Delbert Duane Moore
Dec 24, 2013
Ness City, Kansas Delbert D. Moore passed away on December 24, 2013 at Cedar Village Long Term Care in Ness City, Kansas. Delbert was born on January 3, 1928 to Wesley and Pauline (Krug) Moore. On June 13, 1948 he was united in marriage to Lillian Stieben in Bazine, KS. Delbert was a member of the United Methodist Church in...
Gerald Edward Offutt
Dec 8, 2013
Gerald Edward Offutt, age 70, passed away at Gove County Medical Center Long Term Care, Quinter, Kansas on December 8, 2013. He was born on August 13, 1943 in Dighton, Kansas, the son of Glenn and Pauline Marie (Munstedt) Offutt. Gerald was a carpenter for most of his life. He was a past president of Lions Club, Utica, a member...
Vera Edith Schweitzer
Dec 6, 2013
Vera Edith Schweitzer, age 97, passed away on December 6, 2013 at the Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born on October 25, 1916 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Ralph Randall and Edith Barber. She was a lifetime resident of Ness County and moved to Ness City in 1946. She attended Ransom High School and was a member...
Cheryl Ann Griffin
Nov 23, 2013
Cheryl Ann Stecklein Griffin, age 68, passed away on Saturday, November 23, 2013 at Hutchinson Regional Hospital, Hutchinson, Kansas. She was born on August 7, 1945 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Edward and Lydia Pfannenstiel Stecklein. She was a member of Holy Cross Church, Hutchinson. Before her illness Cheryl worked as a secretary for the Kansas Tranportation Commission. On...
Dorothy Doucet Guidry
Nov 16, 2013
Dorothy Doucet Guidry, age 80, passed away at her home in McCracken, Kansas on November 16, 2013. She was born August 2, 1933 in Lafayette, Louisiana, the daughter of Jean and Olivia (Dugas) Doucet. On May 20, 1951, she married Lester J. Guidry. He preceded her in death on February 20, 2002. She retired from the Michael Garman Gallery in...
Loris Jean Jacka
Nov 13, 2013
Loris Jean Jacka, age 90, passed away on November 13, 2013 at the Gove County Medical Center Long Term Care in Quinter. She was born on July 26, 1923 in Ransom, Kansas, the daughter of Carl and Mary Davis Frye. Loris was a lifetime resident of Ness and Gove Counties and a member of the First Christian Church, Utica. She...
Ada Lavon Stiawalt
Nov 11, 2013
Ada Lavon Stiawalt, age 96, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas on November 11, 2013. Ada was born November 15, 1916 at her home near Alexander, Kansas. She was the oldest of the 6 children of Henry and Alice (Bott) Boese and was raised southeast of Bazine, Kansas. Ada graduated from Bazine High School...
Ronald Lee Wedgewood
Oct 30, 2013
Ronald Lee Wedgewood, age 71, passed away at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas, on October 30, 2013. He was born on February 5, 1942 in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of Cecil and Lois Dunkin Wedgewood. He was an Army veteran, serving during the Vietnam era. After the service he became a heavy machinery transporter. He is survived by sons,...
Darren E. Mcvicker
Oct 29, 2013
Darren Eugene McVicker, age 47, passed away on October 29, 2013 in rural Ness County in a single vehicle accident. He was born on June 2, 1966 in Wichita, Kansas. He is the son of Ernest and Maxine Prose McVicker. He was a farmer, stockman, and a truck driver for NCRA. He was a member of the United Methodist Church...
Clyde Lovitt
Oct 19, 2013
Ness City, Kansas Clyde "Skip" Lovitt, age 76, passed away at his home in Ness City, Kansas on October 19, 2013. Clyde was born on June 10, 1937 in Sabetha, Kansas, the son of Charles and Frances Campfield Lovitt. He was a horse trader for many years. On November 7, 1958, he married Marion Christensen. She survives. Clyde is also...
Edna E. Wegele
Oct 16, 2013
Edna E. Wegele, age 90, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at Avita Health and Rehabilitation Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born on April 12, 1923 in Barton County, Kansas the daughter of John and Pauline Popp Maier. She was a bank officer, member of the St. Luke's Lutheran Church and Lutheran Ladies Aide, Bazine, and Lutheran Hour Ministries and...
Kim Louis Huxman
Oct 11, 2013
Kim Louis Huxman, age 62, passed away peacefully at his home in Hays on Friday, October 11, 2013. He was born on January 17, 1951 in Arnold, Kansas the son of Rex and Jean Conkright Huxman. He was a Degreed Registered Land Surveyor and worked as the Party Chief for the Kansas Department of Transportation. Kim loved tending to his...
Eunice Lavada Mcginnis
Oct 10, 2013
Eunice LaVada McGinnis, age 88, passed away at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas on October 10, 2013. She was born on the farm near Brownell, Kansas on May 18, 1925, the duaghter of Arthur and Sabina Gustason McGinnis. She left Brownell after graduating from Brownell High School in 1943 and went to Kansas City where she worked for North American...
Lorena "Lori" Lee Mehler
Oct 1, 2013
Lorena Lee "Lori" Mehler, age 76, passed away October 1, 2013 at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. She was born on November 25, 1936 in Gove City, Kansas the daughter of Ralph and Maude Babcock Cheney. Lori was a homemaker and had live in Meade since 1961 after moving from Pratt. She was a LaCrosse, Kansas High School Graduate....
Shirly Ann Froelich
Sep 27, 2013
Shirly Ann Froelich, age 77, passed away on Friday, September 27, 2013 at her home on the farm near Arnold, Kansas. She was born the daughter of Alfred S. and Marie M. "Mary" Kraft Moeller on August 8, 1936 in Ellsworth County, Kansas. She was a 1954 graduate of Holyrood High School and had lived in the Arnold area since...
Areta Eileen Hartman
Sep 12, 2013
Areta Eileen Hartman, age 71, passed away September 12, 2013 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. She was born on November 4, 1941 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Herman Oscar and Hazel Hoch Ummel. On December 26, 1961 she married Norman Hartman in Utica, Kansas. He preceded her in death on May 13, 2002. She is survived...
Elnora Schwien
Sep 11, 2013
Elnora Schwien, age 93, passed away at Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas on September 11, 2013. She was born on October 19, 1919 in Bazine, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Strecker) Schneider. She was a cook at the Bazine high school. On April 15, 1945, she married Edward Schwien. He preceded her in death on March 11,...
Melvin R. Rohr
Sep 11, 2013
Melvin R. Rohr, age 84, passed away on September 11, 2013 in the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born in Ness City, Kansas on July 18, 1929 to Emil and Beatha Haas Rohr. He graduated from Ness City High School in 1947, served in the U.S Coast Guard until a shipwreck and severe burns gave him an early...
Gary Lee Tittel
Aug 30, 2013
Gary Lee Tittel, age 64, passed away Friday, August 30, 2013 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born on June 5, 1949 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Otto and Martina Depperschmidt Tittel. He was a well known farm hand and worked for the Kansas Highway Maintanance Department for many years. He is survived by his brother, Terry...
Velma Louise Schmidt
Aug 29, 2013
Dateline: Ransom, Kansas Velma Louise Schmidt, age 89, passed away in her son's home on Thursday, August 29, 2013. She was born on August 8, 1924 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Samuel and Nary Thomas Likes. In 1952 she married Harry Schmidt. He preceded her in death on October 10, 2011. Velma is survived by her son, Lynn and...
