Jim Wasinger
May 2, 2011
Jim Wasinger, age 57, passed away at Promise Regional Hospital, Hutchinson, Kansas on May 2, 2011. He was born on November 4, 1953 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Nicholas and Wilma Munch Wasinger. He worked for over 25 years for Walker Implement and was a lifelong resident of Ness City. He was a member of Sacred Heart Church of...
Kenneth Earl Gardner
Apr 26, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Kenneth Earl Gardner, age 79, passed away at his home in Ness City on April 26, 2011. He was born July 4, 1931 in Kimball, Nebraska the son of Myles and Ruth Ernst Gardner. He was a farmer and rancher, a member of the Pine Bluffs Baptist Church and the Farmers' Union both of Pine Bluffs,...
Sibyl (Mcfadden) Witthuhn
Apr 22, 2011
Dateline: Bazine, Kansas Sibyl (McFadden) Witthuhn, age 84, passed away on April 22, 2011 at Cedar Village Long Term Care, Ness City, Kansas. She was born on October 19, 1926 on the family farm South of Bazine, the daughter of William Ray and Alma Idolette Bondurant McFadden. She was a helper on the family farm, a homemaker, a member of...
Laverne Handy
Apr 22, 2011
Dateline: Jetmore, Kansas Helen LaVerne Handy, age 88, passed away on April 22, 2011 at the Hodgeman County Long Term Care, Jetmore. She was born on July 16, 1922 in Beeler, Kansas the daughter of Jacob Earl and Bernice Irene Gilmore Whipple. She was a homemaker, a member of the First Baptist Church, Eureka, Montana, the American Legion Auxiliary, Ness...
Ruth Graf
Apr 12, 2011
Ruth Graf, 92, died Tuesday, April 12, at Rose Medical Center, Denver, Colorado. She was born January 30, 1919 in Bazine, Kansas the daughter of John and Eva (Brill) Stieben and was the youngest daughter of 14 children. She married Peter Graf on February 21, 1939 at Bazine and lived most of her life in Ness City, Kansas. She lived...
W. Dean Barricklow
Apr 5, 2011
Dateline: Ness County, Kansas Dean Barricklow, age 88, died at his home in Rural Ness County on April 5, 2011. Born may 31, 1922 the son of Weldon and Winnie Dagnett Barricklow. He was a farmer, a Century Farm Recipient and a World War II Veteran of the U.S. Navy. On August 15, 1943 he married Olinda Wolfe in Bazine,...
Jerry Keith Reinert
Apr 5, 2011
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Jerry Keith Reinert, age 72, died Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at the Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore, Kansas. He was born November 14, 1938 on the farm in Southeast Ness County, Kansas the son of Henry and Alice Petersilie Reinert. He was a farmer and a lifetime resident of Ness County and the Riverside community. He...
Joyce Genette Hunter
Mar 26, 2011
Joyce Genette Teter Hunter, age 83, died March 26, 2011 at Hays Med., Hays, Kansas. She was born October 18, 1927 at Enid, Oklahoma to Harrison and Grace Lucille Robertson Teter. On December 28, 1946 she married George Harold Hunter at Tucson, Arizona. Born to this union were two daughters, Joyce Lucille, born May 7, 1948 at Long Beach, California...
Florence A. Pfannenstiel
Mar 17, 2011
Florence A. Pfannenstiel, age 85, passed away at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas on Thursday March 17, 2011. She was born on November 18, 1925 just outside of Ness City, Kansas the daughter of Joseph and Amelia Ruder Pfannenstiel. She was a clerk and a lifetime resident of Ness County. She was a member of Sacred Heart Church...
Iris Eileen Johnson
Mar 12, 2011
Iris Eileen (Hayes) Johnson, age 97, passed away on March 12, 2011 in Ness City, Kansas. She was born on May 11, 1913 in Beeler, Kansas to Simon and Pearl Pearce Hayes, two Ness County pioneer families. She was welcomed by her three brothers, Keith, Estel "Ecky", and Melville "Buddy"; all have preceded her in death. Pearl, her mother died...
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...
