Obituaries
Loretta Jean Hershberger
Jan 11, 2021
Loretta Jean Hershberger of Toronto, died on Monday, January 11, 2021, at the Eureka Nursing Center, in Eureka, at the age of 83. She was born on August 2, 1937, in Huntsville, Arkansas, the daughter of Robert Lyle and Mary Belle (Johnson) Simmons. She was raised in the Independence-Bolton, Kansas area and graduated from Independence High School. She later attended...
Robert Rex "Bob" Williams
Jan 1, 2021
Robert Rex “Bob” Williams of Eureka, died on Friday, January 1, 2021, at the Eureka Nursing Center, in Eureka, at the age of 91. He was born on November 15, 1929, in Granada, Colorado, the son of Clyde Ernest “Buddy” and Gladys Centelia (Nelson) Williams. When Bob was 2, the family moved to the Neal area. Bob attended local schools...
Glenn E. Brown
Dec 19, 2020
Glenn Earl Brown of Eureka, died on Saturday, December 19, 2020, at the Eureka Nursing Center, in Eureka, at the age of 86. He was born on August 30, 1934, in Piedmont, Kansas, the son of William Francis and Mildred Lillian (Indermill) Brown. He was raised in rural Eureka and attended Farmington school. He later attended Enterprise Academy at Enterprise,...
Opal Irene Simmons
Dec 17, 2020
Opal Irene Simmons of Eureka, died on Thursday, December 17, 2020 at the Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 97. She was born on October 28, 1923, in Elk City, Kansas, the daughter of Frank L. and Anna H. (McCarty) Wilson. She was raised in Elk City, the family living there until Opal was 10 at which...
Gordon C. "Skip" Wassell, Jr.
Dec 15, 2020
Gordon Colliss Wassell, Jr., informally known as “Skip” to most, was born in Halstead, Kansas on July 30, 1934, to Jane (Shumway) Wassell, later “Jane Dennis,” and Gordon Colliss Wassell, Sr. While still just a small baby, Skip acquired his nickname from his Grandfather Shumway, when his grandfather affectionately lifted him high with delight and pronounced this new grandchild, “the...
Carolyn Jayne Keleher
Dec 15, 2020
Carolyn “Jayne” Keleher Carolyn Jayne Keleher, formerly of Mountain Home, Texas, died Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas, at the age of 87. Jayne was born October 11, 1933, in Iowa City, Iowa, the daughter of Gordon and Margaret (Cochrum) Marsh. She was raised in Iowa City, attending local schools and graduating from Iowa City...
Thresa Mary Ehrhart
Dec 9, 2020
Thresa M. Ehrhart Thresa Mary Ehrhart, formerly of Kansas City, Kansas, died on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas, at the age of 84. She was born on February 22, 1936, in rural Woodson County, Kansas, the daughter of John and Frances (Sicka) Hoag. She was raised in rural Yates Center and attended the Yates...
Stan Marshall
Nov 6, 2020
Miles Stanley Marshall, of Eureka, died on Friday, November 6, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 87. He was born on October 28, 1933, in Wichita, the son of John Teter and Margaret Susan (Bright) Marshall. He was raised in Eureka and graduated from Eureka High School with the Class of 1951. He then went...
Jack Dale Alford
Nov 4, 2020
Jack Dale Alford, of Eureka, died on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 63. He was born on June 30, 1957, in Eureka, the son of Kenneth Duane and Mary Ellen (Dye) Alford. He was raised in Eureka and attended local schools. He started working in oilfield jobs. On July 15, 1978,...
Donald Dean Chaplin
Oct 31, 2020
Donald Dean Chaplin, of Piedmont, died Saturday, October 31, at the Robert J. Dole V. A. Hospital, in Wichita, at the age of 84. Don was born May 13, 1936, in Enid, Oklahoma, the son of Veryl Aaron and Esther Cecilia (Kretchmar) Chaplin. He lost his father at age 3 and lived with his grandparents until his mother remarried. He...
Carolyn Louise Harber
Oct 28, 2020
Carolyn Louise Harber, of Eureka, died on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at Vintage Park in Eureka, at the age of 81. She was born on October 26, 1939, in Independence, Kansas, the daughter of Stanley Max and Thelma Louise (Jones) Richardson. She was raised in Independence and attended local schools, graduating from Independence High School with the Class of 1957....
William S. Hart
Oct 17, 2020
Dr. William S. Hart of Eureka, died on Saturday, October 17, 2020, at Vintage Park in Eureka, at the age of 88. He was born on November 28, 1931, in Dewey, Oklahoma, the son of Perry J. and Letha Elizabeth (Cotton) Hart. He was raised in Oklahoma and Kansas and graduated from Eureka High School. He then attended Emporia State...
Bill Gaines
Oct 8, 2020
William Robert “Bill” Gaines, of Eureka, peacefully departed this world at home in Eureka, in his favorite safe haven, on October 8, 2020, at the age of 54. He was born on November 18, 1965 in El Dorado, Kansas, the son of Franklin Delano and Barbara Ann (Barnes) Gaines. He was raised in Augusta, Longton, and Burkett, graduating from Longton...
Linda Sue Buck
Oct 2, 2020
Linda Sue (Keleher) Buck, formerly of Eureka, died at her home in Mountain Home, Texas, on October 2, 2020, at the age of 60. She was born on July 11, 1960, Wichita, the daughter of Daniel Dean and Carolyn Jayne (Marsh) Keleher. She was raised in Wichita and attended local schools graduating from Wichita East High School. On June 6,...
Dolores Ashlock
Oct 1, 2020
Gwendolyn “Dolores” Ashlock of Eureka, died on Thursday, October 1, 2020, at her home in Eureka, at the age of 99. She was born on November 23, 1920, in Lamar, Colorado, the daughter of Clyde Ernest “Buddy” and Gladys Centelia (Nelson) Williams. She was raised in the Neal/Quincy area and attended Tonovay High School. On June 22, 1938, Dolores was...
Heath Dean Brown
Sep 19, 2020
Heath Dean Brown of rural Eureka, Kansas, son of Bobby “Bob” and Janice (Davis) Brown, left this troubled world September 19, 2020, at Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa, in Wichita, at the age of 36. Heath was born December 24, 1983 at Newman Hospital, Emporia, Kansas. Heath attended and graduated from the Eureka, Kansas school system, Class of 2002. He...
Margaret Ann Coleman
Sep 16, 2020
Margaret A. “Peggy” Coleman, 82, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, after a short battle with cancer. Peggy was born Margaret Ann McKinney on October 10, 1937 to Charles William and Margaret Jane (Shell) McKinney in Wilmington, Ohio. The family left Ohio and moved to several different locations before they settled in...
Barbara Carlene Lewis-Long
Sep 15, 2020
Barbara Carlene Lewis-Long of Eureka, died on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at the Kansas Medical Center in Andover at the age of 85. Barbara was born March 30, 1935, in Dodge City, Kansas, the first child of Carl Wilford and Evelyn Elizabeth (Thompson) Zink on a wheat farm. She was born two weeks before the worst dust bowl storm to...
Mary Ellen Mock
Sep 11, 2020
Mary Ellen Mock of Eureka, died on Friday, September 11, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 100. She was born on April 10, 1920, in Quincy, Kansas, the daughter of Bernard “Barney”, Jr. and Loleta (Gilroy) Brown. She was raised in Quincy and graduated from Quincy High School with the Class of 1938. She later...
Jay Wilks Cowan
Aug 23, 2020
Major Jay Wilks Cowan of Gilbert, Arizona, died in August of 2020 in Gilbert, Arizona at the age of 76. He was born in May of 1944, in Hutchinson, Kansas, the son of Clarence “Bus” Ridenour Cowan and Mary Evelyn (Wilks) Cowan. Jay, a graduate of Emporia High School in 1962, went on to attended Emporia State University earning a...
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