Erma Jean Piper
Oct 9, 2014
Erma J. Piper, 85, formerly of Americus, Kansas, died Thursday, October 9, 2014 at Flint Hills Care Center, Emporia. Erma Jean Miller, the daughter of Curtis and Frances Viles Miller, was born on August 8, 1929 in Americus. She married Wallace Piper on August 12, 1948 in Emporia. He died August 28, 1988. She is survived by: two sons, Bruce...
Barbara Jean Hunter
Oct 9, 2014
Barbara Jean Hunter died October 9, 2014 at The Emporia Presbyterian Manor of congestive heart failure. She was born April 4, 1930 to Anna Misner Miller and Lawrence Miller, in Pittsburg, Kansas. Barbara spent her early years in Pittsburg, later moving to Topeka, Kansas and graduating from Topeka High School. A member of Kappa Delta Sorority, she graduated in 1952...
Mary Ethel Unruh
Oct 5, 2014
Mary Ethel Unruh, 83, of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, October 5, 2014, at Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. Mary was born on August 24, 1931 in El Dorado, Kansas, the daughter of Ivan and Lena Blanche Griggs Cooper. She married Harry Franklin Unruh on June 21, 1951 at Cassoday United Methodist Church, Cassoday, Kansas. He died on November...
Lupe P. Torres
Sep 30, 2014
Lupe P. Torres, 90, of Emporia, Kansas, died on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Lupe was born on December 5, 1923 in Pittsburg, Kansas, the son of Atanasio and Pabla Perez Torres. He married Cecilia Solano on June 22, 1946 at St. Catherine Catholic Church, Emporia. She survives at the home. Lupe is survived by: sons,...
Betty Lou Gibb
Sep 27, 2014
Betty Lou Gibb, 98, died Saturday, September 27, 2014, at the Osage Nursing Center, Osage City, Kansas. Betty was born on December 6, 1915, in Virgil, Kansas, the daughter of Glen Dalton and Clara Augusta Wiggins Rose. She married Donald Ray Gibb on September 18, 1938 in Eureka, Kansas. He died on April 3, 2002, in Emporia. She is survived...
Ruth Viola Wiedmer
Sep 24, 2014
Ruth Viola Wiedmer age 94, of Emporia, Kansas, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday, September 24, 2014, at her home in Emporia. Ruth was born on December 5, 1919 in McFarland, Kansas, the daughter of Ezra and TryPhena Wagner Simpson. She is survived by her son, Bruce Bertwell of West Plains, Missouri; her daughter, Mary (John) Forsythe of Emporia;...
Margaret Elizabeth Hale
Sep 24, 2014
Margaret Elizabeth Hale, 68, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, died Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Margaret was born on July 1, 1946 in Larned, Kansas, the daughter of William Charles and Margaret Elsie Walton O’Rorke. She married Gene Hale in August 1973 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He survives. Margaret is survived by: her son,...
Richard "Gene" Eugene Fowler
Sep 22, 2014
Richard Eugene Fowler, 78, of Emporia, Kansas died Monday, September 22, 2014 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Richard Eugene “Gene” was born January 7, 1936 in Emporia, the son of Jesse Wilbur and Delorise (Troyer) Fowler. Gene married Rosalie Chapman in Emporia on October 21, 1956. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: son, Doug Fowler and wife...
Natasha Danielle Pruitt
Sep 22, 2014
Natasha Danielle Pruitt, 30, of Dodge City, Kansas, died Monday, September 22, 2014 at her home in Dodge City. She is survived by her seven children, Nadia of Hartford, Kansas, Jonathan, Julian, Ariana, Janelle, Renee’ and Katalina, all of Dodge City; her mother and stepfather, Denise and Doug Dill of Hartford; her father, Michael Pruitt of South Carolina; three brothers,...
Thomas Wilson Blackburn
Sep 21, 2014
Thomas Wilson Blackburn, 82, passed away Sunday morning at Holiday Resort after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He is survived by his daughters, Janis Meyer and her husband Keith, Lisa Hollern and her husband Lane, all of Emporia, and Mary Jansen and her husband Derek of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; his son Gregg Johnson of Baldwin, Kansas; 13 grandchildren; and 3...
Betty Ann Davison
Sep 19, 2014
Betty Ann Davison, 81, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Friday, September 19, 2014 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Graveside services will be conducted at the Patio Garden of Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, on Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. The service will be conducted by Pastor Susan Daniel-Brey, Grace United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The casket...
Esther Mae Deremer
Sep 14, 2014
Esther Mae DeRemer, 92, of Emporia, Kansas, died on September 14, 2014 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Esther was born on February 25, 1922 in Emporia, the daughter of Taylor Joab and Catherine Violet Thompson Kemp. She married Wilbur G. DeRemer on February 19, 1943 in Emporia. He died on October 26, 1997 in Emporia. Esther is survived by: her sons,...
George Leroy Flowers
Sep 6, 2014
George LeRoy Flowers, 70, of rural Allen, Kansas, died Saturday, September 6, 2014 at his home. George was born October 1, 1943 in Topeka, Kansas, the son of George F. and Margaret Doel Flowers. He was a graduate of Jarbloe High School in Tonganoxie, Kansas. George married Mary L. Pratt on June 26, 1972 in Seattle, Washington. She survives of...
Beverly "Lennie" A. Bain
Sep 5, 2014
Beverly A “Lennie” Bain, age 91, went to be with her Lord and Savior, September 5, 2014 in Henderson, Nevada, where she had moved to be closer to her daughters. Lennie was born August 6, 1923 to C.R.O. “Blackie” and Selma (Johnson) Sorrels at Potamo Township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota. She was preceded in death by the love...
Emma H. Voorhees
Sep 4, 2014
Emma H. Voorhees, 97, formerly of Americus, Kansas, died Thursday morning, September 4, 2014 at the Golden Living Center in Cottonwood Falls. Emma H. Smith was born in Emporia, Kansas, on May 4, 1917, the daughter of Robert and Hannah Etta (Pierce) Smith. She married Henry F. Voorhees in Americus on August 17, 1935. He died March 6, 1997 in...
Gary Dean Fuller
Aug 25, 2014
Gary Dean Fuller, 49, of rural Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, August 25, 2014 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Gary was born July 13, 1965 in Emporia, the son of Kenneth and Carlene (Munson) Fuller. He was a graduate of Butler County Community College and attended Kansas State University. He married Lisa Keller on April 1, 1989 at the First...
Gladys I. Comeaux
Aug 9, 2014
Gladys I. Comeaux, 97, retired school teacher, formerly of Reading, Kansas, passed away Sunday, August 09, 2014 in Auburn, California. Gladys Irene Hoyt, the daughter of Charles F. and Mary Stewart Hoyt, was born on January 5, 1917 in Reading. She married Herbert Comeaux, and he preceded her in death. Surviving members of the family include: two daughters, Donna Marie...
Geraldine "Gerry" Rees
Aug 8, 2014
Geraldine "Gerry" Schroeder Rees, 84, Emporia, Kansas, died on August 8, 2014 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Gerry was born on February 26, 1930 in rural Olpe, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Martha Kettner Schroeder. She married Emlyn Rees on June 25, 1950 at Zion Lutheran Church, southwest of Olpe. Geraldine is survived by a son, David Rees and wife,...
Ruth M. Rumage
Aug 5, 2014
Ruth M. Rumage, 98, of Gardner, Kansas, died on August 5, 2014 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. Ruth was born on May 10, 1916 in Emporia, the daughter of Robert and Anna Elizabeth Groh Simmons. She married John Edward Rumage on March 31, 1936 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas. He died on April 6, 1978 in Topeka, Kansas. Ruth...
Sylvia Lavonne Flott
Jul 31, 2014
Sylvia LaVonne Flott (75) died Thursday, July 31, 2014 at Holiday Resort, Emporia, Kansas. Sylvia was born March 5, 1939 and grew up on a farm near Claflin, KS, where she lived with her parents, Alvin and Jennie Mae Bryant Harzman and her brother Leonard Harzman. Sylvia received her teaching degree at Emporia State Teachers College and began her teaching...
