Obituaries
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...
Minnie Larkin-Mahar
Apr 17, 2006
Minnie Larkin-Mahar 1920 - 2006 Minnie Larkin-Mahar, age 86, passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2006 at her residence in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born on February 3, 1920 in Savage, Kentucky to Louis and Nannie Dyer Tuggle. Minnie as a child moved with her family to Dearing, Kansas. Most of her life was spent in Dearing and Coffeyville....
Kenneth David
Apr 15, 2006
Judge Kenneth D. David 1929 - 2006 Kenneth Donald David, 76, of Parsons, Kansas died April 15, 2006, Saturday, at 12:21 a.m. at ElmHaven West, where he had been a resident since March 21, 2006. Kenneth was born August 20, 1929 in Arkansas City, Kansas to Floyd and Edna Wommack David. He grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas where he...
Joan Cole
Apr 15, 2006
Joan Robinson Cole 1927 - 2006 Joan Robinson Cole went home to be with her Lord April 12, 2006 in Topeka, Kansas. She was born June 15, 1927 around Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Her parents were Harry B. and Hazel Mae Hodges Robinson. She spent most of her childhood in Bartlesville but moved with her parents to Parsons In1944. She graduated...
Betty White
Apr 14, 2006
Betty Jean Atkins White 1937 - 2006 Betty Jean Atkins White, age 68, passed away on Thursday, April 13, 2006 at her residence in Dearing, Kansas. She was born September 5, 1937 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Charles S. Atkins and Iva L. McVey Atkins. She was a homemaker. She was also a Registered Dietician working in nursing homes in...



