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Stella M. Sleezer
Jun 6, 2022
Stella M. Sleezer, 90, passed away Monday evening June 6, 2022 at the Oakley Place of Rossville. She was born March 15, 1932 on the family farm near Gridley, Kansas the daughter of Amos and Ruby Rodgers Stukey. She was the youngest of thirteen children. Stella attended Gridley High School and graduated with the Class of 1950. Stella was joined...
Oneta Beth Lane
May 28, 2022
Oneta Beth Lane, 97, passed away late Saturday, May 28, 2022 at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. She was born January 25, 1925 on the family farm south of Lebo the daughter of Earl C. and Lola E. Watkinson Miller. Oneta attended Lebo High School and graduated with the Class of 1942. Oneta was joined in marriage to Clifford Calvin...
Norma Louise Johnson
May 21, 2022
Norma Louise Johnson, 92, passed away early Saturday, May 21, 2022 at Emporia Place. She was born April 16, 1930 in Aliceville, Kansas the daughter of John Henry and Edna Sophia Rahmeier Schotte. Norma graduated from Burlington High School with the Class of 1948. She worked throughout her high school years at Plaza Theater in Burlington. On July 24, 1948...
Susan Leigh Rosetta
May 16, 2022
Susan Leigh (Lombard) Rosetta was born January 24,1946 to Jack and Rosalie (Ferguson) Lombard in Garnett, Kansas. After an extended illness, she died peacefully May 16, at Brookdale Rose Hill Care Facility, Shawnee. Susan graduated from Humboldt High School in 1964 and from Clark’s School of Business, Topeka in 1965. She married James Emil Rosetta on April 8, 1967. They...
Eileen Olive Reimer
May 15, 2022
Eileen Olive Reimer, 86, passed away Sunday, May 15, 2022 at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center in Overland Park, Kansas. She was born July 11, 1935 at the family farm home near Quenemo, Kansas, the daughter of Gordon and Maude Vinton Gray. Eileen attended Quenemo High School where she graduated with the Class of 1954. She went on to...
Jeffrey Clarence Schwab
May 15, 2022
Jeffrey Clarence Schwab, 69, of Kechi, Kansas slipped into heavenly slumber after losing his battle to cancer. Jeff was born on May 28, 1952 in Emporia, Kansas to Dixie (Flaker) Schwab and Clarence Schwab. Jeff had one older brother Dennis Schwab. Jeff grew up on their family farm in Madison, Kansas where he and his brother enjoyed fishing, finding swimming...
Helen Trout
May 14, 2022
Helen Trout 76 of Osage City, passed away Saturday May 14, 2022 at Midland Hospice Care in Topeka. She was born October 1, 1945 on Oakley, Kansas the daughter of Leo and Rosie Dechant Schoenberger. Helen was raised in Oakley and later moved to Osage County in 1976. After coming to the Osage County area Helen worked at a Sewing...
Clarence Curtis Van Arsdale
May 10, 2022
Clarence Curtis Van Arsdale, 83, passed away early Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at his home in Madison. He was born on March 16, 1939 in Gridley, Kansas the son of Clarence Melvin and Alice Elizabeth Sleezer Van Arsdale.. Curtis attend Gridley High School and graduated with the Class of 1957. Following graduation, he took a job as a telegraph apprentice...
Reba Jean Olson
Apr 27, 2022
Reba Jean Olson, 90, of Osage City, passed away in the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 27th at the Osage Nursing Center. She was born December 18, 1931 on the family farm near Rapp, the daughter of Constantine T. and Mary Viola Bauman Lindbloom. Reba attended the Rapp School before entering Osage City High School. She would later graduate...
Barbara L. Shroeder
Apr 26, 2022
Barbara L. Shroeder, 68 of Madison, passed away Tuesday, April 26, 2022. She was born July 24, 1953 in Emporia, Kansas the daughter of Merle D. and Opal M. Moore Harlan. Barbara grew up on the family farm NW of Madison and attended Madison High School where she graduated with the Class of 1971. She would go on to study...
Marshall Dean Pendlay
Apr 25, 2022
Marshall Dean Pendlay, 17, passed away Monday, April 25, 2022 at his home. Marshall was born August 4, 2004 in Burlington, Kansas, the son of John Paul and Mindy Kay (Heller) Pendlay. He was a student at Lebo High School and was attending classes at Flint Hills Technical College in Emporia in the Automotive Technology Program. He was an active...
Carl William Sheall
Apr 24, 2022
Carl W. “Bill” Sheall, 88, passed away Sunday, April 24, 2022 at Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita. Carl William Sheall was born December 30, 1933 in Coffeyville, Kansas, the son of Ivan Reeves and Hazel A. (Harris) Sheall. He graduated from Burlingame High School in 1951. He served in the United States Marines during the Korean War....
Raymond E. Bockus
Apr 22, 2022
Raymond E. Bockus, 81, passed away Friday, April 22, 2022 at Osage Nursing Center. Ray was born on August 7, 1940 to Ernest W. and Violet R. Bockus. He came to Kansas in search of employment at the Tuttle Creek Reservoir construction site, eventually arriving in Osage City, where he met his future bride, Earlene Griffin. They were married on...
Norma Ann Pock
Apr 20, 2022
Norma Ann Pock, 91, of Topeka, passed away Wednesday April 20, 2022 at Stormont-Vail. Norma was born and raised in Olivet, Kansas the daughter of Charlie A. and Jennie L. Moore Pock. She attended Olivet High School and graduated with the Class of 1949. She married Raymond Johnson and they moved to Topeka where she worked as a clerk for...
Carolyn G Wilson
Apr 17, 2022
Carolyn G. Wilson, of Olivet, KS, passed away on April 17, 2022 in Ft. Scott, Kansas. Carolyn was born April 6, 1941, to Elzie and Louise (McCormick) Pockrus, in Limrock, Alabama. She had just celebrated her 81st birthday. Carolyn graduated from Limrock High School and went on to have a career in nursing. She was joined in marriage to Roger...
Howard Fred Freerksen
Apr 13, 2022
Howard Fred Freerksen, 90, passed away, Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at Emporia Presbyterian Manor. Howard “Fred” Freerksen was born June 5, 1931, near Lebo, Kansas, the son of Roy and Edna (Parks) Freerksen. He graduated from Lebo High School in 1948. Served four years in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He was joined in marriage to Barbara...
Velma Reiss
Apr 5, 2022
Velma L. Reiss, age 87, of Demorest, Georgia passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Mrs. Reiss was born on June 28, 1934 in Versailles, Missouri to the late Edward and Mary Elizabeth Garber. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her loving husband of nearly 50 years, Robert E. Reiss; siblings, Raymond, Bob, Pauline, Dennis,...
Larry Linn Crane
Apr 3, 2022
Larry Linn Crane, 55, of Virgil, Kansas, passed away in a house fire on April 3, 2022. Larry was born in El Dorado, Kansas, to Floyd and Leota Megli Crane, on March 3, 1967. He married Kerry Watts on October 27, 1990, in Virgil, Kansas. They were married for 31 years and had two children, Kaleb Crane and Shelby Crane....
Harold Hodge
Apr 1, 2022
Harold “Red” Hodge, 69, of Madison, KS passed away on Friday, April 1, 2022 in Kansas City at the University of Kansas Hospital. Red was born on June 5, 1952 in Rockwood Tennessee to Cecil and Elizabeth (Allison) Hodge. He graduated from Cumberland County High School in Crossville, TN. After school, Red started his employment with Speno Railways where he...
Patrick Joseph Swartz
Mar 22, 2022
Pat Swartz passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at the age of 79. He was born on February 22, 1943, in Newton, Kansas, the youngest child of M.H. and Allene (nee Cochrane) Swartz. On May 27, 1962, Pat married his high school sweetheart, Dorla Spatz, at the United Methodist Church in Emporia, Kansas. She preceded him in death on...
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