Joseph Steffes Markowitz
Dec 20, 2013
Joseph Steffes Markowitz, 92, of Olpe, Kansas, died on December 20, 2013, at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. Joe was born on July 27, 1921 in Olpe, the son of Bernard and Elizabeth Steffes Markowitz. He married Marie Ann Hohne on May 29, 1948 in Olpe. He is survived by Marie and four children, Dave and wife Jane Markowitz of...
Howard Clair Yeager
Dec 19, 2013
Howard Clair Yeager, 91, died December 19, 2013 at his home in Wichita, Kansas. Howard was born December 21, 1921 the son of John & Julia (Pierce) Yeager in Emporia, Kansas. He was the youngest of eleven children, and the only one to finish high school after working odd jobs to pay his own way. He worked many years as...
Alice Marie Sanders
Dec 17, 2013
Alice Marie Sanders, 81, of Council Grove, Kansas, died Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at Morris County Hospital in Council Grove. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery, Junction City, Kansas. There are no services planned. Alice M. Schoemborn, the daughter of Fredrick and Laura Bostick Schoemborn, was born April 21, 1932 in Frohna, Missouri. She worked in housekeeping at Morris County...
George Washington Hanshew
Dec 15, 2013
George Washington Hanshew, 99, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Sunday morning, December 15, 2013 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. A graveside service will be held on Monday, December 23, 2013 at 1:30 P.M. at Wellston Cemetery, Wellston, Oklahoma. The service will be conducted by Rev. Michael Burkett, United Methodist Church of the Good Shepherd, a member of the family, from...
Gary L. Smiley
Dec 12, 2013
Gary L. Smiley, 72, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Thursday evening, December 12, 2013 at Newman Regional Health, Emporia. Gary Lynn Smiley was born at LaCrosse, Kansas on October 17, 1941, the son of Gerald and Winona (Seltman) Smiley. He married Joyce A. Clason at the Pawnee Rock, Kansas United Methodist Church on March 14, 1965. She survives of the home....
Dorothy Mae Bosse
Dec 8, 2013
Dorothy Mae Bosse, 78, formerly of Emporia, Kansas, died Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Aldersgate Village in Topeka, Kansas. Dorothy Mae Castle, the daughter of Theodore Addison and Willie Mae Miller Castle, was born March 12, 1935 in Crawford, Oklahoma. She was co-owner of a mobile home park and transportation company, retiring in 1998, and was an active member of...
Clifton B. Huff
Dec 5, 2013
Clifton B. Huff of Cincinnati, Ohio, died Thursday, December 5, 2013 in Wichita, Kansas. He was 82. Clifton was a Scientist. A graveside service will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, December 7, 2013 at Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Emporia, Kansas.
Gloria J. Mosebey
Dec 4, 2013
Gloria J. Mosebey, 61, of Emporia, Kansas, died on December 4, 2013 at her home after a long battle with metastatic breast cancer of the lymph nodes. Gloria was born on August 6, 1952 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Anthony and Amelia Fisher Sakis. She married Dennis Mosebey on August 9, 1980 in Garden Plain, Kansas. He survives. Other...
John "Bill" William Eudaley
Dec 1, 2013
John William (Bill) Eudaley, 88, died early Sunday morning December 1, 2013 at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, KS. He was born March 16, 1925 at Marlow, OK, the son of Oscar W. and Anna M. (Dawson) Eudaley. He graduated from Carnegie High School, Carnegie, OK. John was a veteran serving in the U.S. Navy Seabees from 1943-1946. He...
Jacqulyn Kay Johnson
Dec 1, 2013
Jacqulyn Kay Johnson, 76, Emporia, Kansas, and formerly of Osage City, Kansas, and Ponca City, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, December 1, 2013 at her home in Emporia. Jacqulyn Kay Gardner was born in Allen, Kansas on February 20, 1937, the daughter of John Benton “Jack” and Dorine Geroma (Balocco) Gardner. She married Maurice Johnson June 23, 1956 in Osage City....
Glen J. Haag
Nov 20, 2013
Glen J. Haag, 88, Olpe, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at Life Care Center of Burlington. Glen J. Haag, the son of Mike and Margaret Schorer Haag, was born on October 29, 1925 on the family farm, in rural Olpe. He attended St. Joseph School and then worked on the Haag farm until 1946. He joined the Army...
Lucas Garcia
Nov 20, 2013
Lucas Garcia, 90, Emporia, Kansas, died November 20, 2013 at Stormont-Vail Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas. Lucas Garcia was born November 1, 1923 in Emporia, the son of Jose and Juanita (Sorrento) Garcia. Mr. Garcia served in the Army Air Corps during World War II, serving in the African and Pacific Theaters, and later in the Air Force Reserve. He was...
Phillis J. Thomas
Nov 17, 2013
Phillis Jo Hamilton Thomas, 64, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Sunday morning, November 17, 2013 at Holiday Resort Care Center, Emporia. Phillis Jo Vogts was born September 18, 1949 at Emporia, the daughter of Albert and Josephine (Hinrichs) Vogts. She married Lloyd Allen Hamilton in Emporia on August 2, 1969. He died July 8, 1988. On May 1, 1999, she married...
Hazel J. Moore
Nov 17, 2013
Hazel J. Moore, 89, Emporia, Kansas, passed away Sunday morning, November 17, 2013 at Holiday Resort, Emporia. Hazel J. Lewis was born at Emporia on June 20, 1924, the daughter of John Dale and Ida Viola (Moser) Lewis. She married L. J. Moore at Emporia on April 3, 1944. L.J. died August 20, 1991. Mrs. Moore worked as a secretary...
Rodney C. Riley
Nov 9, 2013
Rodney C. “Rod” Riley, 59, of Emporia, Kansas, died Saturday, November 9, 2013 at his home. Rodney Carl Riley, the son of Carl L. and Ruth M. Buchanan Riley, was born July 3, 1954 in Emporia. He married Patricia “Trish” Miranda on April 20, 1974, in Coffeyville, Kansas. Survivors include: his wife Trish of the home; his daughter and spouse,...
Doris Crofoot
Nov 8, 2013
Doris Evans Crofoot, 99, of Wichita, Kansas, died November 8, 2013. Doris was born in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, on July 27, 1914. She was raised on a farm at Bazaar and attended eight grades of school at the Bazaar schoolhouse. Her mother was Ethel Gillaspie Hays, and her stepfather was Harry L. Hays. When her mother married her stepfather, he...
Mildred L. Chew
Nov 6, 2013
Mildred L. Chew, 98, of Wichita, Kansas, died Wednesday, November 06, 2013 at St. Francis Via Christi Hospital in Wichita. Mildred was born on August 30, 1915 in Reading, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Rosa Proehl Rains. She married Edwin Ira Chew on January 27, 1933 in Emporia, Kansas. He died on March 24, 1979 in Wichita. She is...
Georgia Marcile Massey
Nov 2, 2013
Georgia Marcile Massey, 74, of Allen, Kansas, died Saturday, November 2, 2013 at her home. Georgia was born November 2, 1939 in Greensburg, Kansas, the daughter of Henry William and Georgia May (Stewart) Todd. She married Larry G. Melton on May 18, 1954 in Greensburg, Kansas, and they later divorced. On August 10, 1990 she married Jess W. Massey in...
Monica Van Hardesty
Nov 1, 2013
Monica Van Hardesty, 40, of Emporia, Kansas, died November 1, 2013 at her home. Monica was born July 3, 1973 in Emporia, the daughter of Van and Lynda Gayle (Fowler) Hardesty. She was a C.N.A. and worked as a private duty nurse. Monica was a member of the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Emporia. Monica is survived by her...
Roger Wayne Troutner
Oct 30, 2013
Roger Wayne Troutner, 45, of Emporia, Kansas, passed away October 30, 2013 at his home. Roger was born on October 8, 1968 in Goodland, Kansas, the son of Dallas Ira and Vivian Irene Pears Troutner. He married Deanna Lynn Shearer on September 14, 1996 in Norton, Kansas. She survives of the home. Other survivors include: his sons, Jordan Wayne Troutner...
