Obituaries
Phyllis Dickens
Phyllis Dickens, 81, a 14-year resident of Fredonia, formerly of Anaheim, California, died Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010, at Fredonia Regional Hospital. She was born on Jan. 20, 1929, in Providence, R.I. to Jose and Francelina (dej Pavao) Silva. On Nov. 5, 1954, she married Ronald T. Dickens in Folkston, Ga. He survives at their home in Fredonia. Other survivors include one daughter, Cheryle Dougherty, San Jose, Calif.; three grandchildren; and t...
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Barbara Heady
Barbara Sue (Bell) Heady, 72, rural Erie, died at 1:45 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010, at the Prairie Mission Retirement Village in St. Paul. She had been in failing health for several years, but death was unexpected. She was born on June 1, 1938, at Columbus to Grant F. and Esther L. (Stroup) Bell. She grew up in Baxter Springs and graduated from Baxter Springs High School. She graduated from the Mt. Carmel School of Nursing at Pittsburg and beca...
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Blanche Shue
Blanche E. Shue, 88, of Warsaw, Mo., and a former Erie resident, died Saturday evening at the Golden Valley Memorial Hospital in Clinton, M.. She was born on Nov. 22, 1922, at Springfield, Ohio, to Ross and Maude (Cornell) Massie. She grew up and attended schools at Springfield. She and Lawrence V. Shue were married on Feb. 14, 1942, at Sugar Creek, Mo. He preceded her in death on Aug. 16, 1997. She was a homemaker, and her husband was a self...
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Helen Arthur
Helen Louise Arthur, 84, formerly of rural Erie, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at the Pinecrest Nursing Home in Humboldt. Helen was born in rural Erie on May 10, 1926, the daughter of John C. and Winnie E. (Romine) LaRue. She attended Grady School and Royster Junior High and graduated from Chanute High School in 1944. She married Milton Joe Arthur on July 23, 1944, in Chanute. He preceded her in death on Oct. 28, 2003. The couple were marrie...
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Alice Wright
Alice F. Wright, 70, of rural Erie, died at 10:32 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at the Freeman West Hospital in Joplin. She was born on May 8, 1940, at Maitland, Mo. to Lonnie and Belle (Wardlow) Lance. She grew at Maitland and attended schools there. She moved to Savannah, Mo., where she worked at the hospital in St. Joseph as a certified nurses aide. In 1980, she moved to the Erie area, where she worked as a custodian at the Erie courthouse....
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Arnold Summervill
Arnold Eugene Summervill, 80, of Chanute, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at the Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. He was born in Marion, on May 13, 1930, the son of James and Florence (Ward) Summervill. He attended Humboldt Schools. He served his country as a 2nd Class Yeoman in the United States Navy during the Korean War. Arnold was united in marriage to Cleo Kittle on Dec. 31, 1952, in Long Beach, California. She survives. He was...
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Alice Wright
Alice F. Wright, 70, rural Erie, died at 10:32 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at the Freeman West Hospital in Joplin, Mo. Further obituary information and service arrangements will be announced by the Pierce-Carson-Wall Funeral Home of Erie.
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Arnold Summervill
Arnold Summervill, 80, Chanute, died Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at the Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Arrangements are pending with Penwell-Gabel Johnson Chapel.
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Marjorie Cockrum
Marjorie LaVerne Cockrum, 77, rural Altoona, died Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. She was born on Nov. 21, 1933, in Stroud, Okla., to J.C. and Bessie Logue. On June 4, 1956, she married James E. Cockrum at Weatherford, Okla., she married James E. Cockrum. In addition to her husband, she is survived by three children: Marsha Faye Heard, Wichita, Leon Edwin Cockrum, Hesston, and Lynda Jane Jensen, Valley Center...
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Mary Volmer
Mary Rose Volmer, 81, of St. Paul, died at 1:50 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2010, at Sunset Manor Nursing Home in Frontenac. She was born on July 17, 1929, in Chanute to Don and Thekla (Janssen) Beard. She and Michael J. Diskin were married July 19, 1948, at St. Francis Catholic Church in St. Paul. He preceded her in death Feb. 9, 1974. On Sept. 5, 1975, she and Cecil Volmer were married at St. Francis Catholic Church. He survives. In addition ...
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Earl Edwin Barnhart
Earl Edwin Barnhart, 89, of Chanute, died Monday, Nov. 22, 2010, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He was born in Thayer on May 10, 1921, to Paul and Ruth (Bower) Barnhart. He attended Thayer schools. He married Blanche Dell on Jan. 22, 1944, in Iola. They were married for 66 years at the time of his death. She survives of the home. He was a retired farmer. He was an avid fisherman and coon hunter. He was a sports en...
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Mehrle "Mac" McDermed
Mehrle “Mac” McDermed, 92, Pittsburg, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010, at his home. He was born on July 6, 1918, in Walnut to Floyd and Mae Lewis McDermed. He attended Walnut schools. Mehrle worked for P&M Coal Company for 40 years. He owned and operated Mac’s Aircraft Repair for 30 years at Pittsburg Municipal Airport. On July 1, 1939, he was united in marriage to Marie Myers in Girard. She survives at the family home. He served in the United Sta...
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Harry Patterson
Harry J. Patterson, 85, Chanute, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, at the Chanute Health Care Center in Chanute. Harry was born in Chanute on Dec. 14, 1924, the son of Orron Earl and Carrie Maria (Waddell) Patterson. He graduated from Chanute High School in 1942. He served his country in the United States Navy from June 1943 to March 1946. Harry married Mary E. Behner on Jan. 1, 1946, in Chanute. She survives. Harry was retired from the Kansas Dep...
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Donald Odell
Donald Lee Odell, 72, Fredonia, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born on Sept. 22, 1938, to Harlan A. and Ellen May (Thompson) Odell. He married Sandra Gale Borror on Oct. 3, 1964, in Altoona. She survives at their home. Survivors include three children, Phillip Wayne Odell and Sean Andrew Odell, both of Fredonia, and Jennifer Ann Driskill of Oklahoma City, Okla.; seven grandchildren; and three great-gr...
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Jack R. Dixon
Jack R. Dixon, 70, Toronto, died Friday, Nov. 19, at Fredonia Regional Hospital in Fredonia. He was born on Aug. 2, 1940, in Yates Center to Merle and Edith (Mason) Dixon. On Jan. 4, 2004, he married Vickie Nyman in Burlington. She survives. Other survivors include three daughters, Debbie Pistotnik, Wichita, Ange Hobbs, Lenexa, and Kelly Perkins, Shawnee; nine grandchildren; a sister, Virgie McCormick, Yates Center; and a brother, Gary Dixon, ...
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Ophelia Zimmerman
Ophelia O. Zimmerman, 92, of Chanute, passed away Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 at the Heritage Health Care Center in Chanute. Ophelia was born in Elsmore, Kansas, on October 25, 1918, the daughter of Olof F. and Hulda E. (Peterson) Krokstrom. She attended school in Elsmore. She was united in marriage to Jr. T. Zimmerman on June 17, 1938. He preceded her in death on March 12, 1966. Ophelia worked at the Parsons Ammunition Plant, Kustom Signals, Nu-W...
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Clarence "Bud" Marnell
Clarence W. “Bud” Marnell, 70, of Zephyrhills, Fla., and a former Erie resident, died Tuesday morning at the Gulfside Regional Hospice in Zephyrhills. He was born on Oct. 9, 1940, at Walnut to Clarence “Bill” and Irma (Herod) Marnell. He moved to Erie with his family where he grew up and attended schools. He graduated from Erie High School in 1958. He attended Parsons Junior College. He and Marlene Page were united in marriage May 29, 1959, a...
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Albert "Ernie" Harms
Albert Ernest “Ernie” Harms, 92, longtime Thayer resident, died at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute, where he entered Monday morning. He had been in failing health. His body was bequeathed to the University of Kansas Medical Center. He was born on Sept. 1, 1918, to Albert H. and Ada (Yoakum) Harms. When he was 4 years old, his family returned to Thayer, where they had previously lived. H...
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Robert Grisier
Robert E. Grisier, 91, died Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, in Burlington. He was born on Oct. 23, 1919, to Fred and Emma (Pringle) Grisier on the family farm in rural Woodson County. He attended rural school at the New York Valley School until eighth grade. He graduated from Yates Center High School in 1939. He married Alice Louise Umholtz on April 4, 1948. She survives. Other survivors include four sons, Richard Grisier, Joe Grisier and Rodney Gris...
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Mary Lou Edmondson
Mary Lou Edmondson, 79, of Chanute, was called home to her Lord on Nov. 15, 2010. Mary Lou was born on Aug. 8, 1931, to Fritz and Minnie (Miller) Schaffer in Bryan, Texas. She grew up on the F&B Station as one of the Texas A&M University Farm Families. She graduated from A&M Consolidated in 1948 and received her R.N. from Sam Houston State University in 1951. She married George Robert Edmondson on Dec. 23, 1954, in Bryan, Texas. They made th...
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