Obits
Belva Linda “Quingvee” Wahwassuck, 72, Mayetta, died Monday, July 3, 2017, at her home.
She was born December 7, 1944 in Polacca, Ariz., the daughter of Jacob B. and Beulah Naha Coochise.
Mrs. Wahwassuck had lived on the Prairie Band Potawatomi Reservation since 1997 and previously in Polacca...
Enola Joyce Mack, 83, Holton, formerly of Meriden, died Sunday, July 2, 2017, at Medicalodges Jackson County.
She was born July 1, 1934, at Valley Falls, the daughter of Velma Pearle Greene and Oliver Clayton Stockwell Sr. She attended Topeka schools.
Mrs. Mack worked as a meat wrapper at Sutton’...
George W. McMullen Jr., 81, Osage City, died Friday, June 23, 2017, at the Colmery-O’Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka.
He was born March 29, 1936 in Topeka, the son of George W. (Sr.) and Bertha Morris McMullen. He graduated from Denison High School.
Mr. McMullen served in the U.S. Army for 17...
Mary Lou Rutti, 82, formerly of Marysville, died Monday, June 26, 2017, at Medicalodges Jackson County in Holton.
She was born June 7, 1935, at Humboldt, Neb., the daughter of Orval and Thelma Spalding Cudney. She graduated from Hiawatha High School in 1952.
Mrs. Rutti had worked at Downards...
Eddie Walter “Tim” Figgs, 81, Hoyt, died Friday, June 23, 2017, at Midland Care at Linnwood Park Assisted Living at Valley Falls.
He was born Dec. 24, 1935, at Boyle, east of Valley Falls, the son of John and Jane Edna Fletcher Figgs. He graduated from Valley Falls High School in 1953.
Mr. Figgs...
Randall L. Whiteaker, 58, Denison, died Wednesday, June 21, 2017, at his home, surrounded by his loving family. He had courageously been fighting ALS for five years.
He was born Dec. 8, 1958, at Harrisonville, Mo., the son of Thad T. and Norma Sue Ogden Whiteaker. He graduated from Highland Park...
Lester “Gale” Rogers, 76, Holton, formerly of Effingham, died Monday, June 19, 2017, at Medicalodges Jackson County.
He was born Aug. 12, 1940, in Severance, the son of Oren “Bud” and Betty Foster Rogers. He graduated from Effingham High School in 1958 and later graduated from Highland Community...
Shirley A. Shopteese Munoz, 87, Sun City, Ariz., formerly of Mayetta, died Wednesday, June 14, 2017, surrounded by her family.
She was born May 19, 1930, the daughter of King P. and Mary J. Shopteese.
Mrs. Munoz was a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
She married Henry H. Munoz. He...
Troy Brian Higbee, Atascadero, Calif., was born in Topeka, Kansas, on Nov. 10, 1961, to Lloyd and Bonita Gustafson Higbee. He went home to be with our Lord on May 12, 2017, after a five-year battle with melanoma cancer.
He was preceded in death by his father, Lloyd M. Higbee Jr. He is survived by...
Robin Schoen, 43, of Topeka, left us suddenly on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, as a result of a blood clot.
She was born Oct. 6, 1973 to Robert and Darlene Hahn. She is survived by her husband, Robert Schoen; son Jared Kerr from previous marriage to James Kerr; four stepdaughters, Jessica Schmidt,...
