Carol Sue East
Jun 1, 2006
At the age of three, she moved with her family from Mexico, Missouri, to Ottawa, where she lived all of her life with the exception of a year when she lived in Wichita. Carol attended Ottawa schools and, in 1979, earned a General Equivalency Degree and attended one year at Neosho County Community College in Ottawa. She was a...
Wyatt Walker Wright
May 29, 2006
Wyatt was twenty-two months old and lived with his family at Williamsburg Kansas. He is survived by his mother, Laura Walker, and his father, Robert Wright, and two brothers, Tyler Logan and Tanner Wright, all of the home in Williamsburg, Kansas. He is also survived by his maternal grandmother, Jean Komala of Lawrence, Kansas, paternal grandparents, Esther McClure and...
Betty Imogene Sweetwood
May 28, 2006
Betty grew up in Ottawa and the surrounding area. She has lived at Hartford, Kansas since 1980 moving there from Kansas City, Kansas where she had lived for 30 years. She was a seamstress employed with the Gay-Gibson Company, Kansas City, Kansas for 20 years, retiring in 1975. Betty was a charter member of the Calvary Baptist Church, Ottawa....
Robert Leon Andrews
May 27, 2006
Robert Leon 'Bob' Andrews was born June 30, 1922 at Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. He was the son of Charles 'C.E.' and Martha (Sluder) Andrews. Bob was a life long Ottawa resident, making his home here until his death on Saturday, May 27, 2006 at the age of eighty-three years. Bob attended Ottawa High School with the Class of...
Emma Mae Cook
May 27, 2006
Emma Mae Cook was born on Tuesday, February 23, 1926 at Quenemo, Osage County, Kansas. She was the daughter of John and Helen (Norton) Kline. Emma Mae made her home in Franklin County, Kansas nearly all of her life, living in Ottawa since 1991, moving here from Pomona, where she had lived for many years. Emma Mae was a...
William R Cowdrey
May 22, 2006
William Robert 'Bill' Cowdrey, Jr. was born August 7, 1933, at Newton, Kansas, the son of William Robert, Sr. and Marie Christine (Hunter) Cowdrey. In his youth, he lived in several locations, including Morris, Wichita, and Emporia, Kansas. Due to his job, he and his family lived in several states, including Utah, Colorado, Texas and California. He lived in...
John Franklin Zielsdorf
May 20, 2006
John F. Zielsdorf, 73, Arkansas City, died Saturday, May 20, 2006, at his home. He was born Nov. 6, 1932, to Clyde F. and Esther M. (Jacoby) Zielsdorf at Wellsville. He attended state schools in Missouri and Kansas during his childhood. He lived at Arkansas City since 1989, when he moved from Winfield, where he had lived for many...
Coburn William Parkin
May 19, 2006
Coburn W. 'Cobe' Parkin, Sr. was born January 3, 1927, at Osage City, Kansas. He was the son of John Henry and Theresa L.L. (Wagg) Parkin. He grew up in Ottawa, and lived in Pomona from the mid 1940's until 1961, when he moved to the Williamsburg area, where he lived until his death at the age of seventy-nine...
Myron Ernest Mccall
May 19, 2006
Myron E. McCall, 90, Kansas City, Mo., died Friday, May 19, 2006, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Shawnee Mission. He was born Nov. 28, 1915, at Wellsville, to William Keeling and Phoebe (Evans) McCall. He grew up in Richmond and later moved to Garnett, then Radcliffe, Va. He moved to Ottawa in 1944. He moved to Kansas...
John D. Briggs
May 12, 2006
John D. Briggs, 77, Ottawa, died Friday, May 12, 2006, at the Olathe Medical Center. He was born March 14, 1929, to John Dewey and Bertice (McGuire) Starne at Joplin, Mo. He grew up in Fort Scott and graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1947. He later attended Fort Scott Junior College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City....
Mary Jean Taylor
May 9, 2006
Mary Jean Taylor was born January 21, 1932 in Everton, Arkansas, the daughter of Melvin Ada (O'Daniel) Robertson. She lived in Kansas City, Missouri before moving Ottawa in 1962, where she made her home, until her death, Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at the age of seventy-four years. She graduated from Bruno High School in Bruno, Arkansas with the class...
Sara Lynn Vallier
May 6, 2006
Sara Lynn Vallier was born February 10, 1954, at Horton, Kansas, the daughter of W.F. and Claudine (Jarvis) Critchfield. In her youth, she lived in many locations, including the Effingham, Kansas area. She later lived in Overland Park, Kansas, moving to the Richmond, Kansas area in 1974, where she made her home until her death Saturday, May 6, 2006,...
Loyd L. Keefer
May 5, 2006
Loyd L. Keefer, Sr. was born January 24, 1922 the son of Arthur and Edna (Farling) Keefer. He grew up in Rexford, Kansas, Rantoul, Kansas and Ottawa, Kansas. He lived a short time after World War II in Kansas City, Kansas before moving to Fort. Riley, Kansas. From there he moved to Washington, D.C., Korea, Fort Polk, Louisiana, Baumholder,...
Evelyn Irene Purcell
May 4, 2006
Evelyn Irene Purcell was born March 3, 1930 in Tarkio, Missouri, the daughter of Howard and Jessie Frances (Campbell) Reeves. She lived in Ottawa since the late 1940's, moving in 1971 to Topeka, where she made her home, until her death, Thursday, May 4, 2006 at the age of seventy-six years. Evelyn attended Baldwin City High School with the...
Harriet Ilo Harkins
May 3, 2006
Harriet Ilo Harkins was born November 23, 1913, in Rantoul, Kansas. She was the daughter of Benjamin Floyd and Jennie June (Needham) Carter. She grew up on a farm in Rantoul, Kansas, and at the time of her husband's discharge from the service, they purchased a farm near Lane, moved to Emporia, Kansas in 1964, and Ottawa in 1980....
Helen Esther Kline
May 3, 2006
Esther was born August 23, 1930, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, a small town 35 miles north of Philadelphia. She was raised in the culture of a fundamentalist General Conference Mennonite Church. Her first pastor was a recent graduate of Moody Bible Institute. She believed on the name of Jesus Christ as her Savior and Lord at an early age under...
Shirley Jean Brooks
May 2, 2006
Shirley Jean Brooks, 69, Ottawa, died Tuesday, May 2, 2006, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 12, 1936, to Troy and Fleeta (Bones) Brooks in Princeton. She graduated from Princeton High School in 1954. She was a life-long Franklin County resident and lived in Ottawa many years. She was a cook for the Franklin County Sheriff's Department...
Donal Wayne Horne
Apr 28, 2006
Donal Wayne Horne was born on Sunday, June 14, 1953, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Donal D. and Geraldine Francis (Spring) Horne. Except for five years, from 1960 to 1965, when he lived in Tonganoxie, Wayne was a lifelong resident of Pomona, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death on Friday, April 28, 2006, at the age...
Richard Chaney Hollon
Apr 26, 2006
Richard Chaney Hollon was born on Saturday, July 2, 1949, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Ernest and Betty Jean (Caleb) Hollon. He was a lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident. From 1975 to 1994, he lived in Pomona, moving to Ottawa in 1994, where he made his home until his death on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, at...
Jane Paulette Garcia
Apr 21, 2006
Jane Paulette Garcia was born on Wednesday, October 10, 1945, in Long Lane, Missouri. She was the daughter of Joseph E. and Mary C. (Dalton) Graves. She lived in Paola, Kansas, moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1964, where she made her home until her death Friday, April 21, 2006, at the age of sixty years. She...
