Walter C. Vitt
May 4, 2009
Walter C. Vitt, 79, a lifelong resident of St. Paul, died at 4:25 a.m., Monday, May 4, 2009, at Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul. He had been in failing health. He was born August 16, 1929, in St. Paul, Kansas, to George H. and Helen C. "Nellie" (Judge) Vitt. He grew up and attended schools in St. Paul...
Sharon L. Peterson
May 3, 2009
Sharon L. Peterson, 69, of Altamont, died at 4:10 a.m., Sunday, May 3, 2009, at Labette Health following a courageous 12 year battle with cancer. She was born March 13, 1940, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kansas, to Roy L. and Neva (Ramsey) Vanlandingham. As a child, she moved with her family to Parsons where she attended schools and...
Marjorie D. "Marge" Johnston
May 1, 2009
Marjorie D. "Marge" Johnston, 84, of Parsons, died at midnight, Friday, May 1, 2009, at her home. She had been in failing health. She was born February 14, 1925, in Joplin, Missouri, to William and Pearl (Gray) Swiney. She grew up and attended schools in Joplin where she graduated from Joplin High School and Joplin Business College. She worked as...
Cecilia M. Baugher
Apr 25, 2009
Cecilia M. Baugher, 58, of rural Parsons, died at 7:58 p.m., Saturday, April 25, 2009, at her home, following a courageous three year battle with cancer. She was born March 16, 1951, in Kansas City, Missouri, to James and Mary Margaret (Switlik) Dreiling. As a young girl, she moved with her family to Parsons where she attended St. Mary's Catholic...
Chris M. Cornell
Apr 20, 2009
Chris Michael Cornell, 18, of Parsons, died at noon, Monday, April 20, 2009, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was born July 4, 1990, in Parsons, Kansas, to Michael L. and Belinda T. (Sullivan) Cornell. He grew up in Parsons where he attended Washington and Guthridge Elementary Schools, Parsons Middle School, was currently a senior at Parsons High...
Chad D. Stangle
Apr 18, 2009
Chad D. Stangle, 32, of Thayer, died at 10:32 a.m., Saturday, April 18, 2009, in the Emergency Room at Labette Health. He had been in his usual health and death was not expected. He was born April 29, 1976, in Parsons, Kansas, to Gary Lee and Sharon Mae (Moore) Stangle. He attended schools in Altamont and was a 1994 graduate...
Betty Ann Wilson
Apr 13, 2009
Betty Ann Wilson, 78, of Chetopa, died at 8:45 a.m., Monday, April 13, 2009, at her home. She had been in failing health. She was born November 26, 1930, in Butler, Missouri, to Alton and Nadine (Hammers) Chambers. As a young girl, she attended Butler schools before moving to Chetopa during her 6th grade year, graduating from Chetopa High School...
Dovie Christine Turner
Apr 13, 2009
Dovie Christine (Cargile) Turner, 85, of Wichita, died at 1:00 p.m., Monday, April 13, 2009, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Della Jo and Albert Schaper, in Parsons. Born October 6, 1923, in Hockerville, Oklahoma, to Otis B. and Georgia Elizabeth (Kee) Cargile, she was the second of eight children. She grew up and attended schools in southwest...
Robert C. Kellogg
Apr 12, 2009
Robert C. Kellogg, 60, of Parsons, died at 7:11 p.m., Sunday, April 12, 2009, at the Landmark Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. He had been in failing health. He was born January 10, 1949, in Lewiston, Idaho, to Harold David and Opal Maxine (Philebaum) Kellogg. As a young boy, he moved to Kansas with his family where he grew up and...
Eleuterio "Lou" Carrillo
Apr 10, 2009
Eleuterio "Lou" Carrillo, 83, of Parsons, died at 5:07 p.m., Friday, April 10, 2009, at his home. He had been in failing health. His wish was to die at home and was receiving hospice services from Southern Care. He was born February 20, 1926, in Fort Scott, Kansas, to Vicente and Refugio (Fuentez) Carrillo. At the age of 3, his...
Richard L. "Dick" Barnett
Apr 10, 2009
Richard L. "Dick" Barnett, 80, of Parsons, formerly of Altamont, died at 4:41 a.m., Friday, April 10, 2009, at Labette Health. He had been in failing health. He was born November 5, 1928, in Altamont, Kansas, to William Green and Mary Madeline (Johnson) Barnett. As a young boy, he grew up and attended schools in Altamont and was a graduate...
Vera Violet Yardley Tolles
Apr 9, 2009
Vera Violet Yardley Tolles, 91, of Dennis, Kansas, died at 6:45 p.m., Thursday, April 9, 2009, at the Good Samaritan Society in Parsons where she had resided the past year. She was born June 17, 1917, in Kasak Pai, in the Province of Tashkent, in Western Siberia, to Thomas Theodore Yardley, an Englishman, who helped to manage a copper mine...
Marie Ernestine "Ernie" Kinsch
Apr 7, 2009
Marie Ernestine "Ernie" Kinsch, 85, of Parsons, died at 2:35 a.m., Tuesday, April 7, 2009, at Elmhaven East Nursing Home in Parsons. She was born October 14, 1923, in Claremore, Oklahoma, to Ernest Andrew and Grace Marie (Cheatham) Durbin. She grew up and attended schools in Claremore and Osage, Oklahoma. Through the years, she worked at the Parsons State Hospital...
James D. "Perch" Ackley
Apr 4, 2009
James D. "Perch" Ackley, 57, of Parsons, died at 2:33 p.m., Saturday, April 4, 2009, at Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Missouri, following a brief illness. He was born July 16, 1951, in Sioux City, Iowa, to Clarence D. and Frances R. (Thronebury) Ackley. As a child, he moved with his family to Parsons where he grew up and attended...
Lillie P. "Lil" Smith
Apr 3, 2009
Lillie P. "Lil" Smith, 94, of Chetopa, Kansas, died at 7:25 p.m., Friday, April 3, 2009, at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri. She was born August 27, 1914, in Beloit, Kansas, to William and Nancy (Thompson) Karrle. In 1915, the family moved to a farm southeast of Chetopa. Lillie attended grade school at Piety Hill, south of...
Gertrude Peterson
Apr 1, 2009
Gertrude Peterson, 99, of San Juan, Texas, formerly of Rosemead, California, died at 5:05 a.m., April 1, 2009, at the San Juan Nursing Home in San Juan, Texas. She had lived in Rosemead, California, most of her life before moving to San Juan, Texas, in May 2007, to be near her niece, Joyce Patrick and her husband, John, of Alamo,...
William Hall
Mar 18, 2009
William Hall, 85, of Chetopa, died at 4:23 a.m., Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at Labette Health in Parsons. He was born December 20, 1923, in Durant, Oklahoma, to William and Ollie Mae (Whitting) Hall. He attended Clearfield School in Oklahoma, and later served 12 years in the U.S. Army Infantry during World War II and the Korean Conflict. From 1953-1973,...
Mary D. Ashcraft
Mar 17, 2009
Mary D. Ashcraft, 79, of Parsons, died at 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at Labette Health. She was born September 29, 1929, in Florida, to Guy Buford and Pearl Marian Snyder. As a young girl she moved with her family to Kansas City where she grew up and attended school. In the 1940's, she moved to Parsons where she...
Mary Alice Shears
Mar 16, 2009
Mary Alice Shears, 79, of Parsons, died at 4:13 a.m., Monday, March 16, 2009, at her home. She had been in failing health. She was born April 18, 1929, in St. Paul, Kansas, to Harry and Katy (Wilson) Moses. As a young girl, she grew up and attended school in St. Paul. She and Lester L. Shears were married July...
Ralph Dean Olinger
Mar 14, 2009
Dean Olinger, 70, of Parsons, died at 12:00 noon, Saturday, March 14, 2009, at Freeman Heart Institute in Joplin, Missouri. He was born March 31, 1938, in Chanute, Kansas, to Harry Lorraine and Dorothy Anna (Carter) Olinger. As a young boy, he grew up in Thayer where he attended school and was a 1956 graduate of Thayer High School. He...
