Evelyn Murphy
Sep 8, 2015
Evelyn Murphy (102) passed away September 8th, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia, under Hospice care. Evelyn was born October 20th, 1912 to Edward & Edith Jones in the family farm home that her father had just finished building. Her favorite memory, as a child, was being outside playing under the Catalpa tree (know to most of the children as the...
Leroy Edward Raymond Thomas
Sep 7, 2015
LeRoy Edward Raymond “Cap” Thomas, a lifetime resident of Lyon County, Kansas, went to be with his Savior on September 7, 2015. He was 88 years old when he passed away at the family home. A lifetime resident of Lyon County, Kansas, LeRoy was a fourth generation decedent of Joel and Sarah McKee Haworth, who homesteaded southwest of Emporia in...
Katherine Shown
Sep 7, 2015
Katherine Shown, 90, Emporia, passed away at Newman Regional Health, Emporia, on Tuesday, September 7, 2015. Hazel Katherine Shown was born at Red Rocks, Oklahoma on March 26, 1925, the daughter of Horace and Stella (Fairchild) Maxwell. She married Warren Robert “Bob” Shown May 5, 1946 in Emporia. He died June 30, 2004. Surviving family members include her sons, Warren...
Margaret Ilene Burris
Sep 5, 2015
Margaret “Ilene” Burris, 88, passed away surrounded by family at Midland Hospice House in Topeka, KS, on September 5, 2015. Margaret was born November 30, 1926, in Maydale, Kansas to Fred and Anna (Riddle) Haughton. She graduated from Emporia High School in 1944. On January 27, 1944, she married Paul Burris, the love of her life, and they were married...
Orville F. Brooks
Sep 4, 2015
Orville F. Brooks, 91 of Emporia, Kansas died Friday, September 4, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Orville was born April 26, 1924 in Ft. Scott, Kansas the son of Benjamin Franklin and Flora (Caton) Brooks. He served in the US Army during WWII as a part of the 463rd Ordinance Evacuation Company. He worked in sales for Montgomery Ward in...
Orval Dean Nelson
Sep 4, 2015
Orval Dean Nelson, 87 of Emporia, Kansas died Friday, September 4, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Orval was born July 27, 1928 in Clifton, Kansas, the son of Albert Carl and Hazel Arvida Marie (Olson) Nelson. He moved to Emporia in 1941 and was a graduate of the Kansas State Teachers College. Orval was a farmer for 35 years and...
Delmar D. Miller
Sep 2, 2015
Delmar D. Miller, 85, formerly of Olpe, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Delmar was born in Bartlesville, Oklahoma on May 18, 1931, the son of Jack and Edna May (Wilson) Miller. He married Marjorie Lucille Potter in Emporia on July 18, 1954. She died June 12, 2009 in Olpe. Surviving family members include his...
Marie B. Sippola
Aug 31, 2015
Marie B. Sippola, 93, of Emporia, Kansas, died August 31, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Marie was born on March 10, 1922 in Syracuse, New York, the daughter of Theodore and Frances Bellamy. She married her loving husband, Sterling Edward Sippola, on March 10, 1946 in Syracuse, New York. He survives. Other survivors include: son, Timothy Sippola of Emporia; daughters,...
Janet "Jan" Sue Hedges
Aug 30, 2015
Janet Sue “Jan” Hedges, Merriam, Kansas, and formerly of Emporia, died Sunday, August 30, 2015 at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas, at the age of 69. Janet Sue McMinn was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on November 5, 1945, the daughter of B.L.D. and Elmaleda (Hauser) McMinn. She married Bill Hedges at Emporia on November 6, 1982....
Holly Marie Turner
Aug 28, 2015
Holly M. Turner (61) of Emporia died Friday, August 28, at the Olathe Medical Center Hospice House. Cremation will take place with no services at this time. Holly Marie Timm the daughter of Miles and Mary Lee Eastwood Timm was born September 13, 1953 in Emporia. She had a dietary managing certificate and worked as a dietary manager for several...
Donald Ray Ratzlaff
Aug 28, 2015
Donald Ray Ratzlaff, 70, of Emporia died on August 28, 2015 at his home. Donald was born on March 17, 1945 in Fullerton, California the son of Alvin and Josephine Davis Ratzlaff. He was married but later divorced. Surviving family members include: son, Daniel Ratzlaff of Emporia; daughter, Kristina Typaldos of Mt. Vernon, Missouri; grandchildren, David Dixon-Ratzlaff, Rachelle Typaldos, and...
Ruth Irene Jacob
Aug 18, 2015
Ruth Jacob, 95, formerly of Americus, passed away at Holiday Resort, Emporia, on Tuesday, August 18, 2015. Ruth Irene Long was born on the family farm near Gibbon, Oklahoma on July 10, 1920, the daughter of John C. and Winnie (French) Long. She Married Cleo C. Jacob in her parent’s living room in Freeport, Kansas on June 20, 1943. He...
Elva Lee James Wayman
Aug 17, 2015
The memorial service for Elva Lee James Wayman will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, August 24, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church, Emporia. Mrs. Wayman was cremated. A private family inurnment will be at Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Mrs. Wayman passed away on Monday, August 17, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. She was 92. The daughter of Earl and Maude...
Mary Lee Gavin
Aug 14, 2015
Mary L. Gavin (77) formerly of Emporia died Friday August 14, at the Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas. Cremation will take place, with no services at this time. Mary Lee Eastwood, the daughter of Louie and Minnie Meier Eastwood, was born November 30, 1937 in Emporia. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Kansas. She had been...
Beverly Ann Kochheim
Aug 12, 2015
Beverly Ann Kochheim, 78, of Emporia, passed away comfortably on Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at her home. Beverly was born on June 25, 1937 in Emporia, Kansas, the daughter of Frank L. and Louise Lynn Keefover. She married Leonard Chamberlain in 1955 in Emporia and resided in Olpe. They had three children: Lynette Nuessen Oglesby, currently residing in Chandler, AZ,...
L. Keith Douglas
Aug 11, 2015
L. Keith Douglas, Emporia, died Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at the Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. He was 90. Lloyd Keith Douglas was born March 4, 1925 at Americus, Kansas, the son of Cassius Loren and Fern (Maxwell) Douglas. He married Doris Nadine Nielsen October 12, 1947 at Emporia, Kansas. She died September 25, 2012. Surviving family members include his...
Marjorie Lou Barrett
Aug 7, 2015
Marjorie Lou Barrett, 88 of Emporia, Kansas died Friday, August 7, 2015 at the Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Marjorie was born January 20, 1927 in Burlington, Kansas, the daughter of Orville and Velma (Truelove) Haehn. She worked as a bookkeeper for the REA until she got married and then later worked as a bookkeeper at the Flint Hills Feed Lot for...
Wesley E. Kunkel
Aug 7, 2015
Wesley E. Kunkel, 49, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at Stormont Vail Health Care, Topeka, on Friday, August 7, 2015. Wesley Eugene Kunkel was born in Emporia, the son of Fred E. and Marcia (Nunnemaker) Kunkel, on June 1, 1966. Mr. Kunkel is survived by his brother, Ron Kunkel (Melanie) of Waverly, Kansas, and his father, Fred, of Emporia. He was...
Mary Lucille Humphreys
Aug 7, 2015
Mary Lucille Humphreys, 91, formerly of Emporia, died Friday, August 7, 2015 at Ozarks Community Hospital in Gravette, Arkansas. Mary was born on January 8, 1924 in Paola, Kansas, the daughter of Henry A. and Myrtle Ferris McCammon. She married Elmer Humphreys on February 17, 1946 in Emporia, Kansas. He died on December 27, 2004 in Emporia. Surviving family members...
Walter Edward Johnson
Aug 6, 2015
Walter Edward Johnson, 77, of Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, August 06, 2015 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Walter was born February 9, 1938 in Beloit, Wisconsin, the son of Walter and Genevieve Johnson. Walter married Karen Martin and they later divorced. He then married Melissa Bell Klinger. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: daughters, Bev Johnson, Marsha...
