Obituaries

Irene Robinson
Feb 27, 2008
Irene Doris Robinson, 90, of Coffeyville, passed away Friday, February 22, 2008 at Windsor Place. Irene was born on May 20, 1917 in Muldrow, OK, the daughter of Thomas H. and Ada Mae Bryant Hunigan. She attended grade school in Muldrow and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa, OK. She was united in marriage to Hugh T....

Gary Plisek
Feb 26, 2008
Gary Wade Plisek, 60, of Coffeyville, Kansas passed away Saturday, February, 23rd at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. Gary was born on January 28th, 1948 in Enid, Oklahoma to Jake J. and Mildred L. McCormick Plisek. He attended Sycamore Grade School and graduated from Independence High School in 1966. After graduation, he attended McFarland Trade School in Coffeyville, Kansas where...

Willow Trollope
Feb 22, 2008
Willow Lynn Trollope, infant daughter of Jon and Irene Trollope, passed away Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at CRMC. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Monday, February 25, 2008 at Sunnyside Cemetery in Caney, KS. Arrangements are under the direction of Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Home, Coffeyville, Kansas.

Louise Oskison
Feb 22, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Louise Oskison, 89, passed away Friday, February 22, 2008 at CRMC. Louise was born on November 30, 1918 in Oberlin, KS, the daughter of Lewis J. and Mary Logsdon Nipper. She married AlbertSkinny Oskison on June, 28, 1937 in Independence, KS. He preceded her in death on January 18, 1993. Louise worked at JC Penney for many...

Elton Weeks
Feb 20, 2008
Elton Weeks, 97, passed away Sunday Feb 17, 2008 at his home in Coffeyville. Elton was born on May 29, 1910, near Oswego, Kansas, to George B. and Winona I. Weeks. His grandparents were Wilson and Fannie Weeks. He grew up in Southeast Kansas and spent his Junior and Senior High years in Parsons. He attended Kansas State Teachers...

Lorene Bean
Feb 18, 2008
Lorene Ann Bean, 69, of Coffeyville, passed away on Sunday, February 17, 2008 at her home due to heart complications. She was born on September 12, 1938 in Wichita, KS, the daughter of Lawrence and Velma Loomis Wilson. She graduated from Cheney High School in 1956. In 1983 she married Billy Joe Bean in Nowata, OK. Together they operated...

Alma Magness
Feb 15, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Alma Jean Magness passed away Friday, February 15, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 97. Alma was born November 15, 1910 in Kansas City Missouri to Claude and Grace Alma Phillips McGinnis. She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma with her family where she attended school and graduated from Tulsa High School in 1928. She then attended Droughns Business College...

Eleanor Evans
Feb 12, 2008
Coffeyville resident Eleanor Elizabeth Evans entered into eternal rest on Monday, February 11, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 90. Eleanor was born June 1, 1917 in Malta Bend, Missouri to Flavel and Laura Nash Yancey. She grew up and attended school in Marshall, Missouri and graduated from Marshall High School in 1935 and in 1936 she graduated from a...

Sue Hickman
Feb 11, 2008
Sue Hickman, 63, of Coffeyville, passed away Saturday, February 9, 2008 at her home. Sue was born on January 11, 1945 in VanCouver,Washington; the daughter of John and Marguerite M. Morgan Love. She married WilliamBill Hickman on August 28, 1963 in Flagstaff, Arizona. Surviving to honor her memory is her daughter, Teresa Hickman of Tulsa, OK, son, Kelly Hickman...

Howard Mangels
Feb 9, 2008
Howard Wayne Mangels, 80 of South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, passed away on his birthday, Friday, February 8, 2008 at his home. Howard was born in the old Southeast Kansas Hospital in Coffeyville, Kansas; the son of Edmund J. and Beulah Young Mangels. He graduated from Lenapah High School in 1946. He married Susie Griswold in 1950; they orced. Howard later...

William Allcorn
Jan 31, 2008
William Harold Allcorn of Coffeyville, Kansas died Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Coffeyville. He was 93. Harold was born on March 16, 1914, the son of William Harold and Edith Alice Chesney Allcorn. He attended Field Kindley High School, graduating in 1933. He went to work for his father at Haney-Allcorn Mercantile. In 1939 he married Bessie Murdock. He...

Ann Harmon
Jan 31, 2008
Caney resident, Ann Marie Harmon died Wednesday, January 30, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 39. Ann was born April 30, 1968 to Thomas and Sue Snell Harmon in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She grew up in Caney, Kansas. She attended CaneyValleyHigh School and later received her G.E.D. Ann worked as a receptionist for local hotels. She enjoyed playing board games and...

Robert Demott, Jr.
Jan 30, 2008
Rural Coffeyville resident, Robert T. DeMott, Jr. entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at his home. He was 77. Bob was born October 17, 1930 in rural Altamont, Kansas to Robert T. and Goldie Johnson DeMott, Sr. He graduated from Labette County High School in 1949 and later attended Coffeyville Community Junior College. He married Shirley...

Bud Purkey
Jan 26, 2008
Bud Purkey, 69, of Coffeyville, passed away at his home on Friday, January 25, 2008. Bud was born on August 24, 1938 in Coffeyville, KS, the son of Arthur and Ruby Collins Purkey. He was a lifelong resident of the Coffeyville area. On March 18, 1961, he married Wanda Chambers in Coffeyville. Shortly thereafter, he established his business, Purkeys...

Patricia Shuler
Jan 26, 2008
PatriciaPatty Maye Shuler, 52, of Havana, joined her Lord on Friday, January 25, 2008 at St. Johns Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. Patty Maye was born on October 25, 1955 in Coffeyville, KS, the daughter of Ernest and Velma Hufferd. She married Mark S. Shuler on June 21, 1975 in her sisters home, North of Havana, KS. Together they...

Dovea Davis
Jan 25, 2008
Dovea N. Davis, 86, of Rural Independence, passed away Wednesday, January 23, 2008. Dovea was born on December 17, 1921 in Beaver County, OK, the daughter of Manford and Jenny Morrison Paasch. She grew up and graduated from high school in Burden, KS and attended college in Chanute, Wichita, and Pittsburgh, KS. After college, Dovea taught in Torrence, CA,...

Beverly Cranor
Jan 24, 2008
Beverly Jean Cranor 1928 -- 2008 Coffeyville resident, Beverly Jean Cranor, entered into eternal rest on January 20,2008 in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. She was 79. She was born June 18, 1928 in Coffeyville to Paul C. and Gladys L. Wallace Shaw. She grew up and attended school in Coffeyville. Jean married Rocky Cranor on November 14, 1953, in...

Hazel Lamb
Jan 24, 2008
Hazel M. Lamb, 98, of Coffeyville, Kansas died January 23, 2008 in Coffeyville. Hazel was born October 15, 1909 to Joseph and Pearl Pruett Lamb in Coffeyville, Kansas, where she lived her entire life. She attended Lowell grade school, Roosevelt Junior High and graduated from Washington High School in 1928, where she was on the National Honor Roll each...

Brooklyn Coons
Jan 23, 2008
Brooklyn Irene Coons, 23 months, of Coffeyville entered into eternal rest on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Brook was born on February 20, 2006 in Coffeyville to Randy and Angela Crosetto Coons and eagerly greeted by her big brother, Christian. She was preceded in death by her mother, Angela on August 9, 2007....

Glenna Folk
Jan 22, 2008
Glenna Mae Folk, 77, of Tyro, passed away Monday, January 21, 2008 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, OK after a sudden stroke. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2008 at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel in Coffeyville. Interment will follow in Fawn Creek Cemetery, Tyro, KS. Visitation will be 1:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.,...