Obituaries

Joyce Kearns
Oct 28, 2011
Joyce Elaine Kearns, 53, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Friday, October 28, 2011 at Mercy Hospital in Independence, Kansas. Joyce was born on September 16, 1958 in Coffeyville, Kansas to William and Bonnie Mae Woods Foulk. Joyce grew up in the Coffeyville area where she attended local schools, later received her G.E.D. and took some occupational courses through Coffeyville...

James Riley
Oct 16, 2011
James Alva Riley, 86, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Sunday, October 16, 2011 at CRMC. James A was born on September 21, 1925 in Welch, Oklahoma to Earl and Daisy Mae Riley. He grew up in rural Welch where he received his education. He was in the Navy in WWII where he received the Purple Heart. In January of...

Donald Golden
Oct 14, 2011
Donald Dean Golden, 80, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Thursday, October 13, 2011 at his home. Donald was born on December 31, 1930 in Trenton, Missouri to Fred and Mattie Gitthens Golden. In 1948 Donald join the United States Marie Corps. He served his country until 1952. After his honorable discharge he went to Rockhurst College to receive his...

Sherry Emery
Oct 11, 2011
Sherry Jean Emery, 60, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday, October 10, 2011 at her home. Sherry was born March 16, 1951 at Kansas City, Missouri to Dale J. Dixon and Genevieve Kaufman Dixon. She grew up in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, leaving there as a teenager. Sherry lived in Coffeyville for some time before moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1981. It...

Diana Ruple
Oct 11, 2011
Diana Ruple, 57, of Coffeyville died Monday morning, October 10, 2011 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville. The family has chosen cremation and there will be no service at this time.

Dorothy Kimbrel
Oct 10, 2011
Dorothy Evelyn Kimbrel, 95, rural Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, October 9, 2011 at the home of her son, Darrel. Dorothy was born September 4, 1916 at Dearing, Kansas to Alvin Antle and Maude Epperly Antle. She grew up and spent the entirety of her life in Montgomery County. Dorothy married Terrel C. Kimbrel on January 25, 1935 at Miami,...

Joe Calton
Oct 4, 2011
Joe Monroe Calton, 89, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Monday, October 3, 2011 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville. Joe was born on January 23, 1922 in Vinita, Oklahoma to James O. Calton, Sr. and Ella M. Chumley. The family moved to Coffeyville in 1926. He was educated in the Coffeyville school system. Joe served in the U.S. Army in...

Jackie Hare
Oct 4, 2011
Jackie D.Jack Hare, 70, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday night, October 3, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Jack was born October 28, 1940 at Childers, Oklahoma to Albert William Hare and Ethel Mae Beyen Hare. He grew up in northeastern Oklahoma, attending South Coffeyville Grade School and Lenapah High School. Jack worked as a roustabout for Basinger Oil Company...

Earl Green
Oct 1, 2011
Earl RichardDick Green, First Sergeant, US Army Retired formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died on Thursday, 29 September, at a hospital in Bartlesville, OK. He is survived by his daughter, Colonel Karen Seipp, US Army Retired and her husband John Seipp, of San Antonio, TX son Richard Green of Bartlesville, OK grandsons, Mark Seipp of Littleton, CO Dr John Green...

June Burdick
Sep 26, 2011
June E. Burdick, 76, of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Saturday, September 24th at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born July 3, 1935 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Lawrence Bud and Ruby Cherry Kaufman. She grew up west of Coffeyville and attended Robbins School then Field Kindly High School. On July 10, 1953, she married Charles Burdick at Cedar Bluff...

Albert Enloe
Sep 26, 2011
Albert Lee Enloe, 87, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Sunday afternoon, September 25, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Albert was born August 27, 1924 at Thayer, Kansas to Charlie A. Enloe and Mary Crowl Enloe. He left Thayer at an early age, first moving to Chanute and then to Coffeyville. Albert was a graduate of Field Kindley High School. Shortly...

Norma Gabriel
Sep 17, 2011
Norma Jean Gabriel, 94, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died Saturday, September 17, 2011 at the home of her daughter in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Norma was born March 25, 1917 at Singer, Louisiana to Andrew Burge and Mary Havens Burge. She grew up in Singer, graduating high school there and as captain of her basketball team, helped lead the squad all the...

Opal Green
Sep 15, 2011
Opal Ellouise Green, 89, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at her soninlaws home in El Dorado, Kansas. Opal was born on October 23, 1921 in Independence, Kansas to James and Jessie Wright Graves. In 1930 she moved with her parents to Coffeyville, Kansas and attended the Coffeyville school system. On June 25, 1938 she...

Frenia Cerny
Sep 15, 2011
Coffeyville resident, Frenia Katherine Cerny, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at her home in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was 94. Frenia was born February 5, 1917 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Riley and Nora Bowman Fitzpatrick. She graduated high school from Field Kindley Memorial High School in Coffeyville. She married Clifford L. Cerny on August 8, 1936...

Fern Campbell
Sep 14, 2011
Fern Campbell, 87, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at her home. Fern was born May 15, 1924 at Coffeyville to Elmer Lee Murray and Florence Mae Straughn Murray. She grew up and spent most of her life in Coffeyville, except for short times spent in other locations, following her husbands railroad work. Fern married Clifford Campbell on...

George Pruitt
Sep 13, 2011
George Clinton Pruitt, 80, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Monday, September 12, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. George was born on April 18, 1931 in Canute, Oklahoma to Jim and Grace Ellis Pruitt. He grew up in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. In 1952 George was drafted into the United States Military actively serving in the Marine Corp until 1954. Upon...

Flonnie Knewtson
Sep 9, 2011
Flonnie P. Knewtson, 99, of Edna, Kansas entered her eternal home September 7, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Flonnie was born February 17, 1912 to George W. and Minnie Campbell Burnett near Monticello, Kentucky. At age 9 she moved to Kansas with her family, settling near Edna. She attended Ripon Grade School and graduated as valedictorian of her...

Elloease Elder
Sep 7, 2011
Elloease Church Elder was born September 19, 1914 in Coffeyville to Lafayette E. and Otie Ellen Reese Church. She died September 5, 2011 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was a lifelong resident of Coffeyville and attended Coffeyville schools through high school. She married Roscoe D. Elder on September 25, 1937. They moved to Evansville, Indiana during WW II and moved...

Harold Hopson
Sep 7, 2011
Harold Gene Hopson, 78, Stroud, Oklahoma and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday, September 5, 2011 at Rainbow Healthcare Center, Bristow, Oklahoma. Harold was born October 25, 1932 at Franklin, Arkansas to Jeffie D. Hopson and Emogene Pryor Hopson. He left Franklin as a boy and came to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, where he graduated high school and went to...

Alice Barnhart
Aug 29, 2011
Alice Marie Barnhart, 71, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Saturday, August 27, 2011 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Alice was born June 18, 1940 in her grandmothers home in Neosho County, Kansas to Russell Dean Aikins, Sr. and Mildred Lorene Maxwell Aikins. She grew up around Erie, Kansas and received her education in the local schools. She married Howard Barnhart on...