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Terry Dyke

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Marcy Chaloupka

Marcy Chaloupka

Dec 27, 2018

Marcy Mae Thomasson Chaloupka, 91, daughter of Russell Wells and Thelma A. (Purdie) Thomasson, was born April 18, 1927, in Lake Wales, Florida. She died on Thursday, December 27, 2018 at the Republic County Hospital in Belleville, Kansas.

At the urging of family in Kansas and Nebraska, the Thomasson family later moved to Belleville,...

Josephine Simms

Josephine Simms

Dec 14, 2018

Josephine Verbena Hofts Simms, 98, daughter of Henry and Rena (Steinman) Hofts, was born April 30, 1920, on the family farm near Ruskin, Nebraska. She died in the presence of her family on Friday, December 14, 2018 at the Republic County Hospital in Belleville, Kansas.

The Hofts family later moved to Republic County, Kansas....

Curtis Crawford

Curtis Crawford

Dec 11, 2018

Curtis C. Crawford was born on January 17, 1932, in Newton, Kansas, the son of Curtis Chester and Elsie (Burchinal) Crawford, Sr. He left this life to live an eternal life on December 11, 2018, at the age of 86 years. Curtis, known as Junior to many family and friends, lived his grade school years in Lubbock, TX,...

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