Charles R. Thomas
May 12, 2006
Charles R. "Sha-nosh" Thomas, 71, of Delia formerly of Topeka died Friday, May 12, 2006 at a Topeka hospital. Charles was born December 23, 1934 in Jackson County, the son of Charley and Lillian Shopteese Thomas. He worked as a painter. He served in the Army 82nd Airborne in Ft. Bragg, NC. He was a member of the Prairie Band...
Rj Stedman
May 12, 2006
Stedman Wetmore—RJ Stedman, 71, of Wetmore, died Friday, May 12, 2006 at Holton. He was born June 6, 1934 in Blue Springs, NE, the son of Warren and Alice White Stedman. He had been a Maintenance Superintendent for oil companies in Libya, Alaska, Malaysia and Indonesia. Mr. Stedman served in the U.S. Navy in the Mediterranean during the Korean War...
Thelma L Gragg
May 8, 2006
THELMA L. GRAGG Thelma L. Gragg, 97, Kansas City, MO, died Monday, May 8, 2006, at the Alpine North Nursing Rehabilitation Center in Kansas City, MO. Mrs. Gragg worked at the Singer Sewing Machine Co. in Kansas City, KS and later taught sewing and sold sewing machines. She was born Jan. 18, 1909, at Ozawkie, the daughter of Elba Oren...
Lillian Rose Calkins
May 5, 2006
Calkins Holton-Lillian Rose Calkins, 87, of Holton, died Friday, May 05, 2006 at Holton Manor. She was born December 12, 1918 in Blue Rapids, Ks, the daughter of John and Mary Straka Zulek. Lillian graduated from a high school in Blue Rapids in 1937. She had lived in Holton for 32 years and had previously lived in Denison for 18...
Dr. Dean Keats Weckman
Apr 30, 2006
WECKMAN HOLTON- Dr. Dean Keats Weckman, retired DVM, 85, of Holton, passed Sunday, April 30, 2006 at the Holton Hospital. Dean was the only child born to Lanius E. and Mabel Keats Weckman on December 9, 1920 in Plattsburg, MO. The family moved to Topeka, KS when he was 5 years old. Dean attended grade school and Jr. High in...
Eugene M. Fernkopf
Apr 28, 2006
Fernkopf HOLTON—Eugene M. Fernkopf, 83, of Holton, died Friday, April 28, 2006 at the Holton Community Hospital. He was born August 27, 1922 in Holton, the son of Michael Carl and Mabel C. Stephenson Fernkopf. Eugene graduated from Holton High School in 1941 and lived all of his life in the Holton Community. He was a farmer and stockman and...
Vera V. Patterson
Apr 27, 2006
PATTERSON Vera V. Patterson, 89, of Muscotah, died Thursday, April 27, 2006 at the Hiawatha Hospital. She was born December 19, 1916 at Glen Elder, KS, the daughter of Bruce and Cora Goodshaw Gaston. She graduated from Beloit High School in 1935. She was married to Harold Patterson on December 6, 1936 at the home of her parents in Glen...
James Fred Tillery
Apr 27, 2006
Dr. James Fred Tillery Dr. James Fred Tillery, 69, Meriden, died Thursday, April 27, 2006, at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Tillery had formerly lived in Valley Falls for 38 years and had practiced dentistry there for 30 years. He was a member of the Valley Falls United Methodist Church and of the American Dental Association. He...
Virginia L Reichart
Apr 27, 2006
Virginia L. Reichart Virginia L. Reichart, 94, Topeka, formerly of Valley Falls, died Thursday, April 27, 2006, at Brewster Place in Topeka. She had been an author of poetry, short stories and a radio drama and had been published in regional and national journals, including the Topeka Capital-Journal. She wrote and directed the 1954 Centennial Pageant for Valley Falls and...
Gary R. Baldwin
Apr 23, 2006
GARY R. BALDWIN Gary R. Baldwin, 70, of Topeka, formerly of Holton, died Sunday, April 23, 2006 at his home. He was born March 16, 1936 in Holton, the son of Glenn A. and Clara R. Post Baldwin. He graduated from Holton High School in 1954. Gary worked as a painter for U.S.D. 501 for 30 years, retiring in 1998....
Isabelle Thomas
Apr 22, 2006
Isabelle "Mak-Ke-yo" Thomas, 83, of Mayetta died Saturday, April 22, 2006 at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka. Isabelle was born July 13, 1922 in Mayetta, the daughter of Charles and Alice Lasley Nioce. She was a life long resident of Mayetta and had attended Holton High School. She was a seamstress for Slimaker Dress Factory and had also worked in...
John Howard Murphy
Apr 22, 2006
MURPHY SOLDIER- John Howard Murphy, 85, died Saturday, April 22, 2006 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha, where he had resided for the past 5 years. John was born December 26, 1920 on the Ioway Indian Reservation in Brown County, the son of Thomas and Dora McKown Murphy. He had been a Soldier area resident since 1945. He was...
Pearl Venneberg
Apr 21, 2006
VENNEBERG HOLTON – Margaret Pearl Venneberg, 94, of Holton formerly of Havensville died Friday, April 21, 2006 at Jackson County Nursing Home. She was born September 25, 1911 in Taloga, OK. She was the daughter of John and Clara Maud Day Nicholas. She was a graduate of Havensville High School. Pearl was a homemaker and farmwife. She was a member...
Raymond Lee Hollis
Apr 21, 2006
HOLLIS GOFF- Raymond Lee Hollis, 82, of Powhattan, formerly of Goff, died Friday, April 21, 2006 at the Hiawatha Hospital. Raymond was born March 24, 1924 in Whiting, KS, the son of Fred and Mary Snyder Hollis. He grew up in the Muscotah community and had lived in Goff for over 40 years before moving to Powhattan in January of...
Ethel M. Paddock
Apr 14, 2006
PADDOCK Ethel M. Paddock, 92, of Holton, died Friday, April 14, 2006 at Gran Villas Assisted Living in Holton. She was born December 4, 1913 in Blue Mound, KS, the daughter of Carl Roy and Rettie Mitchell McGee. She lived in Kansas all her life except for a few years in California. She was a homemaker and mother. Ethel was...
Eugene Brockelman
Apr 11, 2006
BROCKELMAN HOLTON- Carl Eugene Brockelman, 74, of Holton passed away Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at Jackson County Nursing Home in Holton. He was born October 3, 1931 in Holton, KS, the son of Fred and Mary Hochmuth Brockelman. He attended Banner Elementary School and graduated from Holton High School in 1949. He graduated from Kansas State University in 1956 with...
Virginia J. Hune
Apr 8, 2006
Virginia J. (Barnes) Hune, 82, of Holton died Saturday, April 8, 2006, at the Holton Hospital. She was born on March 5, 1924 outside of Holton. She was the daughter of Jim and Anna Jenkins Barnes. She attended a country grade school before moving into town, where she finished grade school and graduated from Holton High School in 1942. In...
Winifred Laclair-Killebrew
Apr 4, 2006
LaClair-Killebrew MAYETTA- Winifred "Punkins" LaClair-Killebrew, 63, of Lynwood, CA, formerly of Mayetta, died Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at a hospital in Paramount, CA. She was born November 5, 1942 in Holton, Kansas, the daughter of William LaClair, Sr. and Mary E. Lasley LaClair. She had attended Haskell Institute in Lawrence and had worked as an aide in a nursing facility...
Douglas Cleland Wahwasuck
Mar 28, 2006
WAHWASUCK MAYETTA- Douglas Cleland Wahwasuck, 65, of Mayetta died Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at his home. He was born January 10, 1941 in Rose, Oklahoma, the son of Luther C. and Cecelia Johnson Wahwasuck. He had moved to Mayetta, Kansas from Seattle, Washington in 1993. He had worked as a carpet installer and also as a truck driver. He was...
Hilda Sophia Richter
Mar 25, 2006
RICHTER CIRCLEVILLE- Hilda Sophia Richter, 99, of Circleville, died Saturday, March 25, 2006 at Holton Manor. She was born May 31, 1906 in Leonardville, KS, the daughter of Charles F. and Katie Hageman Strauss. She had lived in Irving, KS before moving to Circleville in 1952. She was a farmwife until 1963. She then worked at the North Side Café...
