Obituaries

Helena Papen
Jun 28, 2010
Helena I. Papen, 82, Coffeyville, Kansas, died Sunday, June 27, 2010 at Continuous Care Centers of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Helena was born March 29, 1928 at Caney, Kansas to George Lee and Jenny Hasty Lee. She grew up in the Coffeyville area and was a graduate of Field Kindley High School. Helena was working at a drug store at Ninth...

Timothy Martindale
Jun 22, 2010
Timothy R. Martindale, 52, Coffeyville, died Monday, June 21, 2010 at his home. Tim was born August 29, 1957 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Norman Martindale and Nora Jean Bradley Martindale. He grew up in Arizona, moving back to Coffeyville some 25 years ago. Tim had served in the U.S. Army and did masonry work. He loved the outdoors, fishing...

Dorothy Pitts
Jun 22, 2010
Dorothy W. Erne Pitts, 91, West Sacramento, California and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away, Monday, June 21, 2010 at the River Bend Nursing Center in West Sacramento. Dorothy was born August 18, 1918 at Coffeyville, Kansas to William H. Erne and Mary Babb Erne. She grew up in Coffeyville where she worked on her parents dairy farm and...

Izetta Dempsey-Epps
Jun 21, 2010
Izetta G.Ike DempseyEpps, 81, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born February 26, 1929 in Coffeyville, Kansas to George W. Piner and Mildred Albright. Ike graduated from Field Kindley High School in 1946, where she was a member of the Field Kindley...

Cornelia Davis
Jun 18, 2010
Cornelia Fort Davis of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, June 17, 2010 at CRMC. Cornelia was born July 28, 1920 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Charles T. and Lesta Baker Fort. She attended the University of Alabama and also the University of Texas. Cornelia was a member of the PEO Sisterhood and the First United Methodist Church of Coffeyville. She accompanied...

Charles Morris
Jun 9, 2010
Charles Clinton Morris, age 68, a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, passed away on June 4, 2010 at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Charles was born on September 3, 1941 at Coffeyville, Kansas, a son of the late Samuel Clinton and Evelyn Lucille Thompson Morris. He attended elementary and Roosevelt Jr. High School in Coffeyville before moving with his...

Clara Maggard
Jun 8, 2010
Clara Audrey Maggard, 93, Coffeyville, died Sunday, June 6, 2010 at Windsor Place Care Center, Coffeyville. Clara was born September 1, 1916 at Wettington, Arkansas to Edmund Wise and Ethel Roberts Wise. She grew up in NW Arkansas around Wettington, Siloam Springs, Fayetteville and Bentonville. Clara married Emanuel William Maggard in July of 1933. Mr. Maggard preceded his wife...

Betty Brockway
Jun 1, 2010
Betty Ann McPheeters Brockway. 78, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, May 30, 2010 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born September 4, 1931 in Coffeyville, at Southeast Kansas Hospital to Marvell Kathryne Shultz and Thomas Marion McPheeters, Jr. She lived her childhood years in the area. Her parents presented her with a sister, Carol Sue on August 26,...

Robert Miller
May 25, 2010
Robert E. Miller, 79, Coffeyville, passed away Monday afternoon, May 24, 2010 at his home. Robert was born May 25, 1930 at Coffeyville, to Jake Miller and Irma Evans Miller. He grew up in Coffeyville and was a graduate of Field Kindley Memorial High School and Coffeyville Junior College before entering the U.S. Air Force in 1951. Robert married...

Bessie Mason
May 23, 2010
Bessie Leoma Mason Bessie L. Hart Mason, 93, of Coffeyville, passed away at Windsor Place Care Center of Coffeyville, May 22, 2010 at 6:45 a.m. Bessie was born on June 11, 1916 to Alexander Hart amp Betty Jane Funk Hart at Hiawassie, AR. She lived in Arkansas, Washington, New Mexico and Oklahoma as a child before moving to Coffeyville,...

Louise Chappell
May 20, 2010
Louise I. Chappell, 93, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born January 18, 1917 in St. Paul, Kansas to Joseph Sterk and Mary G. Smith Sterk. Louise was raised and attended schools in St. Paul and Parsons, Kansas. She spent some time living overseas before returning to the states and...

Robert Junge
May 17, 2010
John 11:2526 states,I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Daddy is now with his Savior, and in his real home. Even his quest for healthful eating that includedsardines, was replaced with the joy that can be...

Thomas Pinckney
May 12, 2010
ThomasTommy Allen Pinckney, 36, of Coffeyville passed away Monday, May 10, 2010 at his home. Tommy was born November 15, 1973 in Coffeyville to Mike and Janet Pinckney. He grew up in Coffeyville where he attended school. On October 19, 2002 he was united in marriage to the love of his life Penny Collins. The couple made their home...

Dorothy Dew
May 9, 2010
Dorothy Gene Lester Dew, 86, of Ponca City, Oklahoma passed peacefully at Shawn Manor Nursing Home in Ponca City. She was born October 8, 1923 at Muskogee, Oklahoma to William K. Lester and Carrie E. LaBrue Lester. Dorothy grew up and attended schools in Coffeyville, Kansas and met her future husband William I. Dew when he was stationed at...

Marian Newby
May 8, 2010
Marian Allene Newby, 82, Coffeyville, died Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville. Marian was born March 26, 1928 in Coffeyville, KS to Vernie and Viola Mae Coy. She grew up and attended school in Coffeyville. She married James Wesley Newby on September 4, 1943. She is survived by her husband and son, James Michael Newby of...

Obe Alston, Jr.
May 8, 2010
Obe Eugene Alston, Jr., 84, Dewey, Oklahoma, formerly of Coffeyville, passed away Thursday, May 6, 2010 at Forrest Manor Nursing Home in Dewey. Obe was born November 7, 1925 at Nuyaka, Oklahoma to Obe Eugene Alston, Sr. and Loni M. Macabee Alston. He grew up near Nuyaka and attended the rural schools of the area. Obe worked in the...

Shirley Dewey
May 7, 2010
Shirley Ann Dewey of Coffeyville passed away Thursday, May 6, 2010 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was 79. Surviving to honor her memory is her son, Doug Dewey and Connie Smith of Coffeyville, KS seven grandchildren and fourteen greatgrandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dennis daughter, Janet Folk and sisters, Helen and...

Cretta Barber
May 6, 2010
Cretta Violet Barber, 89, of Coffeyville died Thursday, May 6, 2010, in Windsor Place. She was born August 18, 1920, to Joseph Albert and Lovina Flavila Oneslager Stephens in Independence, Kansas. The family moved to Coffeyville while she was in elementary school, and she completed her education here. On December 21, 1939, she married Estel Leroy Barber in Claremore,...

Nellie Jones
May 5, 2010
Nellie Jones, 94, of Coffeyville died Wednesday at Medicalodge in Coffeyville. Funeral arrangements are pending under the direction of PenwellGabel FordWulfBruns Chapel in Coffeyville.

Floyd Timmerman
May 3, 2010
Floyd Buster Timmerman, 92, of Cherryvale, Kansas died Saturday, May 1, 2010 at the Veterans Hospital in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He was born April 25, 1918 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma to Richard Aquila and Ethel Mae Timmerman. Floyd was the oldest of 11 children. In 1927 the family moved from Oklahoma to Coffeyville, Kansas. In March 1942 Floyd was inducted into...