Grace Hornbuckle
Aug 9, 2012
Grace W. Hornbuckle, 90, of Kearney, MO, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2012 at Kindred Northland Hospital in Kansas, City, MO. She was born October 4, 1921 in Topeka, KS, the daughter of Roy Lemm and Ethel (Grace) Webb. She was united in marriage to Earl Hornbuckle on June 1, 1940 at Manhattan, KS. They celebrated 58 years of...
Wayne Ronald Bruner
Aug 8, 2012
Wayne Ronald Bruner, age 77, of Rantoul, Kansas, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012. He was born on Saturday, June 29, 1935 in Rantoul, Kansas, the son of Earl and Geneva (Lockwood) Bruner. Wayne lived all of his life in the Rantoul area. Wayne graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of 1952. Wayne was a self employed carpenter...
Jim Hasty
Aug 8, 2012
Robert James “Jim” Hasty, age 74, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Wednesday, August 8, 2012, in Kansas City Kansas. He was born on Saturday, January 8, 1938, in Denver, Colorado, the son of Robert and Helen (Fisher) Hasty. Jim has lived in Ottawa since 1978 moving from Lakewood, Colorado. He had previously lived in Eaton, Colorado from 1962 to 1970;...
Ellen Seamands
Aug 7, 2012
Ellen G. Seamands, age 90, of Spring Hill, Kansas passed away at the Golden Living Center on August 7, 2012. Ellen was born April 14, 1922 to Lester and Edith Vroman Herndon in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. She moved to Idaho in 1937 and later moved to Kansas when she was in her 20s. She was a homemaker and also...
John Lyder
Aug 5, 2012
John L Lyder, age 92, of Paola,Kansas, passed away August 5, 2012 at the Ottawa Retirement Center, Ottawa, Kansas. John was born on October 9, 1919 to John and Edna Ullom Lyder in Paola, Kansas. He graduated from Paola High School in 1937. While in high school he was active in football and basketball, and was an avid KU...
Leroy Wayne Roecker
Aug 5, 2012
LeRoy Wayne Roecker of Louisburg, Kansas, died August 5, 2012, at home in Johnstown, Colorado. He was born December 5, 1941 in Garnett, Kansas, to Ernest and Jessie (Merscham) Roecker. LeRoy graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1959. He married Sharon Kay Bloomer on November 13, 1961, in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, while serving in the...
Mark Meek
Aug 3, 2012
Mark David Meek, age 50, a resident at Lakemary Center in Paola, Kansas, former resident of Louisburg, Kansas, died Friday, August 3, 2012 at his home peacefully in his sleep. Mark was born March 22, 1962 in Osborne, Kansas. He was the first of three children born to Donald D. and Carolyn (Comstock) Meek. Mark attended school at Lakemary...
Donald E. Jones
Aug 2, 2012
Donald E. Jones was born on September 22, 1927 to William Charles (Billy) Jones and Claris Mae Burgoon in Ottawa, Kansas. He was a lifelong Ottawa resident and attended Ottawa schools. He was in the Maritime Merchant Marines and employed by Hercules Powder Plant, Singer Sewing Machine Co. and Meeker Construction. In 1963 Don started working at Litwins in...
David H. Brown
Aug 2, 2012
David H. Brown, age 78, of Ottawa, Kansas, died peacefully at his home with his family by his side, Thursday, August 2, 2012. He was born on Saturday, February 24, 1934 in Lawrence, Kansas, the son of Dorance and Rose (Copp) Brown. David moved to the Lawrence area from the Eudora family farm where he had lived since 1941....
Letha May Mccracken
Jul 30, 2012
Letha May McCracken passed away peacefully at the Ottawa Retirement Village on Monday, July 30, 2012. She was 100 years old. She was born on Tuesday, January 9, 1912, in Pratt County, Kansas, the daughter of Horace Elmer and Lyta Frances (Peters) Womble. She was a lifelong Franklin County and Ottawa resident. She graduated from Old Rantoul Grade School...
David R. Blake
Jul 29, 2012
David R. Blake, 73, of Stilwell, Ks died July 29, 2012 at his home. He was born July 11, 1939 at Neosho, MO, the son of Earl Ray and Eleanor (Staatz) Blake. He was united in marriage to Donna Ruth Cohee on June 17, 1966 at the Methodist Church in Neosho, MO. David worked for Coca Cola Enterprises for...
Dwight D. Fredricks
Jul 29, 2012
Dwight D. Fredricks, age 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, formerly of Ottawa, Kansas, died Sunday, July 29, 2012. He was born on Wednesday, June 25, 1969 in Ottawa, the son of Clint and Pat (Swope) Fredricks. Dwight has lived in Fayetteville since November 2011 after moving from Lawrence, Kansas, he had spent most of his life in Ottawa. Dwight...
Clyde Beatty
Jul 28, 2012
Clyde E. Beatty, age 65, of Paola, Kansas passed away July 28, 2012 at the Specialty Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas. Clyde was born November 2, 1946 in Paola, Kansas to Stanley and Georgia Francis Weaver Beatty. He grew up in Paola and graduated in 1965. He worked for the Fluor Corporation and the Marley Corporation for many years...
Dennis Michael Plummer
Jul 28, 2012
Dennis Michael Plummer, age 61, of Winfield, Kansas passed away July 28, 2012. Mike, as he was known, was born February 10, 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri to Michael Edward and Jeanette Marie Lankford Plummer. He was raised in Paola until he was eight years old and then moved to Winfield. Mike was disabled, but had a love of...
John David Hileman
Jul 28, 2012
John David Hileman, age 78, passed away July 28, 2012 at the Olathe Medical Center. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Tom Hileman Scholarship Fund 9 N. Brayman, Paola, KS 66071 David, as he was known by, was born March 6, 1934 in Topeka, Kansas to Keil and Nellie Davidson Hileman. He graduated from Cherryvale...
Paul Edward Adamson
Jul 27, 2012
Paul Edward Adamson, age 67 of Pomona, Kansas, died Friday, July 27, 2012 at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe, Kansas. He was born on Saturday, October 21, 1944 in Creston, Iowa. He is the son of Clifford Elza and Ethel Irene (Spicer) Adamson. He has been a resident of Pomona, Kansas for thirty years, moving from Ottawa. Prior to...
Marolyn E. Foster
Jul 27, 2012
Marolyn Elizabeth Foster, age 65 of Pomona, Kansas, died Friday, July 27, 2012. She was born on Saturday, March 22, 1947 in Redfield Kansas. She was the daughter of Ivan and Louise (Horseman) Brittingham. She has been a resident of Pomona, Kansas since 1966 moving there from Ottawa, Kansas. Marolyn graduated from Ottawa High School with the class of...
Lourena Kettler
Jul 27, 2012
Lourena Kettler, age 97, passed away July 27, 2012 at Olathe Medical Center. Lourena was born May 22, 1915, the youngest of five children. Her father died when she was two. Lourena married Clarence Kettler, a Miami county farmer on May 15, 1937. Lourena and her husband farmed in the Paola area for 25 years, moving in 1961 to...
B. K. Clark
Jul 26, 2012
B. K. Clark Jr., age 69, of Spring Hill, Kansas, passed away July 26, 2012 at Royal Terrace Care Center. Inurnment will be at Wagstaff Cemetery, Miami County, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his father B. K. Clark and his wife Nina Jean Clark. He is survived by his mother Virginia A. Clark of Spring Hill, Kansas;...
Antoni "Tony" J. Van Leiden
Jul 24, 2012
Antoni J. “Tony” Van Leiden was born on Monday, August 21, 1922, in Almelo, Netherlands. He was the son of Harm and Sophia (Spenkelink) Van Leiden. Tony lived in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, since 1948 where he made his home until his death on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at the age of eighty-nine years. He graduated high school and...
