Obituaries from January 2023

Arthur Ray Wisdom, age 75, Worland, Mo., passed away Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.   A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday Jan. 6, 2023 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Pleasanton Chapel. Burial will be in the Green Valley Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Don Robert “Butch” McCarty, Overland Park, Kan., formerly of Mound City, Kan., passed away early Friday, Dec. 30, 2022, at Maggie’s Place Memory Care in Overland Park, Kan.  A graveside service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 7, 202 at the Curry Cemetery near Mound City, Kan.  Visitation will be held from 1 to 2:30 p.m. ...

Russell Wallace “Wally” Bradford, age 72, passed away Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott, Kan. There was cremation and no services are planned at this time. Arrangements are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. Main, Ft. Scott, KS...

Dee Ronald Ward, 87, of Pittsburg, Kan., died 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022 at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg, Kan. Mr. Ward was born Nov. 19, 1935 in Arcadia, Kan., the son of J.C. and Gracie (Koppa) Phillips. He was adopted by Dee C. and Ida L.(Schilling) Ward of Mulberry, Kan., when he was 9 months old. ...

Marlene Gettler, 91, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday evening Jan. 2, 2023. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Linda P. Murphy, 71, of Fort Scott, passed away Thursday morning, Dec. 29, 2022, at home. She was born Jan. 21, 1951, in Torrington, Wyo., the daughter of Wilbur W. “Red” Metcalf and Raymoleen P. (Lay) Metcalf. She was the oldest of three girls and fourth of their 12 children. She attended school in Torrington, Wyo., Scottsbluff and Bridgeport, Neb., and Twin Lakes and Longmont, Colo...

Nan Gallivan Wolfe, 80, passed away on Dec. 24, 2022 in Olathe, Kan. She was born Oct. 29, 1942 in Kansas City, Kan., to Mervyn “Dutch” Gallivan and Jean Swanson Gallivan. She graduated from Shawnee Mission High School and Emporia Teacher’s College. She married Clarence “Cal” Wolfe in April, 1964. ...

Marlene Gettler, 91, of Fort Scott, passed away Monday evening Jan. 2, 2023. She was born on Oct. 23, 1931, in Greensburg, Kan., the daughter of Earl R. Murphy and Florence E. (Pinnick) Murphy. She married Dean Gettler on June 14, 1953, in Topeka, Kan., and he survives of the home...

Mary Elizabeth “Zibbie” Grove, 97, formerly of Fort Scott, passed away early Wednesday morning, Dec. 28, 2022, at Kingswood Manor, Kansas City, Mo. She was born Sept. 28, 1925, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Benjamin Hezekiah Coe, Sr., and Katherine Lucille (Bittner) Coe. She married Charles Allen Grove, Jr. on Feb. 14, 1950, in Fort Scott, and he preceded her in death on June 27, 2000...

Theodore R. “Ted” Stanton, age 97, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Monday, Jan. 2, 2023, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott. Ted was born on July 11, 1925, in Fort Scott, the son of Theodore and Velda (Hall) Stanton. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years as a gunner’s mate 2nd class during WWII. ...

Joyce Elaine Hueston, age 84, Mapleton, Kan., went to her heavenly home, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. Joyce was born June 8, 1938 in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Walter Albert and Laura Faye(Davis) Sutterby. She graduated from Blue Mound High School in the Class of 1956. ...

Caleb Scott Warner, age 30, resident of Erie, Kan., died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, at Freeman Hospital, Joplin, Mo. He was born Jan. 13, 1992, in Lee’s Summit, Mo., the son of Michael Dale Warner and Tammy Sue Hockett Warner. Caleb graduated from Girard, Kan., High School with the class of 2010. He served in the National Guard and was deployed to Germany as a heavy equipment operator. He was greatly loved and will be missed...

William Allen Taylor, age 52, a resident of rural Nevada, Mo., passed away Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023, at his home with his loved ones by his side. He was born May 14, 1970, in Fort Scott, Kan., the son of Richard Taylor and Lucy Garrison Taylor. Bill went to school and grew up in Fort Scott and later moved to Missouri. ...

Barbara Jean Wood, age 84, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., loving wife, mother and grandmother, passed away Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, surrounded by her family at Guest Home Estates where she was in hospice care. She was born Sept. 4, 1938, at Fort Scott Mercy Hospital, the daughter of Herschel L. ...

Helen Virginia Normand, age 83, Pittsburg, Kan., formerly of Arma, passed away on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, at Via Christi Hospital, Pittsburg. She was born Sept. 7, 1939, at the family home north of Nevada, Mo. The youngest of three children born to James and Cornelia Tapp Rutledge, she was raised in Vernon County. ...

Leta Herboldsheimer, age 100, Mapleton, Kan., passed away Monday, Jan. 9, 2023 at her home.   A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 14, 2023 at the Mapleton United Methodist Church. Burial in the Mapleton Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. ...

Inez Mae Haugen, 95, of Fort Scott, passed away early Tuesday morning, Jan. 10, 2023, at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Nancy DeWitt, age 81, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, at the Medicalodge in Fort Scott. Rev. Chuck Russell will conduct funeral services at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16 at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Following services there will be cremation. Burial will take place at the Greensburg Cemetery in Greensburg, Kan., at a later date. Services are under the direction of the Cheney Witt Chapel, 201 S. ...

Fort Scott has a new mayor following the annual reorganization of the city commission Tuesday evening. Matthew Wells was elected mayor and Tim Van Hoecke was elected commission president. The motions for their elections passed 4-1 with Josh Jones, Edwin Woellhof, Tim Van Hoecke and Wells voting yes and Katy Harrington voting no on each motion...

Anna Mae Smith, age 92, resident of Fort Scott, Kan., died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, at Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born May 15, 1930, in Hiattville, Kan., the daughter of Albert and Sarah Hixon Powell. She graduated from Hepler, Kan., High School. ...

Dennis Michael Mullane, 59, passed away at his home in Yates Center, Kan., on Jan. 3, 2023. Dennis was born May 10, 1963 in Fort Scott, Kan., to Tim and Ellen (Cook) Mullane. He graduated from Fort Scott High School in 1981. He served in the U.S. Army from 1982-1984. On May 17, 2015, he married the love of his life, Debbie (Mann) Johnson. Together, they loved family, friends, bowling alleys, and casinos...

Donald Eugene Long, age 91 of La Cygne, Kan., passed away, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023 at the Kansas City Hospice House. Funeral Service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. ...

Eleanor Faye Rogers, age 88, resident of Mapleton, Kan., died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, at Medicalodge of Fort Scott, Kan. She was born on Feb. 1, 1934, in Blue Mound, Kan., the daughter of Glenn and Reta Dizmang McGee. She married Harold Rogers on May 18, 1952. ...

Evelyn M. Johnson, age 94 of Pleasanton, Kan., passed away in Fort Scott, Kan., on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. There are no services scheduled at this time. Online condolences may be left at www.schneiderfunerals.com

Bobby “Bob” Dean Johnson, Mound City, Kan., passed away Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.    A graveside funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, at the Richland Cemetery. Bob will lie in state from 9 a.m. to noon Monday at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Mound City Chapel.  Memorial contributions are suggested to the Alzheimer's Foundation, in care of Schneider Funeral Home, 319 Chestnut, Mound City, KS 66056. ...

Byron Eugene Tillery, age 67, resident of Pittsburg, Kan., died Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, at Pittsburg Health and Rehab. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20, at the Cheney Witt Chapel. Cremation will follow. The family will receive friends from 2 until 3 p.m. ...

Marjorie Lucille McGinnis, age 97, a resident of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023, at the Guest Home Estates in Fort Scott. She was born Aug. 24, 1925, in LaCygne, Kan., the daughter of Henry Isiah Bergmann and Stella Lee Boyd Bergmann. ...

Inez Mae (Graves) Haugen, 95, of Fort Scott, passed away early Tuesday morning, Jan. 10, 2023, at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kan. She was born July 10, 1927, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of John Owen Smither and Dorothy Eleanor (Manges) Smither. She married William Allen Graves Sept. 10, 1945, in Fort Scott, and he preceded her in death Sept. 17, 1994. She later married Milton O. Haugen July 25, 1997, and he preceded her in death in November of 2011...

Clarence William “Bill” Willey, age 69, resident of Deerfield, Mo., died early Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at Cox Barton County Hospital, Lamar, Mo. There was cremation. Graveside services for Bill Willey will be announced by the Cheney Witt Chapel.

Dorothy Taylor, 75, of Fort Scott, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at her home. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Freeda Belle Brady, age 88, Osawatomie, Kan., formerly of La Cygne, Kan. passed away Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in La Cygne, Kan. Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Mound City, Kan. The Rosary will be prayed at 3 p.m. ...

Dorothy Taylor, 77, of Fort Scott, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, at her home. She was born Oct. 27, 1945, in Fort Scott, Kan., the daughter of Charles James Alfred Bloesser and Nellie Ida (Brundige) Bloesser. She married Marvin Lee Taylor, Sr. on Nov. 26, 1966, at the Redfield Methodist Church in Redfield, Kan. He preceded her in death on Aug. 5, 2022...

James H. Belknap, 84, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday evening, Jan. 19, 2023, at Presbyterian Village. Arrangements will be announced by the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home.

Clearance William “Bill” Willey, age 69, resident of Deerfield, Mo., formerly of Lane, Kan., passed away Thursday morning, Jan. 19, 2023, at Cox Barton County Hospital in Lamar, Mo. He was born July 3, 1953, in Garnett, Kan., to Lloyd Warren Willey and Ester Rebecca Ashburn Willey.   ...

Randall “Randy”James Rogers, age 72, La Cygne, Kan., passed away Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023.   Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023 at the Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, La Cygne Chapel. Burial will be in Oak Lawn Cemetery. Randy will lie in state Monday, Jan. 23, from noon to 5 p.m. Contributions are suggested to Regina’s Rescue, in care of Schneider Funeral Home, P.O. Box 304, La Cygne, KS 66040.  ...

Sarah Eugenia Wesner Eckles, 83, passed away peacefully in her home on Jan. 22, 2023. Rev. Dr. Jared Witt will officiate funeral services at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, at the First Presbyterian Church under the direction of the Konantz-Cheney Funeral Home. ...

Karen Rylander Cromer passed away peacefully on Jan. 19, 2023. She was preceded in death by her husband of 55 years, Deacon Frank Cromer, her parents, Ola and Opal Rylander, her sister, Shirlene Rylander and her son, John Cromer. She is survived by her brother, Gary Rylander, her sister, Marilyn Rylander Freeman, her two children, Marilyn CloAnn Adamcik and husband Andrew, Chris Cromer and wife Debbie; seven grandchildren, Christi Reece and husband Neil, Christopher Cromer and wife Sara, Veronica Gillenwater and husband Scott, Danielle Vincent, Colton Cromer and wife Andrea, Alisha Cromer and Matthew Willoughby, and Clayton Cromer; eight great-grandchild, LJ and Layna Vincent, Eastyn and Zain Willoughby, Grayson Reece, Caleb Cromer, Cade Cromer, and Andrew Scott Gillenwater; and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and devoted friends.. ...

James Hargraves Belknap, Jr., 84, of Fort Scott, Kan., passed away Thursday evening, Jan. 19, 2023, at his home surrounded by his loved ones. He was born March 3, 1938, in Tulsa, Okla., the son of James Hargraves Belknap, Sr. and Thelma Francine (Warwick) Belknap...

Sarah Eugenia Wesner Eckles, 83, passed away peacefully in her home on Jan. 22, 2023. Sally was born Nov. 23, 1939, to Ermal and Hulon Albright Wesner in Ida, La. She attended college at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where she was a member of Phi Mu sorority, the Honor Society, and met her husband-to-be, Robert Lee Eckles. At LSU, she received her Bachelor of Science degree in home economics and had a long career as a social worker in New Orleans...

Mary Louise (Scarbrough) Ramsey, age 80, went to meet her Lord and Savior on Jan. 30, 2023. Mary was born in Willow Springs, Mo., on Nov. 12, 1942. She was the daughter of Bertha Antoinette (Cotton) Scarbrough and Pete Scarbrough. She had an extraordinary loving relationship with her sister Martha Ann (Scarbrough) Gentry. ...

Earl Gene Bloesser, 81, passed away peacefully on Jan. 26, 2023 at The Madison Memory Care Center, Kansas City, Mo., as a result of Parkinson’s Disease. Earl was born March 2, 1941, as the first child of Sonny Earl and Mildred Bloesser. After Sonny Earl Bloesser’s death in 1963, Earl’s late mother married Jim Quick, now deceased...