Catheryn "Kate" Irene Weigand
Jul 27, 2015
Catheryn I. “Kate” Weigand, 98, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Monday, July 27, 2015 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Cremation is planned. A memorial service will be held at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home on Monday, August 3, 2015 at 2:00 P.M., conducted by Charles Bradbury, First United Methodist Church. Inurnment will be in Maplewood Cemetery, Emporia. The family will receive friends at the...
James Norville Jordan
Jul 26, 2015
James Norville Jordan and Karen Rhea Jordan passed away in their Lawrence home on July 26, 2015. Jim was born on November 10, 1936, in Goff, Kansas, the son of Lloyd and Martha (Spiker) Jordan. He graduated from Horton High School in 1954. He married Susan Dannecker in 1956 and they moved their family to Emporia, Kansas in 1962 to...
Karen Rhea Jordan
Jul 26, 2015
James Norville Jordan and Karen Rhea Jordan passed away in their Lawrence home on July 26, 2015. Jim was born on November 10, 1936, in Goff, Kansas, the son of Lloyd and Martha (Spiker) Jordan. He graduated from Horton High School in 1954. He married Susan Dannecker in 1956 and they moved their family to Emporia, Kansas in 1962 to...
Sue Irene Barrett
Jul 22, 2015
Sue Irene Barrett, 78, of Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Sue Irene was born October 11, 1936 in Pelahatchie, Mississippi, the daughter of Ethel and Nimie Robertson. She worked in the laundry department at Emporia Rehab until her retirement. Sue married Jake Barrett in 1952 in Mexico. He survives...
Jack Lee Taylor
Jul 21, 2015
Jack Lee Taylor, 80, of Lake Kahola, died Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at his home and went on to his Lord and Savior. Jack was born on May 18, 1935 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Owen Cecil and Vesta Saffer Taylor. He married Joan Markley in 1956 in Emporia and later divorced. Jack later married Donna Marie Perry on...
Susana E. Munoz
Jul 19, 2015
Susana E. Barcenas De Munoz, 78, of Emporia died Sunday, July 19, 2015 at Holiday Resort. She was a homemaker. Susana Elena Barcenas, the daughter of Bonifacio and Reginalda Martinez Barcenas, was born on August 13, 1936 in El Salvador. She married Manuel Munoz in 1989 in Los Angeles, California. He preceded her in death. Susana is survived by a...
William Stewart Finney, Sr.
Jul 19, 2015
William Stewart Finney, Sr., 89, of Emporia died on Sunday, July 19, 2015, at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. William was born on March 24, 1926 near Americus in the Fruitland Community on Sunny Knob Farm, the son of Elmer Clayton and Evelyn Marie Viles Finney. He married Wilma Nadine Pritchard on August 31, 1947 in Dunlap, Kansas at the bride’s home....
Naoma Christine Walker
Jul 15, 2015
Naoma Christine Walker, 87, of Emporia died Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Naoma was born on April 8, 1929 in Reading, Kansas, the daughter of Walter Beal and Mertle Mae Price Cox. She married Leroy Corbin on March 13, 1948 in Emporia. He died on September 12, 1976 in Emporia. She later married Clifford Walker on January...
Alberta Lorene Risley
Jul 11, 2015
Alberta Lorene Risley, 96, of Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, July 11, 2015 in Emporia. Funeral Services will be 10:00 A.M. Friday July 17, 2015 at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home in Emporia. Interment will follow in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia. Pastor Ron Phelps will be officiating. Alberta was born March 9, 1919 to Ralph W. Bailey and Ida Mae Eshom Bailey in...
Walter Irving Shaw
Jul 10, 2015
Walter Irving Shaw, 72, died Friday July 10, 2015 in Emporia, Kansas. Walter Irving was born April 18, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Walter E. and Donna (Schmidt) Shaw. In 1965, Irving graduate from Kansas State University, where he received his B.A. in political science and on June 24th, he married Brenda Goatley in Wichita. Irving later received...
David Michael Rose
Jul 8, 2015
David Michael Rose, 57, of Wichita, and formerly of Emporia, died Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at the College Hill Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Wichita, Kansas. David was born on November 10, 1957 in Emporia, Kansas, the son of Wallace “Jack” and Joyce M. Blackburn Rose. He married Mary Price, and they later divorced; he then married Terri West and...
James A. Looper
Jul 8, 2015
James A. Looper, 66, passed away at his home in Emporia, Kansas on Wednesday, July 8, 2015. James Allen Looper was born at Blackwell, Oklahoma on January 3, 1949, the son of Clifton Earl and Opal Lilly (Casey) Looper. He and Marcia Mouse were married in Emporia on December 29, 1973. She survives. Besides his wife, Mr. Looper is also...
Marlys Ann Patton
Jul 2, 2015
Marlys A. Patton, 66, of Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, July 2, at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Marlys Ann Hastings, the daughter of Kenneth S. and Viola L. Schmitz Hastings, was born on October 14, 1948 in Leavenworth, Kansas. She married John C. Patton on July 26, 1970 in Emporia. Marlys is survived by her husband, John; two sons, Demarick J....
Philip E. Winter
Jul 2, 2015
Philip E. Winter, lately of Admire, Kansas, died on Thursday, July 2, 2015. He was born on October 24, 1943, and was 71 when he died after a lengthy illness. He leaves behind two daughters, Susan Rodriguez of Emporia, Kansas, and Jean Harrison of Nashville, Tennessee; two lovely grandchildren with whom he was inordinately pleased, Ethan Rodriguez and Emmaline Rodriguez;...
Leonard Lurae Gordon
Jul 1, 2015
Leonard L. Gordon, 87, Americus, Kansas, passed away Wednesday morning, July 1, 2015. Leonard LuRae Gordon was born March 16, 1928 in Americus, the son of Stanley R. and Pauline (Birckett) Gordon. Leonard and Virginia Law were united in marriage on May 13, 1953. Virginia died December 12, 2005. Surviving family members include his son, Dr. Scott Gordon, and his...
Teia Carlene Payton
Jul 1, 2015
Teia Carlene Payton, 17, of Hartford died Wednesday, July 1, 2015 in Hartford. Teia was born on August 30, 1997 in Emporia, Kansas the daughter of William C. and Annabelle McGinley Payton. She is survived by: parents, William and Annabelle Payton of Hartford; brother, John Payton of Bel Aire, Kansas; sisters, Ashley Payton of Emporia, and Corrine Payton of Hartford;...
Austin Dulsey Bachar
Jul 1, 2015
Austin Dulsey Bachar of Emporia, Kansas, died Thursday, July 1, 2015, at Holiday Resort. Austin served in and retired from the United States Air Force. Cremation is planned with a memorial service at a later date.
Opal Hulda Nichols
Jun 29, 2015
Opal Hulda Nichols, 99, formerly of Olpe, Kansas, died Monday, June 29, 2015, at Fairlawn Heights Assisted Living in Topeka. Opal was born August 21, 1915 in Lyon County, Kansas, the daughter of Worda and Hulda Richard Dunkin. She married Scott “Bud” Viles on May 17, 1935 in Emporia, Kansas. He died in April 1959 in Osage City, Kansas. She...
Mabel Ann Shown
Jun 29, 2015
Mabel Ann Shown, 79, of Emporia, Kansas, and Alamo, Texas, died Monday June 29, 2015 at McAllen, Texas. Mabel was born January 14, 1936 in Reading, Kansas, the daughter of James and Etta Helen (Volz) Steen. Her mother died when she was a young girl and she was raised by her father and stepmother, Mildred (Pirtle). Mabel worked all of...
Marjorie "Marge" Ann Hagemann
Jun 28, 2015
Marjorie Ann Hagemann, Olpe, Kansas, passed away June 28, 2015, at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Marge was born at the family farm home in Olpe, Kansas, on June 26, 1932, the fourth of seven children, to John and Mildred (Morrow) Nuessen, and lived in the Olpe area all of her life. She married Donald Hagemann on April 19, 1952. He died...
