Obituaries

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.,...

Argyle Pearce
Jan 21, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Arglye N. Pearce, died on January 15, 2008 in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was 94. Argyle was born on March 11, 1913 in West Plains, Missouri to G.B. and Rosa E. Callahan Pulley. She graduated from Field Kindley High School and later earned a degree in cosmetology. Mrs. Pearce was a hair stylist and a homemaker. She worked...

John Richards, Sr.
Jan 18, 2008
Coffeyville resident, John E. Richards, Sr. died on Thursday, January 17, 2008 in Independence. He was 86. John was born Janaury 22, 1921 in Hugo, Oklahoma to Wilford and Etna Farris Richards. He grew up and attended schools in Coffeyville. He married Marcella Morris in September of 1937. They made their home in Coffeville and he served in the...

Rosemary Tipton
Jan 18, 2008
ROSEMARY JOE TIPTON Former Coffeyville resident, Rosemary Joe Tipton died January 14, 2008 in Aloha, Oregon. She was 90. Rosemary was born and raised in Coffeyville, Kansas to Jesse Leroy and Vera Bun Starring Skinner. Mr. Skinner was the former owner of Skinner Funeral Home. She grew up and attended Field Kindley High School amp; Coffeyville Junior College where...

Charlotte Mcnutt
Jan 17, 2008
Neodesha resident Charlotte I. McNutt died Wednesday, January 16, 2008 in Wichita, Kansas. She was 63. Charlotte was born January 19, 1944 to Fred and Eva Leyda Friend in Independence, Kansas. She grew up and graduated high school in Independence. In 1963 she married George R. Smith, they later orced. She worked many years as a cosmotologist in the...

Elizabeth Stewart
Jan 16, 2008
Coffeyville resident, Elizabeth Lillian Stewart died on Monday, January 14, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 93. Elizabeth was born on August 14, 1914 in Xenia, Kansas to Jesse Fidelis Robb and Geneva Jean Stevenson Robb. She grew up and attended school in Xenia and graduated from high school in Bronson, Kansas in 1932. She married Glen B. Stewart in...

Ray Gallaugher
Jan 15, 2008
Coffeyville resident Raymond L. Gallaugher died Friday, January 11, 2008 in Wichita . He was 67. He was born August 14, 1940, in Coffeyville to Cecil Joseph and Olar Elizabeth Woods Gallaugher. He graduated from Field Kindley Memorial High School in 1958. At age fifty, he returned to school and graduated from DeVry University in Atlanta , Georgia ....

Effie Pruette
Jan 15, 2008
Edna, Kansas resident Effie Arlene Pruette died on January 13, 2008 in Coffeyville. She was 95. She was born February 26, 1912 in Craig County, Oklahoma to William P. and Sara M. Holton Storm. She grew up and attended school in Edna, Kansas. On May 4, 1929 she married Arthur Buck Stine in Independence, Kansas. He preceded her in...

Frank Battaglear
Jan 12, 2008
Frank L. Battaglear Frankie Lee Battaglear of Coffeyville, Kansas, died Saturday, January 12, 2008, at Coffeyville Regional Medical Center. He was 83. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 16, 2008, at Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Home. Interment will be in Fairview Cemetery. Military honors will be afforded by the Coffeyville VFW. The family will receive friends...

Alma Nissen
Jan 11, 2008
Parsons resident, Alma L. Nissen died Thursday, January 10, 2008 in Parsons, Kansas. She was 88. Alma was born October 26, 1919 in Hayes County, Nebraska to Willis and Viola Sawyer Orcutt. She married Niss Nissen on October 26, 1937 in Willow Springs, Missouri. They moved to Coffeyville in 1947 where they made their home. He preceded her in...

Hazel Nicolas
Dec 28, 2007
Coffeyville resident, Hazel P. Nicolas, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 in Coffeyville. She was 89. Hazel was born August 25, 1918 to Robert Morris and Stella Pearl King Butler in Nowata, Oklahoma. She grew up and attended school in Lenepah, Oklahoma. On July 22, 1940, she married Dale Nicolas and they made their home in...

Velda Allen
Dec 27, 2007
Rural Coffeyville resident, Velda Pearl Allen died Wednesday, December 26, 2007 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She was 87. Velda was born September 2, 1920 to Grover and Dora Houdasheldt Patterson in Walnut, Kansas. She grew up and attended school in Walnut and Mound Valley, Kansas. She later married Albert H. Allen. Velda was employed by the Coffeyville Journal and later...

Alvan Patterson
Dec 26, 2007
Coffeyville Resident Alvan L. Patterson entered into eternal rest on Monday December 24, 2007 in Coffeyville, Kansas. He was 89. Alvan was born June 11, 1918 in Cherryvale, Kansas to Grover C. and Dora B. Houdashelt Patterson. After his schooling, he entered into the United States Marine Corps. He also worked at the Oregon Ship Yard, Continental Can Company,...

James Devilliers
Dec 19, 2007
James R. DeVilliers of Coffeyville died Monday, December 17, 2007 in Coffeyville. He was 73. James was born on July 9, 1934 to Cecil and Lulu Rochelle DeVilliers in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. James served in the United States Army. He married Patsy Duvall on June 23, 1963 in Coffeyville at the First Assembly of God Church. James owned and...

Loretta Tosh
Dec 19, 2007
Coffeyville resident, Loretta P. Tosh died Wednesday, December 19, 2007. She was 84. Loretta was born March 30, 1923 in Baxter Springs, Kansas. She grew up and graduated from high school in Leroy, Kansas. On April 19, 1947 she married OrvilleBoyd Tosh. They farmed in the Wann, Oklahoma area and made their home in Coffeyville. Loretta worked for Kress...

Calvin Harvey
Dec 19, 2007
Coffeyville resident, Calvin F. Harvey, Jr. died Tuesday, December 18, 2007 in Coffeyville. He was 86. Calvin F. Doby Harvey, Jr. was born May 19, 1921 to Calvin and Sara Heath Harvey in Coffeyville, Kansas. He grew up and attended rural schools at Pierson, Dearing and Field Kindley High School. On August 24, 1940, he married Dorothy M. Roberts...

Wauneta Moore
Dec 13, 2007
Rural Edna, Kansas resident, Wauneta B. Moore died Sunday, December 9, 2007 in Edna. She was 80. Wauneta was born March 8, 1927 in Edna to Irvin Ray and Geneva Duncan Maxson. She grew up and attended school in Edna and graduated from Edna High School. On August 3, 1946 she married Robert Bob Moore at her parents home...

Esther Murphy
Dec 6, 2007
Esther Davis Hanna Murphy was born Nov. 29, 1921 to Richard and Leora Davis in Chetopa, Kansas. She lived in Coffeyville most of her life, and attended schools there. She was graduated from Field Kindley High School in Coffeyville in 1939. She married Sol Hanna, Jr. in 1939. Mr. Hanna died in 1990. She then married Eldon Murphy in...

Barbara Mckellip
Dec 6, 2007
Barbara Bobbie McKellip, age 71, died on Wednesday November 28, 2007 in Aurora, Colorado. She is survived by sons Jerry and Jim McKellip, two sisters Joyce and Dora Mae; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, a son Jeff, sister Sharron, a brother Sonny and a great-grandson Gentry. Funeral services will be held...

Joshua Chapman
Dec 3, 2007
Joshua Dane Chapman, Jr. infant son of Pamela Renee Gann and Joshua Dane Chapman died on Thursday November 29, 2007 in Kansas City, Missouri. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 in Penwell-Gabel Ford-Wulf-Bruns Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Penwell-Gabel39;s Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home...