Obituaries

Carolyn Jayne Keleher

Carolyn Jayne Keleher

Dec 15, 2020

Carolyn “Jayne” Keleher Carolyn Jayne Keleher, formerly of Mountain Home, Texas, died Tuesday, December 15, 2020, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas, at the age of 87. Jayne was born October 11, 1933, in Iowa City, Iowa, the daughter of Gordon and Margaret (Cochrum) Marsh. She was raised in Iowa City, attending local schools and graduating from Iowa City...

Thresa Mary Ehrhart

Thresa Mary Ehrhart

Dec 9, 2020

Thresa M. Ehrhart Thresa Mary Ehrhart, formerly of Kansas City, Kansas, died on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, Kansas, at the age of 84. She was born on February 22, 1936, in rural Woodson County, Kansas, the daughter of John and Frances (Sicka) Hoag. She was raised in rural Yates Center and attended the Yates...

Stan Marshall

Stan Marshall

Nov 6, 2020

Miles Stanley Marshall, of Eureka, died on Friday, November 6, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 87. He was born on October 28, 1933, in Wichita, the son of John Teter and Margaret Susan (Bright) Marshall. He was raised in Eureka and graduated from Eureka High School with the Class of 1951. He then went...

Jack Dale Alford

Jack Dale Alford

Nov 4, 2020

Jack Dale Alford, of Eureka, died on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 63. He was born on June 30, 1957, in Eureka, the son of Kenneth Duane and Mary Ellen (Dye) Alford. He was raised in Eureka and attended local schools. He started working in oilfield jobs. On July 15, 1978,...

Donald Dean Chaplin

Donald Dean Chaplin

Oct 31, 2020

Donald Dean Chaplin, of Piedmont, died Saturday, October 31, at the Robert J. Dole V. A. Hospital, in Wichita, at the age of 84. Don was born May 13, 1936, in Enid, Oklahoma, the son of Veryl Aaron and Esther Cecilia (Kretchmar) Chaplin. He lost his father at age 3 and lived with his grandparents until his mother remarried. He...

Carolyn Louise Harber

Carolyn Louise Harber

Oct 28, 2020

Carolyn Louise Harber, of Eureka, died on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at Vintage Park in Eureka, at the age of 81. She was born on October 26, 1939, in Independence, Kansas, the daughter of Stanley Max and Thelma Louise (Jones) Richardson. She was raised in Independence and attended local schools, graduating from Independence High School with the Class of 1957....

William S. Hart

William S. Hart

Oct 17, 2020

Dr. William S. Hart of Eureka, died on Saturday, October 17, 2020, at Vintage Park in Eureka, at the age of 88. He was born on November 28, 1931, in Dewey, Oklahoma, the son of Perry J. and Letha Elizabeth (Cotton) Hart. He was raised in Oklahoma and Kansas and graduated from Eureka High School. He then attended Emporia State...

Bill Gaines

Bill Gaines

Oct 8, 2020

William Robert “Bill” Gaines, of Eureka, peacefully departed this world at home in Eureka, in his favorite safe haven, on October 8, 2020, at the age of 54. He was born on November 18, 1965 in El Dorado, Kansas, the son of Franklin Delano and Barbara Ann (Barnes) Gaines. He was raised in Augusta, Longton, and Burkett, graduating from Longton...

Linda Sue Buck

Linda Sue Buck

Oct 2, 2020

Linda Sue (Keleher) Buck, formerly of Eureka, died at her home in Mountain Home, Texas, on October 2, 2020, at the age of 60. She was born on July 11, 1960, Wichita, the daughter of Daniel Dean and Carolyn Jayne (Marsh) Keleher. She was raised in Wichita and attended local schools graduating from Wichita East High School. On June 6,...

Dolores Ashlock

Dolores Ashlock

Oct 1, 2020

Gwendolyn “Dolores” Ashlock of Eureka, died on Thursday, October 1, 2020, at her home in Eureka, at the age of 99. She was born on November 23, 1920, in Lamar, Colorado, the daughter of Clyde Ernest “Buddy” and Gladys Centelia (Nelson) Williams. She was raised in the Neal/Quincy area and attended Tonovay High School. On June 22, 1938, Dolores was...

Heath Dean Brown

Heath Dean Brown

Sep 19, 2020

Heath Dean Brown of rural Eureka, Kansas, son of Bobby “Bob” and Janice (Davis) Brown, left this troubled world September 19, 2020, at Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa, in Wichita, at the age of 36. Heath was born December 24, 1983 at Newman Hospital, Emporia, Kansas. Heath attended and graduated from the Eureka, Kansas school system, Class of 2002. He...

Margaret Ann Coleman

Margaret Ann Coleman

Sep 16, 2020

Margaret A. “Peggy” Coleman, 82, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family, Wednesday, September 16, 2020, after a short battle with cancer. Peggy was born Margaret Ann McKinney on October 10, 1937 to Charles William and Margaret Jane (Shell) McKinney in Wilmington, Ohio. The family left Ohio and moved to several different locations before they settled in...

Barbara Carlene Lewis-Long

Barbara Carlene Lewis-Long

Sep 15, 2020

Barbara Carlene Lewis-Long of Eureka, died on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at the Kansas Medical Center in Andover at the age of 85. Barbara was born March 30, 1935, in Dodge City, Kansas, the first child of Carl Wilford and Evelyn Elizabeth (Thompson) Zink on a wheat farm. She was born two weeks before the worst dust bowl storm to...

Mary Ellen Mock

Mary Ellen Mock

Sep 11, 2020

Mary Ellen Mock of Eureka, died on Friday, September 11, 2020, at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 100. She was born on April 10, 1920, in Quincy, Kansas, the daughter of Bernard “Barney”, Jr. and Loleta (Gilroy) Brown. She was raised in Quincy and graduated from Quincy High School with the Class of 1938. She later...

Jay Wilks Cowan

Jay Wilks Cowan

Aug 23, 2020

Major Jay Wilks Cowan of Gilbert, Arizona, died in August of 2020 in Gilbert, Arizona at the age of 76. He was born in May of 1944, in Hutchinson, Kansas, the son of Clarence “Bus” Ridenour Cowan and Mary Evelyn (Wilks) Cowan. Jay, a graduate of Emporia High School in 1962, went on to attended Emporia State University earning a...

Danny Shue

Danny Shue

Aug 18, 2020

Danny Dale Shue of Eureka, died on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at his home in Eureka, at the age of 78. He was born on December 16, 1941, in Fredonia, the son of Edwin William and Elva May (Milligan) Shue. He was raised in Fredonia and graduated from local schools. In 1960 Dan was united in marriage to Rowena. They...

Stanley Louis Mcdaniel

Stanley Louis Mcdaniel

Aug 2, 2020

Stanley Louis McDaniel of Climax, died at his home, Sunday, August 2, 2020, at the age of 74. He was born January 16, 1946, in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Louis Henry and Virginia Faye (Moyer) McDaniel. He was raised in Maize and attended local schools, graduating from Maize High School with the Class of 1964. He was drafted into...

Dorothy Marie (Ashlock) Denchfield

Dorothy Marie (Ashlock) Denchfield

Jul 24, 2020

Dorothy Marie (Ashlock) Denchfield, formerly of Neal, died on Friday, July 24, 2020, at Lakepoint El Dorado, at the age of 99. She was born on October 29, 1920, in rural Greenwood County, the daughter of Fred Marion and Sadie May (Sharp) Ashlock. She was raised in Neal and graduated from Neal High School with the Class of 1940. She...

Jeffrey Alan French

Jeffrey Alan French

Jul 14, 2020

It is with great sadness that the family of Jeffrey Alan “Jeff” French, 64, of Wichita, Kansas, formerly of Ness City, Kansas announce his passing on July 14, 2020, at Comfort Care in Wichita after a long struggle with frontotemporal dementia complicated by COVID-19. Jeff was born August 3 in El Dorado, Kansas to loving parents Marvin Lee and Josephine...

John Ezra Dorsett, Iii

John Ezra Dorsett, Iii

Jul 10, 2020

John Ezra Dorsett, III, passed away on Friday, July 10, 2020 at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis from the new coronavirus at the age of 79. He was born on July 7, 1941, in Eureka, the second son of three boys born to John E., Jr., and Dorothy May (Smith) Dorsett. His dad was a ranch hand for Guin Liggett...

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