Obituaries

Lucile Gump
Jun 2, 2009
Lucile Gump of Coffeyville passed away Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville after a long and full life at age 99. Lucile, the daughter of Jess and Edith Nitcher, was born in Baldwin City, Kansas February 16, 1910. Her family then moved to their farm at Rantoul, Kansas where she completed school. After high school she...

Myrtle Murray
May 29, 2009
Myrtle A. Murray passed away quietly on May 27, 2009 at the age of 97 in Beacon Shores Nursing Home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was born on December 20, 1911 in Missouri to the late F.C. and Cordelia Jessee. Myrtle was the fourth of five daughters. She was raised and lived on a farm and was very active...

Rosa Lewis
May 21, 2009
Rosa Lea Lewis formerly of Coffeyville passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at Regal Estates in Independence, KS. She was 65. Rosa Lea was born November 11, 1943 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Wincle and Floye Twitchell. She grew up in Coffeyville and attended local schools graduating from Field Kindley Memorial High School. She then went on to attend a...

Norman Phipps
May 18, 2009
Norman LaRue Phipps, 82, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009 at Ray County Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Missouri. He was born July 28, 1926 in Coffeyville, Kansas, the son of Erwin and Sylvia Barnard Clough. He married Nila Louise Scott in Coffeyville and they celebrated sixty years of marriage in November of 2008. Norman worked for...

Theodore Grasz
May 18, 2009
Theodore W.Tate Grasz, 91, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma died Saturday, May 16, 2009 at Medicalodge in Dewey, Oklahoma. He was born October 29, 1917 in Lenapah, Oklahoma to Charles M. Grasz and Elizabeth Lampe Grasz. Theodore grew up on his parents farm five miles northwest of Lenapah and attended school at District 19, better known as Crowholler. He was...

Caroline Brower
May 18, 2009
Caroline Marie Lamar Brower died May 16, 2009 in Van Nuys, California. Mrs. Brower was born March 19, 1936 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Paul and Effie Bellomy Lamar and was reared in Dearing, attending Coffeyville schools. On September 29, 1963, she married Mr. Doyle Wayne Brower. Mr. and Mrs. Brower mad their home in Sun Valley, California where they...

Harold Harper
May 15, 2009
Harold Gene Harper, 70, Talala, Oklahoma died Tuesday, May 13, 2009 at his home after a battle with cancer. Gene was born January 23, 1939 at Talala to William Berton Harper and Clara E. Philpott Harper. He grew up in Talala and was a 1957 graduate of Talala High School. Shortly after graduation, Gene joined the U.S. Navy, serving...

Mary Gato
May 11, 2009
Mary A. Gato, 97, Coffeyville, Kansas, died early Monday, May 11, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mary was born August 1, 1911 at Scranton, Pennsylvania to Alex and Mary Zurinskas. She grew up and attended school in Scranton. Mary married Joseph Franko Gato, who preceded her in death in 1957. She worked for Morris White Fashion Pocketbook Factory...

Amy Blagg
May 11, 2009
Amy Jo Blagg, 44, Caney, Kansas, died Saturday night, May 9, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Amy was born December 29, 1964 at Coffeyville to Milton G. Miner and Shirley J. Majors Miner. She grew up in Coffeyville and was a 1982 graduate of Coffeyvilles Field...

Kyler Blagg
May 11, 2009
Kyler Ray Blagg, 15, Caney, Kansas died Sunday, May 10, 2009 at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Kylers mother, Amy Blagg, passed away Saturday night in Coffeyville as a result of the same accident. Kyler was born October 27, 1993 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Brent A. Blagg and Amy...

Wilma Brinkman
May 11, 2009
Wilma Jean Brinkman, 78, went to be with the Lord on May 11, 2009 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She was born July 21, 1930 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to Charles Sutton and Florence Lybarger Sutton. On March 6, 1959 she married Marin Carl Nolte who preceded her in death on May 17, 1970. On May...

Joan Stewart
May 10, 2009
Joan Colgin Stewart, 65, of rural Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Thursday, May 7, 2009 at St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Joan was born February 18, 1944 at Iola, Kansas to Raymond Jackson and Bertha Colgin Jackson. She grew up in the Bronson area and attended country schools and Moran High School. On November 4, 1962, Joan married Gary...

Clarence Blevins
May 8, 2009
Clarence Leonard Blevins, 89, of Coffeyville, Kansas died May 6, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born April 4, 1920 in Maurine, Missouri to George Homer and Sarah Ellen Eli Blevins. Clarence attended school in Maurine Missouri, Coffeyville and graduated in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. On April 3, 1942 he married Doris Nadine Higginson at Independence, Kansas. They later...

Carl Hunt
May 4, 2009
Carl R. Hunt of Coffeyville passed away Monday, May 4, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was 97. Mr. Hunt was born June 12, 1911 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Charles Rufus and Lilly Mae Walker Hunt. He grew up and attended Coffeyville schools. December 9, 1931 he married Edythe Maggie McKerlie in Parsons, Kansas. Mr. Hunts employment includes...

Dorothy Groves
May 2, 2009
Dorothy Ruth Groves, 95, of Tyro, Kansas died Friday, May 1, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born October 15, 1913, in Coffeyville, Kansas to Wilbur Short and Mary Elizabeth Blakslee Short. Dorothy was married to Henry Groves in Coffeyville, Kansas on July 7, 1933. She was a member of the Tyro Christian Church and was a...

Roy Hartwig
Apr 24, 2009
Roy Kenneth Hartwig of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, April 23, 2009 at his home. He was 79. Roy was born May 30, 1929 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to William and Goldie Hartwig. Roy attended Nowata schools until enlisting in the Army where he earned the rank of PFC in the 11th Airborne unit, he had completed 14 jumps. Roy...

Andrew Eli
Apr 21, 2009
Andrew James Eli, 23, of Kansas City, MO was taken from us as a victim of homicide early afternoon on Saturday, April 18, 2009. Andrew was born in Chanute, KS on October 31, 1985 and later attended school in Coffeyville, KS, Mill Valley High School in Shawnee, KS and Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. He took pride...

Virginia Bartz
Apr 21, 2009
Virginia A. Bartz of Coffeyville passed away Sunday, April 19, 2009 at her home in Coffeyville. She was 64. Virginia was born July 31, 1944 in Arkansas City, Kansas to Oliver and Zella Rutter. She attended Independence schools, graduating in 1963. She went on to complete a course degree with I.B.M. in Kansas City, Missouri in 1965. In July...

Verna Hendrix
Apr 16, 2009
Mrs. Verna Mae Scott Hendrix was born October 1, 1921 to the union of the late Bennie and Nancy Johnson Scott in Blevins, Arkansas, Hempstead County. Mrs. Hendrix left this earthly life on April 8, 2009 to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Mrs. Hendrix accepted Christ at an early age and was a member of Shorter...

Betty Campbell
Apr 16, 2009
Betty W. Campbell, 88, of Lawrence, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Betty was born November 27, 1920 at Fredonia, Kansas to Frank G. Brown, Sr. and Jennie M. Smith Brown. She grew up in the Coffeyville area and graduated from Coffeyvilles Field Kindley High School. She married Albert L. Campbell, Sr. in 1941. Betty...