Orrlea Dian Downey
Oct 2, 2007
Dian Downey, 64, Wellsville, died Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. She was born April 29, 1943, at Ottawa to Orren and Wanda (Mealman) Altic. She was a lifelong Franklin County resident. She lived in Ottawa and the Wellsville area. She worked as a seamstress at H.D. Lee, Ottawa, for 23 years. She retired in...
Richard A. Curtis
Oct 2, 2007
Richard Allen 'Chuck' Curtis was born on Thursday, August 12, 1965, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Mary A. (Callahan) Curtis. A lifelong resident, Richard made his home in Franklin County, Kansas, until his death on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at the age of forty-two years. Richard graduated from Pomona High School in Pomona, Kansas, with the...
Larry Dean Bishop
Sep 28, 2007
Larry Dean Bishop was born on Tuesday, August 28, 1945, in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Allen and Beulah Mae (Coombes) Bishop. A lifelong Franklin County resident, Larry moved from Ottawa to Princeton in 1984, where he made his home until his death on Friday, September 28, 2007, at the age of sixty-two years. Larry...
Frances Estelle Schmoe
Sep 28, 2007
Frances Estelle Schmoe was born to Ralph and Myrtle (Cress) Cooley on Sunday, September 21, 1919 in Talmage, Dickinson County, Kansas. She lived in the Lawrence, Kansas area until moving to Ottawa in 1952, where she made her home until her death on Friday, September 28, 2007, at the age of eighty-eight years. Frances graduated from St. George High...
Arthur Glen Miller
Sep 26, 2007
Arthur Glen 'Art' Miller, Jr. was born to Arthur Glen and Ruby (Rolland) Miller on Saturday, February 3, 1934 at Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas. He grew up in Independence, Kansas, moving to Wichita after his military service. In 1959 he moved to Ottawa, where he made his home until his death on Wednesday, September 26 , 2007. He graduated...
Lois M Griffin
Sep 25, 2007
Lois M. Griffin was born to James and Bessie (Frost) Spring on Tuesday, January 26, 1932 in Garnett, Anderson County, Kansas. Lois was a lifelong Franklin County resident, and for forty-eight years lived in Pomona, where she made her home until her death on Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at the age of seventy-five years. She worked as a seamstress...
Juanita Emma Brown
Sep 15, 2007
Juanita E. Brown, 75, Ottawa, died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, at her home. She was born Aug. 5, 1932, at Kansas City, Mo., to Lee Olin and Ethel Catrina (Moorman) Thomas. Juanita moved with her family when she was in the first grade from Kansas City, Kansas to Kansas City, Missouri, and to Ottawa in 1949. She started school...
Dorothy Marie Beesley
Sep 14, 2007
Dorothy Marie Beesley was born on Wednesday, February 23, 1921, in Berryton, Kansas. She was the daughter of Frank Joseph and Annie Pearl (Lue) Stansbury. A lifelong Kansas resident, Dorothy lived with her aunt, Minnie Kungle, in Williamsburg, Carbondale and Topeka and with her parents southwest of Williamsburg. After her marriage, she and Jim lived in Topeka, the Richter...
Kathy Elaine Wilson
Sep 12, 2007
Kathy E. (Steele) Wilson, 49, Quenemo, died Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007, at the Brookside Retirement Community, Overbrook. She was born March 3, 1958, at Eudora, to Robert and Gerri (Rowe) Steele. She grew up in the Appanoose community and was a near lifelong resident of Ottawa and Quenemo. For a short time, she resided in Steeleville, Missouri and Topeka,...
Joyce Jeretta Craig
Sep 2, 2007
Joyce Jeretta Craig was born on Monday, January 8, 1917, in Linn Creek, Missouri. She was the daughter of Charles Clayton and Gertrude Angeline (Hopkins) Scott. Joyce grew up in Franklin County, Kansas, moving to New Jersey in 1955, and Independence, Missouri in 1970. The past twenty years, Joyce made her home in Spring, Texas, until her death on...
Merle Lee Sands
Sep 2, 2007
Merle Lee Sands was born on Wednesday, February 7, 1934, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of James Robert and Ida (Seifert) Sands. Merle lived in Overland Park, Kansas, twenty years, moving to the Ottawa, Franklin County area in 1970, where he made his home until his death on Sunday, September 2, 2007, at the age of...
Laun Elen Hinkle
Aug 29, 2007
Laun grew up in Silver Creek, Nebraska. He also lived in San Diego, California, moving to Columbus, Nebraska in 1955, then to Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1960, he moved to London, England; 1962, Athens, Greece; 1965, Tokyo, Japan; 1968, Culpeper, Virginia; 1969, Silver Creek, Nebraska; 1971, Lyons, Nebraska; 1974, North Bend, Nebraska; 1983, Gladstone, Missouri; and 2007, Wellsville, Kansas. Laun...
Rusti Ann Skylar Heenan
Aug 24, 2007
Rusti Ann Skylar Heenan was stillborn Friday, Aug. 24, 2007, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Survivors include her parents, Robert Heenan and Heather Bickerstaff, of the home, Ottawa; a brother, Trenton A. Heenan, of the home; a sister, Kristen M. Heenan, of the home; grandparents James Bickerstaff, Ottawa, JoAnn and Dale Hensley, Ottawa, Sandra Heenan, Ottawa, and Larry Heenan, Melrose,...
Leota Fern Gould
Aug 22, 2007
Leota Fern Gould was born on Tuesday, February 18, 1919, in Lebo, Kansas. She was the daughter of James Harrison and Pearl Ethelda (Myers) Bristow. Leota moved with her family to Ottawa in Franklin County, Kansas, when she was about three or four years old. In 1938, she moved to California, returned to Ottawa in 1942, and, in the...
Glen W. Callahan
Aug 20, 2007
Glen W. Callahan, 65 ,of Garnett, Kansas died on Monday, August 20, 2007 at at his residence in Garnett, Kansas. He was the son of Tom Callahan and Violet (Sanders) Callahan. He was born on Wednesday, March 11, 1942, in Tuckerman, Arkansas. Glen's family moved to Independence, Missouri and then to the Pomona, Kansas area in 1960. As a...
Robert Eugene Sipe
Aug 15, 2007
Gene Sipe, 88, Ottawa, died Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2007, at Olathe Medical Center, Olathe. He was born April 6, 1919, in Logan County, Okla., to Robert Bruce and Bessie Jane (Decker) Sipe. He grew up in Logan County, Oklahoma, moving to Long Beach, California in 1942, Bakersfield, California in 1943, Atascadero, California in 1963, Williamsburg, Kansas in 1977 and...
Vivian Arlene Wheeler
Aug 15, 2007
Vivian Arlene Wheeler was born on Wednesday, January 3, 1923, in Osawatomie, Kansas, to Evan Fredrick and Anna Pauline (Rager) Phares. Vivian grew up and attended schools in Osawatomie, moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1939, where she made her home until her death on Wednesday, August 15, 2007, at the age of eighty-four years. She was...
Kenneth Elton Kistner
Aug 13, 2007
Kenneth Kistner went to be with his Lord after a battle with pancreatic cancer on August 13th, 2007. He was born June 30th, 1943 to Loran & Muriel (Westfall) Kistner of Waverly, Kansas. He was raised in Waverly, moving to Overbrook in the early 1970`s; Beloit in 1972; Waverly in 1974; Ottawa in 1999; Williamsburg in 2000; and Vassar...
Ollie Mae Gruver
Aug 13, 2007
Ollie J. Gruver, 100, Ottawa, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2007, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Lawrence. She was born Sept. 9, 1906, at Riner, Va., to Charlie and Annie (Hatcher) Jewell. Ollie grew up and lived in Virginia until moving to this area in 1934. Ollie attended Burmin School in Riner, Virginia. Ollie was a homemaker and also self-employed doing...
