Obituaries

Addis Messersmith
Dec 7, 2008
Addis Christopher Messersmith, age 93, died December 4, 2008, at the Chanute Health Care Center in Chanute, Kansas. He had been in failing health for the past several months. Mr. Messersmith was a life-long resident of Montgomery County, but spent the past two years in Humboldt to be close to his daughter. Mr. Messersmith was born May 2, 1915,...

Marron Bolte
Nov 28, 2008
Marron Arvine Bolte, 86, of Wann, Oklahoma, passed away Thursday, November 27, 2008 at her home. She was born on November 1, 1922 in Augusta, Kansas, the daughter of Ed and Tressa Glover. She grew up and attended schools in Augusta. Marron married LewisBus Bolte on January 1, 1941 in Augusta. He preceded her in death in 1990. In...

Vernie Baldwin
Nov 24, 2008
Vernie W. Baldwin, of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was 98. Vernie was born January 21, 1910 near Worland, Missouri to Lon and Lura Leona Franklin Baldwin. He attended Red Top School through the eighth grade. He was a 1927 graduate of Pleasanton, Kansas High School. He worked at farming with...

Lula Shearhart
Nov 22, 2008
Lula Charline Shearhart, 65, of Wayside, Kansas, went to her heavenly home on Friday, November 21, 2008 at Via Christi Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She was born October 9, 1943 to Charlie L. Croney and Lula Oline Frair Croney at Dustin, Oklahoma. She grew up in Wichita, Howard and Longton,...

Willard Everett
Nov 21, 2008
Willard Leroy Everett, 93, of Coffeyville, passed away early Friday morning, November 21, 2008 at Cherryvale Care Center, Cherryvale, Kansas. Willard was born January 10, 1915 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas to Alfred and Nellie Grimes Everett. Grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas and later moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas. He moved to Denver, Colorado, where he met and later married,...

Homer Adams
Nov 10, 2008
Homer Adams, 81, formerly of Coffeyville, passed away November 8, 2008, among friends and family in Frontenac, Kansas, after suffering from a long illness. Homer Frederick Adams was born June 12, 1927 near Sharon, in rural Barber County, Kansas, to Ralph C. and Arvilla Byers Adams. Homer spent his early childhood on farms near Sharon and Wellington, Kansas. While...

Dale Vogt
Nov 4, 2008
Dale U. Vogt, 75, of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, with his loving and devote wife at his side. He was born March 9, 1933 in Payne County, Oklahoma, the son of John and Bessie Crenshaw Vogt. In 1950, Dales family moved to Coffeyville where he met Lois May Draeger. They...

Leroy Fisher
Nov 3, 2008
Mr. Leroy Fisher died at his home in rural South Coffeyville, Oklahoma on Monday, November 3, 2008. Mr. Fisher was born on January 23, 1929, in Coffeyville, Kansas to Rose Knisley and Jim Fisher. He attended local schools and in 1952, he joined the Plumbers amp; Pipefitters Local Union in McAllen, Texas; later transferring to Local 339 of Coffeyville....

Dorothy Stevens
Oct 31, 2008
Lifetime Coffeyville resident, Dorothy F. Stevens, 88, passed away Thursday, October 30, 2008. She was born on June 25, 1920 in Coffeyville, the daughter of Fay and Bessie Payne Greene. On July 22, 1936, Dorothy married Paul B. Stevens in Coffeyville. He preceded her in death on February 16, 1981. Surviving to honor her memory are her children, Robert...

Opal Rasbach
Oct 29, 2008
Opal A. Rasbach, 98 passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008. Cremation has taken place and no public service is being held.

Hilton Davis
Oct 27, 2008
Hilton Kunze Davis, 92, a retired Navy Captain, U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. Mr. Davis was born May 1, 1916, the son of Walter A. and Blanche Kunze Davis. He was a graduate of the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science...

William Hall
Oct 27, 2008
Dr. William C.Bill Hall, 85, of Coffeyville, went to his eternal rest Saturday evening at Coffeyville Regional Medical. William Carlton Hall, Jr. was born September 7, 1923 at Coffeyville, Kansas the son of William Carlton Hall and Edna McCullough Hall. He attended Coffeyville Schools. He then attended Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine and received his Doctorate in...

Earl Critchfield
Oct 25, 2008
Earl Jean Critchfield, 79, of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Earl was born December 2, 1928 in Florence, Kansas to Justus and Mary Griffith Critchfield. He was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corp from 1948 1952. He served aboard three aircraft carriers in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean areas....

Neva Burnett
Oct 18, 2008
Neva Burnett, 99, of Windsor Place, Coffeyville, Kansas entered her eternal home October 16, 2008. Neva was born December, 20, 1908 to George W. and Minnie Campbell Burnett near Monticello, Kentucky. At age 11, she received Jesus Christ as her Savior and was baptized in a pool of spring water and joined the Big Springs Baptist Church of Burfield,...

Herman Mcafee
Oct 16, 2008
Herman E. McAfee, 83, of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Sunday, October 12, 2008 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville. Herman was born December 9, 1924 in Winchester, Kansas, the son of Lacy and Marie Dixon McAfee. He attended school at Valley Falls, Kansas until the age of 17, when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served our country from...

Dorothy Rose
Oct 16, 2008
Bartlesville, Oklahoma resident, Dorothy G. Rose, passed away Monday, October 13, 2008 at the Silver Lake Care Center in Bartlesville. She was 95. Dorothy had been a resident there for the past two years. Dorothy was born on July 13, 1913 in Lamar, Colorado to James and Flora Jacobs Hunter. She spent her time raising her family in Wichita,...

Chester Gilfillan
Oct 6, 2008
Chester W.Jake Gilfillan, 66 of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Sunday, October 5, 2008 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville. Jake was born on October 29, 1941 in Coffeyville, the son of David C. and Helen V. Battaglear Gilfillan. He grew up and attended schools in Coffeyville. Following high school, in 1958 Jake enlisted in the U.S. Army and served our...

Malone Watts
Oct 5, 2008
D. Malone Watts, 93, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Saturday, October 4, 2008. Malone was born on April 10, 1915 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, the daughter of Harry and Ora M. Puckett Hibbert. She attended schools in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma and Niotaze, Kansas and moved to Coffeyville in 1932. She and Oral P. Watts were united...

Helene Dunbar
Oct 2, 2008
Helene Dunbar formerly of Coffeyville died, Friday, August 29, 2008 in Alhambra, CA. She was 92. Mrs. Dunbar was born December 31, 1915 in Jasper County, Missouri to William A. and Odessa Wyman McBean. In 1918 the family moved to northeast Oklahoma where Mrs. Dunbar attended school through the seventh grade. In 1929 the family moved to West Woodland...

Carl Bates
Sep 30, 2008
Carl Junior Bates, 72, of Claremore, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, September 28, 2008. Carl was born on May 16, 1936 in Doniphan, Missouri, the son of Mae and Earl Hink. Growing up, Carl attended and graduated from Coffeyville Schools. Following graduation, he served in the U.S. Army for 2 years. He later attended Pittsburgh University where he earned his...