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Neola Mae Miller
Apr 9, 2017
Neola Mae (McLean) Miller of Eureka, passed away on Sunday, April 9, 2017, at the age of 88. She was born on February 11, 1929, in rural Piedmont, the daughter of Walter R. and Mary “Neva” (Simmons) McLean. She was raised on the family farm north of Piedmont graduating from Piedmont High School with the Class of 1946. After attending...
Corylee Martin
Apr 2, 2017
Corylee Martin, of Eureka, died Sunday, April 2, 2017, at the Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, at the age of 81. She was born July 27, 1935, in Eureka, the daughter of Fred and Helen (Messenger ) Martin. Corylee was raised in Eureka and attended local schools, graduating from Eureka High School. Following graduation she went to work for the...
Marie Ann Coon
Mar 24, 2017
Marie “Ann” Coon of Eureka, KS, died Friday, March 24. 2017, at Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 60. Ann was born July 5, 1956, in Eureka, the daughter of Gilbert and Helen Weldene (Lozier) Coon. She was raised in Eureka and attended local schools, graduating with the Eureka High School Class of 1974. Following graduation, Ann...
Steven Jay Sutton
Mar 23, 2017
Steven Jay Sutton formerly of Wamego, KS, died Thursday, March 23, 2017, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, at the age of 54. Steven was born September 11, 1962, in Manhattan, KS, the son of Lyle Arthur and Mary Virginia (Riniker) Sutton. He was raised in Wamego and attended local schools. Following his schooling, he worked various jobs, before starting...
Shirley Mae Brandon
Mar 20, 2017
Shirley Mae Brandon, formerly of Chanute, KS, died Monday, March 20, 2017, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, KS, at the age of 81. Shirley was born March 22, 1935, in Chanute, KS, the daughter of Wayne James and Ruby Erma (McDowell) Brandon. She was raised in the Chanute area and attended local schools, before graduating from Colony High School....
Mary Margaret Purkeypile
Mar 18, 2017
Mary M. Purkeypile, of Savoy, IL, passed away Saturday, March 18, 2017, at 4:50 A.M., at Carle Foundation Hospital, in Urbana, IL, at the age of 71. She was born July 22, 1945, in Anthony, KS, to parents Harry and Ruth (Curry) Baker. She met her future husband, Dale Purkeypile, their freshman year at Emporia State University, in Kansas. They...
Michael James Burke
Mar 16, 2017
Michael James Burke of Severy, died on Thursday, March 16, 2017, at the Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 92. He was born on August 14, 1924 in Fall River township, Greenwood County, Kansas, the son of John and Muriel (Mundy) Burke. He was raised on the family farm east of Climax near the Ladd bridge on...
Bernardo Campos, Jr
Mar 12, 2017
Bernardo Campos, Jr., of Eureka, died on Sunday, March 12, 2017 near Cedar Point, Kansas, at the age of 35. He was born on April 10, 1981, in Wichita, the son of Bernardo and Sherry (Hatfield) Campos. He was raised in Eureka, Wichita, and Texas, graduating from Eureka High School with the Class of 2000. After graduation, he worked for...
William Clarence Higinbotham
Mar 6, 2017
William Clarence “Hig” Higinbotham, formerly of Moran, KS, died on Monday, March 6, 2017 as a result of vascular dementia, at the Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, at the age of 76. He was born on March 15, 1940, in Elsmore, KS, the son of Emerson Kenneth and June Olive (Wilson) Higinbotham. He was raised in Moran and graduated from...
Tanner Wesley Mcmullen
Feb 27, 2017
Tanner Wesley McMullen Tanner Wesley McMullen of Fall River, Kansas, entered heaven’s gates on Monday, February 27, 2017, at the age of 17. He was born September 19, 1999, at Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital in El Dorado, the son of Terry Dean and Jacquetta Kay (Zane) McMullen. He was raised in the Fall River area and attended Marshall Elementary...
Virginia Lee Black
Feb 26, 2017
Virginia Lee (Chamberlin) Black, formerly of Eureka, died on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Catholic Care Center in Bel Aire, at the age of 89. She was born on August 1, 1927, in Kansas City, Kansas, at Bethany Hospital, the daughter of Tunis Dubois and Maud (King) Chamberlin. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father operated a local...
Maxine Jeter Hugo
Feb 15, 2017
Maxine Jeter Hugo of Eureka, Kansas died on Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 95. She was born on July 18, 1921, in Pershing, Oklahoma, the daughter of George Seborn and Maggie Lee (Watson) Jeter. When Maxine was very young the family moved to Osage County, Oklahoma. She attended school in Barnsdall,...
Anna Lee Lockhart
Feb 11, 2017
Anne Lee Lockhart of Eureka, Kansas, died on Saturday, February 11, 2017, at Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 98. Lee was born December 02, 1918, in Trenton, Texas, the daughter of Henry Paine and Hattie (Slaydon) Marshall. She was raised in Texas and attended local schools. The family later moved to Ardmore, Oklahoma where she graduated...
Fay M. Johnson
Feb 9, 2017
Fay Maxine Johnson, of Eureka, Kansas, died on Thursday, February 9, 2017, at Greenwood County Hospital in Eureka, at the age of 88. She was born February 26, 1928, in Quincy, Kansas the daughter of Arthur and Anna (Crouch) Watts. She attended Number 9 and Quincy schools. On December 31, 1945, she was united in marriage to Virgil Claude Johnson...
Helen C. "Tina" Braden
Feb 8, 2017
Helen Christine "Tina" Braden, a long-time resident of the Eureka area, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at Greenwood County Hospital, in Eureka, at the age of 83, surrounded by loved ones. Tina was born on September 17th, 1933 in the Kansas Flint Hills near Teterville to parents Earl "Dyke" and Helen Maloney. Growing up in the country she...
Wallace Lee "Wally" Scott
Feb 3, 2017
Wallace Lee “Wally” Scott of Eureka, Kansas, died on Friday, February 3, 2017 at Lakepoint El Dorado, in El Dorado, Kansas, at the age of 85. He was born on May 20, 1931, in rural Greenwood County, Kansas, the son of Ralph W. and Edith (Pugh) Scott. He was raised in Eureka and attended local schools, graduating with the Eureka...
Linda Grace Lewis
Feb 1, 2017
Linda Grace Lewis of Severy, died on Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at the Eureka Nursing Center, in Eureka, at the age of 63. She was born on December 8, 1953, in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Hobart C. and Mary (McCulpin) Trigg. She was raised in Lompoc, California, and graduated from local schools. She attended business college and begin...
Cecil Delbert "Del" Smith
Jan 22, 2017
C. “Del” Smith Cecil Delbert Smith (Del Smith) of rural Toronto, Kansas passed away on Sunday, January 22, 2017 at the Kansas Veterans Home in Winfield at the age of 91, surrounded by his family. He was born on May 29, 1925 in Eureka, Kansas, the son of Cecil E. Smith and Ingaber (Aagard) Smith. Del attended several elementary schools...
Theron Lynn Wheeler
Jan 20, 2017
Theron Lynn Wheeler Theron Lynn Wheeler of Eureka, died on Friday, January 20, 2017 in Eureka, at the age of 71. He was born on July 9, 1945, in Corpus Christi, Texas, the son of Leslie Luther and Velma Pauline (Gray) Wheeler. He attended several schools as the family traveled the United States while his father worked the pipeline. The...
Hazel Bernice Mcdonald
Jan 19, 2017
Hazel Bernice McDonald, of Eureka, Kansas died Thursday, January 19, 2017, at Eureka Nursing Center in Eureka, at the age of 98. She was born January 24, 1918, on a farm southeast of Eureka, the daughter of Arthur Lee and Lettie (Strimple) Guisinger. Hazel was raised on the farm and attended Hallet and Burkton Schools. On March 6, 1937, Hazel...
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