Thelston "Dean" Casey
Sep 20, 2012
Thelston "Dean" Casey, 83, of rural Oswego, died in his home in his wife's arms, Thursday, September 20, 2012. His death was unexpected. He was born December 15, 1928, on a farm in rural Chetopa to T.A. and Dora (Stapleton) Casey. As a young boy, he attended Chetopa schools and was a 1946 graduate of Oswego High School. He served...
Joseph A. Lopez
Sep 16, 2012
Joseph A. Lopez, 57, of Parsons, died Sunday afternoon, September 16, 2012, in Parsons. He was born March 27, 1955, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Juanita Ruth Lopez. As a young boy, he lived with Luciana L. Reyes and his Aunt Mary C. Reyes in Parsons where he grew up and attended school. In the past, he had worked mostly...
Boyd E. Sanders
Sep 12, 2012
Boyd E. Sanders, 96, of Parsons, died at 5:50 a.m., Wednesday, September 12, 2012, at Elmhaven East Nursing Home where he had resided since March 14, 2012. He was born May 21, 1916, in rural Oswego, Kansas, to Charles Edward and Rhoda Della (Stice) Sanders. As a young boy, he grew up in the rural Oswego area where he attended...
Earl Lloyd Stegmeir
Sep 11, 2012
Earl Lloyd Stegmeir, 85, of rural Coffeyville, died at 12:24 p.m., Tuesday, September 11, 2012, at his home. He was born November 13, 1926, near Angola, Kansas, to Fred and Olive (Stuart) Stegmeir. He grew up near Angola where he attended elementary school and was a graduate of Labette County Community High School in Altamont. During World War II, he...
Barbara K. Wolke
Sep 9, 2012
Barbara K. Wolke, 64, of Parsons, died at 12:46 p.m., Sunday, September 9, 2012, at Labette Health. She had been in her usual health and death was not expected. She was born May 26, 1948, in Wichita, Kansas, to Jesse L. and Lois F. (Eckhardt) Rose. She grew up in Wichita where she attended schools. On December 23, 1966, she...
David E. Finley
Sep 9, 2012
David E. Finley, 44, of Parsons, died at 10:23 a.m., Sunday, September 9, 2012, at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. He was born June 20, 1968, in Alhambra, California, to Holger Duane and Sharon Lee (Call) Finley. He was a graduate of Casa Roble High School in Orangevale, California, and also attended college while living...
Robert Dean Evans
Sep 8, 2012
Robert Dean Evans, 65, of rural Chetopa, died at 10:35 p.m., Saturday, September 8, 2012, in the Emergency Room at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin. He was born October 28, 1946, in Columbus, Kansas, to Robert and Barbara (Hale) Evans. He was a graduate of Columbus High School and later earned an Associate degree from Labette Community College in Parsons....
Allen N. Mariott
Sep 8, 2012
Allen N. Mariott, 90, of Chetopa, Kansas died at 3:15 p.m., Saturday, September 8, 2012 at the Chetopa Manor Nursing Home. He was born January 12, 1922 at Omaha, Arkansas to John and Stella (Hoffman) Mariott. Following his father's death, he was raised by his mother and stepfather, Alfred Garringer. He grew up and attended schools in Alba, Missouri and...
Fern J. Kirk
Sep 8, 2012
Fern J. Kirk, 60, of Chetopa, died at 2:15 p.m., Saturday, September 8, 2012, at Freeman Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. She was born December 31, 1951, in Miami, Oklahoma, to Arnold Glendon and Lela Irene (Reed) Kirk. She grew up and attended school in Mound Valley. For a time, she worked as a personal care attendant while caring for people...
Grant Easton
Sep 8, 2012
Grant V. Easton of Altamont, Kansas died early Saturday, September 8, 2012 at his home. His death was unexpected. He was born December 9, 1961 at Scottsbluff, Nebraska to James and Shirley (Winkle) Easton. He lived at Lymon, Nebraska until the age of 5 when he moved with his family to Lincoln, Nebraska where he grew up and attended schools....
Donald J. "Don" Dhooghe
Sep 5, 2012
Donald J. "Don" Dhooghe, 54, of Parsons, died at 12:32 p.m., Wednesday, September 5, 2012, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Missouri, following a brief illness. He was born March 19, 1958, in Parsons, Kansas to Aloysius A. "Bud" and Elouise P. (Keyte) Dhooghe. He grew up in Parsons where he attended St. Patrick Catholic School through eighth grade and...
Morgan T. Davis
Sep 2, 2012
Morgan T. Davis, 46, of rural Chetopa, died at 2:10 a.m., Sunday, September 2, 2012, at Oswego Community Hospital. He was born March 26, 1966, in Coffeyville, Kansas, to M. Gene and Alice (Jones) Davis. He grew up in Labette County on the family farm southwest of Oswego and was a 1984 graduate of Labette County High School in Altamont....
Ruby Abbott
Aug 30, 2012
Ruby Abbott, 88, of Erie, died at 5:12 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2012, in the Emergency Room at Labette Health. She had been in failing health. She was born February 14, 1924, in Burrton, Kansas to Abe W. and Sara (Heidbrecht) Riffel. In 1939, her family moved to Erie. As a young girl she attended Don Dodds Country School and...
Lorene Ann Kellogg
Aug 30, 2012
Lorene Ann Kellogg, 44, of Afton, Oklahoma, formerly of Parsons, Kansas, died at 2:38 p.m., Thursday, August 30, 2012, at her home. She had been in failing health. She was born July 29, 1968, in Parsons, Kansas, to Robert Clair and Audrey Louise (Curnutte) Kellogg. She attended Parsons schools. In earlier years she worked at Grandview Products in Parsons and...
Syretta T. Conger
Aug 25, 2012
Syretta T. Conger, 34, a lifelong resident of Parsons, died at 9:48 p.m., Saturday, August 25, 2012, at Via Christi Hospital on the St. Francis Campus in Wichita. She was born November 1, 1977, in Parsons, Kansas, to Vernell Eugene and Cleo Melinda (Conger) Golston. She grew up and attended schools in Parsons. She was a member of Watson Memorial...
Fern M. Monroe
Aug 21, 2012
Fern M. Monroe, 94, formerly of rural Altamont, died at 3:48 p.m., Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at the Parsons Good Samaritan Society where she had resided since October of 2010. The first of six daughters, she was born September 18, 1917, to Talmadge DeWitt "Bill" Marshall and Dorothy (DeVaney) Marshall on a farm southwest of McCune, Kansas. In 1928, the...
Gilbert S. "Jiggs" Crooks
Aug 21, 2012
Gilbert S. "Jiggs" Crooks, 91, a longtime Parsons businessman, died at 1:20 p.m., Tuesday, August 21, 2012, at Elm Haven East Nursing Home in Parsons. He was born August 1, 1921, near Lake McKinley, in Parsons, Kansas, to Leonidas M. and Deborah M. (Fesmire) Crooks. As a young boy he attended country schools near Parsons, elementary schools in Parsons, was...
Evelyn J. Stine
Aug 18, 2012
Evelyn J. Stine, 88, of Edna, died at 2:54 a.m., Thursday, August 16, 2012 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born in Coffeyville, Kansas to George A. Hill and Jennie (Martin) Hill. She grew up in the southwest Labette County area and graduated from Labette County High School. She and Forrest Stine were married on...
Keith E. Bohrer
Aug 15, 2012
Keith E. Bohrer, 95, of Arlington, Texas, died at 8:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2012, at Matlock Place Health and Rehab in Arlington, Texas. Keith was born April 11, 1917, in Erie, Kansas to George Bohrer and Katie (Otto) Bohrer. He grew up there and graduated from Erie High School in 1935. During World War II, he served in the...
Claudia C. King
Aug 14, 2012
Claudia Corrine King, 77, of rural Oswego, Kansas, died at 7:37 p.m., Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at the home of her son in rural Parsons. She had been in failing health. She was born August 25, 1934, in Idabel, Oklahoma to Claude and Dora (Williams) Williams. As a young girl, she grew up in Idabel where she attended schools. Through...
