Obituaries

Howard Mangels
Feb 9, 2008
Howard Wayne Mangels, 80 of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, passed away on his birthday, Friday, February 8, 2008 at his home. Howard was born in the old Southeast Kansas Hospital in Coffeyville, Kansas; the son of Edmund J. and Beulah Young Mangels. He graduated from Lenapah High School in 1946. He married Susie Griswold in 1950; they orced. Howard later...

William Allcorn
Jan 31, 2008
William Harold Allcorn of Coffeyville, Kansas died Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Coffeyville. He was 93. Harold was born on March 16, 1914, the son of William Harold and Edith Alice Chesney Allcorn. He attended Field Kindley High School, graduating in 1933. He went to work for his father at Haney-Allcorn Mercantile. In 1939 he married Bessie Murdock. He...

Ann Harmon
Jan 31, 2008
Caney resident, Ann Marie Harmon died Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 39. Ann was born April 30, 1968 to Thomas and Sue Snell Harmon in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She grew up in Caney, Kansas. She attended CaneyValleyHigh School and later received her G.E.D. Ann worked as a receptionist for local hotels. She enjoyed playing board games and...

Robert Demott, Jr.
Jan 30, 2008
Rural Coffeyville resident, Robert T. DeMott, Jr. entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at his home. He was 77. Bob was born October 17, 1930 in rural Altamont, Kansas to Robert T. and Goldie Johnson DeMott, Sr. He graduated from Labette County High School in 1949 and later attended Coffeyville Community Junior College. He married Shirley...

Bud Purkey
Jan 26, 2008
Bud Purkey, 69, of Coffeyville, passed away at his home on Friday, January 25, 2008. Bud was born on August 24, 1938 in Coffeyville, KS, the son of Arthur and Ruby Collins Purkey. He was a lifelong resident of the Coffeyville area. On March 18, 1961, he married Wanda Chambers in Coffeyville. Shortly thereafter, he established his business, Purkeys...

Patricia Shuler
Jan 26, 2008
PatriciaPatty Maye Shuler, 52, of Havana, joined her Lord on Friday, January 25, 2008 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. Patty Maye was born on October 25, 1955 in Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Ernest and Velma Hufferd. She married Mark S. Shuler on June 21, 1975 in her sisters home, North of Havana, KS. Together they...

Dovea Davis
Jan 25, 2008
Dovea N. Davis, 86, of Rural Independence, passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2008. Dovea was born on December 17, 1921 in Beaver County, OK, the daughter of Manford and Jenny Morrison Paasch. She grew up and graduated from high school in Burden, KS and attended college in Chanute, Wichita, and Pittsburgh, KS. After college, Dovea taught in Torrence, CA,...

Beverly Cranor
Jan 24, 2008
Beverly Jean Cranor 1928 -- 2008 Coffeyville resident, Beverly Jean Cranor, entered into eternal rest on January 20,2008 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. She was 79. She was born June 18, 1928 in Coffeyville to Paul C. and Gladys L. Wallace Shaw. She grew up and attended school in Coffeyville. Jean married Rocky Cranor on November 14, 1953, in...

Hazel Lamb
Jan 24, 2008
Hazel M. Lamb, 98, of Coffeyville, Kansas died January 23, 2008 in Coffeyville. Hazel was born October 15, 1909 to Joseph and Pearl Pruett Lamb in Coffeyville, Kansas, where she lived her entire life. She attended Lowell grade school, Roosevelt Junior High and graduated from Washington High School in 1928, where she was on the National Honor Roll each...

Brooklyn Coons
Jan 23, 2008
Brooklyn Irene Coons, 23 months, of Coffeyville entered into eternal rest on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Brook was born on February 20, 2006 in Coffeyville to Randy and Angela Crosetto Coons and eagerly greeted by her big brother, Christian. She was preceded in death by her mother, Angela on August 9, 2007....

Glenna Folk
Jan 22, 2008
Glenna Mae Folk, 77, of Tyro, passed away Monday, January 21, 2008 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, OK after a sudden stroke. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel in Coffeyville. Interment will follow in Fawn Creek Cemetery, Tyro, KS. Visitation will be 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.,...

Argyle Pearce
Jan 21, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Arglye N. Pearce, died on January 15, 2008 in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was 94. Argyle was born on March 11, 1913 in West Plains, Missouri to G.B. and Rosa E. Callahan Pulley. She graduated from Field Kindley High School and later earned a degree in cosmetology. Mrs. Pearce was a hair stylist and a homemaker. She worked...

John Richards, Sr.
Jan 18, 2008
Coffeyville resident, John E. Richards, Sr. died on Thursday, January 17, 2008 in Independence. He was 86. John was born Janaury 22, 1921 in Hugo, Oklahoma to Wilford and Etna Farris Richards. He grew up and attended schools in Coffeyville. He married Marcella Morris in September of 1937. They made their home in Coffeville and he served in the...

Rosemary Tipton
Jan 18, 2008
ROSEMARY JOE TIPTON Former Coffeyville resident, Rosemary Joe Tipton died January 14, 2008 in Aloha, Oregon. She was 90. Rosemary was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas to Jesse Leroy and Vera Bun Starring Skinner. Mr. Skinner was the former owner of Skinner Funeral Home. She grew up and attended Field Kindley High School amp; Coffeyville Junior College where...

Charlotte Mcnutt
Jan 17, 2008
Neodesha resident Charlotte I. McNutt died Wednesday, January 16, 2008 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 63. Charlotte was born January 19, 1944 to Fred and Eva Leyda Friend in Independence, Kansas. She grew up and graduated high school in Independence. In 1963 she married George R. Smith, they later orced. She worked many years as a cosmotologist in the...

Elizabeth Stewart
Jan 16, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Elizabeth Lillian Stewart died on Monday, January 14, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 93. Elizabeth was born on August 14, 1914 in Xenia, Kansas to Jesse Fidelis Robb and Geneva Jean Stevenson Robb. She grew up and attended school in Xenia and graduated from high school in Bronson, Kansas in 1932. She married Glen B. Stewart in...

Ray Gallaugher
Jan 15, 2008
Coffeyville resident Raymond L. Gallaugher died Friday, January 11, 2008 in Wichita . He was 67. He was born August 14, 1940, in Coffeyville to Cecil Joseph and Olar Elizabeth Woods Gallaugher. He graduated from Field Kindley Memorial High School in 1958. At age fifty, he returned to school and graduated from DeVry University in Atlanta , Georgia ....

Effie Pruette
Jan 15, 2008
Edna, Kansas resident Effie Arlene Pruette died on January 13, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 95. She was born February 26, 1912 in Craig County, Oklahoma to William P. and Sara M. Holton Storm. She grew up and attended school in Edna, Kansas. On May 4, 1929 she married Arthur Buck Stine in Independence, Kansas. He preceded her in...

Frank Battaglear
Jan 12, 2008
Frank L. Battaglear Frankie Lee Battaglear of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Saturday, January 12, 2008, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was 83. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Home. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery. Military honors will be afforded by the Coffeyville VFW. The family will receive friends...

Alma Nissen
Jan 11, 2008
Parsons resident, Alma L. Nissen died Thursday, January 10, 2008 in Parsons, Kansas. She was 88. Alma was born October 26, 1919 in Hayes County, Nebraska to Willis and Viola Sawyer Orcutt. She married Niss Nissen on October 26, 1937 in Willow Springs, Missouri. They moved to Coffeyville in 1947 where they made their home. He preceded her in...