Altamont and Mound Valley will hold the following services: (The public is invited to all of these services).

Maundy Thursday Seder Service will be at the Mound Valley United Methodist Church at 7 p.m. Read more

Area Easter egg hunts will be held at the following locations: Read more

Labette Avenue has selected two winners from our recent fine the Easter Egg contest.
Peggy Ybarra of Altamont won the adult Easter basket and Tayton Hazell of Oswego won the children’s Easter basket. The baskets can be picked up anytime at the Labette Avenue office on Thursday, April 1.

These are members of the Labette County 4-H horticulture judging teams. They  went to the Wichita Garden Show in early March and did well according to Julie Traxson, 4-H Program Assistant.

Coffeyville Community College (CCC) team ropers, Levi Wilson of South Coffeyville, Okla. and Gable Hilderbrand of Bartlett, took fifth in the long go and then won the short round and the average in the team roping event at the Fort Scott rodeo. 

They won the event with the fastest time of the rodeo with a 5.4 second run. The team ropers are currently sitting seventh in the Central Plains Region.
Katie Campbell of Nowata, Okla., also did well at the Fort Scott rodeo as she took third in the long go and second in the short as well as second in the average in barrel racing.
The CCC men’s team is currently sitting fifth in the region and the women are third. The next rodeo is in Guymon, Okla. on April 1-3.

Coaches,
As you begin your spring sports schedules I want to wish you the best of luck and remind you to send your sports info to Labette Avenue so we can report it to our readers!  Use this email address: labetteavenue@taylornews.org Read more

For more information, see the March 31, 2010, issue of the Labette Avenue. To locate previously posted death notices, enter the decedent’s last name in the archive search box on Labette Avenue’s home page. Labette Avenue publishes death notices free of charge. Paid obituaries ($20) are printed in their entirety in the Labette Avenue and online at www.taylornews.org/lba.

Bessie Marie Gamblian

PARSONS—Bessie Marie Gamblian, 72, of Parsons, Kan., died at 5:47 a.m. Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at Bergen Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Neb. Her death was not expected.

Further obituary details and funeral arrangements will be announced by Carson-Wall Funeral Home.

John H. Shearhart

OSWEGO—John H. Shearhart, 78, of Oswego, Kan., formerly of Mound Valley, died Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at his home.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Saturday, at Mound Valley Lighthouse. Burial will be in Mound Valley Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m., Friday, at Bath-Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Altamont.

Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.

Josh Rhodenbaugh

PARSONS—Josh Rhodenbaugh, 27, of Parsons, Kan., died Monday evening, March 22, 2010, at his home. He had been in failing health, but his death was unexpected.

No services are scheduled at this time. Following cremation, the family will conduct a private burial on the family farm north of Salina. Memorials are suggested to an educational fund for his son and may be left at or mailed to Carson-Wall Funeral Home 112 N. 26th St., P.O. Box 942, Parsons, 67357.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.wallfuneralservices.com.

Mable Neville

COFFEYVILLE—Mable Roberts Neville, 86, of Coffeyville, Kan., passed away Thursday, March 25, 2010, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kan.

Graveside funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Monday, March 29, at North Edna Cemetery, Edna, Kan., with Rev. David Bycroft of  the Tyro Christian Church officiating.

Friends may call Sunday, March 28, from noon until 8 p.m. at the David W. Barnes Funeral Home in Coffeyville.

Services are under the direction of the David W. Barnes Funeral Home, Coffeyville.

Mable was born March 9, 1924, in Neodesha, Kan., to Everett and Dorothy Roberts.

She married Conan Charles (Chuck) Neville on June 1, 1946, in Tulsa, Okla. After living a short while in Coffeyville, they moved to the farm, one mile north of Valeda, Kan. They raised cattle, farmed and had a trucking business. Mabel worked for Dr. Ellis and Dr. Ralph Alters, before receiving her licenses to work with Home Health Patients, and worked for Coffeyville Regional Medical Center and Windsor Place. In 1989, they moved back to Coffeyville where she and her husband bred and showed their prize winning English bulldogs.

She was a member of the Tyro Christian Church.

Those surviving are two step-brothers, Bill and Bob Thomas, Bartlesville, Okla., a number of nieces and a nephew, and lifetime friends and caregivers, Sharon Kuehn of South Coffeyville, Okla., and Beverly Larrick, of DeSoto, Kan.

Preceding in death were her husband, Conan; her parents; a step-father, Baird Thomas; three sisters, Delsie Roberts, Elsie Mangrum and Margaret Hollis; and one step brother Charles Thomas.

James “Jim” Powell

PARSONS—James “Jim” Powell, 85, of Parsons, Kan., died Monday, March 29, 2010, at Woodridge Estates in Parsons. He had been in failing health.

Further obituary information and funeral arrangements will be announced by Carson-Wall Funeral Home of Parsons.

Lenora E. Tresner

GARDEN CITY—Lenora E. Tresner, 83, of Garden City, Kan., a former Parsons, Kan., resident, died Friday, March 27, 2010, at her home in Garden City. Death followed a lengthy period of failing health.

Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Parsons. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Parsons. Friends may call at Carson-Wall Funeral Home in Parsons at their convenience after noon Tuesday.

Memorials are suggested to either St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Garden City or St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Parsons and may be sent to the funeral home at Box 942, Parsons, KS 67357.

Online condolences may be left at www.wallfuneralservices.com.

SATURDAY, MARCH 27
5-8 P.M. – Pancake Supper
9 – Midnight – Street Dance
EDNA COMMUNITY BUILDING
DOOR PRIZES & ENTERTAINMENT
ADULT-$3 - AT DOOR $3.50
CHILDREN-$1.50 - $2
Tickets are available at the City Hall Office in Edna from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. (922-3841)

A public letter from USD 505-Chetopa Superintendent Kim Juenemann calls a bill currently under consideration by the Kansas Legislature “quite bluntly and frankly, the end of our district.” Read more