Obituary Listing

Aug 3, 2018

Shirley Anne Woodside, age 88, died on August 3, 2018 at Ness County Hospital, Ness City. She was born on November 5, 1929 in Quinter, Kansas the daughter of Leon and Adeline Cates Coleman.

On June 24, 1951 she married Forrest Woodside in Denver, Colorado. He preceded her in...

Aug 2, 2018

Wilma Maxine (Jarvis) Zordel, age 84, passed away August 2nd, 2018 at Grisell Memorial Long-Term Care Unit a few blocks away from her longtime home in Ransom Kansas. A come-and-go memorial service will be held October 13th and 14th from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at her home in Ransom. She was born in Arnold Kansas October 14th, 1933, she...

Jul 26, 2018

Dale Douglas Marshall, 79, passed away on July 26, 2018 at the County Living Memory Care in Larned, Kansas.

He was born on April 13, 1939 in Ness City the son of Elmer and Helen (Bieber) Marshall. He was raised in Bazine and graduated in 1957 from the Bazine...

Jun 23, 2018

Joel Dean Fitzgerald, age 88, died on June 23, 2018 at Cedar Village Care Center, Ness City. He was born on October 18, 1929 in Dodge City to Bryan and Jennie Hollman Fitzgerald. He was born 6 days before the stock market crash of the Great Depression.

He was...

Jun 19, 2018

Shirley Kaye Carter Weeks, age 64 of Brownell, was called home to be with the Lord on June 19, 2018 in Ness City, Kansas. She passed away from complications of a vehicle accident while helping her husband and son on the farm. She was born on January 14, 1954...

Jun 15, 2018

Robert Isidore "RIP" Pfannenstiel, age 89, died June 15, 2018 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born on March 6, 1929 to Isidore and Barbara (Sauer) Pfannenstiel on a farm three and ½ miles South of Ness City.

He attended a one room school house, Sidney,...

Jun 8, 2018

Blanche Lucille Niblock Wolfe went home to be with her Savior and her beloved husband and daughter on June 8, 2018. Blanche was born on March 17, 1921 in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the daughter of Fredrick Lawrence Niblock and Rose Hair Niblock. The family moved to the Danby Valley homestead near Brownell when Blanche was an infant. Her father...

Jun 2, 2018

Marilyn Yvonne Kiener Gantz of Ness City, Kansas passed away on June 2, 2018 in Omaha, NE.  She was born on May 18, 1934 in Lebanon, Kansas to Jessie and Albert Kiener and she has a younger sister Leatrice "Leah".

Yvonne graduated from Glen Elder High School in 1952 and attended Brown Mackie School of Business in...

May 16, 2018

Paula Sue Rein, age 57, died on May 16, 2018 at the Good Samaritan Society, Ellis, Kansas. She was born on October 10, 1960 in LaCrosse, Kansas the youngest daughter of Cletus and JoAnn Dreasher Rein. Paula graduated from Bazine High School and worked for many years in restaurant and home health services. She is survived by six brothers,...

May 11, 2018

Glenda Jean Bauer, age 94, died on May 11, 2018 at the Lane County Hospital Assisted Living Facility. She was born on April 6, 1924 in Beaver, Kansas the daughter of John and Hallie Stosopf Charles. She was a Nurses Aide at Grisell Memorial Hospital, Ransom. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and the Go-Getters Senior Center,...

Apr 13, 2018

Jenetta J. Filbert, age 91, died on April 13, 2018 at Cedar Village, Ness City. She was born on February 23, 1927 South of Bazine to John and Bertha Krug Schneider.

She grew up and attended school in the Bazine area. After graduating from high school, she went to...

Mar 23, 2018

Franklin Dale Schlegel, 82, died Friday, March 23, 2018 at the Hays Medical Center. He was born April 22, 1935 in LaCrosse, Kansas to Fred and Lydia (Stieben) Schlegel. Franklin's grade school years were spent at a one room country school southwest of Bazine. He graduated from the Bazine High School in 1953. He joined the U. S. Army and...

Mar 23, 2018

Larry Gene Benedict, age 79, passed away on March 23, 2018 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born on November 13, 1938 in Coffeyville, Kansas the son of William and Lillian Reiter Benedict.

As a young man he joined the Navy for 3 years. Larry married...

Mar 22, 2018

Nicole D. Galvan, age 38, passed away on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in San Antonio.  She was born in Ransom, Kansas on October 31, 1979.

Nicole graduated from Utica High School in 1998. She attended Seward County Community College on a basketball scholarship and graduated with an Associate's degree in Business. Nicole went on to attend UTSA...

Mar 20, 2018

Jaymi LeAnne Stewart, age 18, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in Ransom, Kansas. She was born November 27, 1999 in Henderson, Nevada. Her parents are Julie Ann Stewart of Ransom and Roy Wayne Stewart of Pahrump, Nevada. Jaymi was a senior at Ness City High School, Ness City, Kansas. Singing, dancing, acting and painting were passions of hers. She...

Mar 14, 2018

Dorothy Anne Hagans, age 71, died on March 14, 2018 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. She was born on August 10, 1946 in Ransom the daughter of Marvin and Cecile "Madge" (Moore) McCartee.

She was a member of the First Christian Church in Utica and worked as...

Mar 9, 2018

Terry William Backhaus, age 72, died at his home in Ness City, Kansas on Friday, March 9, 2018.  He was born on January 2, 1946 in Garritson, South Dakota the son of William George and Orpha Marion (Henjum) Backhaus.

Always a lover of the sport of bowling, Terry was the owner and operator of Tumbleweed Lanes Bowling...

Mar 1, 2018

Harold Anderson, 86, of Utica, Kansas passed away on March 1st, 2018. He leaves behind his son Mark and wife Cheryl, and three granddaughters, Annie, Crystal, and Nicole, of Belton Missouri. He was a lifelong resident of Utica, until moving to Belton in 2016 to be near, and spend more time with his grandchildren. He was a Veteran who served...

Feb 15, 2018

Kenneth Carl Doebbeling, age 96, died on February 15, 2018 at Cedar Village, Ness City.  He was born the son of Simeon and Maria Miller Doebbeling on January 16, 1922 on a farm West of Nonchalanta, Ness County, Kansas.

He served in the 15 th Air Force 94 th Fighter Squadron during WWII, from 1942-1946 in Naples...

Feb 7, 2018

John Vyrl Slagle, age 81, died Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born on August 27, 1936 in Jetmore, Kansas the son of John M. and Martha Lucille Grumbein Slagle.

Vyrl was a member of the United Methodist Church, Ness City, the...