Obituaries

Elic Burks, Sr.
Apr 27, 2007
Elic Henry Burks, Sr. 1922 2007 Edna, Kansas resident, Elic Henry Burks, Sr. entered into eternal rest on Thursday, April 26, 2007 in Coffeyville. He was 84. He was born September 10, 1922 to LaFayette and Jessie Spradlin Burks in Hemet, California. He was a 1940 graduate of San Jacinto, California. After high school Elic entered into the United...

Gladys Rench
Apr 26, 2007
Gladys May Rench 1913 2007 The sweet spirit of Gladys May Rench, went to be with her Lord on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at the age of 93. She was born to Herman and Katie Gorton Carpenter May 2, 1913 in Alturas, California. At the age of six she and her family moved to the Wann-Noxie area in Oklahoma....

Barry Cranor
Apr 25, 2007
Barry Ray Cranor Rural Edna resident Barry Ray Cranor entered into eternal rest at his home on Monday, April 23, 2007. He was 47. Barry was born April 8, 1960 in Coffeyville to Raymond E. and Katherine A. Regel Cranor. Barry was disabled and He attended school at Parsons Training Center. His favorite pastime was watching and learning about...

Hazel Purcell
Apr 23, 2007
Fairhaven - Hazel L. Cain Miller Purcell, 84, of Westport Point, MA, formerly of Coffeyville, KS, passed away Friday, April 20, 2007 at Nichols House Nursing Home. She was the widow of Staff Sgt. Thomas C. Miller. Born in Coffeyville, KS, a daughter of the late Virn L. and Mary Timmerman Cain, she had lived in Coffeyville her entire...

John Patton
Apr 21, 2007
John L. Patton Grove, Oklahoma resident, John Lewallen Patton entered into eternal rest on Thursday, April 19, 2007 in Bartlesville. He was 61. John was born on September 22, 1945 in Cherokee, Oklahoma to Hubert Victor and Norma Lee Stevens Patton. He attended schools in Alfalfa County. In his early teens the family moved to California and John graduated...

Edith Moon
Apr 21, 2007
Edith Stapleton Moon Coffeyville resident Edith Fern Moon entered eternal rest on Friday, April 20, 2007 in Coffeyville. She was 92. She was born June 2, 1914 in Coffeyville, KS to Conaway Charles and Eunice Vivery Scott Baker. She graduated from Field Kindley High School in 1932 and from Coffeyville Community College in 1934 On June 15, 1935 she...

Mathilda Bruhn
Apr 18, 2007
Mathilda Florence Bruhn 1916 2007 Coffeyville resident, Mathilda Florence Bruhn, entered into rest on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at her residence. She was 91. Miss Bruhn was born February 1, 1916 to Henry and Mathilda Freda Burchardt Bruhn in Altamont, Kansas. She attended country schools around Angola, Kansas. Miss Bruhn worked for Kress Five amp; Dime Store downtown Coffeyville....

Hazel Davis
Apr 16, 2007
Hazel M. Jones Davis 1912 2007 Hazel M. Jones Davis, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, entered into rest on April 12, 2007 at the Mease Countryside Hospital in Safety Harbor, Florida. She was 94. Hazel was born Aug. 2, 1912 to John Burnett and Lena Hahn Burnett in Chetopa, Kansas. On Oct. 4, 1956 she married Charles Ansel Jones at...

Janice Withers
Apr 16, 2007
Janice Elaine Thorley Withers 1933 2007 Janice Elaine Thorley Withers, 73, left this earth to be with the Lord on Sunday, April 15, 2007. She was born in Canton, Ohio on September 28, 1933 to Earl and Delores Fort Thorley. She was a 1951 graduate of McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio. After graduating high school, Janice moved to...

Donald Slaton
Apr 10, 2007
Rural Coffeyville rsident Donald K. Slaton joined Nadine, his loving wife of 60 years, in eternal rest on Monday, April 9, 2007 at his home. He was 76. Don was born on November 21, 1930. He lived his entire life in the Coffeyville area and worked as a truck driver. He retired from the Missouri-Pacific railroad and later farmed...

Paul Drake, Jr.
Apr 9, 2007
PaulBud J. Drake, Jr. 1935 2007 PaulBud J. Drake, Jr., age 72, Coffeyville resident entered into rest on April 6, 2007 at his home. Paul was born September 7, 1935 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Paul J. Drake, Sr. and Edith Drake. He attended Coffeyville Schools as a child. He married Carol Gibson 1963 in Independence, Kansas. She preceded him...

Marguerite Jarrett
Apr 6, 2007
Coffeyville resident Marguerite A. Jarrett entered into rest on Friday, April 6, 2007 in Coffeyville. She was 92. Marguerite was born August 10, 1914 to Douglas and Inez C. Shirley Blick-Hadsell. She was raised by her mother and step-father Charles Hadsell. She attended schools in Coffeyville and was a member of the first graduating class from Field Kindley High...

Aileen Mccarter
Apr 6, 2007
Coffeyville resident, Aileen Clydeena McCarter entered into rest on Thursday evening, April 5, 2007 in Coffeyville. She was 85. Aileen Clydeena McCarter was born on September 12, 1921 near Cherryvale, Kansas to Herman C. and Frances C. RottermanPittenger. She was a 1941 graduate of Field Kindley Memorial High School. She worked in a photography shop as an artist oil...

Idris Mayfield
Apr 4, 2007
Idris Ellen Mayfield Idris Ellen Mayfield, 86, of Steelville, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at University of Missouri Center in Columbia, Missouri. She was born October 26, 1920 in Osawatomie, Kansas, the daughter of George and Mary Mulholland Casida. Idris was united in marriage to Roy Mayfield on July 22, 1943 in Biloxi, Mississippi...

Clifford Knisley
Mar 28, 2007
CliffordSonny L. Knisley 1935 2007 CliffordSonny L. Knisley, age 71, South Coffeyville, Oklahoma resident, entered into rest on March 27, 2007 at the Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. Clifford was born July 20, 1935 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Lou and Florence McGinnis Knisley. He attended Coffeyville and Lenapah schools. On October 30, 1953 he married Dollie Ann Sitsler...

Ambrose Thomas
Mar 28, 2007
Ambrose E. Thomas 1934 2007 Ambrose E. Thomas entered into rest on Monday, March 26, 2007. He was 72 years old. He was born on October 5, 1934 in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Roosevelt and Pearlie Mae Adams Thomas. He attended schools in Mansfield, Ohio. Ambrose retired as the owneroperator of Thomas Pest Control in California. Survivors include daughter, Cherice...

Martha Smith
Mar 26, 2007
Coffeyville resident Martha M. Smith died on Sunday, March 25, 2007 in Coffeyville. She was 76. Martha was born on May 17,1930 in Montgomery County, Kansas to Johnnie H. and Mary Elizabeth Franks Connor. She attended rural schools in Montgomery County. On February 1, 1946 she married Willard Allen Smith in Coffeyville. They made their home in South Coffeyville...

Doris Green
Mar 26, 2007
DORIS GREEN 1933 2007 Doris Green, 74, of Coffeyville, Kansas finally found peace at home after a long illness on the 24th of March 2007. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, First Sergeant retired Earl R. Dick Green; daughter, Colonel retired Karen Seipp and son-in-law, John Seipp, of San Antonio, TX; son Richard Green of Bartlesville,...

William Gregory, Jr.
Mar 22, 2007
WilliamBill J. Gregory, Jr. 1922 2007 WilliamBill J. Gregory, Jr., age 84, entered into rest on March 22, 2007 at the St. Johns Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. William was born June 19, 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky to William J. Gregory, Sr. amp; Anna Hoffman Gregory. He graduated from Manual High School in 1940. WilliamBill served in the US Army...

Rebecca Maritt
Mar 22, 2007
RebeccaBecky Elaine Maritt 1951 2007 RebeccaBecky Elaine Maritt, age 56, entered into rest on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at her residence in Coffeyville, Kansas. Rebecca was born February 11, 1951 in Kansas City, Kansas her parents Lyle amp; Mildred Phelps and Dean amp; Betty Noland Wood. She graduated from Anderson High School in Anderson, Missouri in 1969. In June...