Jeanne M. Butcher
Dec 28, 2015
Jeanne M. Butcher, 95, of Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, December 28, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Jeanne was born May 23, 1920 in Pittsburg, Kansas, the daughter of George and Julia (Schommer) Malcolm. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in English at Pittsburg State University and later, a Master’s in English at Northwestern University. Jeanne taught English at Hutchinson High School...
Betty Lee Mounkes
Dec 26, 2015
Betty Lee Mounkes, 88, of Bushong, Kansas, died Saturday, December 26, 2015 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. Betty Lee was born February 24, 1927 in Reading, Kansas, the daughter of Jacob and Hazel (Peet) Sattler. She was a farmer and rancher all of her life. Betty also worked 20 years at Dolly Madison Bakery in Emporia and was...
Marcia Looper
Dec 21, 2015
Marcia Looper, 65, of Emporia passed away at her home on Monday, December 21, 2015. Marcy was born on July 17, 1950 in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Scott A. and Joan Robison Mouse. She married James Looper on December 29, 1973 in Emporia. He died on July 8, 2015 in Emporia. Surviving family members include her sons, Ryan Looper...
Rita Jo Jones
Dec 21, 2015
Rita Jo Jetty Jones, 84, of Phoenix, Arizona, has moved on from this life to the next, leaving behind her daughters Leslie Jones and Janis Hayashi and son Jay Jones. She’s meeting up with her daddy and mama Ernest and Relda Faye Jetty, husband Phill Jones, and sister Naomi Sherwood. Free from her arthritic, broken body, she can now escort...
Opal F. Smith
Dec 13, 2015
Opal F. Smith, 90, passed away December 13, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor, Emporia, Kansas. Opal Tinkum was born April 13, 1925 in Montezuma, Kansas, the daughter of Franklin Scott and Florence D. (Kern) Tinkum. Opal was a graduate of Ingalls (Kansas) High School. She married Ronald Werner on May 7, 1943. They had two children: Robert G. Werner and...
Ermagene Milliken
Dec 8, 2015
Ermagene Milliken, 99, of Americus, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at Aldersgate Village in Topeka, Kansas. Her funeral service will be 1:30 P.M. Saturday, December 12, 2015 at Americus United Methodist Church. Pastor Nancy Brown will officiate. Burial will follow in Americus Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the church may be sent in care of the funeral home. Ermagene Ames,...
Khanh Ngoc Hoang
Dec 7, 2015
Khanh Ngoc Hoang, 83, of Emporia died on Monday, December 7, 2015 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Khanh was born on December 22, 1931 in Ha Noi, Vietnam, the son of Quyen Van Hoang and Thuong Thi Nguyen. He married Ban Thi Bui, she survives. Other survivors include: son, Anh Tu Hoang of Vietnam; daughters, Dung Hoang of Emporia, and...
Arlene E. Shepherd
Dec 3, 2015
Arlene E. Shepherd, Emporia, Kansas, died at Flint Hills Care Center on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at the age of 78. Cremation is planned. A memorial service will be held at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home at 10:30 A.M., Saturday, December 12, 2015. Arlene was born on February 16, 1937 in Emporia, the daughter of Ernest Henry and Elizabeth C. Erpelding Dieker....
Ellen Hockanson
Dec 3, 2015
Ellen (Hoyt) Hockanson, 87, of Wichita, Kansas, went to be with her Lord and Savior December, 3, 2015. Ellen was born July 6, 1928 in Hartford, Kansas, to Charles and Mary Hoyt. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, William D. Hockanson; sons, James Hockanson and Jon Hockanson (Robin), both of Bentley, Kansas, and Charles Hockanson (Candi) of...
Esther Faye Mechtley Johnson Stubbs
Nov 29, 2015
Esther Faye Grimmett Mechtley Johnson Stubbs Esther Stubbs died Friday, November 29, 2015 at McCrite Plaza Health Center in Topeka, Kansas. She was 89. The daughter of Ernest William Grimmett and Lola Inez Killion Grimmett, she was born March 23, 1926 on the family farm near Americus, Kansas. She married William M. Mechtley on July 11, 1943. They had two...
Steven Karl Miltz
Nov 27, 2015
Today's service will be postponed, due to the weather. Services will now be Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. at Messiah Lutheran Church, 11th & Neosho. Steve Miltz of Americus, Kansas, passed away at his home on November 27, 2015. Steve was born November 26, 1947 in Emporia, Kansas, to Vern and Irene Miltz. Steve Graduated from Emporia High...
Carl Edwin Deweese
Nov 25, 2015
Carl Edwin DeWeese, 84, passed away peacefully Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at Holiday Resort in Emporia, Kansas, surrounded by his loving wife, daughter, son, and daughter-in-law. Carl was born September 24, 1931 at the family home in rural Americus, to Warren Dewey DeWeese and Bertha Elda (Klemm) DeWeese. He was the oldest of four brothers. Carl attended the Frost School,...
Carl Edward Baker
Nov 22, 2015
Carl Edward Baker of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, November 22, 2015, at his home. He was 84. Carl was born on July 15, 1931 in Bazaar, Kansas, the son of Edward Tinkham and Bertha Russell Baker. He married Clara Burenheide on September 24, 1955 in Emporia. She died on April 3, 2004 in Emporia. On July 1, 2008 Carl married...
Harold L. Rees
Nov 19, 2015
Harold L. Rees, 90, Emporia, passed away at Flint Hills Care Center Thursday evening, November 19, 2015. Cremation is planned. A memorial service will be held at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home on Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 10:00 A.M. The service will be conducted by Pastor Norbert Tegtmeier, Messiah Lutheran Church. Inurnment will be in Evergreen Cemetery, south of Emporia. Harold...
Wilma Nadine Finney
Nov 19, 2015
Wilma Nadine Pritchard Finney, 86, of Emporia, died on Thursday, November 19, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Wilma was born June 29, 1929 near Dunlap, Kansas, at her grandparent’s house, as her grandmother was a midwife. She was the firstborn of Wilber Alonzo and Mabel Viola Baker Pritchard. She married William Stewart Finney, Sr. at her parents home near Dunlap...
Vera L. Mason
Nov 15, 2015
Vera L. Mason, (77) of Allen, died Sunday, November 15, 2015 at Newman Regional Health. Vera was a homemaker. Cremation is planned with no services at this time. Vera L. Burden, the daughter of Howard and Doris Varelman Burden was born March 26, 1938 in rural Lyon County. She married Norman C. Mason on November 7, 1953 in Emporia. He...
Lavina "Scottie" Scott
Nov 12, 2015
Lavina W. “Scottie” Scott, 90, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Thursday, November 12, 2015 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Lavina Johnson was born in Lindsborg, Kansas on June 13, 1925, the daughter of W. T. and Alfreda (Cronwell) Johnson. She and Billy N. Scott were married January 25, 1947 in McPherson, Kansas. He died September 22, 1991. Surviving family members...
Helen June Vance
Nov 11, 2015
Helen June Vance, 95, formerly of Wichita and Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at Villa Saint Joseph Care Center, Overland Park, Kansas. Helen June Archer was born August 7, 1920 at Emporia, the daughter of Melville Welling and Edna McCoy (Snead) Archer. She and Lewis McGovney Vance, Jr. were married in Emporia, in June of 1941. He died...
Melvin Marion Lusk
Nov 11, 2015
Melvin “Shorty” Marion Lusk, 90, of rural Emporia, died Wednesday, November 11, 2015 at his home. Melvin was born on June 1, 1925 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Lloyd Cliffton and Grace Almeda VanSickle Lusk. He married Betty Brammell in 1974 in Emporia. She survives. Surviving family members include: son, Wes Brammell of Emporia; daughters, Marilyn Honaker of Wichita...
Grace Velma Bayne
Nov 10, 2015
Grace Velma Bayne, 98, of Emporia died Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Grace was born on March 24, 1917 in Harrisonville, Missouri, the daughter of Warda B. and Hulda Louise Richard Dunkin. When she was two years old, she moved with her family to a farm north of Emporia where she grew up. She married Fred Brown...
