John Dillard
Apr 19, 2008
John L. Dillard age 55 of Osawatomie formally of Paola died April 17, 2008, at St. Lukes Hospital. His services are pending at Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel. 913-294-2372. To leave condolences go to Penwell-Gabel.com John was born February 12, 1953, in Paola Kansas to Samuel Henry Jr. and Ethylene May Brown Dillard. He was raised in Paola and graduated from...
Ralph Latimer
Apr 18, 2008
Ralph Latimer was born on Saturday, September 25, 1926, in Ransomville, Kansas. He was the son of Ralph V. and Nellie (Gay) Latimer. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, Ralph made his home in Ottawa until his death on Friday, April 18, 2008, at the age of eighty-one years. Ralph attended Ottawa schools. He was employed as a Signal...
Clark Jackson Shepheard
Apr 16, 2008
Clark Jackson 'Jack' Shepheard was born on Tuesday, January 29, 1929, in Pomona, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Clark Evert and Mary Marie (Eubank) Shepheard. A lifelong Pomona resident, Jack passed away at his home, less than a mile from his birthplace, on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at the age of seventy-nine years. He attended Greenwood...
Bryan Patrick Simon
Apr 14, 2008
Bryan Patrick Simon was born on Monday, January 29, 1968, in Port Arthur, Texas. He was the son of Leon E. Simon and Janice E. Montgomery. Bryan was born and raised in Texas. He lived in Harrison, Arkansas several years, moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, seven years ago, where he made his home until his death at...
Leo Francis Mathias
Apr 13, 2008
Leo grew up in Franklin County, living in Osawatomie, Alabama, and Blue Mound, Kansas, since 2002. Leo attended school in Pomona. Leo worked as a farmer, deputy undersheriff in Coffey County, maintenance at Wolf Creek Power Plant and as a truck driver for the Miami Co-Op, retiring in about 1995. He had also worked on the oil pipeline in...
Richard Lee Steele
Apr 12, 2008
Richard Lee Steele was born on Sunday, November 22, 1942, in Garden City, Kansas. He was the son of Robert W. Steele, Sr. and Grace (Menneke) Steele. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, Richard grew up on the Steele family farm in the northwest part of the county. He moved with his wife and family to Centropolis in 1969,...
D. Lance Hart
Apr 11, 2008
Family and friends of D. Lance Hart, age 57, of Rockford, Illinois, who died Friday, April 11, 2008, at his home, will meet at the Dengel & Son Mortuary from 9:30 to 10:30 AM Saturday, April 19, 2008, for a family visitation and then process to Mt. Hope Cemetery, Williamsburg, Kansas for Graveside services at 11:00 AM. Mr. Hart...
Kirk Wilson
Apr 7, 2008
Kirk E. Wilson age 48 of Paola passed away at his home April 7, 2008 after battling a long illness. Visitation Friday April 11 from 6 PM to 7:30 PM at the Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel 305 N. Pearl Paola Kansas . In lou of flowers the family asks that contributions be made to the USD#368 Endowment in care of...
Charles B. Couch
Apr 3, 2008
Charles `Bud` Couch, 74 ,of Pomona, Kansas died on Thursday, April 3, 2008 at his home. He was born Dec. 31, 1933, at Hot Springs, Ark., to Claude and Georgia (Singleton) Couch. Bud was a commercial sheet metal worker over fifty years. Following retirement, he worked as security for the Nugget Casino in Carson City, Nevada ten years. He...
Ronald Ames
Apr 1, 2008
Ronald D. Ames, age 51 of Olathe, Kansas died April, 1 at his home. Graveside service, Saturday April, 5th at 2:30 PM Paola Cemetery, Paola, Kansas. Visitation, Saturday 1 to 2:00 PM Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel 305 N. Pearl. Memorials to the American Diabets Ascociation in care of the funeral home. To leave condolences go to penwellgabel.com. Surviving, is his...
William Clester Holden
Mar 30, 2008
William Clester Holden was born Tuesday, August 28, 1928, in Williamsburg, Kansas, the son of Earl C. Holden and Opal D. (Atkinson) Holden-Hoobing. He was raised by his stepfather, Harry Hoobing. Clester grew up in Franklin County, Kansas, living in several states during his employment years, returning to Ottawa following his retirement, where he made his home until his...
Chett Posey
Mar 29, 2008
Chett Daniel Posey age 86 passed away March 29th in Silver City New Mexico. He was born on February 6, 1922 in Independence Kansas to Chett Daniel and Callie Mae Murphy Posey. He was united in marriage to Mary L. Douglass on October 22, 1953 in Bartlesville. Oklahoma. Chett and Mary owned and managed the Tastee Freez in Osawatomie...
Dale Fredrick Deardorff
Mar 27, 2008
Dale Fredrick Deardorff, the son of Delbert M. and Dorothy (Bollerman) Deardorff, was born September 21, 1945, in Jefferson, Iowa, and died March 27, 2008, in the presence of his loving family at the Ottawa Retirement Village in Ottawa, Kan., at the age of 62. He attended grade school in Yale, Iowa, where he graduated from Yale-Jamaica-Bagley High School...
Salvador Vega
Mar 27, 2008
Salvador Vega was born on Sunday, April 1, 1945, in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Luis M. and Mary M. (Cruces) Vega. A lifelong resident, Salvador made his home in Ottawa until his death on Thursday, March 27, 2008, at the age of sixty-two years. Salvador attended Ottawa High School earning his GED and continuing...
Ralph Pretz
Mar 23, 2008
Ralph J. Pretz age 82 of Osawatomie Kansas passed away March 23 at the Life Care Center of Osawatomie.(cremation) no services are planned. Arrangements by Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel.(to leave condolences go to Penwell-Gabel.com.) Ralph was born on April 18, 1925 in Turner Kansas to Robert and Lottie Guinn Pretz. He attended the Turner High School and later enlisted in...
Thomas Albert Kraft
Mar 22, 2008
Thomas A. Kraft, age 83, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away Saturday, March 22, 2008, at the Richmond Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Kansas. Funeral services will be held from Dengel & Son Mortuary in Ottawa at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2008. He was born March 17, 1925, in Ottawa, Kansas to Albert J. and Goldie R....
Wesley Rudolph Sylvester
Mar 20, 2008
Wesley Rudolph Sylvester passed away on Thursday, March 20, 2008, at the Christian Care Cottage in Ottawa, Kansas, at the age of ninety-five years. He was born on March 10, 1913, at home in Riley County, Kansas, the 12th child and 5th son of Mary (Rudolph) and Henry Sylvester. On January 16, 1935, he was united in marriage to...
Miranda Sue Ledbetter
Mar 15, 2008
Miranda S. (Gragg) Ledbetter, 29, Ottawa, died Saturday, March 15, 2008, at the Olathe Medical Center. She was born Feb. 22, 1979, at Ottawa to Dennis D. and Marilyn (Koch) Gragg. She grew up in Ottawa. She moved to Gardner in 1997 and returned to Ottawa in 2007. She graduated from Ottawa High School in 1997. She was a...
Dale Reynolds
Mar 14, 2008
Dale Reynolds age 85 of Lampe MO. formally of Osawatomie, KS, passed away Friday March 14 2008. Funeral Service is on Monday March 17 at 10:30 AM at the Penwell-Gabel Paola Chapel. Visitation is on Sunday from 6 to 8PM at the chapel and burial will be in the Osawatomie Cemetery. Dale was born May 21, 1922 in Osawatomie...
Olga Beach
Mar 13, 2008
Olga Beach age 99 of Paola passed away Thursday March 13 at Country Club Estates in Paola. Services are Tuesday at 11AM and a Visitation at 10AM both held at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Paola. Burial to follow at the Gardner Cemetery in Gardner KS. Olga was born January 7, 1909 in Leavenworth Kansas to Gustave and...
