Avis E. Rothe
Oct 7, 2016
Avis Elaine (Bell) Rothe passed away on October 7, 2016 with family by her side, at Cedar Village in Ness City. Avis was born on November 15, 1925 in Dodge City, the daughter of Ralph Wells Bell and Laura (Johnson) Bell. Avis grew up on a farm south west of Dodge City and attended South Hopewell Grade...
Dorothy Ann Horchem
Sep 28, 2016
Dorothy Ann (McDaniel) Horchem, age 82, passed away on September 28, 2016 at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom. She was born on May 21, 1934 to Raymond Harlan and Vera Lois (Easley) McDaniel at the Easley grandparents' home in Rogers, Arkansas. When my two-year old sister, Bonnie Sue, heard she had a little sister, she rolled her little doll...
Carolyn Sue Carpenter
Sep 22, 2016
Carolyn Sue Carpenter, 78, passed away on September 22, 2016 at the Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born on March 27, 1938 in Hazelton, Kansas the daughter of Elmer and Metta (Folk) Arb. She was a homemaker, and worked as a janitor for the Platte Canyon School District #1 in Bailey, Colorado. With...
Lucille M Young
Sep 22, 2016
Lucille M. Young, age 80, passed away on September 22, 2016 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. She was born on November 12, 1935 on the farm West of McCracken, Kansas to John and Silivia Hammerschmidt Pfaff. She was the eldest of 14 children. She helped take care of her brothers and sisters, worked with the livestock and did...
Robert Hafliger
Sep 16, 2016
Robert Glenn Hafliger, 64 , passed away on September 16, 2016 at the Rhode Island Suites in Ransom, Kansas. He was born on October 04, 1951 in Hays, Kansas the son of Lyle and Wauneta (Blocksome) Hafliger. He was a mechanic in the Lane County area for many years. Survivors include sister, Phyllis Clark He was preceded in death by...
John Lester Dietterich
Sep 1, 2016
John Lester Dietterich died at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas on September 1, 2016. He was born June 17, 1933 in Telford, Pennsylvania to parents Lester and Ethel (Fretz) Dietterich. John's father died when he was two years old and his mother remarried Earl Rosenberger. They moved to Phoenix, AZ when John was twelve. In 1950, John went back...
Ben Lee Thompson
Aug 24, 2016
Ben L. Thompson, 88, McCracken, died Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at Rush County Memorial Hospital, LaCrosse, Kansas. He was born April 23, 1928 in McCracken to Floyd Audice and Ruby Eleanor Yawger Thompson. He was a 1946 graduate of McCracken High School and a 1951 graduate of Kansas State College in the field of Physics. He was a U.S. Army...
Frances L Kimple
Aug 7, 2016
Frances Lorene Foos Kimple passed away August 7, 2016 in Plano, TX. She was born in Bazine, KS on Oct. 10, 1942 to Elmer Foos and Lydia Fech Foos. She was a graduate of Bazine High School and Emporia State Teachers College with a degree in Elementary education. She met Stephen Kimple of Ellinwood, KS in the band at Emporia....
Mable Marie Crotinger
Aug 3, 2016
Mable Marie Crotinger, age 97, passed away Aug. 3, 2016 at Trego Manor, WaKeeney, Kansas. She was born on June 2, 1919 to Arthur and Mary Phillips Barricklow on the farm near Bazine, Kansas. She attended Joint Grade School in rural Ness County and graduated from Bazine High School. She worked at the Style Shop in Ness City for many...
William Russell Squier
Jul 24, 2016
William Russell Squier, age 92, passed away at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, on July 24, 2016. He was born on December 15, 1923 in Brownell the son of Morrison and Maud Harting Squier. He was a farmer and stockman, a veteran of the United States Army serving during World War II, a Free Mason and a member of the...
Alice Faye Hobbs
Jul 23, 2016
Alice Faye Hobbs, 69, died Saturday, July 23, 2016 at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Alice was born Feb. 1, 1947 at Ransom, Kansas to Herman Oscar and Hazel Hoch Ummel. She attended Utica High School. In Sept. 1962 she married John E. Jennings and from this union came 2 sons and 5 daughters. In Oct. 1981 she married Joe...
Betty Lou "Goat" Fear
Jul 20, 2016
Betty Lou "Goat" (McNair) Fear, age 74, passed away at her home in McCracken on July 20, 2016. She was born on January 18, 1942 in Lee County, Arkansas the daughter of Homer and Jessamine (Shelton) McNair On May 11, 1974 she married Karold Kay "Red" Fear. He preceded her in death on October 24, 2008 She is survived by...
Norma Jean Reinert-Schuette
Jul 16, 2016
Norma Jean Reinert-Schuette, known to most as Jeannie, was born August 29, 1944, in Ness County, Kansas, to Dennis E. and Vietta A. (Ummel) Walter. She departed this life Sautrday, July 16, 2016 in Great Bend, Kansas. Jeannie married Ralph Paul Reinert March 24, 1962, in Clayton, New Mexico. To this union three sons were born: Kirk Alan of Ness...
Stephen Anderson
Jul 16, 2016
Stephen Kyle Anderson, age 68, passed away at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas on July 16, 2016. He was born on September 4, 1947, the son of Gerald and Emma Norlin Anderson. He was a veteran of the USAF, a member of the Ness City American Legion, and a volunteer on the McCracken fire department. He was a mechanic and...
Dale Lee Schwindt
Jul 3, 2016
Dale Lee Schwindt, age 73 died at his home in Alexander, Kansas on Sunday, July 3, 2016. He was born on June 18, 1943 in Ness City, Kansas the son of Harry and Dorothea Pratt Schwindt. He is survived by his wife Gloria (Stremel) Schwindt of the home; two sons, Devin Schwindt and Michael Cairns; one daughter, Kerie Schwindt; one...
Irene Virginia Roth
Jun 30, 2016
Irene Virginia Roth passed away June 30, 2016, in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 94. Irene was born in La Crosse, Kansas, November 12, 1921 to Henry John Wagner and Juliana Sabersch. She was the fourth of eight siblings Hilda, Esther, Oliver, Eldon, Johnny, La Donna and Richard. The family moved from Lacrosse to Garden City, Kansas in 1924....
Alma Ann Betz
Jun 21, 2016
Alma Betz, 94, died June 21, 2016 at the Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born June 23, 1921, at Bazine, KS, the daughter of Jacob and Anna Hemel Funk. She had been a longtime Ness County resident and moved to Great Bend in 1994. On February 7, 1942, she married Harold Betz, at Larned. He died December...
Frank Ervin Morgan
Jun 21, 2016
Frank Ervin Morgan, age 68, passed away at Via Christi St. Frances Hospital, Wichita, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. He was born November 20, 1947 in Hoxie, KS, the son of Ervin Albert and Lora Ellen Wooton Morgan. He married Melody Ellis on August 8, 1970. They had three sons, Scott, Phillip, and Walter, all of Ness City. Frank served in...
William R. Lovitt
Jun 20, 2016
William R. Lovitt, age 78, of Ransom, Kansas, passed away while surrounded by his family at 6:00 in the evening on Monday, June 20, 2016 at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas after a lengthy battle with complications from lung disease, heart disease, and cancer. Bill was born on September 19, 1937 in McCracken, to Robert and Grace...
Lois Marie Mcleish
Jun 16, 2016
Lois M. McLeish, age 86, of Ness City, KS passed away June 16, 2016 at Hays Medical Center. She was born in Altamont, Kansas on October 18, 1929 to Howard and Ethel (Hauck) Billington. Lois attended Kansas State University and was a member of Clovia House. There she met Thomas Edwin McLeish and married in 1950. She moved to their...
