Obituaries

Edna Jones
Feb 1, 2010
Edna Colleen Jones, 78, died Sunday, January 31, 2010 at her home in Coffeyville, Kansas. Edna was born January 14, 1932 at South Coffeyville, Oklahoma to Edward Billups and Minnie Lovett Billups. She grew up in South Coffeyville, attending South Coffeyville and Lenapah Schools. Edna married Charles Crum on February 11, 1950. The couple later divorced. She lived in...

Thomas Lay
Jan 28, 2010
Thomas C. Lay, 65, Coffeyville, KS, died Thursday morning, January 28, 2010 at his home. Tom was born September 20, 1944 at Hutchinson, Kansas to Clifford Lay and Orpha Jackson Lay. He moved with his family to Independence, Kansas and grew up there. Tom was a graduate of Independence High School and had attended Independence Community College. He served...

Mickey Castorena
Jan 27, 2010
Micaela Mickey Maria Castorena, 69, Coffeyville, passed away January 26, 2010 at her home, surrounded by her family. Mickey was born September 28, 1940 at Coffeyville Memorial Hospital. She grew up in Coffeyville and attended Holy Name School, as well as Coffeyville Community College. On December 31, 1956, Mickey married Octavian Keido C. Castorena at Bentonville, Arkansas. The Castorenas...

Opal Smith
Jan 25, 2010
Opal Love Smith, 79, of Coffeyville, Kansas, died early Monday morning, January 25, 2010 at Windsor Place Care Center of Coffeyville. Opal was born April 5, 1930 at Rose Hill, Oklahoma. She and her mother, Annie Mae Harrison, came to Coffeyville from Rose Hill, when Opal was very young. Opal grew up in Coffeyville and became a lifelong resident....

Carolyn Coffey
Jan 22, 2010
Carolyn Ann Coffey, 68, of Coffeyville, Kansas went home on Thursday, January 21, 2010 at the Osage Nursing Home in Nowata, Oklahoma. She was born August 29, 1941 in Des Moines, Iowa to R.W. Bunton and Margaret Renfro Bunton. Carolyn married Gary Coffey in June 1965. They were later divorced. She worked for the school system driving buses and...

Estella Akers
Jan 14, 2010
Estella Ellen Akers passed away at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Wednesday evening, January 13, 2010. She was born December 13, 1927 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Calvert A. and Beryl L. Nelson Durand. Calvert A. Durand was a former chief of the Coffeyville Fire Department, as was his father, Napoleon. Stella attended Coffeyville schools graduating from Field Kindley Memorial High...

Julia Englund
Jan 11, 2010
Julia Ann Englund, 79, of Parsons, Kansas died Sunday, January 10, 2010 at Good Samaritan Nursing Center in Parsons, Kansas. She was born May 16, 1930 in Chanute, Kansas to Floyd Englund and Thelma Mitchell. Julia attended school in Coffeyville, Kansas and was active in the Girl Scouts. She worked for WalMart in Coffeyville and after retiring volunteered for...

Marsha Adinolfi
Jan 8, 2010
Marsha Dianne Adinolfi was born on August 2, 1943 to Robert EarlJack Orsbern and Gladys Lucille Roeser in Manhattan, Kansas. She was raised by her paternal grandparents, Claude and Amanda Magnolia Orsbern, in Manhattan after her parents divorced. She graduated from Manhattan High School in 1961 and attended the Colorado Womens College CWC in Denver for a year and...

Ralph Twitchell
Jan 4, 2010
Ralph Gene Twitchell, 86, Coffeyville, KS, died late Saturday night, January 2, 2010 at Windsor Place Care Center. Ralph was born June 9, 1923 at Jefferson, KS to Sam Twitchell and Alma Manis Twitchell. He was a lifelong resident of the Coffeyville area, with the exception of his military service and six years in Wichita. Ralph served during World...

Elsie Post
Jan 2, 2010
Elsie Golda Rowlands Post was born April 6, 1908, to Arthur Ward and Sophia Lucy Gillum Rowlands of Hartford, Kansas. She received her education in the Hartford Public Schools and at Emporia State Teachers College. She taught school in Lyon County until her marriage to Claud Bryan Post on June 3, 1928. They were employed in oil field work...

Burce Tovey
Dec 31, 2009
Burce F. Tovey of Coffeyville, father of City Commissioner, Pam Jones, passed away December 31, 2009, at Windsor Place. He was born August 5, 1922, on his Uncle Charlie and Aunt Belle Rexwinkle39;s farm near Edna, Kansas. He was the third child and first son born to Frank and Pearl Acridge Tovey. At the time of his birth the...

Charles Colbert
Dec 29, 2009
Charles Colbert, 55, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma died Friday, December 25, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born December 7, 1954 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to Willard Colbert and Mary H. Nelson Colbert. Charles worked for Vallis Form Services, Phillips Petroleum for twenty years and Spears Manufacturing for the past five years. He enjoyed Christian ministry and...

Iona Herriman
Dec 28, 2009
Iona Kathryn Herriman left this earthly life on December 26, 2009, in Gunter,Texas. She was born May 14, 1919 to Olin and Emma Palmer at El Reno, Oklahoma. After graduating high school she married Odis D. Herriman. They lived in Calumet, where they farmed and owned and operated a caf. In the late 1940s they bought a farm and...

Nancy Lipe
Dec 19, 2009
Nancy C. Wilkinson Lipe, daughter of Clifford and Lucille Robinson Wilkinson was born January 19, 1942 at Farber, Missouri. Nancy passed away December 18, 2009 at her home in Coffeyville, Kansas. Nancy grew up in the FarberVandalia area and was a 1960 graduate of Van-Far High School where she loved playing high school basketball. After high school, Nancy married...

Candy Ruark
Dec 19, 2009
Candy Ann Ruark of Coffeyville, KS passed away Friday, December 18, 2009 at CRMC in Coffeyville. She was 35. Mrs. Ruark was born May 18, 1974 to Joseph and Ann Collins in Coffeyville, Kansas. She grew up and attended schools in Labette County graduating from High School in 1994. After high school she worked as a housekeeper for the...

Judy Green
Dec 15, 2009
Judy Ann Green, 62, formerly of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Monday afternoon, December 14, 2009 at the home of her daughter, Janell, in Nixa, Missouri. Judy was born August 20, 1947 at Parsons, Kansas to Fred Tucker and Hattie Davis Tucker. She grew up and began her education in Parsons. Judy married Ernest Colbert and five children were born to...

Virgil Scott
Dec 14, 2009
Virgil Warren Scott, 71, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Sunday, December, 17, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born July 18, 1938 in a small family home five miles outside of Blue Mound, Kansas to Nathaniel Scott and Lula Marie Canatsey. Virgil graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1956 and married Dorothy Mae Stumfall in Miami, Oklahoma,...

David Baldridge
Dec 9, 2009
David Edward Baldridge, 39, Independence, Kansas, died early Tuesday morning, December 8, 2009 as the result of a house fire. David was born December 16, 1969 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Joey Edward Baldridge and Janet Sue Anderson Baldridge. He grew up in Coffeyville, Oswego, Edna and Altamont, attending high school at Labette County High School. David had moved to...

Penny Reinlein
Dec 7, 2009
Penny Gayle Reinlein, 46, Independence, KS, died November 29, 2009 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS. Penny was born August 14, 1963 at Coffeyville, Kansas. She grew up in Coffeyville and then moved to Columbus, Kansas as a teenager, before returning to Coffeyville her senior year and graduating from Coffeyvilles Field Kindley High School. She attended Coffeyville Community College...

Betty Furnas
Nov 30, 2009
Betty Lou Furnas, 76, of South Coffeyville went to be with the Lord on November 27, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. She was born August 29, 1933 in Coffeyville to Anthony Tony Schiler and Norma Faye Dickey Schiler-Sanders. Betty Lou attended Garfield Elementary School and graduated from Field Kinley High School in 1951. On April 15th, 1951 she...