Obituary Listing

Nov 22, 2016

Albertina Anna Fehrenbach, age 90, died on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at Cedar Village Care Center, Ness City. She was born on October 24, 1926 in Arnold, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Catherine (Flax) Flax.

She was a lifetime resident of Ness County and moved to Ness City...

Nov 17, 2016

Viola Ruth Burditt, age 92, died on November 17, 2016 at Cedar Village, Ness City. She was born on April 19, 1924 in Ness City the daughter of Harvey C. and Kathryn Nonnast Musbach.

She was a lifelong resident of Ness County and a member of the First Baptist...

Nov 16, 2016

Daniel Nicholas Johnson, age 70, died on Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born on December 19, 1945 in Hutchinson, Minnesota the son of Richard Lafayette and Alice Johanna Jensen Johnson. He was a member of the Bazine Seventh Day Adventist Church. He enjoyed hunting, playing the saxophone, and...

Nov 14, 2016

Darrell W. Garrison, age 77, died November 14, 2016 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born on September 16, 1939 the son of Alonzo and Blanche Trefeathern Garrison in rural Graham County, Kansas. He worked for Clear Creek Oil Company until he retired. He was a US Army...

Nov 9, 2016

Eleanor Ann Lee, 80, passed away on November 9, 2016 at the Cedar Village Care Center in Ness City, Kansas.  She was born on March 24, 1936 in Preston, Kansas the daughter of Gilbert and Ruth (Otstott) Arnold. She was a very active in the real estate market and also worked in human resources for Continental Can Company. Eleanor...

Nov 2, 2016

Helen Catherine Koerner, age 88, passed away, surrounded by her family, on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at Cedar Village Care Center, Ness City. She was born October 24, 1928 on the family farm near Antonino, Kansas the daughter of Jacob M. and Amelia Werth Haas. She was a 1947 graduate of Girls' Catholic High School, Hays and then went to...

Oct 31, 2016

Dorothy Jean Plum, 68, passed away at her home in Liberty, Missouri, on October 31 2016, at 10:55pm,after a long battle with multiple chronic health conditions. She was born in Great Bend, KS on December 25, 1947 to Harry and Viola (Wimmer) Yost and was the second to youngest of 5 children. Dorothy grew up in a small, central Kansas...

Oct 14, 2016

Kara LeeAnn Snell McLain, age 19, died October 14, 2016 near Hutchinson, Kansas. She was born on August 21, 1997 in Hays, Kansas the daughter of Dr. Allen L. and Barbara A. Snell McLain. She was a 2015 graduate of Western Plains High School, Ransom. She attended Southwestern College, Winfield where she was a member...

Oct 12, 2016

Julia Katherine Davenport Zeller, 95, died Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at the LTC of the Rush County Memorial Hospital. She was born December 18, 1920 in rural McCracken to Herbert and Ida (Darkes) Davenport. She was a 1938 graduate of McCracken High School and received her two-year teaching certificate from Fort Hays University. She taught two years in a one...

Oct 8, 2016

Francis H "Shorty" Wierman, 93 years 11 months of McCracken, Kansas passed away October 8, 2016 at Rush County Memorial Hospital Long Term Care in Lacrosse KS. He was born Nov. 8, 1922 in Ness County, KS to William J. and Margaret McGaughey Wierman. He was a contractor and farmer, World War II army veteran, serving May...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...