Obituaries

Gerald Shamblin
Jul 30, 2010
Gerald Dean Shamblin formerly of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Chelsea, OK. Gerald was born September 28, 1932 in Neosho, Missouri to Willis J. and Mildred N. Lamar Shamblin. He grew up and went to school in Coffeyville. He was united in marriage to Nancy Blackburn she preceded him in death on November 4, 1998. The...

Madge Thiele
Jul 30, 2010
Madge M. Thiele, 91, Coffeyville, KS died Friday afternoon, July 30, 2010 at Windsor Place Care Center, Coffeyville. Madge was born December 5, 1918 at Liberty, Kansas to Carl Pinkston and Kittylou Kelso Pinkston. She was a resident of southeast Kansas all her life. Madge married Ernest A. Thiele and he preceded her in death. She enjoyed crocheting and...

Brent Olson
Jul 29, 2010
Brent D. Olson formerly of Coffeyville passed away Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at Southcrest Hospital in Tulsa, OK. He was 55. Brent was born July 17, 1955 in Coffeyville to Philip and Lola George Olson. He grew up and attended school in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma where he received his High School education. He attended Oklahoma University where he received...

Frances Cooper
Jul 26, 2010
Mae Frances Cooper, 88, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Sunday afternoon, July 25, 2010 at Comfort Care Homes of Wichita. Frances was born May 1, 1922 at Independence, Kansas to Bert Smith and Nancy Chouteau Smith. She grew up in the CoffeyvilleIndependence area and graduated from Coffeyville Junior College and later, Pittsburg Teachers College. Frances taught school in Montgomery...

Diana Rosson
Jul 22, 2010
Diana Gayle Rosson of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, July 22, 2010 at her home. She was 61. Diana was born December 3, 1948 in Omaha, Nebraska to Jim and Leona Young Gillespie. She received her high school diploma and earned some college credits. She worked for Acme Foundry and also for Spears Manufacturing for 78 years until her health...

Mary Field
Jul 19, 2010
Mary Frances Field was born November 7, 1913 to Seward and Zora Mae Woods in Delaware County, Oklahoma. Ms. Field entered her long awaited rest and reward with her Savior on July 17, 2010 at the Alma Health and Rehabilitation Center, Alma, Arkansas. Frances as she was more commonly known, was reared in the Sycamore, Kansas area where she...

Leona Detar
Jul 13, 2010
Leona Ann DeTar of Edmond, Oklahoma entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was 82. Leona was born May 28, 1928 to David Daniel Etter and Vena Alice Yates Etter. She graduated from Independence High School in 1946. She married Eldon Frank DeTar May 15, 1949 in Independence, Kansas. Leona was a...

David Felts
Jul 13, 2010
David Paul Felts of Coffeyville passed away Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at CRMC. He was 31. David was born June 21, 1979 in Coffeyville to Bruce and Joy Felts. David grew up in Coffeyville where he graduated high school and received his Associates degree from Coffeyville Community College. David loved the outdoors and fishing. Survivors are his parents, Bruce...

Joseph Sterk
Jul 12, 2010
Joseph Eugene Sterk of Coffeyville passed away on his birthday Sunday, July 11, 2010 at CRMC. He was 96 years young. Joe was born in 1914 at Monett, Missouri to Joseph A. and Gertrude Smith Sterk. He completed his high school education and attended a year at junior college at Parsons, Kansas. On February 22, 1940 he was united...

Sylvester Herring
Jul 9, 2010
Sylvester Herring, a native of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away on Thursday, July 8, 2010 in Houston, Texas. Sylvester was born March 20, 1933 to Henry and Louise Herring. He attended Roosevelt Jr. High and Field Kindley Memorial High School. He married Lillian Wilson Herring and from this union seven children were born: son SylvesterTony Carolyn Herring of Chicago, IL...

Darlene Szelipajlo
Jul 2, 2010
Darlene M. Szelipajlo, 76, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Friday, July 2, 2010 at her home. She was born January 15, 1934 in Coffeyville to Leslie Rosson and Addie P. Pierce Rosson. Darlene worked at Parsons Ammunition Plant for 28 years, retiring in 1995 to be caretaker of her mother. She is survived by son E. Michael Szelipajlo of Coffeyville...

Helena Papen
Jun 28, 2010
Helena I. Papen, 82, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Sunday, June 27, 2010 at Continuous Care Centers of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Helena was born March 29, 1928 at Caney, Kansas to George Lee and Jenny Hasty Lee. She grew up in the Coffeyville area and was a graduate of Field Kindley High School. Helena was working at a drug store at Ninth...

Timothy Martindale
Jun 22, 2010
Timothy R. Martindale, 52, Coffeyville, died Monday, June 21, 2010 at his home. Tim was born August 29, 1957 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Norman Martindale and Nora Jean Bradley Martindale. He grew up in Arizona, moving back to Coffeyville some 25 years ago. Tim had served in the U.S. Army and did masonry work. He loved the outdoors, fishing...

Dorothy Pitts
Jun 22, 2010
Dorothy W. Erne Pitts, 91, West Sacramento, California and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away, Monday, June 21, 2010 at the River Bend Nursing Center in West Sacramento. Dorothy was born August 18, 1918 at Coffeyville, Kansas to William H. Erne and Mary Babb Erne. She grew up in Coffeyville where she worked on her parents dairy farm and...

Izetta Dempsey-Epps
Jun 21, 2010
Izetta G.Ike DempseyEpps, 81, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born February 26, 1929 in Coffeyville, Kansas to George W. Piner and Mildred Albright. Ike graduated from Field Kindley High School in 1946, where she was a member of the Field Kindley...

Cornelia Davis
Jun 18, 2010
Cornelia Fort Davis of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, June 17, 2010 at CRMC. Cornelia was born July 28, 1920 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Charles T. and Lesta Baker Fort. She attended the University of Alabama and also the University of Texas. Cornelia was a member of the PEO Sisterhood and the First United Methodist Church of Coffeyville. She accompanied...

Charles Morris
Jun 9, 2010
Charles Clinton Morris, age 68, a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, passed away on June 4, 2010 at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Charles was born on September 3, 1941 at Coffeyville, Kansas, a son of the late Samuel Clinton and Evelyn Lucille Thompson Morris. He attended elementary and Roosevelt Jr. High School in Coffeyville before moving with his...

Clara Maggard
Jun 8, 2010
Clara Audrey Maggard, 93, Coffeyville, died Sunday, June 6, 2010 at Windsor Place Care Center, Coffeyville. Clara was born September 1, 1916 at Wettington, Arkansas to Edmund Wise and Ethel Roberts Wise. She grew up in NW Arkansas around Wettington, Siloam Springs, Fayetteville and Bentonville. Clara married Emanuel William Maggard in July of 1933. Mr. Maggard preceded his wife...

Betty Brockway
Jun 1, 2010
Betty Ann McPheeters Brockway. 78, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, May 30, 2010 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born September 4, 1931 in Coffeyville, at Southeast Kansas Hospital to Marvell Kathryne Shultz and Thomas Marion McPheeters, Jr. She lived her childhood years in the area. Her parents presented her with a sister, Carol Sue on August 26,...

Robert Miller
May 25, 2010
Robert E. Miller, 79, Coffeyville, passed away Monday afternoon, May 24, 2010 at his home. Robert was born May 25, 1930 at Coffeyville, to Jake Miller and Irma Evans Miller. He grew up in Coffeyville and was a graduate of Field Kindley Memorial High School and Coffeyville Junior College before entering the U.S. Air Force in 1951. Robert married...