Deaths

Tom Dolph

Vern Thomas “Tom” Dolph, 88, died Monday, September 8, 2025, at the Mosaic Hospital – St. Joseph. He was born December 6, 1936, to Dorothy Surplus and Bert Dolph in Burlington Jct. He was a 1954 graduate of Maryville High School. He attended Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville for one year before entering the United

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Russel Earl

Russel Joseph Earl, 58, Barnard, died Monday, September 8, 2025, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. He was born June 13, 1967, in Springfield, IL, to Russel Henry and Elizabeth Louise O’Connor Earl. He graduated from Lanphier High School in Springfield. Mr. Earl served in the United State Marine Corps. He did concrete work

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Ellen Joslin

Ellen Marie Joslin, 71, Maryville, died Thursday, September 4, 2025, at her home. She was born January 27, 1954, to Xavier F. and Evelyn Wallingford Henggeler in Maryville. She grew up on the Henggeler Century Family Farm in Clyde. She attended Mount Alverno High School, Maryville and later graduated from St. Francis Academy in Nevada,

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Larry Apple

Larry B. Apple, 80, Maryville, died Monday, September 1, 2025. He  was born March 13, 1945, to Welby Marvel Jr. and Phyllis Jean Westerlund Apple in Red Oak, IA. He was a 1963 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, IA and attended Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville. On July 23, 1966, he married Joan

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Betty Spire

Betty Jean Spire, 74, Conception Jct., formerly of Clyde, died Thursday, August 28, 2025, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. She was born June 7, 1951, to Ruby Graham in Osceola, IA. She was raised by her grandparents, Arno and Helen Burk Graham, on a farm near Murray, IA, and graduated from Clarke Community

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Emery Dale Totten

Emery Dale Totten, 89, Maryville, died Thursday, August 28, 2025, at Nodaway Nursing Home. He was born November 19, 1935, to Howard and Edna Jewell Randall Totten, in Skidmore. He graduated in 1954 from Quitman High School. On April 14, 1957, he married Norma Jeanean Hagg in Barnard. Mr. Totten served two years in the

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Glenn “Joe” Jonagan

Glenn “Joe” Everett Jonagan, Jr, 83, Kansas City and formerly of Maryville and Albany, passed from this life at a hospice facility in Kansas City on August 28, 2025. Glenn was born October 24, 1941 in Ford City. He was the youngest son of Glenn Jonagan, Sr. and Mary Scott Jonagan. He was preceded in

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Bernard Riley

Bernard Joseph Riley, 86, Maryville, died Monday, August 25, 2025, at Mosaic Life Care – St. Joseph. He was born August 13, 1939 in Ravenwood to Thomas and Vivian King Riley. He was raised on the three-generation Riley family farm where his grandparents, John and Anna Riley, had been early settlers. On June 20, 1964,

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Gerald Godsey

Gerald Lee Godsey, 96, Ravenwood, died Sunday, August 24, 2025, at the Worth County Convalescent Center, Grant City. He was born April 1, 1929, to Dave and Helen Katherine Thompson Godsey, west of Pickering. He grew up in that area and moved south of Ravenwood in 1960. On February 10, 1951, he married Barbara L.

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Phil Johnson

Phil Johnson, 65, Maryville, died Thursday, August 21, 2025, at his home. He was born October 24, 1959, to Virgil and Virginia Hembree Johnson in Anderson, SC. He was a graduate of Conroe, Texas High School. On March 14, 1981, he married Sherry Roberts in Woodsfield, OH. Mr. Johnson was ordained into the Church of

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