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Mary Ellen Harclerode Milam
JUNE 5, 1922 - AUG. 20, 2005
Mary Ellen Harclerode Milam, 83, Oak Grove, Mo., a former Paola and Fontana resident, died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005, at St. Mary's Hospital of Blue Springs.
She was born June 5, 1922, in Pleasanton, the daughter of Tom and Etta Lloyd.
At the age of 3, she went to live with Leonard and Bertha Arnett of Fontana, who raised her.
She graduated in 1941 from Fontana High School.
She married Blaine Smith in July 1941 and their marriage ended in divorce.
In 1959, she and Charles Harclerode were married, and they made their home in Paola.
He died in September 1971.
She married Ray Milam of Oak Grove, Mo., in 1979, and they lived in Oak Grove.
He died in 1991.
Mrs. Milam was a homemaker and a Baptist.
She loved to sing, sew, quilt and do crafts.
Surviving are nieces and nephews, including Juanita Mathews of rural Fontana.
Graveside services were Thursday in the Fontana Cemetery.
Royer Funeral Home of Oak Grove cared for the arrangements.
Marion A. Schmoe
OCT. 23, 1902 - AUG. 26, 2005
Marion A. Schmoe, 102, a longtime Rantoul resident, died Friday, Aug. 26, 2005, in the Richmond Care Center in Richmond.
He was born Oct. 23, 1902, in Seymour, Ind., the son of Henry and Mollie Anna Baldwin Schmoe.
His family moved to De Soto in 1907, to Prairie Center and then to Ottawa in 1913.
He lived in Rantoul from 1927 until he moved to Richmond in 1965.
He married Rozella Hope McCann on Oct. 9, 1924, in Ottawa.
She died Feb. 18, 1951.
He married Velma J. Wallace Everson in Lyndon, Kan.
She died Dec. 4, 1995.
Mr. Schmoe was a farmer and then worked at the Hercules Powder Plant in De Soto in the 1940s.
He returned to farming and worked in construction and the oil fields.
He worked at Skyhook in Ottawa from 1960 until his retirement in 1985.
He was a member of the school board of the Silver Valley Grade School and a former member of the Union Chapel Church in rural Franklin County.
Others preceding him in death were a son, Homer Schmoe; a daughter, Donnie Nichols; and five siblings.
Survivors include four sons, Floyd Schmoe, George Schmoe and Dale Schmoe, all of Ottawa, and Merlin Schmoe of Baldwin City; nine daughters, Gladys Butter, Hazel Guyett, Virgie Sink and Janette Millbern, all of Ottawa, Myrtle Bones of Gardner, Mollie Lee of Richmond, Jean Jones of Princeton, Dorothy Gilpin of Kansas City, Mo., and Audra Detwiler of Vassar, Kan.; and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Services were today in Dengel & Son Mortuary and burial was in Highland Cemetery, both in Ottawa.
Memorials may be made to the Richmond Care Center or Hospice Care of Kansas in care of the mortuary, 235 S. Hickory St., Ottawa, KS 66067.
Merle Leonard Weaver
JUNE 17, 1925 - AUG. 28, 2005
Merle Leonard Weaver, 80, Osawatomie, a longtime Osawatomie businessman, died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, in Shawnee Mission Medical Center.
Born June 17, 1925, a short distance north of Osawatomie, he was the youngest of the two sons of Alton DeWitt and Lola Josephine Huck Weaver.
He grew up in Osawatomie and was a 1943 graduate of Osawatomie High School.
Mr. Weaver served with the U.S. Army during World War II and was honorably discharged on March 4, 1946.
After attending the University of Kansas for two years, he returned to Osawatomie to join the family businesses.
He operated Weaver Supply Co. in downtown Osawatomie for many years until it was sold.
In later years he managed the Elms Motel, also in Osawatomie, and worked with his brother, Cloman Weaver, in the building industry.
Mr. Weaver was a member of the First Baptist Church of Osawatomie.
Survivors include his brother, Cloman Weaver of Osawatomie.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home in Osawatomie.
He will lie in state from 1:30 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.
Burial will be in Osawatomie Cemetery
with full military honors.
Memorials may be made to the church.
Evelyn Wanda Moon
Evelyn Wanda Moon, 83, of Lawrence, the mother of Mike Moon of Osawatomie and Ed Moon of La Cygne, died Monday, Oct. 13, 2003, in the Lawrence Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana, in Lawrence.
Visitation is from 7 to 8 tonight in the funeral home.
Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery
in Lawrence.
Memorials may be made to the Douglas County Visiting Nurses Association or Hospice Care in Douglas County in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1260, Lawrence, KS 66044.
Frederick Geffert
Frederick Geffert, 88, Humboldt, Kan., the father of Kathleen Jefferis of Paola, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2003.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Mount Hope Cemetery
in Humboldt.
Memorials may be made to Pine Crest Nursing Home in Humboldt.
Pamela Kay King
Pamela Kay King, 42, Kansas City, the mother of Lisa M. Green of Paola, died Oct. 8, 2003 from injuries suffered in a single-vehicle wreck.
Joan Tiedemann
Joan Tiedemann, 74, Kansas City, Mo., the widow of John C. Tiedemann, a former Paola resident, and the stepmother of W. Brad Tiedemann of Paola and Terri Ann Erb of Divide, Colo., formerly of Paola, died Oct. 7, 2003.
