Melby Mortuary Obituaries
Eugene Leeroy Morris
Dec 29, 2008
Eugene LeeRoy “Mo” Morris, son of Cleo and Twila (Figgins) Morris, was born May 17, 1962, in Kansas City, Missouri. Mo went to be with the Lord December 29,2008, at University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 46 years, 7 months and 12 days. He graduated in 1980 from Burr Oak High School. Mo enjoyed playing football,...
Terry Lee Howell
Dec 5, 2008
Terry Lee Howell was born March 6, 1951, at Hastings, Nebraska, to Paul J. and Eloise (Schultz) Howell. He died December 5, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, after a long battle with cancer. Terry always kept his diploma from Kindergarten at Guide Rock, Nebraska, where he started his education. He attended Burr Oak Grade School and...
Merna B. Keeler
Dec 3, 2008
Merna B. Keeler, 78, Mankato, died Dec. 3 at Salina Regional Health Center, Salina, Kansas. She was born Jan. 26, 1930, in Jewell County, Kansas, near Ionia. Her parents were Glenn and Ida Miles Wright. She attended rural schools and graduated in 1948 from Ionia High School. On June 1, 1948, she married Nelson Keeler in Hays. He preceded...
Jewell Jones Sweet
Nov 24, 2008
Jewell Jones “Shorty” Sweet was born January 19, 1919, near Mankato, Kansas, to Albert Holmes and Cyrene (Jones) Sweet. He was born with a handicap, Jewell was a deaf mute. He was a life long resident of Jewell County, and learned math at Fairview Country School, east of Formoso. He was an accomplished farmer stockman, who never raised wheat...
Earl Dean Leonard
Nov 22, 2008
Earl Dean Leonard was born on June 12, 1933, in Jewell County, Kansas, the only son of the late Chester Earl and Dorothy Jane (Lange) Leonard. Dean passed away at the Overland Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Overland Park, Kansas, on November 22, 2008. Dean attended the Mankato schools and graduated from Mankato High School in 1951. Dean...
Matthew Michial Grove
Nov 21, 2008
Matthew Michial Grove was born April 29, 1987, in Colby, Kansas. He attended Colby schools and graduated with the 2006 class. He passed away November 21, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 21. During high school Matt was active in football and was a pole vaulter in track. After graduation, Matt was employed...
Gordon Eugene Ernst
Nov 4, 2008
Gordon Eugene Ernst was born March 20, 1950, to Arnold Elvin and Neva Joyce (Mills) Ernst at Beloit, Kansas, and he died Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 58 years, 7 months, and 14 days. Gordon was educated and graduated from Burr Oak High School before attending and graduating from North...
Edward Lee Mcentee
Oct 27, 2008
Edward Lee McEntee was born November 13, 1940, at Kansas City, Missouri, to Edward E. and Esther (Johnson) McEntee, and died Monday, October 27, 2008, at his home in Burr Oak, Kansas, at the age of 67 years, 11 months, and 14 days. Edward lived thirty four years in the Kansas City area. Where he was educated, and employed...
Sidney C. Dillinger
Oct 18, 2008
Sidney Clyde Dillinger was born in a sod house on a farm in Sherman County, Kansas, July 3, 1912, to Troy Clyde and Amanda (Thompson) Dillinger. He died October 18, 2008, at the Long Term Care Unit of Jewell County Hospital at the age of 96 years, 3 months, and 15 days. Sidney was the middle child in a...
E. Maxine Dempsey
Oct 10, 2008
E. Maxine (Rominger) Dempsey was born November 22, 1919, in Mitchell County, Kansas, second child of Roy and Minnie (Kittel) Rominger. She departed this life on October 10, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term Care, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 88. She grew up on a farm near Randall called the Kissinger Place, located 5 miles south...
Morris Lynn Hillman
Sep 4, 2008
Morris Lynn Hillman was the second child born to Cecil and Marvalee (Gentry) Hillman on February 26, 1947, in Beloit, Kansas. Morris was baptized in the Ionia United Methodist Church. He attended school in Glasco, Ionia, and Esbon, and received a mechanics degree from Wichita Vo-Tech. He was united in marriage to Judy Jean Hake on September 15, 1963,...
Michael Thompson Smith
Aug 24, 2008
Michael was born October 19, 1957, at Denver, Colorado, to Norman and Sylvia (Young) Smith and died August 24, 2008, at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheatridge, Colorado. Michael was a high school graduate, and was employed by the State of Colorado as a special investigator. He is survived by his parents, Norman and Sylvia Smith of Arvada, Colorado, and...
Aletha Marie Logan
Aug 23, 2008
Aletha Marie (Reed) Logan was born January 26, 1918, to Dick and Millie (Freestead) Reed, in Jewell County, Kansas. She died August 23, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term Care Unit in Mankato, Kansas. Aletha grew up south of Formoso, graduating from the eighth grade at Custer School. Being the oldest daughter in a family of eleven, Aletha,...
Carl Wayne Studer
Aug 7, 2008
Carl Wayne Studer was born September 25, 1928, to Ray and Martha (Patrick) Studer, in Jewell County, Kansas, and died at his home, August 7, 2008, at the age of 79 years, 10 months, and 12 days. Carl graduated from Scandia High School, Scandia, Kansas. Carl met and married Roberta Maxine Woddell, on January 19, 1959, at Concordia, Kansas....
Jerald Eugene Caylor
Aug 1, 2008
Jerald Eugene Caylor was born on October 3, 1941, to John and Opal (Hillman) Caylor, near Burr Oak, Kansas. He was the youngest of three siblings. At an early age the family moved from their farm to Mankato. Jerald received all his schooling at Mankato. He graduated from Mankato High School in 1960. Jerald enlisted in the Navy in...
John Henry Ford Bartholomew
Jul 25, 2008
John H. Bartholomew was born December 27, 1923, in Hershey, Nebraska, to Earnest John and Maude Marie (Briggs) Bartholomew and died July 25, 2008, after a long struggle with lung and digestive problems, at the age of 84 years, 6 months, and 28 days. John grew up and lived most of his life in the Mankato, Kansas, farming community....
Dorothy May Munro
Jun 30, 2008
May (Smith) Munro obituary Dorothy May (Smith) Munro, was born March 14, 1914, to Bernice and Edward Smith in Junction City, Kansas. She was one of nine children. Dorothy died June 30, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 94 years, 3 months, and 16 days. Dorothy married Willard Jahnke in 1935, they had...
Carl Lee Mcelroy
Jun 28, 2008
Carl Lee McElroy obituary Carl Lee McElroy was born August 12, 1920, on a farm north of Randall, Kansas, to Ray Adolphus McElroy and Ena May (Stauffer) McElroy, and died June 28, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term care, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 87 years, 10 months, and 16 days. Carl graduated from Randall Rural High...
Dorothy Ruby Oliver
Jun 15, 2008
Dorothy Ruby Scarrow Oliver, daughter of Amy Alice Hindman and Martin Luther Scarrow, was born on a farm near Lebanon, Nebraska on December 3, 1905. She departed this life on June 15, 2008, at the Long-term Care, Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas at the age of 102 years, 6 months and 12 days. She spent her early childhood days...
Thomas (Tom) Ward West
Jun 11, 2008
Thomas Ward West was born April 29, 1938, to Kenneth Victor and Gwen (Topsy) Maxine (Bottorf) West, close to Montrose, Kansas, and died June 11, 2008, after a battle with cancer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 70 years old. Tom, as his friends and family called him, was a graduate of...
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