Obituaries

Etta Latham
Jul 22, 2009
Etta Pearl Latham, 96, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, died Saturday, July 18, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Pearl was born October 13, 1912 at Wichita, Kansas to RobertBob Spivey and Ada Harp Spivey Ireland. She grew up and was educated in Wichita. Pearl married Raymond March on June 20, 1928 at Choctaw, Oklahoma. The couple orced in 1950....

Joseph Johnson
Jul 16, 2009
Infant son Joseph Rashaud Johnson of Coffeyville passed away Sunday, July 12, 2009 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 4 months old. Changes have been made to the funeral date and time. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at the St. Johns Church of Faith in Coffeyville. Burial will follow...

John Nokes
Jun 26, 2009
John William Nokes, 80, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Friday, June 26, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was born September 25, 1928 in Tegarden, Oklahoma to Orie Allen Nokes and Ester Crabb Nokes. He attended school at Pleasant Ridge School in Oklahoma and was a veteran of the US Army, serving in the Korean War. He is a...

Bessie Taylor
Jun 24, 2009
Bessie Mae Taylor, 96, Coffeyville, Kansas died Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Taylor was born January 14, 1913 at Depew, Oklahoma to Major Harden and Cornelius CaldoniaCallie Fields Harden. She grew up in the Depew area until age 13, when her family moved to Dearing, Kansas, where she first learned to crochet. Bessie married...

Dorothy Geeding
Jun 24, 2009
Dorothy Dean Geeding, 79, of Coffeyville, Kansas died Monday, June 22, 2009 at Medicalodge Nursing Center in Coffeyville. She was born September 24, 1929 in Fairmont, North Dakota to Walter Richardson and Viola Soard. Dorothy married Richard Geeding on October 30, 1948 and held many jobs in addition to being a full time homemaker. She was preceded in death...

Mattie Garner
Jun 20, 2009
MattieMolly Lee Garner of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Friday, June 19, 2009 at Windsor Place Nursing Home. She was 88. Molly was born June 7, 1921 in Scotland, Arkansas to H.J. and Estella Stubblefield Jones. She grew up and received her education in Scotland. On November 20, 1938 she was united in marriage to O.G. Garner. The couple made...

Paula Newman
Jun 8, 2009
Paula Ann Newman, 64, Coffeyville, died Saturday, June 6, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Paula was born February 20, 1945 at Coffeyville to John Baldauf and Pauline Benton Baldauf. She was a lifelong resident of the Coffeyville community, graduating from Field Kindley High School and then from Independence Junior College with a degree in Art. Paula married Charles...

Lloyd Crutchfield
Jun 8, 2009
Lloyd Eugene Crutchfield, 82, recently residing in Overland Park, Kansas, passed away June 5, 2009, surrounded by family. Eugene was born April 2, 1927, in Capron, Oklahoma, son of the late Oneita McCarty Riggs and Charles Redford Crutchfield. He was the older of two children. Eugene graduated from Field Kindley Memorial High School in Coffeyville, KS in May of...

Fern Harkins
Jun 3, 2009
Fern Elizabeth Harkins, 93, of Coffeyville, died Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at Windsor Place Care Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. Fern was born November 30, 1915 at Wauneta, Kansas to Will A. Winchell and Lula Jane Doty Winchell. She grew up in Wauneta and attended high school in Cedar Vale, Kansas, where she graduated in 1934. Fern then graduated from Bartlesville...

Lucile Gump
Jun 2, 2009
Lucile Gump of Coffeyville passed away Tuesday, June 2, 2009 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville after a long and full life at age 99. Lucile, the daughter of Jess and Edith Nitcher, was born in Baldwin City, Kansas February 16, 1910. Her family then moved to their farm at Rantoul, Kansas where she completed school. After high school she...

Myrtle Murray
May 29, 2009
Myrtle A. Murray passed away quietly on May 27, 2009 at the age of 97 in Beacon Shores Nursing Home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was born on December 20, 1911 in Missouri to the late F.C. and Cordelia Jessee. Myrtle was the fourth of five daughters. She was raised and lived on a farm and was very active...

Rosa Lewis
May 21, 2009
Rosa Lea Lewis formerly of Coffeyville passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2009 at Regal Estates in Independence, KS. She was 65. Rosa Lea was born November 11, 1943 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Wincle and Floye Twitchell. She grew up in Coffeyville and attended local schools graduating from Field Kindley Memorial High School. She then went on to attend a...

Norman Phipps
May 18, 2009
Norman LaRue Phipps, 82, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009 at Ray County Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Missouri. He was born July 28, 1926 in Coffeyville, Kansas, the son of Erwin and Sylvia Barnard Clough. He married Nila Louise Scott in Coffeyville and they celebrated sixty years of marriage in November of 2008. Norman worked for...

Theodore Grasz
May 18, 2009
Theodore W.Tate Grasz, 91, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma died Saturday, May 16, 2009 at Medicalodge in Dewey, Oklahoma. He was born October 29, 1917 in Lenapah, Oklahoma to Charles M. Grasz and Elizabeth Lampe Grasz. Theodore grew up on his parents farm five miles northwest of Lenapah and attended school at District 19, better known as Crowholler. He was...

Caroline Brower
May 18, 2009
Caroline Marie Lamar Brower died May 16, 2009 in Van Nuys, California. Mrs. Brower was born March 19, 1936 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Paul and Effie Bellomy Lamar and was reared in Dearing, attending Coffeyville schools. On September 29, 1963, she married Mr. Doyle Wayne Brower. Mr. and Mrs. Brower mad their home in Sun Valley, California where they...

Harold Harper
May 15, 2009
Harold Gene Harper, 70, Talala, Oklahoma died Tuesday, May 13, 2009 at his home after a battle with cancer. Gene was born January 23, 1939 at Talala to William Berton Harper and Clara E. Philpott Harper. He grew up in Talala and was a 1957 graduate of Talala High School. Shortly after graduation, Gene joined the U.S. Navy, serving...

Mary Gato
May 11, 2009
Mary A. Gato, 97, Coffeyville, Kansas, died early Monday, May 11, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Mary was born August 1, 1911 at Scranton, Pennsylvania to Alex and Mary Zurinskas. She grew up and attended school in Scranton. Mary married Joseph Franko Gato, who preceded her in death in 1957. She worked for Morris White Fashion Pocketbook Factory...

Amy Blagg
May 11, 2009
Amy Jo Blagg, 44, Caney, Kansas, died Saturday night, May 9, 2009 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident. Amy was born December 29, 1964 at Coffeyville to Milton G. Miner and Shirley J. Majors Miner. She grew up in Coffeyville and was a 1982 graduate of Coffeyvilles Field...

Kyler Blagg
May 11, 2009
Kyler Ray Blagg, 15, Caney, Kansas died Sunday, May 10, 2009 at St. Francis Hospital, Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Kylers mother, Amy Blagg, passed away Saturday night in Coffeyville as a result of the same accident. Kyler was born October 27, 1993 at Coffeyville, Kansas to Brent A. Blagg and Amy...

Wilma Brinkman
May 11, 2009
Wilma Jean Brinkman, 78, went to be with the Lord on May 11, 2009 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She was born July 21, 1930 in Nowata County, Oklahoma to Charles Sutton and Florence Lybarger Sutton. On March 6, 1959 she married Marin Carl Nolte who preceded her in death on May 17, 1970. On May...