Richard Theodore Griffin
Dec 4, 2006
Richard T. Griffin, 79, died Monday, Dec. 4, 2006, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community, Lawrence. He was born Jan. 26, 1927, at Pomona to Harold
Mabel Marie Justice
Dec 4, 2006
Mabel was a lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident. Mabel graduated from Williamsburg High School with the class of 1940. She was a homemaker. She was also employed at Ransom Memorial Hospital in purchasing for ten years and three years as a sales clerk at south Dollar General, both in Ottawa, retiring in 2002. Mabel was baptised in the Central...
Lola Mae Broers
Dec 3, 2006
Lola Mae (Sink) Broers, 60, passed away Sunday, December 3, 2006, at the Richmond Care Center, Richmond, Kansas, after a ten-year battle with a rare illness, cortico-basal ganglionic degeneration. She had been a resident of the Center since 2001. She lived the majority of her life in the Ottawa and Franklin County area. Lola attended Baxter and Appanoose High...
Richard R. Spring
Nov 30, 2006
Richard R. 'Shorty' Spring, 65 ,of Ottawa, Kansas died on Thursday, November 30, 2006 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Harold Spring(deceased) and Ida Marie (Haley) Spring-Wilson. He was born on Wednesday, July 23, 1941, in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a near lifelong Ottawa resident. He was employed as a sanitation worker...
Melvin Loman Dixon
Nov 29, 2006
Melvin L. Dixon, 80, Ottawa, died Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006, at his home. He was born Dec. 18, 1925, at Grove, Ark., to William London Dixon and Emma Marie (Ramsey) Dixon. He moved from Arkansas to Lawrence in 1953. He moved to Ottawa in 1956. He attended Western Grove High School at Western Grove, Ark. He was a member...
Larry Lee Masenthin, Jr.
Nov 28, 2006
Larry Lee Masenthin, Jr., 33 ,of Garnett, Kansas died on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 He was born on Tuesday, April 10, 1973, in South Bend, Indiana. He grew up in Lyndon. He also lived in Melvern and Ottawa, moving to Garnett in 2004. Larry graduated from Lyndon High School with the class of 1991. While attending high school, he...
Mae Lorene Smith
Nov 27, 2006
Mae lived in Kansas City, Missouri, twenty-six years, moving to Williamsburg, Kansas in 1988. She graduated from Wyandotte High School with the class of 1943 and attended one year of college. Mae worked in accounting twenty-six years for TWA in Kansas City, Missouri, retiring in 1982. On September 21, 1947, Mae was united in marriage with Charles Leonard Smith...
Joyce Ann Roth
Nov 26, 2006
Joyce Ann (Roth) Roth, age 60, of Sonora, Calif., died Sunday, November 26, 2006, at Sonora Regional Medical Center in Sonora, Calif. She was the daughter of the late Elmer Roth and the late Calista (Caleb) Roth. She is also survived by her two brothers, Jim Roth of Shasta Lake, Calif. and Roger Ward of Ottawa, Kan. She lived...
Mary Marie Brown
Nov 24, 2006
Mary Marie Brown was born on Monday, January 12, 1920, in Wellington, Kansas. She was the daughter of Ray and Vernae Belle (Haskins) Fyock. Mrs. Brown lived in Ottawa since 1966, moving from Emporia, Kansas. She spent the greater part of her life living in Franklin County and Ottawa, until her death on Friday, November 24, 2006, at the...
Zetta Faye Goins
Nov 19, 2006
Zetta Faye Goins was born on Thursday, March 29, 1923, in Ottawa, Kansas. She was the daughter of Lee A. and Alma Zetta (Gebhard) Smith. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, Zetta made her home in Ottawa until her death on Sunday, November 19, 2006, at the age of eighty-three years. Zetta attended Ottawa schools. She was an efficient...
John Russell Stanfield
Nov 16, 2006
John Russell Stanfield was born on Thursday, April 17, 1930, in Gilroy, California. He was the son of Carl William and Myrtle (Smith) Stanfield. John grew up in Monterey, California. While in the military, he was stationed in England, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. When he was stateside, he resided in Nebraska, Washington, Kansas and Montana. Upon his retirement...
Masayo Bailey
Nov 14, 2006
Masayo Bailey was born on Tuesday, February 8, 1927, in Tokyo, Japan. She was the daughter of Shinechi and Riku Mameshiro. In the late 1950's, Masayo moved from Japan to the United States. She lived in Pomona and Wellsville, moving to Lane in 1969, and Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas in 1999, where she made her home until her death...
Elva Elrena Smith
Nov 11, 2006
Elva Elrena Smith was born on Thursday, April 6, 1922, in Agricola, Kansas. She was the daughter of Boyd and Eva E. (Stevens) Whitcher. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, Elva lived most of her life in the Williamsburg and Homewood communities, until her death on Saturday, November 11, 2006, at the age of eighty-four years. She graduated from...
Max Flager
Nov 9, 2006
Max Floyd Flager was born on Friday, April 4, 1941, in Ottawa, Kansas. He was the son of Floyd M. and Forna P. (Rosenbaum) Flager. Max was a lifelong resident of Pomona, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death on Thursday, November, 9, 2006, at the age of sixty-five years. Max graduated from Pomona High School with the class of...
John Lee Nickelson
Nov 9, 2006
John Lee Nickelson, 77, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006, at Olathe Medical Center. He was born March 10, 1929, at Garnett to Charles Monroe and Mary Martha
Dale Eugene Bush
Nov 4, 2006
Dale E. Bush, 81, died Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, at Village Manor Nursing Home, Ottawa. He was born July 2, 1925, at Emporia to Homer Milton and Nelle (Buchanan) Bush. He grew up in Emporia and after his military service moved to Topeka living there for seventeen years. He then moved to Baldwin City for thirty years before moving...
Elva Lucille Cox
Nov 3, 2006
Elva Lucille Cox was born on Wednesday, May 19, 1920, in Coffey County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Charles Leroy and Maude Alma (Traylor) Cox. Elva lived in Coffee County until moving to Topeka in 1937; the Indian reservation southwest of Mayetta, Kansas in 1942; a farm north of Williamsburg in 1946; and Ottawa in 1947. In 1949,...
Ella Widdicombe
Oct 31, 2006
Ella Rachel Widdicombe, 74, died October 31, 2006. Services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, November 4th at the Dengel and Son Mortuary, followed by graveside services at the Highland Cemetery with Rev. Katrina Palan. Friends may pay their respects to Mrs. Widdicombe at the mortuary from 10:00 a.m. Friday to service hour. She was born July 15, 1932,...
Bradley Kent Cowdin
Oct 30, 2006
Bradley Kent Cowdin, 49, Baldwin City, died Monday, Oct. 30, 2006, at Baldwin City. Services will be at a later date. He was born July 2, 1957, at Ottawa to Robert C. and Betty L. (Barlow) Cowdin. He graduated from Ottawa High School. He worked as a restaurant chef. Survivors include his sisters, Deborah Risheill, Troy, Ohio; and Cynthia...
