Obituaries

Melby Mortuary Obituaries

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,...

Gloria Lee Davis

Gloria Lee Davis

Aug 15, 2011

On August 15, 2011, Gloria Lee Davis died at Midland Care Hospice House in Topeka, KS following a battle with ovarian cancer. Gloria was born in 1937, the only daughter of Emery and Lydia Beam of Mankato, Kansas. She grew up and attended schools in Mankato, graduating from high school in 1955. Gloria graduated from the University of Kansas...

Zelma Pauline Hood

Zelma Pauline Hood

Aug 8, 2011

Pauline Hood was born on a farm in north Ashmore, IIllinois, in 1944. She passed away on Monday, at her home in Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 67. She was happiest when spending time with her family and taking care of them. Pauline’s favorite activities included being outdoors and working with flowers and gardening as well as reading...

George E Burgess

George E Burgess

Jul 23, 2011

George E. Burgess of Mankato, Kansas, was the son of Perry George Washington and Frances Bernice (Shackelton) Burgess, was born on October 29, 1942, at Oak, Kansas, south of Lebanon, and died, Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Salina Regional Health Center, Salina, Kansas, at the age of 68 years, 8 months, and 24 days. He graduated from Esbon High...

Eva Laurene Sanders

Eva Laurene Sanders

Jul 16, 2011

Eva Laurene Sanders was born July 15, 1914, to William and Ella (Trunbull) Leavitt, at Salem, Kansas, died July 16, 2011, at the Sunset Home, Concordia, Kansas, at the age of 97 years. She attended school at Stratton, Colorado; Colby, Kansas; and North Platte, Nebraska. Eva was a graduate of Draughon Business College at Tulsa, Oklahoma. Eva was baptized...

Jason Lynn Cross

Jason Lynn Cross

Jul 2, 2011

Jason Lynn Cross, 23, of Jamestown, Kansas, passed from this life on July 2, 2011, at Lovewell Lake, Webber, Kansas, doing one of the things he loved most. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on September 17, 1987. Jason loved spending time with his son, Kynan and brothers; Payton and Dylan and many friends. His family and friends...

Alva C Tyler

Alva C Tyler

Jun 20, 2011

Alva Clarence Tyler, 95, was born on November 20, 1915, to William and Ocle Fern (Spicer) Prater in Rulo, Nebraska. He left this life on June 20, 2011. On June 19, 1925 Alva and his brother came to Jewell Co., Kansas to the home of Robert and Elnora Tyler and were later adopted by them. Alva attended Rubens and...

Frank D. Dehn, Sr.

Frank D. Dehn, Sr.

Jun 15, 2011

Frank Donald Dehn Sr. born April 28, 1925 in Arnold, Nebraska. Passed away on June 15, 2011 he took the hand of the lord and left this life on earth. He was the last member of his immediate family of 3 brothers and 1 sister. His children sons Frank Dehn Jr., Dennis Dehn and daughter Lauretta Dehn will carry...

Madeline H Nelson

Madeline H Nelson

Jun 13, 2011

Madeline (Harris) Nelson was born June 22, 1917 at Jewell, Kansas, the daughter of Willard and Ethel (Smith) Harris, and died June 13, 2011, at Alpine Care Center, Thornton, Colorado, at the age of 93 years, 11 months, and 21 days. Madeline was one of four children, and the last of her family. She married Virgil Nelson, and to...

Edwin Holdren

Edwin Holdren

May 8, 2011

Robert Edwin Holdren was born January 6, 1919, to Robert and Florence (Sutherland) Holdren, the 4th of 6 children born to this union. One sister, Garnet, died in early childhood, before Edwin was born. Others in the family were – Guy, George, Florence Marie, and Charles. Edwin grew to manhood southwest of Montrose. He was very proud to have...

Willis L. Mog

Willis L. Mog

May 6, 2011

Willis L. Mog of O’Fallon, Illinois, died May 6, 2011 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital following a farm accident in Lebanon, Illinois. He was born in Ellsworth County, Kansas, on August 24, 1935. Wil graduated from the University of Kansas School of Law in 1960 and entered the United States Air Force, where he served as a Judge Advocate in...

Ruth Mae (Binggeli) Clegg

Ruth Mae (Binggeli) Clegg

Apr 27, 2011

Ruth Mae (Binggeli) Clegg was born on January 29, 1919 at her family home near Colton, South Dakota. She departed this life on April 27, 2011 at the Bramlage House Transitional Care Facility in Manhattan, Kansas at the age of 92 years and 3 months. Ruth was the eighth of nine children born to John and Pauline (Balsiger) Binggeli....