Obituaries
William ‘Bill’ Harrell Elmore 1941-2010
William “Bill” Harrell Elmore, 68, Fredonia, died Friday, July 23, 2010 at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. He was born on August 11, 1941 in Gordo, Ala., the son of Thermon Okley and Mary Olivia McDaniel Elmore. On August 27, 1962 Bill was united in marriage to Janice Jean Jordan in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He served four years in the United States Air Force earning the rank of Staff Sergeant. Bill was a member of the Buxton Christian Church....
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Mathew T. “Ross” Burchett 1978-2010
Mathew T. “Ross” Burchett, 31, died early Sunday July 18, 2010, due to longstanding complications from diabetes. He was born on Oct, 22, 1978, in Chanute, to Glenda Shultz. He raised by his mother and stepfather, Raymond T. Swafford, spending most of his life between Chanute, Coffeyville and Parsons. Survivors include his mother, Glenda Shultz and companion, John Symons, Parsons; his father, Jeffrey Burchett Dewitt, Neb.; his fianc√©, Angela ...
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Leola Wilda Dame 1920-2010
Leola Wilda Dame, 90, Atchison, died Friday, July 23, 2010 in Atchison. Graveside service will be 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 27 in the Buffalo Cemetery, Buffalo. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday at the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home. Memorials are suggested to the Arthritis Foundation, Atchison United Methodist Church, American Heart Association or Donor’s Choice. Condolences to the family may be left online at www.beckerdyer....
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Richard V. Cloke 1919-2010
Richard V. Cloke 91, Pittsburg, formerly of Chanute, died Tuesday July 20, 2010 at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg. Richard was born Jan. 16, 1919 in Parsons, the son of Roy G. and Hazel P. Babcock Cloke. He was a member of the 1936 Chanute State Championship basketball team, graduating that same year. He attended two years at Chanute Junior College before entering the US Army Air Corps in 1938. He served in WWII in Africa and Italy flying B...
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Tamara ‘Tammi’ Jeanne Hawk 1952-2010
Tamara (Tammi) Jeanne Hawk died at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan on Sunday, July 18, 2010. ¬†She was born August 5, 1952, at Chanute, Kansas, the daughter of John Thomas Naughton and Opal Irene Locke.¬† She grew up on the family farm in Neosho County, and graduated from Chanute High School in 1970. In 1975 she received a Bachelor’s in Social Work from Kansas State University, and in 1981 a Master’s in Social Work from the Unive...
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Leonard A. Chambers 1934-2010
Leonard A. Chambers, 75, died Monday, July 12, 2010, in Tomball, Texas. He was born July 22, 1934 in Yates Center, and graduated from the University of Texas in 1956 where he served as the assistant director of the Longhorn Band and president of the A Cappella Choir. Later he received his master’s in Music at Vandercook College of Music in Chicago. He retired in 1993 after a wide range of service, including band director, choir director, mus...
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Donald ‘Don’ E. Briley 1942 – 2010
Donald Eugene “Don” Briley, 68, Chanute, died Friday, July 16, 2010 at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. Don was born in Thayer on April 2, 1942, the son of George and Marjorie Barker Briley. He graduated from Chanute High School. He served his country in the United States Navy. He was united in marriage to Patricia Boardman on Feb. 26, 1965 in Chanute. She survives, of the home. Don was a loader operator for Ash Grove C...
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Loren Ray Parks 1932-2010
Loren Ray Parks, 78, rural Fredonia, died Saturday, July 17, 2010 at Fredonia Regional Hospital. He was born April 7, 1932 in Ponca City, Okla., the son of Lawrence and Leona Komma Parks. Parks served 24 years in the United States Air Force, retiring in 1972 as a chief master sergeant. Following his retirement from the Air Force, he most recent was employed for 16 years at Fredonia Regional Hospital as a lab tech and also managed the departm...
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Dave Roseberry 1923-2010
Dave Roseberry, 87, died Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at his home in Chanute. David Clayne Roseberry was born May 20, 1923 at Holly, Colo., the son of Lee and Maudie Smith Roseberry. In 1944, he was united in marriage to Mary Agnes Reed. They were later divorced. On Dec. 14, 1967, he married Sharon Berry in Miami, Okla. She survives, of the home. Survivors include three daughters, Becky Neville, The Woodlands, Texas, Beth Ann Fulghum, Haysville, an...
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Judith ‘Judy’ E. Petty 1941 – 2010
Judith “Judy” Elaine Petty, 68, Chanute, died Wednesday, July 14, 2010 at the Chanute Health Care Center. Judy was born in Waverly on Oct. 13, 1941, the daughter of William Houston and Edna Bonner Houston. She graduated from LeRoy High School. She was united in marriage to Lester Petty on Sept. 5, 1964 in Chanute. He survives, of the home. She was a homemaker. Judy was a member of the Church of the Nazarene where she taught Sunday School for ...
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Lloyd Waddell Carver 1924-2010
Lloyd Waddell Carver, 85, Toledo, Ore., died July 12, 2010. He was born to Bertie Jiles Carver and Alta Gentry Carver in Altoona on Dec. 13, 1924. When living in Oregon, he enlisted in the Navy for World War II. He and Elsie Southwell were married Dec. 5, 1947. He started Lloyd’s Auto Service in August 1948 and was¬†a service station business owner for more than 50 years in Toledo. He was a member of Newport Nazarene Church. Lloyd is survive...
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Trevaughn Markess Dawnte Granderson 2010
Trevaughn Markess Dawnte Granderson, infant son of Tierra D. Williams, Chanute, entered this life at 1:59 p.m. and departed this life at 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 10, 2010, at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo, Survivors include his mother, Tierra D. Williams, Chanute; two brothers, Adon’dre Williams-Allen, Kansas City, Kan., and Taurus Granderson, Jr., of Iola; two sisters, Zareona Williams and La princia Granderson, both of Iola; g...
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Lloyd E. Horton 1924 - 2010
Lloyd E. Horton, 86, St. Paul, died Sunday, July 11, 2010, at Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul. He was born Jan. 5, 1924, in St. Paul, to Julius A. and Della F. Spoonemore Horton. He was a 1942 graduate of St. Paul High School. On May 26, 1943, he entered the United States Navy where he served his country during World War II. Following his honorable discharge on April 18, 1946, he returned to St. Paul before moving to Casper, W...
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Iva B. Wiltse 1921 – 2010
Iva B. Wiltse, 88, passed away at 6:15 a.m., Monday, July 12, 2010 at Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kansas. She had lived in Chanute for 69 years before moving to Sunset Manor Nursing facility in Frontenac in December 2009. She and her twin brother, Ivan, were born August 12, 1921, to Ira and Bessie (McPeak) Wheeler at Mercy Hospital in Parsons. Their mother died when the twins were age seven. They lived at an orphanage in Montgomery Cou...
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Larry Charles Wikel 1947 – 2010
Larry Charles Wikel, 62, Chanute, died Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the Colmery O’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka. Larry was born in Great Bend on Dec. 20, 1947, the son of Lawrence and Tressie Cravens Wikel Gossett. Larry was a veteran of the United States Army, having served three tours in Vietnam and later serving in Germany. He was awarded the Bronze Star. After the service he worked as an auto body mechanic and welder. He was united in ma...
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Dr. Arthur Carlson, Jr. 1922 - 2010
Arthur Carlson, Jr., 88, Overland Park, died Monday, July 12, 2010. A visitation will be held Thursday, July 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Amos Family Chapel of Shawnee. A funeral service will be held Friday at 10 a.m., also at the chapel. Burial will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Mount Hope Cemetery in Humboldt. Art was born June 5, 1922 on a farm near Buffalo, to Arthur and Olga Anderson Carlson. He had four siblings: Gladys, Wilma, Opal, and Mel...
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Dorothy Evelyn Hunt 1927 – 2010
Dorothy Evelyn Hunt, 82, Chanute, died Monday, July 12, 2010 at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. Dorothy was born on Oct. 16, 1927 in Wichita, the daughter of Arthur H. and Evelyn Lowen Hawton. She graduated from Wichita North High School in the Class of 1946. She was united in marriage to Jack W. Hunt on August 31, 1947 in Wichita. They moved to Chanute in 1949. He preceded her in death in 1990. Dorothy was church secretary for the Firs...
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Robert Emmett Kern 1926-2010
Robert Kern, 84, former Chanute resident, died in Monday, July 5, 2010, in Warsaw, Mo., with his wife holding his hand. He was born July 2, 1926 in Thayer to James and Bessie Kirk Kern. He graduated from Chanute High School in 1944. He then enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He married Betty Jones on April 22, 1946. He then started Kern Construction Company in Chanute until 1962. The FAA in Kansas City was his next job which turned into Tiger Pr...
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Harold Eugene Sharp 1916 – 2010
Harold Eugene Sharp, 93, Wichita, formerly of Chanute, died Monday, July 12, 2010 at the Westview Nursing Home in Derby. Harold was born in Chanute on July 25, 1916, the son of Cecil and Pearl Hedden Sharp. He was united in marriage to Vernetta Rankin on June 15, 1938. She preceded him in death in 1942. He married Ruby Nichols on Nov. 4, 1944. She preceded him in death on March 1, 2000. Harold worked as a welder and production supervisor for...
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Marie H. Kyle 1912-2010
Marie H. Kyle, 97, a longtime Erie resident, died Friday, July 9, 2010 at the Guest Homes Estates in Erie. She was born on Dec. 8, 1912 on the family farm south of Galesburg to Thomas and Mary Bolinger Heady. She moved to Erie with her family where she grew up and attended schools. She graduated from Erie High School in 1930. She later attended and received a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Pittsburg State Teachers College now Pittsburg ...
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