Stephen Gene Herron
Aug 9, 2014
Stephen G. Herron, age 66, passed away at the Good Samaritan Society, Dodge City, Kansas on August 9, 2014. He was born on January 31, 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri the son of Raymond and Marian Guwendola Henry. On October 2, 1998 he married Lorene Salem Fitzgerald. She survives. Other survivors include brother, David Herron; step-son, Eddie Fitzgerald; step-daughters, Loretta...
Virginia L. Crabtree
Aug 5, 2014
Virginia L. Crabtree, 99, died peacefully in Ransom, Kansas on August 5, 2014. A memorial service and celebration of her life will be held Saturday, August 23, 10:30 A.M. at Fitzgerald Funeral Home, Ness City. A private family inurnment will be held at Arnold Cemetery. A native Kansan, Virginia was born in Saline County April 1, 1915, the oldest child...
Richard Reinhardt Stenzel
Jul 28, 2014
Richard Reinhardt Stenzel, age 83, passed away on July 28, 2014 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. Dick was born on August 7, 1930 in Hays, Kansas the son of Victor and Olinda Reinhardt Stenzel. He was a farmer and stockman and he loved to hunt. He started one of the first trap shooting clubs in the area....
Elmer Keith Wierman
Jul 26, 2014
Elmer Keith Wierman, 84, of Minneapolis, Kansas, passed away Saturday, July 26th, at Good Samaritan Society. Keith was born near McCracken, Kansas on the family farm, on October 12, 1929, a son of the late Margaret Loretta (McGaughey) and William James Wierman. On Nov. 14, 1951, Keith married Wanda Judeen Snodgrass in McCracken, Kansas at St. Marys Church. He was...
Vera Jean Huxman
Jul 17, 2014
Vera Jean Huxman, age 89, passed away July 17, 2014 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. Jean was born April 10, 1925 in Forrester Township, Ness County, Kansas. She was one of four children born to Charles and Margery (Rowe) Conkright. She resided in the Arnold community her entire life. The past two years she was a resident of Rhode...
Matilda "Tillie" Natalie Jones
Jul 16, 2014
Matilda "Tillie" Natalie Bain Jones, age 88, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at her home in the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas. She was born on February 16, 1926 in Galatia, Kansas the daughter of William and Natalia Krug Dietz. Tillie worked numerous jobs through her lifetime. Besides raising her children she was a waitress, telephone switchboard operator, security...
Joe Dinges
Jul 4, 2014
Joe Dinges, age 86, passed away at Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas, on July 4, 2014. He was born on January 10, 1928, the son of Chris and Apollonia Meis Dinges. He was a lifetime resident of Ness City, where he was a farmer and cattle rancher. On May 31, 1949, he married Rachel Rahm. He is survived by...
Dick Vogel
Jul 2, 2014
Dick Vogel, age 79, passed away at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas on July 2, 2014. He was born on December 9, 1934 in Ness City, the son of Eddie and Mary Leiker Vogel. He was a cattle rancher, farmer, and Army veteran. On August 5, 1957, he married Carolyn Beutler. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn; sons, Blaine...
Alana Rae Rogers
Jun 29, 2014
Alana Rae Rogers, age 71, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas, on June 29, 2014. She was born on January 9, 1943 in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Paul and Mamie Vernique Crawshaw. She was a farmer's wife and a certified nurses aide. She was a member of the Bookaholic's Society. She married Orval...
Jacquelyn Renee Foos
Jun 13, 2014
Jacquelyn Renee Foos, age 59, passed away at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas, on June 13, 2014. She was born on March 24, 1955 in Dodge City, Kansas, the daughter of Vern Jack and Rogena Crottinger Gibbs. She was a registered nurse, working many years at the Ness County Hospital, where she was a member of the Ness County Hospital...
Virgil Abraham Klitzke
Jun 12, 2014
Virgil Abraham Klitzke, age 92, passed away at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas, on June 12, 2014. He was born on January 28, 1922, the son of Fred and Lena Ummel Klitzke. He was a farmer and also did road maintenance for the Kansas Highway Department. He was a lifetime member of the First Mennonite Church, Ransom. On May 18,...
Marilea Jane Wendler
Jun 2, 2014
Marilea Jane Hall Wendler, age 87, was born on October 5, 1926 in the small Kansas town of Schaeffer and passed to eternal life at Carle Hospital in Urbana, Illinois on June 2, 2014 at age 87. She was preceded in death by her parents Fanny Moore Hall and Anthony Cornelius Hall, a brother Wayne Hall, sisters Atha (Dwight) Kerschner...
Alberta A. Walt
May 21, 2014
Alberta A. Walt, age 75, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas, on May 21, 2014. She was born on January 18, 1939 in Park, Kansas, the daughter of Bernard and Mary Wildeman Zimmerman. She was a homemaker and a member of the Sacred Heart Altar Society. On October 12, 1959, she married Albert T. Walt....
Gomer Quintin Stukesbary
May 21, 2014
Gomer Quintin Stukesbary, age 87, passed away on May 21, 2014 at Cedar Village, Ness City. He was born on August 13, 1926 in Nevada, Missouri the son of Wilbur Dewey and Hazel Irene Noyes Stukesbary. On November 27, 1947 he married Becky Ainsworth in Nevada, Missouri. Their 66 years together produced three children, many memories and accomplishments. Gomer was...
Ferne Edna Davenport
May 14, 2014
Ferne Edna Davenport, age 95, passed away at Trinity Manor, Dodge City, Kansas, on May 14, 2014. She was born on May 23, 1918, the daughter of Earl and Mattie Nelson Legg. On January 15, 1936, she married Robert D. Davenport. He preceded her in death on June 14, 1981. She is survived by her daughters, Roberta (Thomas) Fern Rodriguez,...
Evelyn Jean Frank
May 11, 2014
Evelyn Jean Frank, age 62, passed away at her home in Bazine, Kansas on May 11, 2014. She was born on February 14, 1952, the daughter of James and Juanita High Knieff. She was the previous owner of the Taco Granny's restaurant in Ness City and Brownell. She is survived by her significant other, Larry Shaver of the home; son,...
Earl Gene Delaney
May 10, 2014
Earl "Gene" Delaney, 73 was born May 28th, 1940 on a farm Southeast of Ness City, KS to Homer & Fern (Libby) Delaney. He remained a lifetime resident of Ness County until his final journey home on May 10th, 2014 at KU Medical Center in Kansas City. He spent his lifetime in Ness County as a farmer/rancher and owner of...
Penny Louise Betz
May 2, 2014
Penny Louise Betz, 64, went home to her Jesus from her home in rural Bazine, Kansas on May 2, 2014. She was born July 13, 1949, to Harley and Marjorie (Norlin) Irvin. Penny married Tommy Betz on August 24, 1969. They made their home on a farm South of Bazine for many years where she loved being a farm wife,...
Eugene Leedale Wagner
Apr 30, 2014
Eugene Leedale Wagner, age 78, passed away on April 30, 2014 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. He was born the son of Edwin and Mabel Hinkel Wagner on March 10, 1936 on the family farm 11 miles South-East of Ness City.
From first through eighth grades Gene attended Bells-Letters country school which was about...
Wanita Marie Munsch Meis Reinert
Apr 26, 2014
Wanita Marie Munsch Meis Reinert, age 88, passed away on Saturday, April 26, 2014 at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born on September 3, 1925 in Bazine, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Catherine Depperschmidt Munsch. She was a homemaker and long time resident of Ness City, Kansas. She was a member of the F.O.E. Auxiliary;...
