Michael Charles Higginbotham
Apr 28, 2002
Michael Charles Higginbotham, Jr. was born December 8, 1979, at Paola, Kansas. He was the son of Michael C. and Sandra (Meiers) Higginbotham, Sr. He lived in Williamsburg four years and Rantoul three and one-half years, before moving to Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home for the past year, until his death Sunday, April 28,...
Edna Bernice Kreusch
Apr 26, 2002
Edna Bernice Kreusch was born May 17, 1912, at Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Johnnie and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Higgins. Edna grew up in the Greenwood Community, living on a farm in that area until moving to Ottawa with her husband in 1972, where she made her home until her death Friday, April 26, 2002,...
Joel Morgan Wallis
Apr 26, 2002
Joel Morgan Wallis was born April 24, 1962, at a U.S. Naval Station in the Republic of the Philippines. He was the son of Jerry and Carol (McKinsey) Wallis. A lifelong resident, he made his home in Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas, until his death Friday, April 26, 2002, at the age of forty years. Joel graduated from Ottawa High...
Opal Mae Phillips
Apr 25, 2002
Opal Mae Phillips was born March 21, 1905, at Trenton, Missouri. She was the daughter of Fred and Elva Rhetta (McKeen) Slater. Opal moved from Kansas City in 1943, to Ottawa, where she made her home until her death Thursday, April 25, 2002, at the age of ninety-seven years. She was a lifelong homemaker. Opal grew up in the...
Eddie Lee Wright
Apr 19, 2002
Eddie Lee Wright was born April 6, 1947, at San Gabriel, California. He was the son of Howard DeWitt and Frances E. (Hills) Wright. Eddie grew up in the San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California area. In 1978, after his military service, he moved to Peoria, Kansas. He has resided in Pomona, Williamsburg and Michigan Valley, all of Kansas, moving...
Sylvia Irene Mccurdy
Apr 13, 2002
Sylvia Irene McCurdy was born November 4, 1917, at Garnett, Kansas. She was the daughter of Harry and Matilda (Morris) Ashburn. Sylvia moved to Williamsburg, in Franklin County, Kansas in 1938, where she made her home until her death Saturday, April 13, 2002, at the age of eighty-four years. She was a lifelong homemaker. Sylvia was a family focused...
Roscoe E. Lancaster, Jr.
Apr 11, 2002
Roscoe E. Lancaster, Jr., affectionately known as Rocky to all of his friends, was a true son of Ottawa. He was born here to Roscoe Lancaster, Sr., and Ida Williamson Lancaster, and attended school from kindergarten through the end of University in Ottawa. He graduated from Ottawa High School in 1949, and Ottawa University in 1953. One of his...
Roscoe E. Lancaster
Apr 11, 2002
Roscoe E. Lancaster, Jr., affectionately known as `Rocky` to all of his friends, was a true son of Ottawa. He was born here to Roscoe Lancaster, Sr., and Ida Williamson Lancaster, and attended school from kindergarten through the end of University in Ottawa. He graduated from Ottawa High School in 1949, and Ottawa University in 1953. One of his...
Sharon Kay Stierwalt
Apr 8, 2002
Sharon Kay Stierwalt, 54, of Ottawa, KS, died Monday, April 8, 2002 at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa. She was born August 18, 1947 in Ottawa. Sharon lived in Valley Falls, Kansas during some of her school years, Ottawa from 1960 until 1975, and Paola from 1975 until returning to Ottawa in 1977. She attended her early years of...
Erma June Kinsley
Apr 7, 2002
Erma June Kinsley was born June 19, 1928, in Douglas County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Floyd and Lottie (Gish) Barton. She grew up in Douglas County, then moved to the Centropolis Community, where she made her home for the past forty years, until her death Sunday, April 7, 2002, at the age of seventy-three years. She was...
Leona Crawford
Apr 6, 2002
Leona Evelyn Crawford was born August 13, 1920, near Brownell, Kansas. She was the daughter of Jess Cornelius and Catherine Eliza (Harrison) Rice. For fourteen years, Leona lived in Pawnee County in Kansas. In 1934, she moved to Franklin County, Kansas with her parents, where she made her home, until her death Saturday, April 6, 2002, at the age...
May Steele
Apr 3, 2002
May Steele was born January 20, 1909, on a farm at Jarbalo, in Leavenworth County, Kansas. She was the daughter of John D. and Bessie L. (Cromer) Kinkaid. She grew up in Rantoul, Kansas, moving to the Appanoose Community in 1939. In 1991, she moved to Topeka, Kansas, where she made her home until her death Wednesday, April 3,...
Loren Edmund Triplett
Apr 1, 2002
Loren Edmund 'Pete' Triplett was born October 21, 1916, at Princeton, Kansas. He was the son of Guy and Winnie (Day) Triplett. A lifelong Franklin County, Kansas resident, he made his home in Ottawa from the mid 1940's until his death Monday, April 1, 2002, at the age of eighty-five years. He was a firefighter for the Ottawa Fire...
Agnes Lavina Brockus
Apr 1, 2002
Agnes Lavina Brockus was born March 8, 1913, at Richmond, Kansas. She was the daughter of James Albert and Edith Mae (Messenger) Morris. A lifelong resident of Franklin County, Kansas, she made her home in Richmond, until her death Monday, April 1, 2002, at the age of eighty-nine years. She graduated from Richmond High School with the class of...
Richard Baxter Bowden
Apr 1, 2002
Richard Baxter Bowden, III, was born February 17, 1935, at Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of Richard Baxter `Pete` and Freda Margaret (Kremsreiter) Bowden. He lived in Kansas City, Kansas for thirty-six years and Shawnee, Kansas six years. In 1978, he moved to Rantoul, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home until his death Monday,...
John Lewis Shenk
Mar 29, 2002
John Lewis Shenk was born September 7, 1931, at Rantoul, Kansas. He was the son of Cletus Jerome and Sally (Haughn) Shenk. A lifelong Franklin County resident, he made his home in Ottawa, Kansas, until his death Friday, March 29, 2002, at the age of seventy years. John graduated from Rantoul High School with the class of 1949. He...
William Elmer Sutton
Mar 27, 2002
William Elmer Sutton was born October 4, 1915, at Agricola, Kansas. He was the son of William S. and Cora Florence (Vanderslice) Sutton. He grew up in Agricola, Homewood, and Williamsburg, Kansas, moving to Princeton, in Franklin County, Kansas in 1945, where he made his home until his death Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at the age of eighty-six years....
Joseph Raymond Mock
Mar 25, 2002
Joseph Raymond Mock was born April 10, 1913, at Imes, Kansas. He was the son of George and Mary (Imes) Mock. He lived in Rantoul, Kansas several years, moving to his farm in Wellsville, north of Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, where he made his home for fifty years, until his death Monday, March 25, 2002, at the age...
Henry Harold Shomber
Mar 25, 2002
Henry Harold Shomber was born January 4, 1908, to Henry Oliver and Nellie Lucinda (Hanne) Shomber, in their home, located 2 miles E of Homewood (East side of Iowa Rd, between Haskell and Hamilton) ' the first of three boys and one girl. He attended Acorn school into the 6th grade, and then Hood school and Ottawa High School,...
Gayle I. Clark
Mar 24, 2002
Gayle Ilene Clark was born April 9, 1945, at Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas. She was the daughter of Harley and Pauline (Goodwine) Blankenbeker. In 1968, she moved to Spring Hill, Kansas, and later to Olathe, Kansas for five years. Gayle then moved to Osawatomie, Kansas, where she made her home the past ten years, until her death Sunday,...
