Everett Ray Call
Feb 14, 2014
Everett Ray Call, retired executive editor of The Emporia Gazette, died February 14, 2014 at his home. He and his wife Helen first came to Emporia in 1955 upon his discharge from two years of active duty in the Army Reserve. They had been stationed in Alaska before it became a state. Ray also served from 1993 to 2004 on...
Wanda Talkington
Feb 9, 2014
Wanda Love Edwards Talkington, 89, Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday morning, February 9, 2014 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Wanda Love was born in Emporia, on June 18, 1924, the daughter of Earl and Marie (Smith) Love. She married Laurance E. Edwards at Hartford, Kansas on February 19, 1944. He died April 11, 1971. She later married Merton Talkington on...
Gerald W. Green
Feb 7, 2014
Gerald W. Green, 71, Emporia, Kansas, passed away at his home on Friday, February 7, 2014. Gerald William Green was born in Emporia on January 24, 1943, the son of Charles William and Adella (Wolcott) Green Mr. Green is survived by his daughter, Jennifer Jo Salb, Sand Springs, Oklahoma; son, Eric William Green, Olathe, Kansas; sister, Betty Steele, Topeka, Kansas;...
Peter Leander Murphy
Feb 5, 2014
Peter Leander Murphy died Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at Stormont-Vail Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas, at the age of 59. Peter Murphy was born in Brussels, Belgium on February 14, 1954, the son of Ernest VanDyke and Leona (Johnson) Murphy. He married Mary A. Pound at Saint Catherine Catholic Church, Emporia, on December 27, 1975. She survives of the home. Also...
Barbara Anne Smith
Feb 5, 2014
Barbara Anne Smith, 79, of Emporia, KS, died on February 5, 2014, surrounded by family at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. She is preceded in death by her parents and husband. "Bobbie" was born on February 6, 1934 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the daughter of Millard W. Jr., and Lillian Hall Baldwin. She graduated from Glen Ridge High School...
Cleo E. Stone
Feb 4, 2014
Cleo E. Stone, 93, formerly of Toledo, Kansas, died Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at his home in Olathe, Kansas. Cleo Eugene Stone, the son of William A. and Gladys M. Hankins Stone, was born July 31, 1920 in Toledo. He married Marion Elizabeth Hudson on February 19, 1944 in Council Grove, Kansas. She preceded him in death on September 27,...
Marian Edith Theye
Jan 29, 2014
Marian Edith Theye, 97, died Wednesday, January 29, 2014 at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas. Marian was born November 3, 1916 in Chula, Missouri, the daughter of Lewis and Nettie (Graham) Tompkins. She worked as the office manager for Spic-N-Span Cleaners in Emporia, Kansas for 35 years. She was a member of First Christian Church, Emporia. Marian married George...
Andrew J. Rodriguez
Jan 28, 2014
Andrew John Rodriguez, 68, of Emporia, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 28, 2014, at his home. Andrew was born on February 4, 1945 in Emporia, the son of Lorenzo and Sofia Torres Rodriguez. He married Madeline Terrones in Emporia; she died previously in Kansas City, Kansas. He later married Janet E. Smith on October 19, 1968 in Emporia. She survives of...
Larry Ronald Kramer
Jan 25, 2014
Larry Ronald Kramer, born April 6, 1942 in Austin, Minnesota, died Saturday, January 25, 2014 at Rossville Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Rossville, Kansas. He was 71. Kramer had been diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and his health had been declining the past eight years. A native of Minnesota, Larry Kramer originally wanted to attend the University of...
Wayne W. Whitaker
Jan 24, 2014
Funeral services for Wayne W. Whitaker will be held at Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home on Saturday, February 1, 2014 at 10:30 A.M. The service will be conducted by Pastor Lee Hoskins. Interment will follow in Memorial Lawn Cemetery, Emporia, with military honors by Ball-McColm Post #5, American Legion, and Lowry-Funston Post #1980, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Masonic Rites will be presented...
Virgil William Brown
Jan 20, 2014
Virgil William Brown, 72, of Olpe, Kansas, died on Monday, January 20, 2014 at his home. Virgil was born on July 2, 1941 in Olpe, the son of George Matthew and Mary Catherine Schneider Brown. He married Nancy Pendleton on June 8, 1963 in Emporia, Kansas, and later divorced. Surviving family members include: his brothers, Marvin N. Brown of Emporia,...
Dorothea Grace Bush Myers Mitchell
Jan 19, 2014
Dorothea Grace Mitchell, 82, of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, January 19, 2014 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Dorothea Grace Bush was born December 3, 1931 in Emporia, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Helene Montina (Pickett) Bush. Her father died when she was very young and she was raised by her mother and stepfather, Paul Pickett. Dorothea married Robert Edward...
Betty Jeanne Rice
Jan 17, 2014
Betty Jeanne Rice, Emporia, Kansas, died at Sterling House in Emporia on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the age of 91. Betty Jeanne Gardner was born at Kansas City, Missouri on November 4, 1922, the daughter of Richard Allen, and Johanna Fredricka (Arnold) Gardner. She married Floyd Edward Rice on August 10, 1941 at Ottawa, Kansas. He died October 28,...
Robert Abraham Sauder
Jan 16, 2014
Robert Abraham Sauder died Thursday, January 16, 2014 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia, Kansas. He was born in Madison, Kansas, on Christmas Eve 1926, along with his twin brother, Raymond. They blessed the family of Aaron and Bess Sauder and their three older children, Mary Fran, Carolee, and Lee. Bob graduated from Madison High School and subsequently joined the...
Felix R. Cisneros, Sr.
Jan 15, 2014
Felix R. Cisneros, Sr., 86, Emporia, Kansas, died at Holiday Resort, Emporia, on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Felix was born at Emporia on March 5, 1927, the son of Sipriano and Luisa (Rodriguez) Cisneros. He married Aurelia “Faye” DeLaTorre at Emporia on June 9, 1945. She died September 30, 2008. Mr. Cisneros is survived by: two daughters, Mary Louise (Anthony)...
Elden George Kuhn
Jan 15, 2014
Elden George Kuhn, 85, of Admire, Kansas, died on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Elden was born on November 15, 1928 in Springfield, Colorado, the son of Walter E. and Estella Marie McNair Kuhn. He married Una Mae Reidel on December 23, 1951 at her parents’ home south of Allen. She survives at the home. Other...
Vicky Lynn Allen
Jan 15, 2014
Vicky Lynn Allen, 65, of Emporia, Kansas, died Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at her home. Vicky was born September 10, 1948 in Dodge City, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and June (Boner) Meyer. In 1967, she was crowned Miss Grant County. She attended and graduated from Fort Hays State University with a Bachelors Degree of Arts in Music Education, after...
Calvin William Maxwell
Jan 14, 2014
On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 in Raleigh, North Carolina, Calvin William Maxwell, age 86, went to be with His Lord and Savior. Calvin was born in Americus, Kansas, on January 10, 1928 and was married to Betty June Maxwell in 1959 in Wichita, Kansas. He and Betty June were married almost 49 years, making their home in Montevideo, Minnesota for...
R.W. "Bill" Wygle, Jr.
Jan 13, 2014
R.W. “Bill” Wygle, Jr., 87, of Emporia, Kansas, died Monday, January 13, 2014 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Bill Wygle was born November 26, 1926 in Pharr, Texas, the son of R.W. and Roberta (Stillwell) Wygle. He served in U.S. Army during WWII in the Philippines and the South Pacific. Bill attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, where he...
Mary M. Wellnitz
Jan 7, 2014
Mary M. Wellnitz, 87, of Emporia, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Mary Margaret Gaughan, the daughter of Edward and Marie Supple Gaughan, was born July 30, 1926 in Emporia. She married Francis Anthony Wellnitz on November 3, 1956 in Emporia. He died January 26, 1996. She is survived by her son, Joseph F. and...
