Obituaries

Obituaries for Cherryvale, Fredonia, Chanute, and Surrounding Areas

Grace Beulah Simmons

Grace Beulah Simmons

Jan 31, 2008

Grace Beulah Simmons, 97, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Thursday, January 31, 2008 at her home. She was born December 11, 1910, the daughter of Henry and Ida Lovely. She was a homemaker. On June 11, 1928 in Eureka, Kansas, she married Raymond Simmons. He preceded her in death February 18, 1991. She was a member of the Pilgrim...

Helen Francis Hastings

Helen Francis Hastings

Jan 29, 2008

Helen Francis Hastings, 93, a sixty-two year resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital. She was born October 30, 1914 in Parsons, Kansas, the daughter of Walter W. and Opal K. (Thomson) Spendiff. She was a graduate of Parsons High School. In November of 1935, she married Glen Franklin Hastings. She and Glen operated...

Thomas Conrad Timmons

Thomas Conrad Timmons

Jan 26, 2008

Thomas Conrad Timmons, 58, a lifelong resident Fredonia, Kansas, died Saturday, January 26. 2008 at his home after a long battle with cancer. He was born August 13, 1949 in Independence, the son of Mark and Nadine (Conrad) Timmons. Tom was a 1967 graduate of Fredonia High School. On December 1, 1968, he was inducted into the United States Navy,...

Russell O, Shogren

Russell O, Shogren

Jan 13, 2008

Russell O. Shogren, a resident of Coyville, Kansas, formerly of Wichita, Kansas, died Sunday, January 13, 2008 at Fredonia Regional Hospital in Fredonia, Kansas. He was born in Salina, Kansas, the son of Delbert Franz and Inez (Roe) Shogren. He was a self-employed rancher for 32 years. On June 11, 1952 in Wichita, he married Ruth Mercer. She survives at...

Curtis E. Reno

Curtis E. Reno

Jan 12, 2008

Curtis E. "Gene" Reno, 88, a longtime resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Saturday, January 12, 2008 at the Wilson County Hospital in Neodesha, Kansas. He was born August 15, 1919 in Woodson County, Kansas, the son of Clarence Ralph and Alice Hazel (Sellers) Reno. On January 6, 1941 in Neosho, Missouri, he married Georgia Pearl Keeler. She preceded him in...

Royce D. Chaffin

Royce D. Chaffin

Jan 10, 2008

Royce D. Chaffin, 77, a resident of Sun City, Arizona, formerly of the Buffalo and Fredonia area, died Thursday, January 10, 2008 at the Hospice of the Valley Good Shepard in Sun City. He was born June 28, 1930 in Buffalo, the son of Beryl and Vada (Means) Chaffin. Mr. Chaffin served in the United States Air Force and the...

Verle Wayne Wadel

Verle Wayne Wadel

Dec 15, 2007

Verle Wayne Wadel, 49, resident of Bowers, Pennsylvania and formerly of Fredonia, Kansas, died Saturday, December 15, 2007 at St. Joseph Hospital in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was born July 1, 1958 in Fredonia, the son of Dennis and Helen (Jantz) Wadel. He was a graduate of Fredonia High School and had been employed for the past eight years at Echo...

Petrena Ellouise Forsythe

Petrena Ellouise Forsythe

Dec 8, 2007

Petrena Forsythe, 86, of Fredonia, Kansas passed away Saturday, December 8, 2007 at Golden Living Center in Neodesha, Kansas. Petrena, widow of C.W. (Bill) Forsythe, was born December 31, 1920, to Hadwen Arnold (Pete) and Madge Moore Addington in Wilson County, Kansas, west of Altoona on the family farm. She attended grade schools at Cherryvale, Independence, and Hatler, and graduated...

John C. Carter

John C. Carter

Nov 30, 2007

John C. Carter, 33, a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico, died Friday, November 30, 2007 at his home. J.C. was the grandson of the late Johnnie and Norma Carroll and the nephew of Helena Dalton of Fredonia. Private family burial took place on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at the Fredonia City Cemetery. Timmons Funeral Home was in charge of...

Vivian Nadine Parker

Vivian Nadine Parker

Nov 30, 2007

Vivian Nadine Parker, 76, a longtime resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Friday, November 30, 2007 at the Golden Living Center in Neodesha, Kansas. She was born October 8, 1931, near Thayer, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence Bartlett and Lila Lois (Hines) Babcock. She was a graduate of Altoona High School. On April 15, 1951, near Earlton, Kansas, she married John...

Georgia Pearl Reno

Georgia Pearl Reno

Nov 25, 2007

Georgia Pearl Reno, 86, a longtime resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Sunday, November 25, 2007 at Golden Living Center in Neodesha, Kansas. She was born June 9, 1921 in Coyville, the daughter of Charlie and Ethel (Sherlock) Keeler. On January 6, 1941 in Neosho, Missouri, she married Curtis E. "Gene" Reno. He survives at their home. Mrs. Reno worked several...

Harold Decou

Harold Decou

Nov 7, 2007

Harold DeCou, 87, resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Wednesday November 7. 2007 at Fredonia Regional Hospital in Fredonia, Kansas. He was born July 23.1920 in Yates Center, the son of James and Henryetta Miller DeCou. He served in the United States Army, serving during World War II. He retired from Norris Industries in California after 25 years. He married Margaret...

John B. Sanchez, Jr.

John B. Sanchez, Jr.

Nov 2, 2007

John B. Sanchez, Jr., 38, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas, formerly of Erie and Oswego, died Friday, November 2, 2007 in Fredonia. He was born February 13, 1969 in Cortez, Colorado, the son of John and Olivia (Marcus) Sanchez, Sr. He served in the United States Army. He was the owner and construction foreman for J & S Construction. He...

Mary Lucille Hendry

Mary Lucille Hendry

Oct 24, 2007

Mary Lucille Hendry, 75, a resident of rural Fredonia, Kansas, died Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. She was born July 18, 1932 in Fredonia, the only child of Frank and Cora (McGinnes) Owens. She was a graduate of Fredonia High School. On December 1, 1957 in Fredonia, she married Billy Hendry. He survives at...

Max Eugene Ecton

Max Eugene Ecton

Oct 22, 2007

Max Eugene Ecton, 81 years and six days old, a lifelong resident of Coyville, Kansas, died Monday, October 22, 2007, at Galichia Heart Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. He was born October 16, 1926, outside of Coyville, the son of Charles O. and Alice M. (Dice) Ecton. He was a 1943 graduate of Coyville High School. He served with the United...

Rev. Wayne Ware

Rev. Wayne Ware

Oct 16, 2007

Rev. Alvie Wayne Ware, 86, a longtime resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at Golden Living Center in Fredonia. He was born April 2, 1921 in Boise, Idaho, the son of Benjamin and Crystal (Busby) Ware. He was a retired ordained minister, having worked in Nazarene and Wesleyan churches in McCune, Garnett, Howard, Fredonia, Fall River, and...

Judith Evelyn (Kelley) Cohee

Judith Evelyn (Kelley) Cohee

Oct 10, 2007

Judith Evelyn Cohee, 64, a resident of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, died Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at her home in Baton Rouge. She was born October 12, 1942 in Fredonia, Kansas, the daughter of Patsy W. and Sadie (Adamson) Kelley and was a graduate of Fredonia High School. She was a homemaker. On April 11, 1962, she married David Lee Cohee....

Harold James Posch

Harold James Posch

Sep 29, 2007

Harold James Posch, 40, a lifelong resident of Fredonia, Kansas, died Saturday, September 29, 2007, at his home in Fredonia. He was born December 13, 1966 in Fredonia, the only son of Herman Ernest and Shirley (Austin) Posch. He was a 1985 graduate of Fredonia High School. He was employed for several years at M.E.C. in Neodesha. He was currently...

Wanda Fae Russell

Wanda Fae Russell

Sep 14, 2007

Wanda Fae Russell, 82, a resident of rural Fredonia, Kansas, died Friday, September 14, 2007 at the Cherryvale Care Center in Cherryvale, Kansas. She was born January 7, 1925 in Fall River, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Margaret (Workman) Arnel. She was a graduate of Fall River High School and attended Emporia State Teachers College. Following college she taught...

Thomas Carl Parks

Thomas Carl Parks

Sep 6, 2007

Thomas Carl Parks, 68, a resident of Fredonia, Kansas passed away peacefully on September 6, 2007 in Wichita, Kansas. Tom was born Dec. 8, 1938, in Syracuse, New York, to William Wade and Viola (Bohnenberger). Wade Cook was killed in a railroad accident in 1949, and Viola later married Lynn Parks, who adopted Tom. Tom moved from Syracuse to Verona...

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