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...
Anita Loraine Elder
Aug 11, 2007
Flossie (Atherton) Drake on Thursday, September 6, 1923, in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. She was raised from infancy by Hiram and Elizabeth (Drake) Browning, who officially adopted her in 1981. A lifelong resident, Loraine made her home in Ottawa until her death on Saturday, August 11, 2007, at the age of eighty-three years. Loraine graduated from Ottawa High School...
Wanda G. Houston
Aug 7, 2007
SALINA -- Wanda G. Clark Houston, 69, Salina, died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007, in Salina. She was cremated. A memorial service and inurnment will be held 2:00PM, Saturday, September 22, 2007 at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa. She was born July 2, 1938 in Lamar, Missouri. She graduated from Wellsville High School. She worked for REMA Bakeware, Salina, Blue Cross-Blue Shield,...
Nellie L. Blackstone
Aug 5, 2007
She was a near lifelong Franklin County resident of Princeton, moving from Anderson County in 1934. Nellie graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1942. She was employed for Sunflower Power Plant; Glencher Cleaners; Mode O`Day; and Hillcrest Theatre; retiring in 1999. She was a member of Ruhamah Baptist Church and Royal Neighbor Lodge, both in Rantoul....
Mary Francis Murphy
Aug 4, 2007
Mary Reed-Murphy was born on Friday, October 11, 1918, in Chanute, Kansas. She was the daughter of John Edward and Margaret (Coulson) Lassman. Mary lived in Eureka, Kansas from 1942 until 1961; Augusta, Kansas, 1961 until 1967; Wichita, Kansas, 1967 until 1973; Monte Vista, Colorado , 1973 until 1992; Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1992 until 1994, and Rocky Ford, Colorado,...
Gary Lee Sleichter
Jul 31, 2007
Gary Lee Sleichter was born on Friday, October 27, 1944, in Carlton, Minnesota. He was the son of Benjamin Edward 'Ben' and Violet Hazel (Lukins) Sleichter. Gary moved with his family from Minnesota to Pomona, Kansas in 1956, then to Quenemo, Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home until his death on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at the...
James D. Beesley
Jul 31, 2007
James D. 'Jim' Beesley, D.V.M., passed away due to kidney cancer on July 31, 2007. Thanks to Whatcom Hospice, he died peacefully at his home in Everson, Washington, with his wife and beloved pets by his side. Jim was born on August 14, 1949, in Topeka, Kansas, to James K. and Dorothy M. (Stansbury) Beesley. He was valedictorian of...
Blaine Andrew Criqui
Jul 27, 2007
Blaine Andrew Criqui, infant son of Tony Ray Criqui, Jr. and Carly Jo Ann Buhs, died Friday, July 27, 2007, at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. Blaine Andrew is also survived by his sister, Allie Criqui, and brother, Conner Criqui, both of the home; maternal grandmother, Lindy Fitzgerald and her companion, Freddy Gumm, of Ottawa; paternal grandmother, Lena Mitchell...
Virginia Maxine Willhite
Jul 20, 2007
Maxine Willhite, 80, Lawrence, died Friday July 20, 2007, at Pioneer Ridge Nursing Center, Lawrence. She was born Sept. 25, 1926, at Burlingame to Vernie Francis and Iva Maxine (Patterson) Carmichael. She lived in Ottawa since 1949, moving from Burlingame. Maxine graduated from Burlingame High School in Burlingame, Kansas with the class of 1944 and Ottawa University in 1949,...
