Audra Strecker
Mar 12, 2011
Audra Eileen Strecker, age 86, was born October 17, 1923, in Bazine, to Herman Schaben and Florence Olson-Schaben. Audra lived in Bazine until 1953, then moved to Ness City, where she resided until 2008. She then moved to Amarillo, TX, to reside at the Park Central/Harrington Assisted Living, to be near her daughter, Candace. Audra peacefully left this earth, to...
Gilbert Philip Rebel
Mar 5, 2011
Gilbert Philip Rebel, age 84, passed away on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born on February 18, 1927 in Schoenchen, Kansas the son of Joe and Lena Zimmerman Rebel. He was a farmer and he worked for Ness County road maintenance for 37 years. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Church...
Viola Vivian Grumbein
Mar 2, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Viola Vivian Grumbein, age 101, passed away March 2, 2011 at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas. She was born on October 4, 1909 in Ness City the daughter of Herman and Rose Smith Mellies. She grew up on a farm southwest of Ness City and spent all of her life in Ness County....
Edna Mae Simpson
Mar 1, 2011
Edna Mae Simpson, age 85, passed away at Trego County Long Term Care, WaKeeney, Kansas on March 1, 2011. She was born on August 8, 1925 in WaKeeney, Kansas the daughter of Alexander Merritt and Vera Clodfelter Beamer. She was Co-founder and Co-owner of Simpson Farms Enterprises and a lifetime resident of the Ransom, Kansas area. She was a member...
Lydia Stecklein
Feb 26, 2011
Lydia Stecklein, age 88, passed away at Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas on February 26, 2011. She was born on May 26, 1922 in Ness County, Kansas the daughter of Joseph and Amelia Ruder Pfannenstiel. She was a homemaker and a lifetime resident of Ness County. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church and the Altar Society both...
Mayme Lucille Amstutz
Feb 24, 2011
Mayme (Schamaun) Amstutz, age 85, passed away February 24, 2011 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born December 6, 1925 in Ness City, to Harry and Nell McCubbin Schamaun. On January 31, 1944 she married Earl Amstutz. She is survived by son, Russell Amstutz, Hutchinson; daughter, Barbara (Bobbie) Dellinger-Hurt and husband Mike, Hutchinson; granddaughter, Jennifer Dellinger; step-granddaughters: Angela and Melanie...
Olinda Viola Barricklow
Feb 15, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Olinda Viola Barricklow, age 87, passed away February 15, 2011 at Cedar Village, Ness City. She was born August 6, 1923 in Bazine the daughter of Fred and Mary Fritzler Wolfe. She was a homemaker, a member of the United Methodist Church, Hanston, and a lifetime resident of Ness County. On August 15, 1943 she married...
Julitta "Judy" Joan Simpson
Feb 15, 2011
Schuckman-Simpson, Judy J. Stecklein, 75, died February 15, 2011. She was born August 18, 1935 in Dighton, Kansas. Judy was a mother (always first), farmer (she was tough) and bookkeeper (typically accurate). She worked at J&S Scale Company and Underground Storage. Judy graduated from Dighton High School and Brown Mackey College. She had a passion for dancing, country music and...
Urban Mathew Landwehr
Feb 15, 2011
Urban Mathew Landwehr, 89, passed away February 15, 2011, in Halstead. He willed his body to KU Medical Center. Born June 4, 1921, in Ransom to Frank and Elizabeth Friess Landwehr. He was a farmer, owner and agent of Landwehr Insurance, and a World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps. He was a member of the Knights of...
Marguerite P. Stutz
Feb 7, 2011
Dateline: Hanston Marguerite Permelia Stutz, age 96, passed away at her home in Hanston on Feb. 7, 2011. She was born on Feb. 5, 1915 in Utica, Kansas the daughter of Elza and Hattie Benson Perkins. She spent the majority of her life in Utica, Ness City, and Hanston, a teacher in public schools and she taught piano. She attended...
Edward "Eddie" W. Stecklein
Feb 2, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Edward (Eddie) W. Stecklein, age 92, died Feburary 2, 2011 at the Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas. He was born on July 22, 1918 in Ness County, Kansas the son of Carl and Anna Doerfler Stecklein. He was a farmer and a mechanic. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Church and Knights of...
Elvira M. Kerr
Jan 31, 2011
Elvira M. Kerr, age 88, died on Monday, January 31, 2011 at Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. She was born on May 10, 1922 on a farm Southwest of Bazine, Kansas to John Gotleib and Bertha Krug Schneider. She attended a country school, graduated from Bazine High School, and then attended Venus Beauty School where she earned her beautician...
Edward D. Filbert
Jan 24, 2011
Edward D. "Ed" Filbert, age 79, died January 24, 2011 at Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born April 30, 1931 near Brownell, Kansas the son of Alexander and Katharine Gross Filbert. He graduated from Bazine High School in 1948 and received his Bachelors Degree and later a Masters Degree from Fort Hays State University. Ed taught in the Bazine...
Ruby May Mellies
Jan 18, 2011
Ruby May Mellies, age 88, died Jan. 18, 2011. She was born may 2, 1922, to Guy and Ava hudson Bennett. She married Charles W. Mellies on March 14, 1947. He died March 3, 1985. Survivors include: sons, Bill and Dave; daughter, Debi Kerr; brother, Emmett; sister, Vona Smith; and many grandchildren. Funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the...
Beverly Jean Whipple
Jan 9, 2011
Beverly Jean Whipple, age 67, went home to be with her Savior on Sunday, January 9, 2011. She was born on Feb. 23, 1943 the daughter of E. Keith and Irene Janie Sides Reimer in Scott City, Kansas. She was an excellent elementary and secondary school teacher and a member of the First Christian Church, Scott City. On April 1,...
Ryan Mitchell Post
Dec 29, 2010
Ryan Mitchell Post, age 28, passed away December 29, 2010. He was born on March 4, 1982 to Myrna Pember Post in Hays, KS. A former resident of Augusta, KS. He spent his early years on the family ranch in Ness City, KS. He attended elementary school in Ness City and Oberlin, KS. After his parents, Greg and Myrna Post,...
Elvira B Seib
Dec 1, 2010
Elvira B. Seib, age 80, died Monday, December 1, 2010 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. Born February 10, 1930 on the farm in Ness County the daughter of George and Lena Raskopf Stecklein. She was a homemaker, a member of the Sacred Heart Church and the Altar Society, both of Ness City. On January 28, 1947 she married Pete...
Richard L. James
Nov 28, 2010
Richard Larry James, 73, passed away at the Ness County Hospital on November 28, 2010, after a 9 year illness. Richard was born June 16, 1937 at ElDorado, Kansas to Leona Catherine Renyer and Claude LeMoyne James. Richard, Dick as he was called by friends, grew up in Chase, Kansas. He graduated from Chase High School in 1955. He worked...
Joseph Miles Mcdonald
Nov 27, 2010
Joseph Miles McDonald, age 72, died Saturday, November 27, 2010 at his home in Brownell, Kansas. Born June 7, 1938 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Miles and Margaret Musselman McDonald. He was a farmer and a former supervisor for the State Highway Maintenance Department. He was a United States Army Veteran, a member of the Dale Sunley Post American...
James Allen Cline
Nov 15, 2010
James Allen Cline, age 80, died at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas on November 15, 2010. He was born July 17, 1930 in Commanche County, Kansas the son of John and Lillian Seibel Cline Sr. He was farmer, rancher and a butcher at Anderson Meat Locker in Ness City for many years. He married Agnes Darlene Reipie in 1950 to...
