Obituaries

Beatrice Rasmussen
Feb 7, 2005
Beatrice Evelyn Rasmussen Age 74, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Friday evening, February 4, 2005 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Rasmussen was born February 8, 1930 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to Ralph Lloyd and Ella Robinson Smith. Following graduation, she earned her vocational nursing degree. She worked as a licensed vocational nurse most of her life in California from...

Harold Papen, Sr.
Feb 5, 2005
Harold L. Papen, Sr. 1923 2005 Harold L. Papen, Sr., age 82, passed on February 4, 2005 in his home in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born January 16, 1923 to James Delmar Papen and Luella Baker Papen in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born and raised in Coffeyville. He attended West Coffeyville Grade School and Field Kindley Memorial High School....

Noble Benton
Feb 4, 2005
Noble O. Benton 1917- 2005 Noble Oliver Benton, age 88, of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Thursday morning, February 3, 2005 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born January 6, 1917 in French Town, Arkansas to Richard Bee Benton and Lottie Laura Taylor. Noble married Louella Fay Toothaker on September 30, 1936 in Nowata, Oklahoma. Noble...

Gena Herriman
Feb 4, 2005
Gena LeAnn Herriman March 31, 1983 February 2, 2005 Gena LeAnn Herriman, age 21, Coffeyville resident passed away on February 2, 2005 at her residence. She was born on March 31, 1983 to Floyd and Deborah Brown Herriman in Coffeyville, Kansas. She attended South Coffeyville Elementary School. Her family moved to Coffeyville and Gena attended Field Kindley Memorial High...

Dorothy Beair
Feb 2, 2005
Dorothy Marie Beair 1912 2005 Dorothy Marie Beair, age 92, passed away February 1, 2005 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born October 19, 1912 in Whittier, California to Joe and Nellie Hansen. When she was very young she moved with her family to Chanute, Kansas along with her two brothers Robert and Clarence....

Steven Lopeman
Feb 1, 2005
Steven L. Lopeman Age 52, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away late Sunday evening, January 30, 2005 at his home. Mr. Lopeman was born April 20, 1952 in Chanute, Kansas to Robert U. and Lenore Kathryn Pens Lopeman. He attended school in Chanute, where he graduated in 1970, followed by completing an Associate degree in Police Science at Neosho Community...

Robert Culbertson
Feb 1, 2005
Robert Edward Culbertson Age 69, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Friday afternoon, January 28, 2005 at his home. Mr. Culbertson was born October 30, 1935 in Pomona, Missouri to John Washington and Bertha Ann Eubank Culbertson. Coming from McPherson, Kansas, he had been a resident of Coffeyville for 40 years. A retiree of Acme Foundry in 1997, he had also...

William Morrow
Jan 29, 2005
William Donald Morrow 1912- 2005 William Donald Morrow, age 92, of Edna, Kansas, died early Friday morning, January 28, 2005 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born May 29, 1912 in the Snow Creek area, Nowata County, Oklahoma to Abraham Morrow and Bertha Figgins. Don married Vesta Lena Cranor on November 18, 1933 in...

Pansy Mounts
Jan 27, 2005
Pansy L. Mounts 1921-2005 Pansy L. Mounts, age 83, Coffeyville, Kansas resident passed away on January 25, 2005 in the Oxford Unit of Windsor Place in Coffeyville. Mrs. Mounts was born May 5, 1921, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Green B. Robbins and Tilda Josephine Johnson. On November 21, 1938, she married AlvaSonny James Mounts. Pansy retired from ACC, of...

Erma Hensley
Jan 20, 2005
Erma Lou Hensley 1923-2005 Erma Lou Stephens Hensley, age 81, a South Coffeyville, Oklahoma resident passed away on January 19, 2005 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born April 3, 1923 in Hollis, Harmon County, Oklahoma to Ernest June and Jane Elizabeth Moss Stephens. She attended Grade School and High School in Hollis. As a...

Cora Stine
Jan 19, 2005
Cora Lee Stine Age 94, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma died Tuesday evening, January 18, 2005 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Cora Lee Stine was born on August 23, 1910, in Bartlett, Kansas to Ernest and Maggie Temple. She graduated high school in Edna, Kansas and attended barber school in Wichita, Kansas. She was married to John Raymond Stine on...

Gary Stewart
Jan 19, 2005
Gary Allen Stewart Age 63, of Route 1, Coffeyville, Kansas died early Tuesday morning, January 19, 2005 at his home. Mr. Stewart was born January 18, 1942 in Xenia, Kansas to Glen B. and Elizabeth Robb Stewart. He was raised in that area and graduated from the schools there. Mr. Stewart worked as a machinist for Funk Manufacturing, retiring...

Cora Cornell
Jan 18, 2005
Cora Fern Cornell Age 97, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday morning, January 16, 2005 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Cora Fern Cornell was born April 8, 1907 in a sod house at Lincoln, Nebraska to Carrier Almond and Cora Elizabeth Hack Dewey. She moved to Labette County with her family in 1908, attending school in Edna, and was graduated...

Wanetta Vantieghen
Jan 18, 2005
Wanetta I. VanTieghen Age 79, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Tuesday morning, January 18 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mrs. VanTieghen was born August 15, 1925 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to James Earnest and Ida May Gregory Henry. Her work history included employment with Eastman-Kodak in Fairbanks, Alaska, prior to her being the owneroperator of Netas Caf for many years....

John Vannoster
Jan 17, 2005
John W. Vannoster 1946-2005 John W. Vannoster, age 58, rural Coffeyville, Kansas resident, passed away on Sunday, January 16, 2005 at the Cancer Treatment Center of America in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was born September 21, 1946 in Nowata, Oklahoma to Virgil and Martha Noblitt Vannoster. He was a 1965 graduate of Wayside High School. He attended Independence Junior College,...

Estil Leroy
Jan 10, 2005
Estel Leroy Barber 1920-2005 Estel Leroy Barber, age 84, died Friday evening, January 7, 2005 in Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born September 18, 1920, to Orin and Lettie Neer Barber in Coffeyville, where he lived his entire life. . Mr. Barber and his wife recently celebrated 65 years of marriage. He and Cretta Violet Stephens...

Dorothy Urquhart
Jan 8, 2005
Dorothy M. Urquhart 1927-2005 Dorothy M. Urquhart, age 77, passed away on Friday evening, January 7, 2005 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Skilled Nursing Unit in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born January 21, 1927 in Caney, Kansas to Bud and Hallie Kaiser Howard. She lived in the Coffeyville area since 1947. She married RobertBill Urquhart on May 16, 1947...

Jean Aduddell
Jan 3, 2005
Jean C. Aduddell Age 89, of Coffeyville, Kansas died early Monday morning, January 3, 2005 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. She was born April 17, 1915 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Roscoe and Jessie Matt Haugland Hopkins. She was raised by her mother, uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Clement Grigsby in the family home at 415 W....

Norma Stevens
Dec 28, 2004
NORMA MAE STEVENS Norma Mae Stevens of rural Caney went to be with her Lord on Sunday, Dec. 26, at Jane Phillips Hospital in Bartlesville, Okla., following a short illness. She was 77. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at the First Baptist Church with burial set in Sunnyside Cemetary, both of Caney. Pastor Dan DeWitt...

Imogene Lafon
Dec 16, 2004
Imogene Lafon 1921-2004 Imogene Lafon, age 83, of rural Wann, Oklahoma resident passed away on December 6, 2004 at the Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She was born November 3, 1921 in Wann, Oklahoma to RaymondShug and Gertie M. Fitzsimmons Howard. She attended Oakdale Elementary School in rural Wann, Oklahoma as a child. She then attended Wann...