Jason Edward Smith
Jan 3, 2022
Jason Edward Smith, 37, of Ottawa, Kansas, died Monday, January 3, 2022. Private graveside services were held at Evergreen Mound Cemetery, Ottawa. Jason was born April 16, 1984, in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of Kenneth and Louise (Hermreck) Smith. He was a lifelong Ottawa resident, graduating from Pomona High School with the Class of 2002. Jason was employed...
Leonard Ward Rowles
Jan 3, 2022
Leonard Ward Rowles, 92, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away at his home on Monday, January 3, 2022. Memorial services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Central Standard Time and 2:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Saturday, January 15, 2021, a virtual meeting only, from North Peach Tree City, Georgia. A link to view the service will be provided on Leonard’s...
Alice Louise England
Jan 2, 2022
Alice Louise England, 103, of Ottawa, KS, passed away Sunday, January 2, 2022, at Rock Creek of Ottawa. Cremation is planned with a graveside service to be held later at Evergreen Mound Cemetery, Ottawa. Alice was born October 20, 1918, in Shawnee, KS, the daughter of Laurence and Kathrine (Sauter) Provost. She lived in Shawnee, KS until 1946, moving...
Adrienne Brown
Jan 1, 2022
Adrienne Brown, 53, of Lawrence, KS, died Saturday, January 1, 2022, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after a 10-year battle with multiple myeloma. A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. Adrienne was born March 4, 1968, in Bronx, NY, the daughter of Ernest and Vanda (Covelli) Brown. She lived in Lawrence since 2011, moving here from...
Lutitia Murice Persinger
Jan 1, 2022
Lutitia Murice Persinger, 91, of Baldwin City, Kansas, passed away Saturday, January 1, 2022, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Private graveside services will be held later at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa. Lutitia was born September 29, 1930, in Neodesha, Kansas, the daughter of Patrick Henry and Claudia Mae (Jones) Gibbons. She lived in Ottawa from 1958 to 1962, moving to Lawrence....
Jacob Tyler Streff
Dec 31, 2021
Jacob Tyler Streff was 28 years old when he passed away on December 31, 2021. He was born on January 18, 1993, in North Charleston, South Carolina. Although Jacob was known by several nicknames: Jake, Jay, JT – he was known by all as the same outgoing and tender-hearted guy. He was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico and only...
Jennie Lorene Williams
Dec 30, 2021
Jennie Lorene Williams, 76, of Pomona, Kansas, passed away Thursday, December 30, 2021, at AdventHealth Shawnee Mission. Funeral services will be held 10:00 A.M., Saturday, January 8, 2022, at Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. The family will meet with friends from 5:30 to 7:30 P.M., Friday, January 7, 2022, at the mortuary. Interment Evergreen Mound Cemetery, Ottawa. Jennie was...
Rex Allen Hollinger
Dec 30, 2021
Rex Allen Hollinger 82, passed away at Olathe Hospice House on December 30, 2021. Rex was born on April 10, 1939 in Paola, Kansas, the son of Boyd C. and Ester (Renner) Hollinger. Rex was raised on a farm 4 miles East of Paola. He attended Victory school through the 6th grade. He enjoyed growing up on the farm...
Vern Knoop
Dec 28, 2021
Vern Thomas Knoop died at the Glendale Adventist Hospital on December 28, 2021 due to complications from prostate cancer. His California family was with him at the time of his passing, which included his sister Alice Gwendola Ward, her daughter Alicia Stevens, and her son Alexander Stevens. He was born November 19, 1932 near the Bethel Baptist Church and...
Penelopia Ann "Penny" Layton
Dec 28, 2021
Penelopia Ann “Penny” Layton, 75, of Garnett, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2021, at Nottingham Health & Rehabilitation, Olathe, Kansas. Cremation is planned with a Celebration of Life to be held at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, January 13, 2022, at the First Christian Church, Garnett. Penny was born May 20, 1946, at Seminole, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert and...
John M. Adee
Dec 28, 2021
John M. Adee, 52, of Rantoul, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2021, at Research Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Monday, January 3, 2022, at Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. Family will meet with friends from 1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M., prior to the service at the mortuary. Interment Highland Cemetery,...
Cecil Dwayne Ivie
Dec 27, 2021
Cecil Dwayne Ivie age 78 of Paola, Kansas passed away December 27th at the Olathe Medical Center. (Cremation) a Memorial Service will be at the 1st Baptist Church in Paola at a later date. Survivors are his wife of the home Janice "Sherry" Ivie, sons William Lancaster Ivie and wife Laurie, Aaron Dwayne Ivie and wife Lucynda, Shawn Matthew...
Michael A. Pettibon
Dec 24, 2021
Michael Allen Pettibon age 31 of Osawatomie passed away December 24th at the Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces New Mexico. Surviving is his wife Amanda of the home, daughters Alexis Bunney, Jasmine Melvin, sons Gary Bunney Jr., Dylan Melvin, Terry Pettibon, mother Amanda Hughes, and father Tony Pettibon, and numerous friends and extended family. Services are 10:30am Friday...
Louis L. Chilson
Dec 23, 2021
Louis Lee Chilson, 68, Paola, Kansas, passed away Thursday, December 23, 2021 at Olathe Medical Center due to covid. Louis was born January 3, 1953 in Axtell, KS to parents Willis “Papa” Keithley and Florence Spille Chilson. He grew up in Seneca, KS with his mom and family until she became ill. He was then placed into foster care...
Helen "Joan" Mcmahon
Dec 20, 2021
Helen “Joan" McMahon, 91, of Paola, Kansas, passed away Monday, December 20, 2021, at her home. Joan was born Wednesday, December 3, 1930, in Vermillion, KS, the daughter of George Leonard and Mary (McLeod) Bennett. She was raised on the family farm and enjoyed gardening, helping her father in the fields, and tending to the farm animals. Joan was...
Raymond Keith Richardson
Dec 18, 2021
Raymond Keith Richardson, age 85, of Leavenworth, Kansas passed away December 18, 2021 at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Visitation will be held at 9:00 a.m. to 10: 00 a.m. Thursday, December 23, 2021 with the funeral service to follow at 10:00 a.m. at First United Methodist Church 422 Chestnut Street, Leavenworth, KS 66048. Interment will take...
Richard Schoenberger, Sr.
Dec 16, 2021
Richard Raymond Schoenberger, Sr., age 87, of Paola, Kansas passed away Thursday, December 16, 2021, at the Olathe Health Hospice House. Richard was born in Long Prairie, Minnesota on December 27, 1933, to Frank and Ottilia (Lang) Schoenberger. Most of the family moved to Kansas City, Kansas in the ‘40s and eventually settled on a farm at Hillsdale, Kansas....
Connie Lee Mcauley
Dec 16, 2021
Connie Lee McAuley, 71, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away Thursday, December 16, 2021. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, December 22, 2021, at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa. Family will meet with friends from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., Tuesday, December 21, 2021, at Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. Connie was born February 2, 1950, at Ottawa, the...
Thomas B. Mock
Dec 14, 2021
Thomas B. Mock, 78, of Ottawa, Kansas, passed away at home on Tuesday, December 14, 2021. Memorial services will be held at 2:30 P.M., Thursday, December 30, 2021, at Dengel & Son Mortuary, Ottawa. Thomas was born on November 2, 1943, in Vallejo, California, the son of Vayne “Steve” and Leona (Riddle) Mock. He was a lifelong Ottawa resident,...
