Obituaries
Obituaries for Cherryvale, Fredonia, Chanute, and Surrounding Areas
Bruce Virgil Schroder
Aug 10, 2008
Bruce Virgil Schroder, 84, lifelong resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Sunday, August 10, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital in Fredonia, Kansas. He was born May 18, 1924 in Fredonia, the son of Glenn and Vesta (Fulk) Schroder. He was a 1942 graduate of Fredonia High School and was the captain of the FHS 1942 State Basketball Championship Team. He served...
Elvin H. Lakin
Aug 8, 2008
Elvin H. "Red" Lakin, 96, longtime resident of the Fall River and New Albany, Kansas area, died Friday, August 8, 2008 at Lakepoint of Augusta. He was born March 25, 1912 in Wynewood, Oklahoma, the son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wyatt) Lakin. Mr. Lakin was a self-employed farmer and also worked as a custodian for the Fall River Schools. On...
Gustav Paras Engstrom
Aug 5, 2008
Gustav Paras Engstrom, 91, longtime resident of the Wilson County area, died Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at Golden Living Center in Fredonia. He was born August 31, 1916 in Coyville, Kansas, the son of Ludwig and Anna (Burt) Engstrom. Gustav was a graduate of Coyville High School. He served in the United States Army Air Corps. He was a lifelong...
Sibylla May Burress
Jul 30, 2008
Sibylla May Burress, 85, a resident of Frontenac, Kansas, formerly of Fredonia, Kansas, died Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at Sunset Manor in Frontenac. She was born November 1, 1922 in Madison, Kansas, the daughter of Jack and Komis (William) Geisert. She was a graduate of Fredonia High School. Sibylla was a homemaker and also worked for 8 years at Kansas...
Estel D. Joy
Jul 20, 2008
Estel D. Joy, 74, a lifelong resident of the New Albany and Fredonia area, died unexpectedly Sunday, July 20, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital in Fredonia, Kansas. He was born January 26, 1934 in New Albany, the son of Paul Otto and Flossie Blanche (Penwell) Joy. He served in the United States Army 1952-1955. He was retired from the Wilson...
Naomi Ruth Condon
Jun 30, 2008
Naomi Ruth Condon, 96, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Monday, June 30, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital. She was born October 8, 1911 in Osage City, Kansas, the daughter of David D. and Emma C. (Anderson) Ramsey. She was a graduate of Osage City High School and received her bachelors degree from the Kansas State Teacher"s College in Emporia....
Dale M Trimmell
Jun 23, 2008
Dale M. Trimmell, 90, a long time resident of the Coyville, Kansas area, died Monday, June 23, 2008 at the Cherryvale Nursing and Rehab Center in Cherryvale, Kansas. He was born January 21, 1918 in rural Greenwood County, one of twelve children born to Milton and Stella (Knox) Trimmell. Dale attended Ross Branch Grade School and graduated from Fall River...
Polly Mccabe
Jun 17, 2008
Esther Norine "Polly" McCabe, 89, a resident of rural Elk City, Kansas, died Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at her home. She was born April 18, 1919 in rural Lafontaine, Kansas, the second child born to Fred and May (Tindle) McGinnis. On October 5, 1935 in Independence, Kansas, she married Meredith S. McCabe. He preceded her in death in 1990. Polly"s...
Keith Coats
Jun 14, 2008
Keith Coats, 80, a lifelong resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Saturday, June 14, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital. He was born November 17, 1927 in rural Wilson County, between Fredonia and Neodesha, the son of Sherman and Alta (Jones) Coats. He was a 1945 graduate of Fredonia High School. Following graduation, he enlisted in the United States Air Force and...
Rickie Lee Dunsworth
May 25, 2008
Rickie Lee Dunsworth, 51, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas, formerly of Fall River, Kansas, died Sunday, May 25, 2008, in Fredonia. He was born August 16, 1956 in Larned, Kansas, the son of Carl Woodrow and Doris (Vaughn) Dunsworth. Rickie served in the United States Army and was currently employed by the Wilson County Road and Bridge Department. Rickie is...
Betty Jean Follmer
May 24, 2008
Betty J. Follmer 85, a 66 year resident of Buffalo, Kansas, died Saturday, May 24, 2008 at the Regal Estates in Independence, Kansas. She was born January 27, 1923 in Iola, Kansas , the daughter of Robert and Mabel (Burton) Shapel. She was a 1941 graduate of Iola High School. On May 3, 1942 in Chanute, she married William Charles...
Mildred E. Opperman
May 22, 2008
Mildred E. Opperman, 95, a longtime resident of Fredonia, Kansas, formerly of Yates Center, Kansas, died Thursday, May 22, 2008 at the Golden Living Center in Neodesha, Kansas. She was born December 18, 1912 in rural Yates Center, the daughter of Amil H. and Irma E. (Mulsow) Light. She was a graduate of Yates Center High School. On January 17,...
David P. Wofford
May 10, 2008
David P. Wofford, 102, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas since 1930, died Saturday, May 10, 2008 at the Cherryvale Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born February 14, 1906 near Cassville, Georgia, the fourth child born to Eli and Joanna (Lowe) Wofford. Following high school, he attended Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock. During the Great Depression, Mr. Wofford and...
Glena J. Patry
May 7, 2008
Glena J. Patry, 56, a resident of Fall River, Kansas, died Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at the Specialty Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. She was born January 22, 1952 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Glen and Betty (Yates) Wood. She was a graduate of Cheney High School. She worked many years with her father in the roofing business and...
Inez Wolfe
May 6, 2008
Inez Wolfe, 83, a resident of Kearney, Missouri and formerly of Fredonia, Kansas, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in Liberty, Missouri. She was born in Geary, Oklahoma on April 30, 1925 to Frank and Esther Terneus. She graduated from Greenfield High School in Oklahoma in 1943 and married her high school sweetheart, A.D. Wolfe in May, 1943. Three children were...
Robert J. Gillett
May 6, 2008
Robert J. Gillett, 71, a 15 year resident of Southeast Kansas, presently of Toronto, Kansas, and formerly of Salida, Colorado, died Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at Allen County Hospital in Iola, Kansas. He was born December 24, 1936 in Owosso, Michigan, the son of Emmett and Vesta (Kersey) Gillett. Mr. Gillett served in the United States Marines during Vietnam, where...
Laura Belle Hall
May 2, 2008
Laura Belle Hall, 76, a long-time resident of the Toronto, Kansas area, died Friday, May 2, 2008 at the Life Care Center of Burlington. She was born January 29, 1932 in Lincoln, Arkansas, the daughter of James and Goldie Mae (Mercer) Haile. She worked as a seamstress for Jostens for 25 years, before retiring in 1998. Her greatest joys in...
Lillie Jane Smith
Apr 29, 2008
Lillie Jane Smith, 52, a resident of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, died Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at the Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania. She formally resided in Coffeyville, Neodesha, and Fredonia. The daughter of Janet (Coughenour) and Winfred (Bud) Maggard, she was born July 13, 1955 in Coffeyville, Kansas. She graduated with honors from Coffeyville High School, Independence Community College, and...
Viola Alice Key
Apr 21, 2008
Viola Alice Key, 68, resident of Chanute, Kansas, formerly of Hamilton, Kansas, died Monday, April 21, 2008 at Guest Home Estates III in Chanute. She was born May 11, 1939 in Chanute, the daughter of Roy and Nellie (Williams) Hawes. On February 23, 1963 in Independence, Kansas, she married Bobby R. Key. She spent her life caring for her family...
Bessie V. Papon
Apr 15, 2008
Bessie Papon, 96, a lifelong resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at the Neosho County Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, Kansas. She was born January 7, 1912 in Ava, Missouri, the oldest of nine children of William and Ollie (Day) Robertson. On August 10, 1936, in Ava, Missouri, she married Orval Frank Papon Sr. He recently...
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