Franklin County KS Obits 1965-1999
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Obituaries in Ottawa, Kansas Newspapers 1965-1999 In 2003-2004 Alena Loyd retyped the existing Ottawa Annals for 1864-1964 and created new annals for 1965-2003 using microfilmed copies of “The Ottawa Times” and “The Ottawa Herald.” While going through the papers for 1965-2003 she also abstracted the obituaries. Alena used the weekly “The Ottawa Times” for 1965-August 24, 2000 and “The Ottawa Herald” (published Mon-Sat) for August 25, 2000-2003. This document is in Word and specific names may be searched using the computer’s Edit/Find feature. To obtain a copy of an obituary, contact Franklin County Genealogical Society, PO Box 353, Ottawa, KS 66067. Their research fees are currently $10.00/hour plus copies and postage. Library staff can relay to them an email order stating that these fees are acceptable. Researchers may also conduct their own research by asking their local library to borrow microfilm of Ottawa, Kansas newspapers from Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS 1965 Jan. 7 –Alta E. Brantingham, Mrs. Laura Mollett, Mrs. Cora Ellen Keith, Mrs. Bonnie E. Henry, Lina A. Tulloss, Ralph W. Selby, Ray S. Miskimon and John W. Beekman passed away. Jan. 14 – Henry W. Fleer, Guy H. Settle and Mrs. Jeff Haggard passed away. Jan. 21 – Roy Taylor, Mrs. Anna Pierson, Mrs. Minnie Niehoff, W. E. Chapman, Mrs. L. B. Fenton, Herbert G. Lemon, Mrs. Nora B. Jones and Homer T. Rule, Sr. passed away. Jan. 28 – Wm. Albert Richardson, Mrs. Elsie M. Cain, Lori Colleen Norton, Mrs. Grace Silvius, Albert K. Dehn and Earl R. Read passed away. Feb. 4 – Mrs. Ruth Anna Kaub, Mrs. Hugh Wallis, Mrs. Althia Thompson, W. A. McDaniel, Earl F. Harmonson, Mrs. Rena Mundy, Henry Ross Weller, Mrs. Ruth E. McFarlin, Clarence Holmes and Millie A. Montgomery passed away. Feb. 11 – Mrs. Sarah J. McClintic, Harvey W. Reed, Frank C. Hensley, John D. Brown, Mrs. Jennie M. Price, Mrs. Rena Biederman, Archie W. Clark and Hardin Watkins passed away. Feb.18 – Cora D. Fowler, Mrs. Lena Wolken, Mrs. Lydia M. Brown, Mrs. Hettie Carter, Clarence Lauver, Virgil E. Ice, Mrs. Leah L. Blount, Esther E. Erickson, James Allan Paul and Carol Sue Steele passed away. Feb. 25 – George H. Dillon, Raymond O. McManess, Mary “Mamie” Dick, Mrs. Margaret Eldridge, Mrs. Leona Eller and Mrs. Roy Erb passed away. Mar. 4 – Artie S. Blackwell, Mrs. Mamie Bronson, Mrs. Helen E. Johnson, J. Rolla Payne, Mrs. Mabel E. Perkins, Kenneth W. James, Mrs. Josephine Phillips, Mrs. Ora M. Lancaster, John H. Oaks Mrs. Lue Bell Hobbs, Mrs. Elizabeth Hartwell, Mrs. Estelle Beeler, Uel B. Cheatham, Elinore B. Ober and David A. White passed away. Mar.11 – Virl W. Camp, Caroline S. Berry, Harry Lantis, Gordon L. James, Adrian B. Taylor, Ralph W. Sanders, Harry V. Seevers and Mrs. Ruth Turner passed away. Mar.18 – Vayne Mock, H. C. Samsel, Kenneth Ford and William Gilliland passed away. Mar. 25 – Laurence L. Gruver, Mrs. Leona Schrader, Mrs. Opal Brock, Mrs. Ruby Tyson, Mrs. Della Hanna, William E. Downing, Mrs. June Shoger, Mrs. Irene E. Davis and John A. Malburg passed away. Apr. 1 – Mrs. E. C. Gentry, Frank Motter, Mrs. Flora Fyfe, William F. Hafer, Mrs. Ellen Carlson and Mrs. W. C. Coleman passed away. Apr. 8 – Pearl L. Hull and Pearl L. Dickey passed away. Apr. 22 – Porter Eric Nicewander, Benjamin F. Schlegel, Mrs. Anna B. Creviston, Mrs. Clara Nitcher, Mrs. Sadie Carter and William Wobker passed away. Apr. 29 – Howard Henderson, Earl Percy Hart, Muan H. Garcia, James Jacob Meyer, Mrs. Kate A. Baker, Margaret Steelman and Hattie Marshall passed away. May 6 – Frank Charles Bell, Gertrude R. Litwin, Eva F. Gambrill, August F. Bonskowski, Mrs. Ruby M. Brown, Letha A. Hunt and Wilbur D. Henry passed away. May 13 – Divco-Wayne Building and K. D. Lee Co. were both dedicated. Manuel E. Smith, Charles C. Williams, Willie Edwin Williams, Mrs. Arta M. Gish, Leona J. Chesser and Calvin H. Shores passed away. May 20 – Ernest H. Kimmel, Mrs. Wm. Gardner, Mrs. Bessie Johnson, Robert Kerr III, Linnetta McBrier and Clara L. Hopkins passed away. May 27 – A group of Ottawans travel to Washington, D. C. to request $1,700,000 for Melvern Reservoir. Dr. Chas. P. Johnson and Shelby D. Eckenroed passed away. June 3 – Guy Otto Potts, Myra Hensey Richardson, Adam Allen Randel, Mrs. Ellen N. Smith, Mrs. Sadie Ely, Gertrude M. Crane, Mrs. Maude E. Crow, Louise Jenkins, Lloyd Jenkins, Carl E. Moore, Mrs. Lucy Zita Pickert, David L. Mathias, Elsie King and H. W. Keene passed away. June 10 – Mrs. Blanche Ward, Maude H. Heckman, Harold F. Bones, William Albert Foster, Mrs. Carolyn K. Kelsey, Irven Clarence Horst, Mrs. Bessie O. Ross, Martha A. Neumiller, Dennis D. Jeffers and Russell Charles King passed away. June 17 – Ruby Ann McCartney, Charles E. Sands, Thomas Forrer, Myrtle E. Burruss, Mrs. Elsie Maley, Mr. Earle Easdale, Helen C. Branson passed away. June 24 – Gerhardt George Desque, Harold E. Rodgers, Frank G. Call, Floyd R. Hulse and Ernest R. Gilliland passed away. July 1 – Clyde Earl Cook, Frank J. Reiner, Lauda Elsie May Trotter, Mrs. Eva E. Tutcher, Mabel Altha McLain, Louise Leatherberry, Charles Clayton Scott, George Ray Pfoutz, Rev. Everett Hughes, Mrs. Maudy Dancaster and William E. Evey passed away. July 8 – Mrs. Nellie Hopkins, Marjorie Espinosa, Guadalupe Ybarra, Naomi Ruth Williams, Mrs. Catharine Mock, Jane Marshall Gollier, William O. Jent, and Virgil Hird passed away. July 15 – Mrs. Carrie Wittman, Charles A. Hafer and Thomas Lee Watson passed away. July 22 – Howard Mann, T. J. Cummings, Jr., Clarence A. Nearmyer, Ida L. Crawford, Ethel Marie Forrer, David Ammon Altic, Harry Joseph Bates, Robert McMath Averill and John G. Welch passed away. July 29 – Silas H. Huntington, Ernest L. Eaton, Joseph Waller, Freeman H. Haley, Anna Boyke and Fred E. Ford passed away. Aug. 5 – Briget E. Platt, Lawrence Hoadley and Emmett F. Thompson passed away. Aug. 12 – Ralph Kinder, Luna L. Nordyke, Harold V. Hoover and Charles Lyons passed away. Aug. 19 – John S. Pinder, John Adams Sallee, Edna Blanch Loper, Mrs. Lucinda Weegar, Edna Jane Hughes and Edna F. McCurdy passed away. Aug. 26 – Mrs. Della B. Angell, John O. Eldridge, Dora Martin, Donna Renee Crump, Miss Mary Wittman, William A. Bromert, Bonnie B. Smith and William Ray Evans passed away. Sept. 2 – George W. Mott, Mrs. Verda Knott, Mrs. Violet M. Calkins, Carl Edward Anderson, Etta Carrol Hay and Mrs. Nellie Hurley Foster passed away. Sept. 9 – Wayne C. Capron, William Dan Willford, Bessie Sue Martin, Hiram S. Jones, Oscar Dyer, Lydia Bell Green and William Jess Pratt passed away. Sept. 16 – Nellie Jane Cunninham, Mrs. Jessie Oswalt, Edith Gunn, Joseph L. Kramer and William F. Wiscombe passed away. Sept. 23 – Jasper N. Davies, Mary E. Reams, Herman L. Diestelhorst, Sanford P. Miller, Euda Leoria Beeson and Josephine S. Ewalt passed away. Sept. 30 – Roy F. McIntosh, John Harve McCullough, P. H. (Pat) Gibbons, Raymond W. Chambers, Jess Francis Harford, Jack LaHolt, Mrs. Daisy C. McCarty, Cora Bell Jones and Wayne Leroy Dryden passed away. Oct. 7 – Mrs. Lillis A. Dowdy, Mrs. Sophia Norman, Mrs. Ethel M. Koch, William Henry Geiler passed away. Oct. 14 – Frank R. Shull, Bicente Espinosa, H. Ray Tucker, Cecil Francis Jordan and Frank L. Williams passed away. Oct. 21 – Leon Shepheard, Carl Edwin Johnson, Mary C. Pratt and Charles E. Doty passed away. Oct. 28 – Mrs. Artie M. Wolgast, Evan R. Crawford, Charles A. Rogers, Mrs. Ruby S. Novak, Alma Frances Cox, Harry Stern, Dora M. Richardson, E. Ruth Paul, Mrs. Emma V. Fiehler, E. Lanie Roberts and Wilbur Leslie Wray passed away. Nov. 4 – James L. Emery, Frank Winkleman, Mrs. Hettie P. McCune, Charles A. Norton, Jr., Mrs. Anna M. Billett, Agnes E. Edkenroed, Frank Hull Hughes, Beulah Emma Atchison and William A. Cotter passed away. Nov. 11 – Arthur S. Allen, Jennie Kelsey, John D. Carpenter, Mrs. Nora C. Cochren and Frank Luce passed away. Nov. 18 – Elmer F. Risdon, Mrs. Beulah Watkins, Mrs. Mary Elder, Guy Triplett and John Henry Bowers passed away. Nov. 25 – Ethel Irene Seymour, George Rule, Hale B. Blair, Mrs. Harriett M. Pinder, Elsie E. Richardson, Walter P. Reh and Mrs. Lottie Elliott passed away. Dec. 2 – Mrs. Joan L. Fine, Robert Lee Harris, Mrs. Zeola Small, Fred M. Kitterman, Mrs. Mae B. Gintzell, Linda (Altic) Thompson and Mrs. Mary Ida Maxwell passed away. Dec. 9 – Milton C. Lytle, Earl Lorenzo Kern, Lloyd James Sink, Mrs. Daisy F. Klontz, Goldie A. Langdon, Cal R. Crain, Joseph E. Caylor and Hattie K. McDowell passed away. Dec. 16 – Alice Joan Gibbons, William A. Dehn and Mrs. Dollie A. Shuler passed away. Dec. 23 – Mary Etta Thompson, Mary Ellen Moss and Leo F. Meredith passed away. Dec. 30 – Mrs. Bertha Farrell, Mrs. Mayme Bullock, Phil Fanning, Roy Barkley and Olen A. Streebin passed away. 1966 Jan. 6 – John Garfield Kaiser, Mrs. Margaret Reh, Raymond W. Kratz and Maude Esther Conner passed away. Jan. 13 – Oswald M. Bundy, Mrs. Cora Rees, Dr. Max E. Kaiser, Barbara McComb, Harry Bittenbender and Mrs. Pearl Wharton passed away. 1 Obituaries in Ottawa, Kansas Newspapers 1965-1999 In 2003-2004 Alena Loyd retyped the existing Ottawa Annals for 1864-1964 and created new annals for 1965-2003 using microfilmed copies of “The Ottawa Times” and “The Ottawa Herald.” While going through the papers for 1965-2003 she also abstracted the obituaries. Alena used the weekly “The Ottawa Times” for 1965-August 24, 2000 and “The Ottawa Herald” (published Mon-Sat) for August 25, 2000-2003. This document is in Word and specific names may be searched using the computer’s Edit/Find feature.