Leonard Peters
May 27, 2019
Leonard Edward Peters was born to Edward and Mary (Sterba) Peters in Narka, Kansas, on December 22, 1928. He passed away in Albany, Oregon, on May 27, 2019, at the age of 90 years, 4 months and 3 days. He grew up during the depression, but the hardships were nothing new for his family which was of...
Marion "Mr. J." Johnson
May 17, 2019
Marion LaVerne Johnson, “Mr. J.,” son of the late Harold L. and Mary C. (Ming) Johnson, died May 17, 2019, at age 83.
Marion was born on Dec. 30, 1935, in Aurora, and he was confirmed at the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Mankato. He and his brother grew up in the Miltonvale, Scottsville, Ionia and Lovewell communities,...
Mary Swanson
May 11, 2019
Mary Lou Swanson was born March 29, 1931, to Henry and Leona (Birdsell) Topliff, and she passed from this life on May 11, 2019, at Republic County Hospital, at the age of 88 years.
Mary Lou attended school in Lovewell, Kansas, graduating in 1949. On August 27, 1950, she married Charles F. Swanson,...
Terry Dyke
May 4, 2019
Terry Allen Dyke of Belleville passed away on May 4, 2019, at the age of 63 years, 3 months and 5 days. Terry was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Robert & Lucille (Allen) Dyke, and he grew up in Lees Summit, Missouri, graduating from Lees Summit High School. Terry then very proudly served his country as...
Victor Veroda
Apr 27, 2019
Victor J. Veroda, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died on April 27, 2019, in Norman, Oklahoma, at the age of 96 years, 11 months and 3 days. He was born on May 25, 1922, in Cuba, Kansas, to Victor and Anna (Vacha) Veroda, attended school in Cuba, and graduated from Cuba High School. Victor then attended and graduated from...
Jimmie Peterson
Mar 30, 2019
Jimmie (Jim) Lee Peterson was born on July 30, 1931, in Rexford, Kansas, to Harold and Mildred Nadine (Hughes) Peterson, and passed away on March 30, 2019, in Belleville, Kansas, at the age of 87 years and 8 months.
The Peterson family moved to Belleville when Jim was young, and he attended Belleville schools, graduating from Belleville...
John Rhine
Mar 28, 2019
John Wayne Rhine, beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, departed this life on Thursday, March 28, 2019, at the age of 75 years, 11 months and 14 days. John, son of Marvin and Dorothy Rhine, was the eldest of two children. He was born on April 18, 1943, in Haddam, Kansas. He graduated from Haddam High School...
Richard Barton
Mar 25, 2019
Richard Lee Barton, beloved husband, father and grandfather, age 92, departed this life peacefully on Monday, March 25, 2019 at the Republic County Hospital, Belleville, Kansas. Richard, son of B.R. and Martha (Folkers) Barton, was the oldest of four children. He was born August 28, 1926 in Diller, Nebraska. He attended grade school and high school in...
Viola Bernadean Jeardoe
Mar 16, 2019
Viola Bernadean Jeardoe, was born October 16, 1930 to Emery Eugene and Nellie Carrie (Horkman) Awalt in Republic County, Kansas. She passed from this life Saturday, March 16, 2019, while living at Sunset Nursing Center in Concordia, Kansas, at the age of 88 years and 5 months. Following graduation from High School, Bernadean was married to Pearl...
Lonnie Roe
Mar 15, 2019
Lonnie Martin Roe, son of Joseph Wesley and Mildred (Boaz) Roe, was born October 19, 1930 at Clyde, Kansas. He passed from this life Friday, March 15, 2018 at his home in Axtell, Kansas at the age of 88 years. The Roe family moved to Belleville, Kansas in 1940 and Lonnie graduated from Belleville High School in...
Paul Chase
Feb 23, 2019
Paul Lynn Chase, son of George Chase and Opal Jean Chase was born August 21, 1955, near Jamestown, Kansas, and departed this life of 63 years peacefully on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
Paul received his education in Courtland, Kansas, at the local elementary and high school, graduating in 1973. He continued his education in Beloit at the...
Sandra Ragland
Feb 20, 2019
Sandra K. (Allen) Ragland was born February 9, 1954 in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Dale and Marjorie (Riblett) Allen. She passed away on February 20, 2019, at the Republic County Hospital in Belleville, at the age of 65 years and 11 days.
She married David Ragland on September 26, 1996, in Belleville, Kansas. Sandra...
David Stafford
Feb 19, 2019
David L. Stafford, 67, of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, passed away on February 19, 2019 at Tiffany Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation, in Port Saint Lucie. He was born July 19, 1951, to Richard “Dick” and Eleanor (June) Stafford in Mansfield, Ohio. He was preceded in death by his father Richard in 2015. Survivors include his mother, Eleanor,...
William "Bill" Baxa
Feb 2, 2019
William (Bill) Robert Baxa was born on a farm outside of Haddam, Kansas on November 24, 1930, the son of Elmer and Ruby (Anderson) Baxa. He left this world to join his wife of 57 years, Arlene (Houdek) Baxa, on Saturday, February 2, 2019 at the Republic County Hospital, Belleville, Kansas at the age of 88...
Ralph Blecha
Feb 1, 2019
Ralph F. Blecha, son of Charley and Leona (Hardenburger) Blecha, was born 13 January 1943 at the R.G. Patterson Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Kansas. He died on 1 February 2019 in Lawrence, Kansas, at the age of 76 years and 19 days.
Ralph attended grade school at Tabor Rural Public School, and graduated...
Phyllis Francis
Jan 31, 2019
The casket will remain closed.
Phyllis Jean Francis, daughter of Roy M. and Laverna K. (Sauer) Ferguson, was born September 27, 1932 in Belleville, Kansas. Phyllis attended Belleville public schools and graduated from High School with the Class of 1950. In October of 1950 she was united in marriage to Richard Francis and to this union two children, Richard,...
Vickie Osborne
Jan 28, 2019
Vickie Lynn (Boman) Osborne passed from this life Monday, January 28, 2019 at Salina Regional Health Center with her family by her side at the age of 71 years.
Vickie was born on January 11, 1948 in Belleville, Kansas to Wallace and Vida (Elliott) Boman. She graduated from Republic High School in 1966, where she met her...
Charles Swanson
Jan 21, 2019
Charles Fredrick Swanson was born April 17, 1932 near Republic, Kansas to Carl and Inez (Gabrielson) Swanson. He passed from this life, Monday, January 21, 2019 at Hilltop Lodge, Beloit, Kansas at the age of 86 years. On August 27, 1950 he married the love of his life, Mary Lou Topliff at Lovewell, Kansas and to...
Jetty Evert
Jan 16, 2019
Jetty Linden Evert, 91, of Santa Ana, California, passed away Wednesday, January 16, 2019 in Villa Park, California. She was born August 12, 1927, on the family farm near Courtland, Kansas, the daughter of William Emmanuel and Caroline (Loring) Linden. Jetty attended Parkhill country school and graduated from Scandia High School in 1944. She married Clifford Evert...
Eugene Hadachek
Dec 29, 2018
Eugene Charles Hadachek was born August 6, 1922 on a farm east of Cuba, son of Emma Lizzy Junek and Charles Frank Hadachek, and died December 29, 2018 at Republic County Hospital in Belleville, Kans. He was 96. He attended Bates country school, and graduated from Cuba High School in 1940.
He was a...