Obituaries

Elsie Post
Jan 2, 2010
Elsie Golda Rowlands Post was born April 6, 1908, to Arthur Ward and Sophia Lucy Gillum Rowlands of Hartford, Kansas. She received her education in the Hartford Public Schools and at Emporia State Teachers College. She taught school in Lyon County until her marriage to Claud Bryan Post on June 3, 1928. They were employed in oil field work...

Burce Tovey
Dec 31, 2009
Burce F. Tovey of Coffeyville, father of City Commissioner, Pam Jones, passed away December 31, 2009, at Windsor Place. He was born August 5, 1922, on his Uncle Charlie and Aunt Belle Rexwinkle39;s farm near Edna, Kansas. He was the third child and first son born to Frank and Pearl Acridge Tovey. At the time of his birth the...

Charles Colbert
Dec 29, 2009
Charles Colbert, 55, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma died Friday, December 25, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born December 7, 1954 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to Willard Colbert and Mary H. Nelson Colbert. Charles worked for Vallis Form Services, Phillips Petroleum for twenty years and Spears Manufacturing for the past five years. He enjoyed Christian ministry and...

Iona Herriman
Dec 28, 2009
Iona Kathryn Herriman left this earthly life on December 26, 2009, in Gunter,Texas. She was born May 14, 1919 to Olin and Emma Palmer at El Reno, Oklahoma. After graduating high school she married Odis D. Herriman. They lived in Calumet, where they farmed and owned and operated a caf. In the late 1940s they bought a farm and...

Nancy Lipe
Dec 19, 2009
Nancy C. Wilkinson Lipe, daughter of Clifford and Lucille Robinson Wilkinson was born January 19, 1942 at Farber, Missouri. Nancy passed away December 18, 2009 at her home in Coffeyville, Kansas. Nancy grew up in the FarberVandalia area and was a 1960 graduate of Van-Far High School where she loved playing high school basketball. After high school, Nancy married...

Candy Ruark
Dec 19, 2009
Candy Ann Ruark of Coffeyville, KS passed away Friday, December 18, 2009 at CRMC in Coffeyville. She was 35. Mrs. Ruark was born May 18, 1974 to Joseph and Ann Collins in Coffeyville, Kansas. She grew up and attended schools in Labette County graduating from High School in 1994. After high school she worked as a housekeeper for the...

Judy Green
Dec 15, 2009
Judy Ann Green, 62, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday afternoon, December 14, 2009 at the home of her daughter, Janell, in Nixa, Missouri. Judy was born August 20, 1947 at Parsons, Kansas to Fred Tucker and Hattie Davis Tucker. She grew up and began her education in Parsons. Judy married Ernest Colbert and five children were born to...

Virgil Scott
Dec 14, 2009
Virgil Warren Scott, 71, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, December, 17, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born July 18, 1938 in a small family home five miles outside of Blue Mound, Kansas to Nathaniel Scott and Lula Marie Canatsey. Virgil graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1956 and married Dorothy Mae Stumfall in Miami, Oklahoma,...

David Baldridge
Dec 9, 2009
David Edward Baldridge, 39, Independence, Kansas, died early Tuesday morning, December 8, 2009 as the result of a house fire. David was born December 16, 1969 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Joey Edward Baldridge and Janet Sue Anderson Baldridge. He grew up in Coffeyville, Oswego, Edna and Altamont, attending high school at Labette County High School. David had moved to...

Penny Reinlein
Dec 7, 2009
Penny Gayle Reinlein, 46, Independence, KS, died November 29, 2009 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS. Penny was born August 14, 1963 at Coffeyville, Kansas. She grew up in Coffeyville and then moved to Columbus, Kansas as a teenager, before returning to Coffeyville her senior year and graduating from Coffeyvilles Field Kindley High School. She attended Coffeyville Community College...

Betty Furnas
Nov 30, 2009
Betty Lou Furnas, 76, of South Coffeyville went to be with the Lord on November 27, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born August 29, 1933 in Coffeyville to Anthony Tony Schiler and Norma Faye Dickey Schiler-Sanders. Betty Lou attended Garfield Elementary School and graduated from Field Kinley High School in 1951. On April 15th, 1951 she...

Mary Roberts
Nov 30, 2009
Mary Ruth Roberts, 92, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Friday, November 27, 2009 at Windsor Place Nursing Home in Coffeyville. She was born March 30, 1917 in Parsons, Kansas to Eugene Lant and Hazel Green Lant. She married John Lee Roberts of Severy, Kansas on August 16, 1937 at Idaho Springs, Colorado. Mary was a wonderful homemaker and was very...

Gertrude Ward
Nov 24, 2009
Gertrude Elizabeth Ward, 95, Overland Park, Kansas passed away November 20, 2009 at her home. Graveside services will be at the Fairview Cemetery in Coffeyville, Kansas December 1, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. Mrs. Ward was born November 12, 1914 in Elida, New Mexico to Eugene and Agnes Taylor. Mrs. Ward attended Independence schools and Wayne University in Detroit, Michigan....

Paul Fast
Nov 23, 2009
Paul E. Fast, 88, Panama City, Florida and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Friday, November 20, 2009 at Bay Medical Center, Panama City. Paul was born January 4, 1921 at Stillwater, Oklahoma to John Day Fast and Myrtle Bowen Fast. He came to Coffeyville at an early age and grew up there until entering the U.S. Army Air Corps...

Samuel Christian
Nov 17, 2009
Samuel Marshall Christian, Jr., 86, Coffeyville, Kansas died Monday, November 16, 2009 at Windsor Place Care Center in Coffeyville. Sam was born March 24, 1924 at Mayview, Missouri to Samuel Christian, Sr. and Casse May Sylva Christian. He grew up in Missouri and received his education in the Holden schools. Sam went to work at a young age and...

William Woods
Nov 17, 2009
William TaftBill Woods, 80, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Tuesday morning, November 17, 2009 at Windsor Place Care Center. Bill was born January 24, 1929 at Malvern, Arkansas to William Woods and Mary Katie DeBose Woods. He grew up in Arkansas and received his education there. In September, 1954, Bill was inducted into the US Army at San Diego, California. Two...

Ralph Hardy
Nov 16, 2009
Ralph M. Hardy, 77, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, November 15, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born February 7, 1932 at Hannibal, Missouri to Joseph N. Hardy and Emma B. Loomis. Ralph was a train engineer for Union Pacific Railroad for twenty-one years and was married to his loving wife Darlene on February 5, 1966. He...

Warren Fast
Nov 2, 2009
Warren D. Fast, 90, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Saturday October 31, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born November 14, 1918 in a log cabin in rural Pawnee, Oklahoma to John Day Fast and Myrtle Bowen. Warren married Elsie Mae Brooks in 1949 and he worked as a boilermaker for 37 years at the Coffeyville Co-Op. He...

Richard Buss
Oct 30, 2009
Richard Lee Buss, 59, died October 26, 2009. Military services will be 2 p.m., Friday, October 30, 2009 at the Veterans Patio at Fairview Cemetery in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was born September 3, 1950 in Coffeyville, Kansas. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions to KU Endowment Fund-Scholarship Neurology 3901 Rainbow, Kansas City, KS 66160 MS 3012 or...

Lisa Greenlee
Oct 15, 2009
Lisa Ann Greenlee, 47, Coffeyville, died Wednesday afternoon, October 14, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Lisa was born August 9, 1962 at Springfield, Missouri to RobertBob Menzies and Shirley Luke Menzies. She grew up in Greenfield, Missouri and was a 1980 graduate of Greenfield High School. Lisa married Rick Greenlee on May 30, 1980 at Greenfield. The Greenlees...