Otto A Debes
Jan 18, 2012
Otto A. Debes, age 101, died January 18, 2012 in Ness City, Kansas. Otto was born April 14, 1910 in Odin, Kansas to Alois and Hedwig Debes, one of 13 siblings. On May 30, 1933, he married Susan A. Lang. Otto was a life-long farmer in Ness County. He was also a dedicated member of Sacred Heart Church and a...
Lois Elaine Stieben
Jan 17, 2012
Lois Elaine Stieben, age 95, passed away at Grisell Memorial Long Term Care, Ransom, Kansas on January 17, 2012. She was born on November 2, 1916 near Bazine, Kansas the daughter of David and Mabel Wendell Yount. She was the Postmaster in Bazine for 25 years, She was a member of the Bazine First Baptist Church. On April 17, 1940...
Mary I. Sorensen
Jan 16, 2012
Mary Irene Hope Sorensen, age 84, wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and friend to many, died January 16, 2012 in Ness City, Kansas. Mary was born February 18, 1927 in Hutchinson, Kansas, to Dr. L.O. and Helen Jackson Hope. After graduating from Hutchinson High School and Hutchinson Junior College, she received a degree in home economics from Kansas State College (now...
Marilyn Sue Summey
Jan 15, 2012
Marilyn Sue Summey, age 73, passed away at Grisell Memorial Hospital, Ransom, Kansas on January 15, 2012. She was born on September 6, 1938 in Los Angeles, California the daughter of Bernard and Emma Huxman Bernbeck. She was a homemaker and formerly a librarian and sales clerk. She was a member of Utica First Christian Church. On August 5, 1956...
Thomas Francis Stecklein
Jan 12, 2012
Dateline: Boulder City, Nevada Thomas Francis Stecklein 69, died January 12, 2012 at Desert Springs Hospital, Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born April 1, 1942 in Ness City, Kansas the son of Isidor and Pauline (Gabel) Stecklein. He graduated from Dighton High School and attended Fort Hays State University and Brown Mackie School of Business. He served in the Army...
Francis C. Zeller
Jan 9, 2012
Francis C. Zeller, age 89, passed away at his home in McCracken, Kansas on January 9, 2012. He was born on the family farm, seven miles northeast of Brownell, on July 7, 1922 to Joseph and Agnes Silberhorn Zeller. He attended elementary school at Peach Valley rural school and high school at Brownell Rural High School, graduating in 1940. He...
Henry Edward Swartz
Jan 8, 2012
Henry Edward Swartz, age 88, passed away at Bethany Home, Lindsborg, Kansas on January 8, 2012. He was born on April 29, 1923 in Ft. Scott, Kansas the son of Paul and Ethel Morgan Swartz. He was a farmer and a lifetime resident of Rush County. He was a World War II veteran, a recipient of the Purple Heart, a...
Wallace L. Schweitzer
Jan 7, 2012
Dateline: Ransom, Kansas Wallace Lynn Schweitzer Wally L. Schweitzer, age 57, passed away January 7, 2012 at the Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born April 28, 1954 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Wallace and Burdene Fairbank Schweitzer. Following in his father's footsteps, Wally started working at the coop in Ransom right out of high school and continued...
Susie Mae Curtis
Jan 7, 2012
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Susie Curtis, age 92, passed away at Cedar Village, Ness City on Saturday, January 7, 2012. She was born on January 11, 1919 in Ford, Kansas the daughter of Fred and Betha Long Pelton. She married George Swatzell in 1940, he died in 1947. In 1957 she married Frank Curtis, he preceded her in death in...
Frank X. Miller
Jan 2, 2012
Frank X. Miller, 90, died Tuesday, January 2, 2012 at the Hays Regional Medical Center. He was born May 7, 1921 to Max F. and Olinda Beahm Miller in LaCrosse, Kansas. On November 13, 1949 he married Arlene Musbach in Ness City. She survives. Also surviving are children Kent and wife Chris, Beloit; Kirk and wife Lois, LaCrosse; and Annette...
Leroy Conard Fritzler
Jan 2, 2012
LeRoy C. Fritzler was born in Dighton, Kansas on July 17, 1927. He farmed and ranched most of his life in Ness and Rush counties. He passed away in North Platte, Nebraska on January 2, 2012, after a long illness.  He is survived by two sons, Max and Mike, and by four grandsons. Except for serving two years in the...
Claretta Elizabeth Pfannenstiel
Dec 24, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Claretta Elizabeth (Witthuhn) Pfannenstiel age 85, passed away December 24, 2011 at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, KS. She was born on September 10, 1926 in Bazine, Kansas the daughter of Edwin and Clara (Michel) Witthuhn. She was raised on a farm near Bazine. She attended elementary school in Bazine, two years of high school...
Delwin Doss Chapman
Dec 7, 2011
Dateline: Utica, Kansas Delwin Chapman, age 49, passed away in Clark County, Nevada on December 7, 2011 along with his wife Tamara Chapman. Delwin was born on September 9, 1962 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Leland and Sandra Mendenhall Chapman. Delwin and Tamara Basinger were united in marriage on December 6, 1986 in Utica, Kansas. Delwin owned his own...
Tamara Leanne Chapman
Dec 7, 2011
Dateline: Utica, Kansas Tamara Chapman, age 49, passed away in Clark County, Nevada on December 7, 2011 with her husband Delwin Chapman. Tamara was born on September 3, 1962 in Ransom, Kansas the daughter of Dwaine and Virginia Mitten Basinger. Tamara and Delwin were united in marriage on December 6, 1986 in Utica, Kansas. Tamara was a cosmetologist. She was...
Mildred R. Rothe
Dec 7, 2011
Mildred Rothe, age 90, passed away at the Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas on December 7, 2011. She was born on February 5, 1921 on a farm southwest of Ness City the daughter of Norvel and Mabel Petersilie Rollins. She formerly owned a hair salon and also was a homemaker. She had been a Girl Scout leader...
Irene Marie Blehm
Dec 6, 2011
Irene Marie Blehm, age 90, passed away at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas on December 6, 2011. She was born on November 5, 1921 on a farm southwest of Bazine, Kansas the daughter of Adolph and Mary Bentlage Schneidewind. She was a homemaker and a lifetime resident of Ness and Trego Counties. She was a member of...
Ellen Lavone Helms
Nov 23, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Ellen LaVone Casey Helms, born October 1, 1920 to Patrick and Sarah McGaughey Casey at McCracken, Kansas. Attended Thistle Grove Grade School, McCracken High School, and graduated from St. Rose School of Nursing as a registered Nurse, May 1942. She worked at St Alphonus Hospital in Boise, Idaho for 2 years, Quinter Hospital for 6 months,...
Earl "Mark" Buhrle
Nov 20, 2011
Earl "Mark" Buhrle, age 64, passed away at the Peabody Care Center, Peabody, Kansas on November 20, 2011. He was born on September 29, 1947 in Wichita, Kansas the son of Earl Louis and Sadie Jane Mark Buhrle. He was a roofer and had owned his own business for many years. He was a lifelong resident of the Wichita area....
Carl Henry Stieben
Nov 15, 2011
Carl "Carlie" Stieben, age 84, passed away Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. He was born December 29, 1926 on the farm North of Bazine the son of Lydia Brehm and Henry Stieben. He was a farmer and stockman, well known as an area cattle buyer. He was a lifetime resident of the Bazine...
Marie Krug
Nov 9, 2011
Marie Krug, age 97, passed away November 9, 2011 at Crossroads Hospice in Lakeview Village, Lenexa, Kansas. She was born on July 4, 1914 the daughter of John F. and Elizabeth Keil Wittman in Russell, Kansas. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Bazine where she taught Sunday School and held numerous jobs. She was a member...
