Guy Leroy Prior
Mar 29, 2017
Guy LeRoy Prior, 62, of Neosho Rapids died on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at Stormont-Vail Hospital in Topeka. Guy was born on November 10, 1954 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Floyd Leon and Doris LaVonne Caldwell Prior. He married Nelda Sue Wilson on April 12, 1975 in Emporia. She survives at the home. Surviving members include: wife, Nelda Sue...
Richard "Dick" John Brown
Mar 27, 2017
Richard “Dick” John Brown, 81of Lawrence, Kansas passed away on March 27, 2017 at Olathe Medical Hospice House in Olathe, Kansas. Richard was born on March 6, 1936 the son of Mathew “Matt” and Clara (Kloppenberg) Brown. He worked for over 35 years for Cutler Repaving in Lawrence, Kansas until his retirement in 2007. Richard was a member of the...
Myrl A. Fager
Mar 26, 2017
Myrl A. Fager, 79, Rural Emporia, Kansas, passed away at his home on Sunday, March 26, 2017. Myrl Fager was born June 12, 1937 at McCune, Kansas, the son of Roy C. and Marie (Glasgow) Fager. Myrl married Carole Jones April, 4, 1959 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Washington, D.C. She survives of the home. Other family members include...
Betty L. Matson
Mar 25, 2017
Betty L. Matson, 90, of Emporia, died Saturday, March 25, 2017 at Horizon Plaza. Her graveside service will be 2:00 P.M. Thursday, March 30, 2017 at the Toledo Cemetery on the Lake Kahola Road. The Reverend Dinah Dutta Ph.D. of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church will officiate. Memorial donations to the Horizon Plaza may be sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral...
Joan Gatewood
Mar 24, 2017
Joan’s Obituary By Joan Gatewood, November, 2008 If a leaf falls from the tree and is still beautiful, then in death I am beautiful. I was born on the high plains of Western Kansas, not in a sod house, but a rock solid eight room stone house! My Dad said, “Four girls and each one gets cuter!” When Aunt Grace...
James Lee Bahm
Mar 20, 2017
James Lee Bahm, Shawnee, Kansas, died Monday, March 20, 2017 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center at the age of 60. James was born May 8, 1956 in Enid, Oklahoma, the son of Gerald and Iva Drucilla (Christian) Bahm. He married Sue Gilligan Gfeller September 12, 1987. Surviving James are his wife, of the home, Daughter; Tina Gfeller, Overland Park, Kansas,...
Betty Jean Rathke
Mar 18, 2017
Betty Jean Allen Rathke, 88 of Emporia, Kansas died Saturday, March 18, 2017 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Betty was born April 29, 1928 in rural Greenwood County, Kansas the daughter of Paul W. and Grace E. (Haughton) Allen. She worked as an insurance clerk at Newman Hospital for 20 years until her retirement in 1985. Betty was a...
Lloyd "Scotty" Oliver Hudson, Jr.
Mar 17, 2017
Lloyd O. “Scotty” Hudson, Jr., 73, of Emporia, Kansas passed away Friday, March 17, 2017 at Stormont Vail Health Center in Topeka, Kansas. Scotty was born August 3, 1943 in Bath, Maine, the son of Lloyd O. and Esther (Cutliff) Hudson, Sr. He was in the graduating class of 1961 from Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine. Scotty joined the...
Norman Hugh Morray
Mar 16, 2017
Norman Hugh Morray, Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, March 16, 2017 at Holiday Resort, Emporia, at the age of 91. Norman was born January 4, 1926 in Emporia. He married Bonnie Sue Colwell March 25, 1948 in Emporia. She survives. Besides his wife, Bonnie, he is survived by sons, Norman Morray, Jr. of Hutchinson, KS, and Brian Morray, and his wife,...
Phena Mae Benton
Mar 12, 2017
Phena Mae Benton, 85, of Wichita died on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at her home. Phena was born on March 14, 1931 in Emporia, Kansas the daughter of Laurance and Vena Cordelia Hawkins Peacock. She married James L. Cook in September 1949, they later divorced. She later married her soulmate Charles Floyd Benton in June 1960. Surviving family members include:...
James Franklin Davis
Mar 11, 2017
James Franklin Davis, 60, of Emporia died on Saturday, March 11, 2017 at his home. Jim was born on February 5, 1957 in Emporia, Kansas the son of Robert Clark Davis and Mary Susan Perry. He married Cheryl Lavonne Hoffman and was later divorced. He then married Marla Craig and later divorced. He is survived by his special friend Linda...
Robert Clifford Mundy
Feb 27, 2017
Robert "Bob" Clifford Mundy of Admire, Kansas passed away at age 73 on February 27, 2017 at his home. Bob was born on July 19, 1943 to Reuben Clifford Mundy and Edna Mae (Anderson) Mundy at his childhood home in Admire. He was an only child. Bob ("Bobby" in his younger years) grew up in the very small town of...
Margret Rachel Tucker
Feb 26, 2017
Margret “Rachel” Tucker (Smith) passed away February 26, 2017 at her home, with husband Darrell and brother Ray Smith by her side. Rachel was born May 31, 1941 in Athens, Alabama to Howard and Estelle (Bond) Smith of Anniston, Alabana. She graduated from West Limestone High School in Limestone County, Alabama in 1959. She then married the love of her...
Betty Jean Zumbrum
Feb 23, 2017
Betty Jean Zumbrum, 94, passed away on Thursday, February 23, 2017 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Betty Jean was born on January 14, 1923 in Americus, Kansas the daughter of Earl and Bessie Bean Keller. She married Walter Albert Zumbrum on June 5, 1946 in Emporia, and they enjoyed over 69 years of marriage. They farmed northwest of Americus throughout their...
Mildred "Millie" Rathke
Feb 20, 2017
ROBERTS-BLUE-BARNETT FUNERAL HOME / EMPORIA, KANSAS OBITUARY FEBRUARY 21, 2017 620-342-2134 Mildred J. “Millie” Rathke, 89, Emporia, and a longtime resident of Olpe, died at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia, Monday evening, February 20, 2017. Mildred J. Schwartz was born May 2, 1927 at Basehor, Leavenworth County, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Frances (Hund) Schwartz. She married Harry...
Brenda M. Kahle
Feb 20, 2017
Brenda M. Kahle, Emporia, passed away Monday, February 20, 2017 at Newman Regional Health Emergency Department, Emporia, at the age of 66. Brenda Wodke was born October 14, 1950 in Council Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Leland “Bud” and Lola (Galemore) Wodke. Brenda married James “Jim” Kahle May 25, 1968 in Council Grove. Jim survives. Other surviving family members include...
Jackson Wade Dow
Feb 1, 2017
Jackson Wade Dow the son of Jeremy Wade Dow and Valerie St. Bonnett was stillborn February 1, 2017 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Jackson is survived by: his parents, brothers Elijah Dischert, and Maverick David Dow, sisters Destiny Dischert, Alexis Dischert and Vaeda Marie Dow all of Emporia, grandparents Ron & Jennifer St. Bonnett of Hartford, Pam Landis...
Dorothy R Marcotte
Feb 1, 2017
Dorothy R. Marcotte, rural Allen, Kansas, died at her home Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at the age of 91. Dorothy R. Reidel was born in Allen, Kansas on September 1, 1925, the daughter of John H. and Sadie I. (Hull) Reidel. Dorothy married Virgil Marcotte in Allen, Kansas on February 3, 1945. He passed away on March 17, 2004. Surviving...
Betty R. Loomis
Jan 29, 2017
Betty R. Loomis, 91, passed peacefully at Flint Hills Care Center on January 27, 2017. She was born on February 9, 1925 to Rayfield Sykes and Estelle Dillman Hayden. She married Peter B. Loucks on February 10, 1942. After his death in 1979, she married Chester Loomis who also passed. She is survived by three children: Judy (Cecil) Bollinger of...
John Raymond Calaman
Jan 27, 2017
John R. Calaman, 80, of Emporia died at his home Friday, January 27, 2017. The graveside service will be Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at 2:00 P.M. at the Americus Cemetery. Services will be conducted by Pastor Kenneth Armstrong of the West Side Baptist Church. Military Honors will be by Ball-McColm Post #5, American Legion and Lowry-Funston Post #1980, Veterans of...
