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...
Dallas E. Haug
May 17, 2010
Dateline: Ransom, Kansas Dallas Everett Haug, age 72, died May 17, 2010 at his home in Ransom, Kansas. He was born December 9, 1937 in Gravette, Arkansas the son of Everett and Jessie (Charles) Haug. He married Judy Johnson in Utica, Kansas. To this marriage three children were born, Kimberly Sue, Troy Wayne, and Niki Gaye. Dallas served in the...
Rhonda Annette Gantz
May 16, 2010
Rhonda Annette Gantz, age 48, died Sunday, May 16, 2010 at her home in Ness City, Kansas. Born August 5, 1961 in Ness City the daughter of Wilbur and Ona Merle "Pat" (Snyder) Stecklein. She was a homemaker, and had been assisting her parents. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Church, Ness City. On May 29, 1982 she...
Florence A. Kerr
Apr 30, 2010
Florence A. Kerr, age 82, died Friday, April 30, 2010 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. She was born July 16, 1927, Ness City, Kansas the daughter of Alex and Odella Pfannenstiel Gabel. She was a homemaker, a member of the Sacred Heart Church and Altar Society of Ness City and she was previously active in the local 4-H...
Gary Miner Antenen
Apr 25, 2010
Gary Miner Antenen, 78, died April 25, 2010, at his home in Ness City. He was born January 9,1932, in Ness City, the son of Clarence Edward and Margaret Miner Antenen Gary graduated from Ness City High School and Kansas State University where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He was an officer in the United Stales Air...
Evelyn Erb Parkhurst
Apr 24, 2010
Evelyn Farriel (Shannon) Erb Parkhurst, the middle child of James Clyde and Mary Elberta (Clift) Shannon, died peacefully at her home Saturday, April 24, 2010. She was born January 1, 1925, on a farm near Marshfield, MO. On June 7, 1940 she married Pearl Earl Erb and they moved near Bazine, KS. She was a farm wife and a Stanley...
Laura Jane Linsey
Apr 17, 2010
Laura J. Casey Linsey, 47, McCracken, died Saturday, April 17, 2010, at her home. She was born April 11, 1963, in La Crosse to Patrick M. Casey and Frances R. (Kisslinger) Casey. She was a 1981 graduate of McCracken High School. She married Russell (Russ) Linsey on Oct. 28, 2000, in McCracken. She worked at Kids Korner, La Crosse. She...
Harriet Ruth Mcvicker
Apr 13, 2010
Harriet Ruth McVicker, age 89, died Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at Arbor Home, Wichita, Kansas. She was born on October 10, 1920 on the family farm SW of Beeler, Kansas, the daughter of Lloyd and Mabel Fry Webb. She was a homemaker, a member of the Beeler United Methodist Church, Friendship Circle, Ness County Historical Society, and she was a...
Kenneth George Bittel
Apr 6, 2010
Kenneth George Bittel, age 81, died Tuesday, April 6, 2010 in his home, Ness City. He was born on April 1, 1929 in Ellis, Kansas the son of Paul and Ida Koerner Bittel. He was a City Manager for the cities of Abilene, Great Bend, Ellinwood, and Pratt. He is survived by two sons: Michael, Cummings, Georgia and Donald, Palm...
Burneeta Lucille Chapman
Apr 2, 2010
Burneeta Lucille Chapman born in Esbon KS on 9/23/1914 - and passed on 4/2/2010 at Mercy Hospital, Ardmore OK at the age of 95. She was preceded in death by her husband Delmar Chapman, her parents Floyd and Grace Lytle, a sister Marjorie Gorham, a granddaughter Donna Kay Chapman, and a great granddaughter Becky Vader. Delmar and Burneeta were married...
Rita May Leiker
Mar 27, 2010
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Rita May Leiker, age 73, died Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. Born April 13, 1936 in Ness City the daughter of Leo and Katherine Eichman Raskopf. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Church and a she was a beautician. On November 24, 1956 she married Norbert "Tubby" Leiker in...
