Dec 2, 2017
Norman C. Mason, 85, of Allen died Saturday, December 2, 2017 at Newman Regional Health. Cremation is planned with a private family service to be held later. Interment of his and his wife's ashes will be in the Allen Cemetery. Norman C. Mason the son of Norman C. and Ruby Page Mason was born January 31, 1932 in Kansas City,...
Richard Lee Weaver
Nov 28, 2017
Richard L. Weaver, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at Holiday Resort in Emporia on Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at the age of 90. Funeral services will be Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home conducted by Dr. Leonard Wagner, Church of God of Prophecy. Interment will be in the Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, with military graveside services...
Mildred Ann Daharsh
Nov 26, 2017
Mildred Ann Daharsh, 87, Rural Emporia, Kansas and longtime resident of Americus, died Sunday, November 26, 2017 at her home. Mildred Ann Grimsley was born at her parents’ home east of Americus, Kansas on February 17, 1930, the daughter of John William and Anna Marie (Christensen) Grimsley. She married Chester Eugene “Gene” Daharsh on April 23, 1949 at the Americus...
Darrell David Jones
Nov 25, 2017
Darrell David Jones, 97 of Gladstone, Missouri died Saturday, November 25, 2017 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. Darrell was born November 11, 1920 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Edward Griffith and Edith (Pollack) Jones. He spent his life as a farmer. Darrell was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Emporia, Served on the...
Doreitha Mae Brooks
Nov 24, 2017
Doreitha Mae Brooks, 72, of Emporia died on Friday, November 24, 2017 at the Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Doreitha was born on November 11, 1945 in Emporia, Kansas the daughter of Samuel K. “Bud” and Dorothy M. Dorsey Brooks. Surviving family members include: daughter, Paulette M. Brooks of Shawnee, Kansas; grandchildren, JoVaughn Brook, Pa-Shia M. Brooks, Devin Brooks, Jaz...
Elma W. Moore
Nov 23, 2017
Elma W. Moore, 102 died Thursday, November 23, 2017 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Elma was born August 26, 1915 at her parents’ home in rural Hartford, Kansas. She was the daughter of Frederick John and Lucy Eva (Stanfield) Warnken. She received a teaching certificate from Kansas State Teachers College. She taught in a one room school and resigned to...
Lee Edward Nelson
Nov 19, 2017
Lee E. Nelson, 90, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Friday, November 17, 2017 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Lee Edward Nelson was born February 5, 1927 at Newton, Kansas the son of Ora Lee and Roxy Bernice (Davis) Nelson. Lee and Marjorie A. Jacobs were united in marriage at Peabody, Kansas on September 27, 1953. She survives. Other surviving family members...
Jean Mitchell Cooper
Nov 15, 2017
Jean Mitchell Cooper, 83 of Emporia, Kansas formerly of Chanute, Kansas died on November 15, 2017 at Midland House in Topeka, Kansas. She was born on November 3, 1934 in Kiowa County, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence E. and Mable E. Rosenberger Cook. Jean graduated from Greensburg High School in 1952, then attended Kansas State Teachers College. She married Terry...
