Melby Mortuary Obituaries
Norma Jean (Garman) Blew
Mar 10, 2012
Norma Jean Blew, 79, of Mankato, Kansas, died March 10, 2012, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, after an extended illness. Jean, the eldest of five children, was born on August 28, 1932, on the family farm east of Burr Oak, Kansas, to Robert and Helen (Miller) Garman. She attended Fairview Grade School and graduated from Burr Oak...
Jack Loy Higbee
Mar 9, 2012
Jack L. Higbee, 78 years of age, of Formoso, passed away Friday, March 9, 2012 at his farm in Formoso. He was born on January 20, 1934, on the family farm near Formoso, Kansas, to Harry and Gladys (Butler) Higbee. Jack was a graduate of Formoso High School in 1952. He married Nancy Reed on August 9, 1959, at...
William "Bill" Leo Peroutek
Mar 7, 2012
William “Bill” Leo Peroutek, 84, died Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at the Salina Regional Health Center, Salina, Kansas. He was born May 11, 1927 in Jewell County on the family homestead. Bill was the eldest child of Emil “Peck” and Leona (McCarty) Peroutek. He attended Mt. Zion School through the 8th grade and graduated from Esbon High School with...
Gretchen Dumont Blair - Hughes
Feb 15, 2012
Gretchen Dumont Hughes was born January 12, 1929, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to parents Joe D. Dumont and Winnie Dorah Davis Dumont. She died on February 15, 2012 due to complications after surgery. / Gretchen grew up in Capitol Hill with a loving family. She attended Lee Grade School, Capitol Hill Junior High and graduated from Capitol Hill High...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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