Obituaries

Rosalind Rapp
Dec 18, 2008
Rosalind Marie Rapp, 74, of Chillicothe, OH passed away Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at her home. A memorial service will be held Friday, December 19, 2008 at 10 a.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church in Chillicothe with Pastors John Kidnsvatter and Janie Karl officiating. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at 2 p.m., at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns...

Lucille Bryson
Dec 18, 2008
Lucille Bryson of Edna, Kansas passed away Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was 89. Lucille was born November 5, 1919 in Craig County, Oklahoma to Charles and Belle Acridge Rexwinkle. She grew up and attended Plainview Schools in Craig County. On October 24, 1936 she married Preston Jack Cook in Vinita, Oklahoma. He...

Stephen Volk
Dec 18, 2008
Coffeyville resident Stephen Richard Volk passed away Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at his home. He was 60. Steve was born November 15, 1948 in Coffeyville, Kansas to Jack and Donnette Hicks Volk. He grew up and attended Coffeyville schools, graduating from Field Kindley Memorial High School. He graduated from McFarland Trade School as a machinist and also as an...

Ruby Davis
Dec 15, 2008
Ruby Lee Davis, 85, of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, December 14, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center of Coffeyville, Kansas. Ruby was born on June 10, 1923 in Attalla, Alabama, the daughter of Ralph and Arrie Yother Nunn. She graduated from Sardis High School and attended Snead Junior College in Boaz, Alabama until she joined the WWII...

Mary Zeigler
Dec 12, 2008
Mary Patricia Patty Zeigler, 63, of rural Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Thursday, December 11, 2008 at her home. Patty was born to Jack and Joleen Dietz on April 24, 1945 in Coffeyville, Kansas. She attended school in Coffeyville and Ponca City, Oklahoma. She was a graduate of Field Kindley High School in 1963 and of Coffeyville Community College in...

Joyce Mccray
Dec 11, 2008
Joyce M. McCray, 76 of Liberty, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, December 10, 2008. Graveside services will be held at 3:30 p.m., Saturday, December 13, 2008 at Liberty Cemetery, Liberty, Kansas with a Celebration of Life Service following at 4:30 p.m. at the Liberty United Methodist Church. Friends may call from 2:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., Friday, December 12th at...

Joseph Briggs, Sr.
Dec 9, 2008
Joseph D. Briggs, 83, formerly of Coffeyville died Friday, December 5, 2008 at RHD Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. He was the son of Roger Lewis and Essie Reed Briggs born on January 1, 1925 in Pittsburg, Kansas. He attended Pittsburg Kansas High School; and later graduated from Coffeyville Community College. He enlisted in the US Navy on July...

William Cornett
Dec 9, 2008
Coffeyville resident WilliamDavid Cornett passed away Friday, December 5, 2008 in Huntsville, Alabama as a result of a traffic accident. He was 59. David was born October 20, 1949 in Coffeyville, Kansas to William Chester and Elsie Mae Oder Cornett. He grew up in Coffeyville schools until he enlisted in the military in 1968. He served in Vietnam, was...

Joann Sumner
Dec 7, 2008
Coffeyville resident, JoAnn Sumner passed away Friday, December 5, 2008 at Windsor Place in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was 75. JoAnn was born December 19, 1932 in Neodesha, Kansas to William and Lela McClure Hensley. She grew up attending Coffeyville schools where she earned her diploma in 1950. October 11, 1955 she was united in marriage to her loving husband...

Addis Messersmith
Dec 7, 2008
Addis Christopher Messersmith, age 93, died December 4, 2008, at the Chanute Health Care Center in Chanute, Kansas. He had been in failing health for the past several months. Mr. Messersmith was a life-long resident of Montgomery County, but spent the past two years in Humboldt to be close to his daughter. Mr. Messersmith was born May 2, 1915,...

Marron Bolte
Nov 28, 2008
Marron Arvine Bolte, 86, of Wann, Oklahoma, passed away Thursday, November 27, 2008 at her home. She was born on November 1, 1922 in Augusta, Kansas, the daughter of Ed and Tressa Glover. She grew up and attended schools in Augusta. Marron married LewisBus Bolte on January 1, 1941 in Augusta. He preceded her in death in 1990. In...

Vernie Baldwin
Nov 24, 2008
Vernie W. Baldwin, of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was 98. Vernie was born January 21, 1910 near Worland, Missouri to Lon and Lura Leona Franklin Baldwin. He attended Red Top School through the eighth grade. He was a 1927 graduate of Pleasanton, Kansas High School. He worked at farming with...

Lula Shearhart
Nov 22, 2008
Lula Charline Shearhart, 65, of Wayside, Kansas, went to her heavenly home on Friday, November 21, 2008 at Via Christi Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She was born October 9, 1943 to Charlie L. Croney and Lula Oline Frair Croney at Dustin, Oklahoma. She grew up in Wichita, Howard and Longton,...

Willard Everett
Nov 21, 2008
Willard Leroy Everett, 93, of Coffeyville, passed away early Friday morning, November 21, 2008 at Cherryvale Care Center, Cherryvale, Kansas. Willard was born January 10, 1915 at Eureka Springs, Arkansas to Alfred and Nellie Grimes Everett. Grew up in Bentonville, Arkansas and later moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas. He moved to Denver, Colorado, where he met and later married,...

Homer Adams
Nov 10, 2008
Homer Adams, 81, formerly of Coffeyville, passed away November 8, 2008, among friends and family in Frontenac, Kansas, after suffering from a long illness. Homer Frederick Adams was born June 12, 1927 near Sharon, in rural Barber County, Kansas, to Ralph C. and Arvilla Byers Adams. Homer spent his early childhood on farms near Sharon and Wellington, Kansas. While...

Dale Vogt
Nov 4, 2008
Dale U. Vogt, 75, of Coffeyville, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, with his loving and devote wife at his side. He was born March 9, 1933 in Payne County, Oklahoma, the son of John and Bessie Crenshaw Vogt. In 1950, Dales family moved to Coffeyville where he met Lois May Draeger. They...

Leroy Fisher
Nov 3, 2008
Mr. Leroy Fisher died at his home in rural South Coffeyville, Oklahoma on Monday, November 3, 2008. Mr. Fisher was born on January 23, 1929, in Coffeyville, Kansas to Rose Knisley and Jim Fisher. He attended local schools and in 1952, he joined the Plumbers amp; Pipefitters Local Union in McAllen, Texas; later transferring to Local 339 of Coffeyville....

Dorothy Stevens
Oct 31, 2008
Lifetime Coffeyville resident, Dorothy F. Stevens, 88, passed away Thursday, October 30, 2008. She was born on June 25, 1920 in Coffeyville, the daughter of Fay and Bessie Payne Greene. On July 22, 1936, Dorothy married Paul B. Stevens in Coffeyville. He preceded her in death on February 16, 1981. Surviving to honor her memory are her children, Robert...

Opal Rasbach
Oct 29, 2008
Opal A. Rasbach, 98 passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008. Cremation has taken place and no public service is being held.

Hilton Davis
Oct 27, 2008
Hilton Kunze Davis, 92, a retired Navy Captain, U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Sunday, October 26, 2008 at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center, Coffeyville, Kansas. Mr. Davis was born May 1, 1916, the son of Walter A. and Blanche Kunze Davis. He was a graduate of the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science...