Dale L. Huxman
Sep 16, 2010
Dale L. Huxman, born to Elmer and Mary Huxman on August 16, 1924, in Arnold, KS, passed on to his eternal home on September 16, 2010 at Garden Terrace in Overland Park, KS. Visitation will be held Monday, September 20th, at McGilley State Line Chapel, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Graveside memorial services will be Tuesday, September 21, 2010,...
Aylene Kay Barrett
Sep 6, 2010
Aylene Kay Barrett, age 63, passed away at her home in Ness City on Monday, September 6, 2010. She was born on August 6, 1947 in Ness City the daughter of Robert and Lorene Stecklein Pfannenstiel. She was the clerk of the board for the Ness City Unified School District where she had worked for 39 years until she retired...
Marlin Martin Mcginnis
Sep 6, 2010
Marlin M. McGinnis, age 79, died September 6, 2010 at St. Francis Hospital, Via Christi, Wichita, Kansas. He was born April 24, 1931 in Brownell the son of Arthur and Sabina Gusteson McGinnis. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force stationed with the 310th Air Refueling Squadron of the 310th Bomb Wing and ran a Gasoline Service...
Harold L Long
Aug 28, 2010
Harold L. Long, age 80, died at his home in Jetmore, Kansas on August 28, 2010. Harold was born on June 24, 1930 in Plains, Kansas the son of Carl and Vera Snodgrass Long. He was a commercial architect and had resided in Arizona since 1962. He recently returned to the area. On May 11, 1951 he married Marjorie Lee...
John Junior Freeman
Aug 22, 2010
John Junior Freeman, 70 passed away on August 22, 2010. John was born April 15, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa. He served as a proud member of the United States Air Force for four years. John was also an Alumni of ASU and graduated after six years with a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, a Master of Science and a...
Joseph I. Flax
Aug 8, 2010
Dateline: Ransom, Kansas Joseph I. Flax was born Sept. 23, 1920 in Arnold, Kansas and at the age of 89 passed away Aug. 8, 2010 at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom. He was the oldest of 11 children born to Joseph and Theresia Weber Flax. He was a farmer and raised registered short horn cattle. He served in the U.S....
Mary Frances Eggers
Aug 7, 2010
Mary Frances (Rupp) Eggers passed away on Aug. 7, 2010 at the age of 98 at the Franciscan Villa Nursing Center in Broken Arrow, OK. She was born one of 11 children on October 9,1911 near Bazine in Ness County, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Katherine Dechant Rupp. Mary attended school in rural Ness County and married Charles Eggers...
Grover F Rothe
Jul 30, 2010
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Grover F. Rothe, age 90, died Friday, July 30, 2010 at Cedar Village, Ransom, Kansas. Born December 10, 1919 in Rush County, Kansas the son of D.M. and Pauline Steinert Rothe. He was a farmer and stockman and had lived in Ness County since 1925. He was a member of the Ness City United Methodist Church...
Alice M. Blakely
Jul 22, 2010
Alice Blakely, 92, passed away July 22, 2010, at Cedar Village Long Term Care. Ness City, KS. She had been there for the past three years. A life long resident of Beeler, KS, Alice was born August 25, 1917 to Charles and Lizzie Lakey Watson. She attended Beeler Grade School and graduated from Beeler High School in 1934. She married...
Billie Jo Swim
Jul 15, 2010
Dateline: Dodge City, Kansas Billie Jo Swim, age 76, died Thursday, July 15, 2010 at Western Kansas Medical Complex, Dodge City. She was born May 18, 1934 in Thayer, Missouri the daughter of Charles and Pauline Sweaney Jobe. She was a homemaker and a devoted caregiver with Senior Companions in Dodge City. On October 27, 1952 she married Donald D....
Doneta Parsons
Jul 3, 2010
A. Doneta Parsons, age 81, died Saturday, July 3, 2010 at Hill Top House, Bucklin, Kansas. She was born on November 7, 1928 in Jet, Oklahoma the daughter of Dan and Eva Zimmerman Yoder. On July 2, 1949 she married Calvin C. Parsons at Harper, Kansas. They made there home in McCracken in 1953 where they were members of the...
Jessie Earl Crosswhite
Jun 22, 2010
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Jessie Earl Crosswhite, age 78, died Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at Cedar Village, Ness City, KS. He was born on August 17, 1931 in Bristol, VA the son of Jessie Edward and Maxine Holland Crosswhite. He was a farmer in Ness County for over 50 years and a member of the First Baptist Church, Ness City....
Eddie Richard Margheim
Jun 21, 2010
Dateline: Bazine, Kansas E. Richard "Eddie" Margheim, age 89 died Monday, June 21, 2010 at the Rush County Nursing Home, LaCrosse, Kansas. He was born on February 16, 1921 on the farm South East of Bazine to R. Henry and Molly Schwartz Margheim. He spent his entire life in the Bazine area until entering the Rush County Nursing Home on...
Velva Irene Spence
Jun 16, 2010
Velva Irene Spence, 96, second child of Leo and Alice (Ryersee)Gish, was born in West Plains, MO on January 30,1914, at the home of her paternal grandparents. She attended Alexander grade school and graduated from Alexander High School in 1931 and then attended Hays State College for one year before she began teaching school in a one-room country school. In...
Frank Fehrenbach
Jun 15, 2010
Lifelong Ness County resident, Frank Fehrenbach, age 88, passed away June 15, 2010 at Cedar Village, Ness City, Kansas. Frank was born and raised on the family farm SW of Ness City. He attended school at the one room Manteno Country School. He went on to serve his country honorably during WWII as a Motor Machinist's Mate Second Class in...
Hermina Reis
Jun 4, 2010
Hermina Strecker Ries, or as her friends called her Minnie, died of congestive heart failure at the Rush County Hospital Long Term Care in Lacrosse, Kansas at 7:10 p.m. Friday evening. (06/04/2010) She was born on January 19, 1921 at the family farm outside of Galatia, the fifth child of George David and Eva Elizabeth Strecker. Her childhood was characterized...
Freida Marie Foster
Jun 1, 2010
Freida Foster was born September 10, 1928 and passed from this life on June 1, 2010, 2010 at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom where she has resided for the past several years. Freida Marie was born in Ransom, Kansas, the second child to Dale and Irma Cofer Combest. Freida and her sister Bertha learned to play together and to work together....
Lois Layton
May 28, 2010
Lois Layton, age 81, died Friday, May 28, 2010 at Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas. She was born August 23, 1928 the daughter of Frank and Gertrude Sloop. She married Robert McKillip in 1945. He preceded her in death. On July 18, 1952 she married Bernard Layton. He preceded her in death on February 22, 1982. She is survived by...
Darrell Max Holmes
May 26, 2010
Dateline: Wichita Darrell M. Holmes, age 92, died May 26 at Harry Hynes Hospice, St. Francis Hospital, Wichita. Born October 15, 1917 the son of Fahey and Alma McCartee Holmes at Utica, Kansas. A long time Utica resident, moving to Wichita in 2008. He was a rural mail carrier and farmer. He was a US Navy Veteran of World War...
Agnes Mitchell
May 19, 2010
Agnes Mitchell, 82, died Wednesday, May 19th at the Marion County Hospital. A retired restaurateur, Agnes owned Mitch's Café in Ransom KS and Bazine KS and lived in Ness City since 1974, coming there from Dighton KS. She retired from the restaurant business in 1991 and worked part time at the Derrick Inn in Ness City till she moved to...
