Lyon County, Kansas

Obituaries

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KANE, MISTY LYNN

The funeral for Misty Lynn Kane will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home. Burial will be in Phillips Cemetery at Reading. The family will meet friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions to a trust fund for her sons may be sent in care of the funeral home,
P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.

Mrs. Kane died
Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007, at her home, 211 S. Mechanic St. She was 37.

She was the manager at Village Inn in
Emporia.
The daughter of Meredith and Joyce Cornwell Heathman, she was born
May 29, 1970, at Emporia. She married Larry M. Kane on Oct. 23, 2004, at Reading. He survives.

Mrs. Kane participated in an
Emporia bowling league.
She is also survived by two sons, Larriston Kane and Marlyn Kane, both of the home; her mother, Joyce Cornwell of Emporia; her father and stepmother, Meredith and Rose Heathman of Reading; one sister, Melinda Heathman of Reading; two brothers, Micheal Heathman of Emporia and Terry Keith Heathman, both of Emporia; and her grandmother, Cordelia Seleey of Reading; and her cousin and caretaker, Ivy Woods. Her grandparents, James and Evelyn Cornwell, died earlier.
(Emporia Gazette ~
16 Oct 2007)


THOMAS KIBBY DEAD

News was received today by relatives of the death of Thomas Kibby, at the State Hospital at Osawatomie. Mr. Kibby's death was due to a physical weakness which began with a break-down fourteen years ago. Since that time he had been in the hospital. No particulars of the death were received. The body will be brought to Emporia, and the funeral probably will be held Sunday, but announcement will be made later.

Mr. Kibby was the son of Mrs. E. J. Kibby, who lives six miles north of Emporia. He was 38 years old. He was born at Pontia, Ill., and came to Kansas with his parents when 6 years old. Besides his mother, he leaves two brothers, Palmer of Kibby, of Chicago, and Charles, of Emporia; and three sisters, Mrs. Nettie Strain, of Chicago; Mrs. Emma Matlock, of Knoxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Hattie Jennings, of Fort Scott, Kan.
(Emporia Gazette ~ June 5, 1914)

NOTED WOMAN OF KANSAS IS DEAD

Emporia, Kan., May 9---Mrs. Lyman Beecher Kellogg, one of the first women admitted to the Kansas bar, and widely known as a club woman, died at her home here last night. She was the daughter of Rev. D. P. Mitchell. During the prohibitory war of 1889 she was assistant to her husband, then attorney general. She was a sister of Dr. C. B. Mitchell of Chicago, formerly pastor of the Grand Avenue Methodist church of Kansas City, Mo. She was born in Coshocton, Ohio, in 1850.
(Daily Oklahoman ~ May 10, 1911)

JOHN KURTZ DEAD

John Kurtz, who lived at 125 Exchange street with his mother, died this morning of typoid fever. He was 27 years old. His relatives are waiting to hear from a brother in Montana before making funeral arrangements but it is probable the funeral will be held from the Catholic church not before the first of next week.
(Emporia Gazette ~ October 16, 1902)

KAIN, ELLA

Ella Kain, aged 10, died Thursday morning at the home of her parents two miles south of Olpe of consumption. The funeral was held at Olpe this morning.
(Emporia Gazette ~ December 10, 1903)