Obituaries

Mary Swigart
Jul 26, 2008
Mrs. Mary Jane Swigart, 65, and former Coffeyville resident, died Friday at her home in Grove, Oklahoma. Mary Jane Swigart was born September 11, 1942 at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, the daughter of Bob Harrison and Margaret Casteel Harrison. She grew up the Sedan and Havana, Kansas area and was a graduate of Independence, Kansas High School. She also attended...

Lora Coddington
Jul 25, 2008
Mrs. Lora B. Coddington, 88, of Coffeyville, died Thursday, July 24, 2008 at Windsor Place. Graveside funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Fredonia City Cemetery with the Reverend Gerald Morris, pastor of Grace Fellowship of Coffeyville, officiating. Interment will be under the direction of the Penwell-Gabel Ford Wulf Bruns Chapel of Coffeyville. Friends may...

Nora Joplin
Jul 25, 2008
Nora Joplin, 97, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away July 23, 2008 in the Villa Maria Nursing Home in Mulvane Kansas where she has been a resident for two years. She was born on October 12, 1910 to Edward and Myrtle Thomas Wagner. She attended school in Dearing, Kansas and was a long time resident of Coffeyville, Kansas until...

Lovena Hittle
Jul 17, 2008
Lovena Hittle, 101, of Wichita, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at Wichita Presbyterian Manor. Lovena was born on June 27, 1907 in Altamont, Kansas, the daughter of Cleve and Alta Bringle Taylor. She graduated from Labette County High School. On July 21, 1928 she married Lester Hittle in Oswego, Kansas. He preceded her in death on September...

Lloyd Weber
Jul 15, 2008
Lloyd Eldon Weber of Coffeyville, Kansas died, Friday, July 11, 2008 at his home. He was 54. Lloyd was born July 3, 1954 in Wichita, Kansas to James and Suzanna Plotner Weber. He grew up and attended school in Cherryvale, Kansas where he completed his G. E. D. He joined the United States Army in February of 1972 until...

Darryl Brook
Jul 13, 2008
Darryl Brook, 38 of Coffeyville, KS passed away Saturday, July 12, 2008 in an automobile accident. Darryl was born on August 21, 1969 in Atchison, KS, the son of Frank and Wanda Morris Brook. He grew up and attended school in Caney, KS. He was a general laborer and worked in Emporia, Independence and Coffeyville; currently employed by Jencast...

Isabel Manning
Jul 12, 2008
Isabel Manning, 82, of Coffeyville, KS, passed away Thursday, July 10, 2008 at Continuous Care Center of Bartlesville, OK. Isabel was born on Dec. 26, 1925 in Watervalley, TN, the daughter of Rev. Fred C. and Martha Ann Gardner Bain. She attended schools and graduated in Erin, TN. After graduation, Isabel studied Theology at Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville,...

Glenn Keck, Jr.
Jul 11, 2008
Glenn A. Keck, Jr., 82, of Bartlesville, OK, passed away Thursday, July, 10, 2008 at Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK. Glenn was born on June 25, 1926 in Coffeyville, KS, the son of Glenn A. and Edna Manley Keck, Sr. He attended schools in Coffeyville and graduated from Field Kindley High School. Following graduation, he enlisted in the...

Helen Phillips
Jul 10, 2008
Helen G. Phillips, 82, of Coffeyville, passed away July 10, 2008 at CRMC. Helen was born on May 17, 1926 in Sallisaw, OK, the daughter of Alvin and Maudie Webb Parker. She grew up in Sallisaw and later moved to Coffeyville at the age of 13. She married Wesley E. Phillips on February 19, 1944 in South Coffeyville, OK....

Buddie Billups
Jun 27, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Buddie Billups passed away Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at Medicalodge of Coffeyville, KS Cremation arrangements are pending under the direction of Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel of Coffeyville, KS.

Harriett Freidline
Jun 23, 2008
Lifelong Coffeyville resident, Harriett Evelyn Freidline, 81, passed away Saturday, June 21, 2008 at CRMC. Harriett was born on June 23, 1926 in Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Virn and Mary Timmerman Cain. She attended rural grade schools and worked for the Deluxe Cleaners from 1945 until 1955 when she started work for Electra Manufacturing Co. which later changed...

Dwight Pollett
Jun 22, 2008
Laurence Dwight Pollett, 81 of Coffeyville, passed away Saturday, June, 21, 2008 at CRMC. Dwight was born Dec. 15, 1926 in Coffeyville, KS, the son of Laurence P. and Robbie Berry Pollett. He was a member of Keystone Masonic Lodge 102 A.F. amp; A.M. of Coffeyville, Caney Masonic Lodge 324 A.F. amp; A.M., Xenia Lodge 47 A.F. amp; A.M.,...

Shirley Grover
Jun 16, 2008
Shirley Ann Neria Grover, 66, of South Coffeyville, OK passed away peacefully Monday, June 16, 2008 at her home with her husband, Bill of 45 years, her daughter Neat, and her good friend, Mary Jane at her bedside. Shirley was born on July 23, 1941 in Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Alfred and Josephine Neria. She worked at numerous...

Bonnie Martin
Jun 16, 2008
Bonnie Loretta Martin, 81, of Liberty, Kansas died Saturday, June 14, 2008 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Bonnie was born on January 20, 1927 in Electra, Texas. She was the daughter of Robert L. and Mary Anice Richards Taylor. She graduated in 1944 from Weatherford High School in Texas. On November 15, 1948 she married Orla ElwinJunior Martin in Chicago,...

Elsie Cornett
Jun 16, 2008
Elsie Mae Cornett passed away Saturday, June 14, 2008 at her home. She was born on April 28, 1928 in Coffeyville, KS to Louis Conway and Nettie Oder. She has one sister, Lillie Vickers of Miami, OK. She was a beautiful and loving mother to seven children; four sons, William David Cornett of Orting, WA, Roger Dale Cornett of...

Frank Denton
May 30, 2008
Frank Arthur Denton, 70, of Coffeyville, passed away yesterday, May 29, 2008 at Windsor Place of Coffeyville. He was born April 28, 1938 at Sallisaw, OK to Oscar Grant Denton and Hester Campbell Denton. Frank attended Tyro Elementary School, Tyro, KS and Wayside High School, Wayside, KS. Frank served his country by enlisting in the U.S. Air Force. He...

Lucille Hanna
May 28, 2008
Lucille Hanna, longtime Coffeyville, Kansas resident died Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at St. Lukes Nursing Center in Carthage, Missouri. She was 79. Lucille was born January 1, 1929 to Edwin and Metta Brakhage in Lahoma, Oklahoma where she lived for five years. The family then moved to Coffeyville, Kansas where she spent most of her life. On June 14,...

Edith Cassity
May 28, 2008
Edith Lucille Williams Cassity, 89, of Caney, Kansas, passed away May 25, 2008 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Edith was born on April 11, 1919 in Caney, the daughter of Roy and Minnie Mae Hudson Williams. She grew up and attended school in Caney where she also attended the Church of the Nazarene for most of...

Phillip Metzer
May 19, 2008
Phillip Wayne Metzer, 64, of Claremont, CA, died unexpectedly on May 10th at his residence. Phil was born in Coffeyville, Kansas the 4th of 6 children of Agnes and Joe Metzer on March 15, 1944. Phil attended Coffeyville High School and McFarland Trade School before joining the Navy where he was a medic stationed at Taipei, Taiwan during the...

Wilbur Miller
Apr 30, 2008
Longtime Coffeyville resident, Wilbur Miller, 87, passed away Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Wilbur was born on Nov. 1, 1920 in Lodiburg, KY, the son of Jesse C.T. Miller and Lyn Beard Miller. On August 4, 1944 he married Velma Holderbaum in Coffeyville, Kansas. She preceded him in death on Sept. 24, 2006. Survivors include:...