Obituaries

William Morgan
May 27, 2006
William Arthur Morgan April 20, 1936 May 26, 2006 William Arthur Morgan, age 70, Joplin, Missouri entered into rest on Friday evening, May 26, 2006 at the St. John Medical Center, Joplin, Missouri. Mr. Morgan was born April 20, 1936 in Craig County, Oklahoma to William Clarence and Willie Elizabeth Maggard Morgan. He attended school in Craig County as...

Wayne Long
May 24, 2006
Wayne C. Long 1924 - 2006 Wayne C. Long, age 81, rural Coffeyville, Kansas resident entered into rest on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. Wayne was born December 13, 1924 in Rural Coffeyville, Kansas to Benjamin J. and Donna R. Purdy Long. He was a 1942 graduate of Field Kindley Memorial High...

Hazel Holderbaum
May 21, 2006
Obituary Mrs. Hazel Leona Holderbaum entered into eternal rest on May 20, 2006 in Independence. She was 85. Hazel was born May 1, 1921 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Sam and Leota Lyons Robinett She attended Coffeyville schools. On June 7, 1940 she was united in marriage to Prince Holderbaum. They were married in South Coffeyville. Most of her married...

Doris Martin
May 19, 2006
Obituary Doris J. Martin Coffeyville resident Doris J. Martin entered into rest Thursday evening, May 18, 2006 in Coffeyville. She was 70. Doris J. martin was born June 24, 1935 in Parsons, Kansas to William and Florence Stocker Barragar. She grew up and attended school in Independence. In 1950 she was united in marriage to Frank Kebert. They made...

John Rapp
May 15, 2006
Caney Dateline Obituary John Allen Rapp Caney resident John Allen Rapp died May 14, 2006 in Coffeyville. He was 67. John was born January 4, 1939 in Garner, Iowa to John H. and Karin Lynd Rapp. After high school he joined the United States Air Force where he worked with early warning radar systems and retired after a career...

Hazel Thomas
May 13, 2006
Hazel Thomas 1911 - 2006 Hazel Thomas, age 94, Edna, Kansas resident passed away at the ElmHaven East Nursing Home, Parsons, Kansas on Friday, the 12th day of May, 2006. She was born October 27, 1911 to Gus and Lucy Muller Banzet in Rural Edna, Kansas. Education: She was a Labette County Community High School graduate of 1928. Marriage...

Coyle Turney
May 12, 2006
Coyle B. Turney 1918 - 2006 Coyle B. Turney, age 87, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma resident entered into rest on Thursday evening, May 11, 2006 at his residence. He was born July 27, 1918 in Nowata, County to Norman D. and Gertrude Thompson Turney. He attended York Elementary School and Lenapah High School. He married Frances Carson on December 1,...

Irma Carr
May 9, 2006
Irma L. Carr 1914 - 2006 Irma L. Carr, age passed away on May 8, 2006 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born January 3, 1914 Crosstown, Missouri to Benjamin Conrad Hemman and Anna Marie Kassel Hemman. She moved to Coffeyville as a child in 1919. She attended Lutheran Parochial School and Coffeyville Business...

Afton Stark
May 7, 2006
Obituary Afton Stark Former Coffeyville resident Afton Louise Stark died Wednesday May 3, 2006 in Flatwoods, Kentucky. She was 87. She was born December 29, 1918 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Hyrum and Jean Reich Kilburn. She attended schools and graduated from high school in Salt Lake City. She married Carl Stark in 1946.They were married in Salt...

Douglas Ratliff
May 5, 2006
Douglas Ratliff Douglas Ratliff, age 74, Coffeyville, Kansas resident died on May 3, 2006 at his home in Coffeyville. He was born September 27, 1931 to Joseph and Allie Maude Collins Ratliff in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Ratliff graduated from Jim Hill High School, Jackson, Mississippi. On August 18, 1961 he married Ida Bell Scott in Sacramento, California. They made...

Helen Easton
May 4, 2006
HELEN H. EASTON Helen H. Easton, 93, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Thursday, May 04, 2006 at the Cambridge Unit, Windsor Place, Coffeyville, Kansas. Helen was born on December 09, 1912 in Leavenworth County, Easton Township, Kansas to James and Clara E. Redinbo Henson. Her family moved to the Coffeyville area in 1914 and she attended local schools. Helen...

Merle Furnas
May 3, 2006
Merle W. Furnas 1929 2006 Merle W. Furnas, 76, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, died Monday, May 1, 2006, at St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa. Mr. Furnas was born June 13, 1929 in Coffeyville to Hervey Edgar Ed and Hazel Lucille Furnas. He grew up in Coffeyville where he attended Whittier Elementary School, Roosevelt Junior High and graduated from Field...

Doris Melton
Apr 28, 2006
Doris Melton 1910 - 2006 Doris Melton, age 95, Coffeyville, Kansas resident entered into rest on April 27, 2006 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born June 8, 1910 to William and Freda Zimmerman Bonham in Coffeyville, Kansas. Mrs. Melton worked for various companies in the Coffeyville community including, Armstrong Creamery, Sears, CRMC as a...

Colette Roland-Hart
Apr 28, 2006
Colette Roland-Hart 1963 - 2006 Colette Roland-Hart, age 42, entered into rest on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at the St. Johns Medical Center, Joplin, Missouri. She was born May 27, 1963 to Vance Edwin Roland and Ethellee Wheeler Pearson in Oakland, California. She was a 1982 graduate of St. Elizabeths H.S., Oakland, Ca. She worked for USD 445 in...

Tracy Burnett
Apr 28, 2006
TRACY RACHELE BURNETT 1962 - 2006 Tracy Rachele Burnett, 43, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Friday, April 28, 2006 at the Elm Haven West Nursing Home, Parsons, Kansas. Tracy was born December 20, 1962 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Dale and Pat Atwell Hamlin. She was raised and educated in Coffeyville. She married Mark Burnett in 1981 and they were...

Melrena Bishop
Apr 27, 2006
Melrena J. Finney-Bishop 1917-2006 Melrena J. Finney-Bishop, 88, Coffeyville, Kansas resident, entered into rest on April 26, 2006 at the Medical Lodge of Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born to Frank and Hattie Cole Finney, June 6, 1917, at Niotaze, Kansas. She attended grade school at Havana and Wayside, Ks. Graduated from Caney High and attended Coffeyville Community College. She...

Flossie Billups
Apr 25, 2006
Flossie W. Billups 1930 2006 Flossie W. Billups, age 76, entered into rest on Monday, April 24, 2006 at the Caney Nursing Center, Caney, Kansas. She was born on January 28, 1930 to Edward and Flossie Gladys Taylor Kerns in Coffeyville, Kansas. Most of her life she lived in the South Coffeyville, Oklahoma community. Flossie enjoyed fishing. She was...

Lula Ball
Apr 23, 2006
Obituary Lula Bell Ball Lula Ball, age 79, of Coffeyville died April 20, 2006 in Coffeyville. She was born July 13, 1926 in Parker, Kansas to William Franklin and Margaret Isabell Powers Ellison. She attended schools in Coffeyville. On May 18, 1947 she married Clyde Ball in Columbus, Kansas. Lula worked at the Ammunition Plant and was a homemaker....

James Criswell
Apr 19, 2006
James Ralph Criswell, age 77 of Coffeyville, died April 19, 2006 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Jim was born December 7, 1928 in Fredonia, Kansas to Ralph E. and Lillian Cauble Criswell. He grew up and graduated from high school in Fredonia, Kansas. On August 24, 1952, he married Patricia Lee Bauman in Salina, Kansas. He joined the United...

Ellis Adair
Apr 18, 2006
Ellis Cotton G. Adair 1930 2006 Ellis Cotton G. Adair, age 75, passed away on April 17, 2006 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born October 25, 1930 in Derby, Montana to Eldridge and Fern Ketchum Adair. He was very proud of his Delaware Indian Heritage. As a child he moved to the Alluwe, Oklahoma...