Obituaries

Joyce Kearns

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...