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Ethel M. "Rosie" Ruddick

Ethel M. "Rosie" Ruddick

Feb 12, 2012

Ethel M. (Gregory) Ruddick was born March 28, 1923, in Esbon, Kansas, to Victor and Alice Gregory. Ethel went to be with the Lord, on February 12, 2012, at Kennewick, Washington. She graduated from Smith Center High School in 1952, and North Central Nursing School, Beloit, Kansas, in 1972. She worked in hospitals, emergency rooms and doctor’s offices until...

Gerald L. Stedman

Gerald L. Stedman

Feb 11, 2012

Gerald LeRoy Stedman, Mankato, Kansas, was born on December 28, 1918, in Ionia, Kansas, to Lawrence and Alice (Lansden) Stedman. He passed away on February 11, 2012, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, after a short illness, at the age of 93 years. Gerald and Louise lived most of there life in Denver, Colorado. Gerald was a shoe...

Vida L. Knight

Vida L. Knight

Jan 20, 2012

Vida Loraine (Smullins) Knight was born on February 22, 1926, in Piedmont, Kansas, and passed away in her sleep on Friday, January 20, 2012. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wylie Knight, her parents Della (Wade) and Lee Smullins, and her three brothers Raymond, Ralph and Glenn. In 1934 Vida and her family moved to Burr Oak,...

Rosemary Janice Williams

Rosemary Janice Williams

Jan 20, 2012

Rosemary Janice Williams was born November 12, 1925 at Wilbur, Nebraska to Fred and Molly (Kindsfater) Boudreau, and died Friday, January 20, 2012 at her home in Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 86 years, 2 months, and 8 days. Rosemary moved with her family at a young age to Hastings, Nebraska, where she attended school and graduated from...

June Louise Crum

June Louise Crum

Jan 7, 2012

June Louise (Slaughter) Crum was born July 7, 1925 at the family home south of Montrose, Kansas. She was the oldest child of Kent Roland and Anna Louise (Miller) Slaughter, and passed from this world January 7, 2012 at the Belleville Health Care Center, Bellville, Kansas. She was 86 years of age. She attended the Montrose elementary and high...

Edna Luellen (Rock) Cleveland

Edna Luellen (Rock) Cleveland

Dec 18, 2011

Edna Luellen (Rock) Cleveland, the daughter of Clair and Rosetta (Hopp) Rock, was born on a farm near Portis, Kansas, on Sunday, July 9, 1916, and went to be with her Lord on Sunday, December 18, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Center, Superior, Nebraska, at the age of 95 years, 5 months and 9 days. Edna was united in...

Mildred Joan Waugh

Mildred Joan Waugh

Dec 11, 2011

Joan, daughter of Clede and Lena (Workman) Blacker, was born on November 25, 1931, at the home of her grandparents, in Ionia, Kansas, and went to be with her Lord on Sunday, December 11, 2011, at her home in Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 80 years and 16 days. Her 8 years of elementary education was at Couch...

Mary Lorine Cockroft

Mary Lorine Cockroft

Nov 30, 2011

Mary Lorine Cockroft was born on January 24, 1920, in Superior, Nebraska and died on November 30, 2011, at the Mitchell County Hospital Health System, Beloit, Kansas. Her parents were: James and Golda (Reid) Broyles. She grew up southwest of Superior, Nebraska, in the Olive Hill area with twin sister - Maxine, sisters – Verdena, Zelda, Orpha, and brother...

John (Jb) Blaine Turner

John (Jb) Blaine Turner

Nov 19, 2011

John Blaine Turner was born June 21, 1955, in Concordia, Kansas, to Warren Jack and Delila Jane (Studer) Turner, and died November 19, 2011, at his home in Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 56 years, 4 months and 29 days. John was known better as J.B. Turner. He attended school in Mankato and graduated from Mankato High School....

Edena Lois (Eakins) Garman

Edena Lois (Eakins) Garman

Nov 6, 2011

Edena Lois (Eakins) Garman of Concordia, Kansas was born in Kinsley, Kansas, on November 21, 1930 to Margaret Jeanette Wallace and Vernon Lemuel Eakins. She passed away November 6, 2011 at Mitchell County Health Services in Beloit, Kansas. Edena was 80 years, 11 months and 6 days. She attended several schools in her younger days of which included the...

Homer Lewis Grubbs

Homer Lewis Grubbs

Oct 28, 2011

Homer Lewis Grubbs was born Friday, September 9, 1927, to Homer W. and Mattie (Lewis) Grubbs at Burr Oak, Kansas, and died Friday, October 28, 2011, at the Webster County Hospital, Red Cloud, Nebraska, at the age of 84 years, 1 month and 19 days. He attended grade school at District 48, and graduated from Burr Oak High School...

Merla Maxine Hulbert

Merla Maxine Hulbert

Oct 15, 2011

Merla Maxine Hulbert of Esbon, Kansas, was born August 13, 1932, in Esbon, Kansas, to Earl and Vera (Kindler) Silsby, and passed away Saturday, October 15, 2011, at the Salina Regional Health Center, in Salina, Kansas, at the age of 79 years, 2 months and 2 days. Merla was a graduate of Esbon High School, with the class of...

Irvin "Dean" Davis

Irvin "Dean" Davis

Oct 3, 2011

Irvin “Dean” Davis, of Mankato, Kansas, was born December 3, 1949, at Hastings, Nebraska, to Irvin Edward and Isabelle May (Schumann) Davis, and died October 3, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Health System, Kearney, Nebraska at the age of 61 years of age. Dean was the name he was known by, was a high school graduate and had entered...

Berniece Amelia Kissinger

Berniece Amelia Kissinger

Oct 2, 2011

Berniece Amelia (Humiston) Kissinger died at the Hospice Care Center in Grand Junction, Colorado, 2 October, 2011, at the age of 101 years and 10 months of age. She will be buried next to her husband, Frank Kissinger, in Mankato, KS. She was born on a farm near Webber, Kansas, on 29 November, 1909, to Charles and Hatie Humiston....

Anita L. "Mickey" Watson

Anita L. "Mickey" Watson

Sep 26, 2011

Anita “Mickey” Watson was born November 14, 1934, west of Mankato, Kansas, to Everett and Myrtle (Davis) Siemon. She died, Monday, September 26, 2011, at the Ottawa County Health Center in Minneapolis, Kansas, at the age of 76 years, 10 months, and 12 days. Anita has one brother, Donald Seimon, of Mankato, Kansas, and two sisters, Anne Ost of...

Vivian Maxine (Eakins) Garman

Vivian Maxine (Eakins) Garman

Sep 20, 2011

BURR OAK: Vivian Maxine (Eakins) Garman, of Burr Oak, was born December 11, 1915 in Concordia, Kansas to Vernon Lemuel Eakins and Lena Otila Braun. She died Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at the Jewell County Hospital at the age of 95 years, 8 months and 20 days. A mixed blessing it was with body and mind so weak and...

Donna Ruth Snyder

Donna Ruth Snyder

Sep 19, 2011

Donna Ruth (Palmer) Snyder, 79 of Belleville, Kansas passed away September 19 at Bryan Lincoln General Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. She was born January 13, 1932 in Deshler, Nebraska to Clarence and Helen (Davis) Palmer. Donna attended a country school in northern Republic County and high school in Chester, Nebraska and graduated from Chester High School in 1949. Donna...

Dana Lovice (Owen) Bennett

Dana Lovice (Owen) Bennett

Sep 18, 2011

Dana Lovice(Owen) Bennett, 76, died Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, at her home in Mankato. She was born March 18, 1935, in Republic, Ks. the daughter of Cecil and Lorene Elliot Owen. She attended school at Republic, KS. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, of Mankato for 40 plus years. Dana was united in marriage to Dennis...

Patricia Ann Kemmerer

Patricia Ann Kemmerer

Sep 16, 2011

Patricia Ann Kemmerer, 78 of Jewell, Kansas, passed away September 16, 2011 at Mitchell County Hospital. Patricia Ann Shaver was born August 14, 1933 on a farm Northeast of Jewell. She attended Paradise Country School, Jewell Grade School and graduated from Jewell High School in 1951. Patricia married her lifelong friend Robert Kemmerer September 23, 1951. They shared a...

Leo Anderson Mccue

Leo Anderson Mccue

Sep 2, 2011

Leo Anderson McCue of Mankato, Kansas, formerly of Stockton, Kansas, was born to Thomas Francis and Mary Amy (Anderson) McCue, on March 14, 1924, on a farm in rural Phillips County, Kansas, and passed away on September 2, 2011, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 87 years. He married Marlene Long on August 25,...

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