Lorene Marie Pfannenstiel
Aug 21, 2015
Lorene Marie Pfannenstiel, age 92, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas on August 21, 2015. She was born on January 2, 1923 in Rural Ness County, Kansas, the daughter of Carl and Anna (Doerfler) Stecklein. She was a homemaker and lifetime resident of Ness County. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Church and...
Pauline Neill
Aug 14, 2015
Pauline Neill, age 97, passed away at Cedar Village Nursing Home, Ness City on August 14, 2015. She was born on September 28, 1917 in rural Ness County She is the daughter of Robert Byron Kerr and Zilpha Jones Kerr. She was a teacher at Monteno, Riverside, Plum Creek, Hackberry and other rural schools. She was a homemaker and farmers...
Michael Joseph Kraus
Aug 12, 2015
Michael Joseph Kraus, age 72, died Wednesday, August 12, 2015, at Grisell Memorial Hospital, Ransom, Kansas. He was born on April 20, 1943, in Arnold, KS, the son of Hugo and Alice (Hilmes) Kraus. He was a crude oil truck driver for many years. After retiring from truck driving, he worked for Simpson Farm Enterprises. On June 3, 1989 he...
Charlotte Ann Martin
Aug 6, 2015
Charlotte Ann Martin, age 77, passed away at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas on August 6, 2015. She was born on February 27, 1938 in Gove County, the daughter of Fred and Ruth (Schweitzer) Chapman. She was a home health nurse and a member of the Arnold United Methodist Church. On January 6, 1957, she married Roy Miles Martin, Jr....
Betty Lavon Wedgewood
Aug 4, 2015
Betty Lavon Wedgewood, age 77, passed away on August 4, 2015 at her home in Ness City, Kansas. She was born on July 7, 1938 in Las Animas, Colorado the daughter of James and Lola Hunt Lusk. She was a near lifetime resident of Ness City where she was a waitress and an owner/operator of a local restaurant and donut...
Roger Allen Mccreight
Aug 1, 2015
Roger Allen McCreight, age 77, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas, on August 1, 2015. He was born on May 28, 1938 in Larned, Kansas, the son of Dr. R.T. and Arlene (Hermon) McCreight. On August 18, 1960, he married Paula Shramek in Ness City. Roger's daughters, grandchildren and great grandsons were his life. He...
Sergio Mendez Gonzalez
Jul 24, 2015
Sergio Mendez Gonzalez, age 45, passed away south of Hanston, Friday, July 24, 2015. He was born on October 7, 1969 in San Fernando, Mexico, the son of Abrahm Mendez Mendez and Maria Carmen Gonzalez Lopez. He worked for Fritzlers, H2 Plains, and Professional Pulling. On September 25, 1998, he married Maria Eulalia Quiroz Acosta. He is survived by his...
Kirk Rufenacht
Jul 20, 2015
Kirk Arlen Rufenacht, age 74, passed away July 20, 2015 at the Grisell Memorial Hospital, Ransom, Kansas. He was born on November 10, 1940 in Ransom the son of Frank and Helen Neyer Rufenacht. He was a retired farmer. On May 26, 1962 he married Doris Jane Leone in Coalgate, Oklahoma. She survives of the home. Other survivors include a...
Ricky C. Cox
Jul 16, 2015
Ricky C. Cox, age 69, passed away at his home on July 16, 2015. He was born on August 1, 1945 in Ransom the son of Leslie and Hanna Gross Cox. He was a farmer and stockman and a member of the American Legion Olin Cole Post 392, Bazine, Kansas. He was a United States Army Veteran having served in...
Lillian Mae Moore
Jul 13, 2015
Lillian Mae (Stieben) Moore, age 85, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas on Monday, July 13, 2015. She was born on November 13, 1929 to Peter and Katie (Foos) Stieben in Bazine, Kansas. On June 13, 1948, she was united in marriage to Delbert Moore in Bazine. He preceded her in death on December 24,...
Edna Stella Mcgee
Jul 7, 2015
Edna Stella McGee, age 92, passed away on July 7, 2015 at her home in Allen, Texas. She was born on October 28, 1922 in Bazine, Kansas the daughter of Jacob and Molly Muth Stieben. She married Reinold Foos on August 28, 1943. He passed away on February 6, 1979. She later married Hiram B. McGee on May 22, 1984....
Joel John Laas
Jul 4, 2015
Joel John Laas, age 93, died of natural causes in his home on July 4, 2015. Joel was born on August 27, 1921 in Trego County to Jacob and Mary (Schneider)Laas. Joel attended grade school in Utica, Kansas and high school in Ness City, Kansas. He enlisted in the Marines on February 2, 1942, where he met and married Helen...
Virginia Charlotte Conkright
Jun 21, 2015
Virginia Conkright, age 89, passed away at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas on Sunday, June 21, 2015. She was born on July 16, 1925 in Ransom, KS, the daughter of Adolph and Anna Roediger Schweitzer. Virginia graduated from Ransom High School in 1943 and married Orval Conkright on October 30, 1946. They lived in the Arnold and Ransom communities most...
Ronald James Johnson
Jun 20, 2015
Ronald James Johnson, age 50, died Saturday, June 20, 2015 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born on September 25, 1964 in McPherson, Kansas the son of J. Dean and Shirley (Peterson) Johnson. He was a heavy equipment operator for the Ness County Road and Bridge department. On December 5, 1994 he married Diane Shetler in Marion,...
Marguerite Mae Albers
Jun 12, 2015
Marguerite Mae Albers, age 93, passed away on June 12, 2015 at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas. She was born on February 11, 1922 in Bazine, Kansas the daughter of George John Seuser, I and Marie Veronica (Jedlicka) Seuser. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Mennonite Church, Ransom. On September 16, 1945 she married Donald...
Kenneth Ray Kuehn
Jun 4, 2015
Kenneth Ray Kuehn, age 75, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, on June 4, 2015. He was born July 12, 1939 in rural Bazine, Kansas, the son of Harry and Georgia Hoch Kuehn. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked for 30 years as an employee of the Bazine COOP, and worked nine...
Leonita "Nita" Brackney
May 23, 2015
Leonita "Nita" Cecilia Brackney, age 79, passed away on May 23, 2015 at the Newton Medical Center, Newton, Kansas. She was born on June 2, 1935 in Marshfield, Missouri the daughter of Peter A. and Martina Meis Gabel. She was a homemaker, a member of the Sacred Heart Church, Altar Society and the American Legion Auxiliary Post 152 all of...
Mary Ann Yeager
May 23, 2015
Mary Ann Yeager, age 79, died May 23, 2015 at Piner's Rehabilitation Facility in Napa, California. She was born May 24, 1936 near Brownell, Kansas, the daughter of Alexander and Katharine Gross Filbert. She graduated from Bazine High School in 1954, and received a Bachelors Degree in business from Fort Hays State University. She taught business courses at Fort Hays...
Ralph Paul Reinert
May 20, 2015
Ralph Paul Reinert, age 89, passed away at Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas on May 20, 2015. He was born on July 9, 1925 on the family farm near Riverside, Kansas, the son of Henry and Alice Petersilie, Reinert. He was a farmer and lifetime resident of Ness City. He served in the Army during WWII. He was a...
Harley Glen North
May 17, 2015
Harley Glen North, 86, longtime resident of Brownell, died Sunday, May 17, 2015 at Rhode Island Suites Nursing Home, Ransom, Kansas. He was born February 11, 1929 in Ransom to D. K. and Bessie (Taylor) North. He graduated from high school in Brownell. He married Donna Marie Scott on December 1, 1949 in Ransom. He was a lifetime farmer/stockman of...
