WRAY, MARY VIRGINIA
Former Iola resident Mary Virginia Wray, 81, of
Olathe died thursday, Dec. 8, at good Samaritan Nursing Center in Olathe.
She was born Oct. 5, 1924, in Denvery, Colo., and
was raised by Gertrude and Lee Moore in Iola.
She was graduated from Iola High School and Iola
Junior College.
She was married to Marvin Stanley Wray after he
was discharged from the service after World War II. the couple made their home in Ottawa and St. Joseph, Mo. He
died in January 1963.
She lived in various parts of the country, moving
in 1985 to Olathe to be near her son.
She is survived by a son, Larry and his wife, Karen,
Olathe, a daughter, Reginia Cochran and her husband Dennis, Kinnelon, N.J.; a brother, Charles Turner, California;
a sister-in-law, Dorothy Wray, Iola; and two grandchildren.
Family & friends will meet at Waugh-Yokum &
Friskel Memorial Chapels at 1 p.m. the Rev. Steve Traw will officiate. (The Iola Register, Friday, December 9,
2005, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
HIGGINS, ELLA MARIE
Funeral services for Miss Ella Marie Higgins, 73,
formerly of Kansas City, yesterday at the Pine Crest Nursing Home at Humboldt. Services will be at 3 p.m. tomorrow
at the Waugh-Yokum Funeral Home. The Rev. H.C .Brockman will officiate. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Miss Higgins was born Februrary 17, 1897 at Moran,
Kansas, the daugher of William L. and Sarah E. (Busley) Higgins.
Miss Higgins, who worked with the Internal Revenue
Department in Kansas City until her retirement, was a member of the Wesley United Methodist Church. Surviving besides
her sister, Mrs. Mildred Matter, Iola, is a nephew, Max Willis, also of Iola. (The Iola Daily Register, May 1,
1970, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
LYTLE, J. W.
LA HARPE––J.W. Lytle, an Allen County resident
88 years died Sunday evening.
A native of Quincy, Ill., Mr. Lytle came here with
his family when he was a year old and was 89 at his death. His parents established a home southeast of LaHarpe
and after he grew to adulthood he farmed in the vicinity all his life.
In 1907 he was married to Anna Busley, who died
in 1957.
Mr. Lytle was a member of the LaHarpe Methodist
Church.
His survivors include a brother, Walter Lytle of
Iola, and a sister, Mrs. Cora A. Foster, Porterville, Calif.
The funeral service will be held at 2:30 Wednesday
at the Waugh Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Wilson Baker. Burial will be in the La Harpe Cemetery. (The Iola
Register, Tuesday, January 3, 1961, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
LYTLE, GEORGE
LaHarpe News For Today
Mr. George Lytle, 76 years of age died last night
at 12 0’clock at his home here, from a complication of diseases. Mr Lytle had been ill for a long time and has
gradually been growing weaker the past week. Mr. Lytle and family have resided in and about LaHarpe for a number
of years. He is survived by his wife and four children, Willard, and Walter who live south of town, Mrs. Pearl
Foster of Colony, Mrs Nellie rogers of Lone Elm. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at ten o’clock at the
house and the Methodist minister will preach. Burial will be in the LaHarpe cemetery. (The Iola Daily Register,
Wednesday, October 4, 1916, page 7, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
Funeral of Mr. Lytle
The funeral of G.W. Lytle, who died shortly after
midnight last night at his home in LaHarpe, will be held tomorrow morning at ten o’clock at the home, under the
auspices of McCook Post, G.A.R. (The Iola Daily Register, Wednesday, October 4, 1916, page 2 Submitted by Nancy
Willis)
La Harpe News For Today
The funeral service of the late George Lytle who
died Wednesday was held yesterday morning from the home. The McCook Post of Iola had charge of the services. There
were about fifty old soldiers in attendance. Mr. Lytle and his family have resided in LaHarpe for number of years.
(The Iola Daily Register, Friday Evening, October 6, 1916, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
BUSLEY,
GEORGE H.
George H. Busley, 83, 401 North First, died yesterday
at the Allen County Hospital. He had entered the hospital on August 30 and had been in failing health for the past
six years.
He was born December 26, 1886, on a farm near LaHarpe
and came to Iola in 1927.
He was married to Catherine Odor January 20, 1929
in Iola.
He was employed by the Iola Creamery, the Fairmont
Creamery and Belknaps Dairy where he worked until retirement.
He was a member of the Wesley United Methodist
Church, the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star of LaHarpe, and Iola Council No., 8, the Scottish Rite Consistory of
Fort Scott and the El Jebel Temple of the Shrine in Denver.
Survivors include his widow, Catherine of the home:
two sons: H. Loraine Busley, Portland, Oregon and Paul Busley, Santa Barbara, California, a brother, Albert Busley,
Denver; a sister, Mrs. Nellie Wray, Iola and a granddaughter.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at
the Waugh-Yokum Funeral Home. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. (The Iola Register, Tuesday Evening, October
13, 1970, page 3, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
SUTTON,
FLORENCE MARY (MRS. HARMON H.)
Obituary-Mrs. Harmon H. Sutton
Florence Mary Wilson was born in Allen County,
Kansas, February 12, 1899, and died at her home in Iola, Kansas, January 22, 1924 after a brief illness with scarlet
fever.
August 21st, 1920 she was united in marriage to
Harmon H. Sutton. To this union was born two sons, Kenneth James and James Harold. She leaves leaves besides these
dear children, her husband, Howard H. Sutton, her father, Sam Wilson and three sisters, Mrs. Fern burns, Clara
and Cecil Wilson.
She was an unusually sweet spirited and a beautiful
wife and mother. A devout Christian and faithful member of the First Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral services
were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Spencer at the grave in Highland cemetery January 23, 1924. The entire community
extend their sympathy to the stricken families in their hours of grief and sorrow.__A Close Friend. (The Iola Daily
Register, February 5, 1924, Page 4, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
WRAY, CHARLES H.
Charles H. Wray, 78, died Saturday night at his home in the Silverleaf District, northeast of Iola.
Born December 4, 1886 at Beloit, Mr. Wray moved
with his parents to a farm near Mildred when he was a boy. A few years later they moved to the Silverleaf District
and he had lived there since that time. He was a member of the LaHarpe Methodist Church and a number of farm organizations.
Survivors include his widow, Nellie, of the home;
a son, Maurice Wray of Iola; a sister, Mrs. Mattie Skinner of Iola; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow at
the Waugh Funeral Home with the Rev. Vernon Dillon officiating. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. (The Iola
Register, November 29, 1965, Monday Evening, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
BUSLEY, CATHERINE
D.
Catherine D. Busley, 99, of Iola died Saturday,
April 24, 1999, at Countryside Estates.
She was born June 18, 1899, at Iola, the daugher
of Ora and Charlotte Martin Duncan.
She worked as a telephone operator for 43 years, retiring from southwestern Bell in 1963. Busley was a member of
Wesley United Methodist Church, Order of the Eastern Star and the Telephone Pioneers.
On Jan. 20, 1929, she married George Busely at
Iola. He died in 1970.
She is survived by five nephews, Howard and Charles
neighbor and Albert, Larry and Bruce Dimmitt; and four nieces, Catherine Harris, Rosemary York, Virginia Savidge
and Janet Wooten.
Three brothers and two sisters died earlier.
The Rev. John C. Thompson will officiate at the
1 p.m. Tuesday funeral services at Wesley United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to Wesley United Methodist
Church.
Waugh-Yokum Friskel Memorial Chapel is in charge
of arrangements. (The Iola Register, Monday, April 26, 1999, Submitted by Nancy Willis)
SERVEY, ALBERT J.
Obit: A.J. Servey was born in Clarion County, PA
August 31, 1841. From there the family moved to Brinkerton, PA when the son was eleven years old. Later they lived
in Shannondale and by the time A.J. was seventeen they were living in Venango County, where he worked in the oil
fields until the Civil War broke out. He enlisted as a member of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company I, on July
22, 1861 for a period of three years as a bugler. "The protection surrounding that position, however, was
distasteful to him and he threw his bugle away, perferring the greater danger of real fighting. At the end of his
three-year period he re-enlisted for the remainder of the war. In 1862 he was promoted to Corporal. In the fall
of the same year he became Sergeant and later in the same fall he was made Lieutenant and was transfered to Company
G, He refused the change of company and remained with the company which he had been fighting all through the war.
The principal battles i which Mr. Servey took Part were the Battle of Middleburg, MO., Antietum, Fredericksberg,
the seven days before Richmond, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor. In speaking of the Battle of Antietam, Captain Servey
was ofter heard to say that if there had been any sort of general they could have "licked half the army."
In the battle of Gettysburg the company of which he was a member reached there on the first day and Lieutenant
Servey was detailed upon Pleasanton's Staff. During the month of August, 1864 Mr. Servey took part in fourteen
engagements including that at Rheims Station, besides helping to tear up the Weldon railroad from Petersburg to
Beldon, and seventy-five miles of the Boydtown plank road. He was within two miles of Appomatox courthouse at the
time of the surrender. He was discharged and mustered out of the service on July 1, 1865, with the rank of Lieutenant
in command of his company.
As soon as he was free to do so he returned to his old home in Pennsylvania, where on November 4, 1865,he was married
to Sarah Adeline Weikal. To them eight children were born six boys and two girls.Two of the boys Alender and Ralph
were killed in a cyclone that swept the country west of Iola, KS in the summer of 1884. Others who survive are:
Mrs. C.L. Barnhart, of Independence, Oregon, who cannot be here for the funeral; L.W. Servey, Ocheieta, Okla, A.B.
Servey of Minneapolis, Minn, Mrs. B.L. McNeil, Frank M. Servey, and Dan J. Servey, all of Iola, The mother of the
family died here on December 5, 1907. In August , 1909, he was united in marriage with Mrs. Lilly Munger, who survives
her. Mr. & Mrs. Servey came to Kansas from Pennsylvania in April of 1868. The entire trip from Pittsburg, PA
to Kansas City, then called Westport Landing, was made by water, and required nineteen days to complete. From Kansas
City they drove overland to Lawrence and then to Humboldt, where they located on a homestead three miles west and
one and a quarter south of Iola. They remained there for three years when the grasshopper invasion of Kansas, from
1872-1875, when they moved to Iola, which has ever since been the family home.
1st Wife: Sarah Adeline Weikel Servey
2nd Wife:Lilly Munger
(Iola Register, 1916, submitted by Kyle M. Condon)
