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Frances Roe
Mar 25, 2010
Frances Roe, age 96 died Thursday, March 25, 2010 at Cedar Village, Ness City, Kansas. Born March 12, 1914 in Canton, Oklahoma the daughter of John and Kate Laubach Humburg. She was a beautician and a long time resident of Kansas City, Missouri. She moved to Ness City in 2008 to be near family. She was preceded in death by...
Tommy C. Schaben
Mar 23, 2010
Tommy C. Schaben, age 78, died Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at Independence, Missouri following a courageous battle against coronary heart disease. He was born December 2, 1931 in LaCrosse the son of Brent and Rosa (Bitter) Schaben. Graveside committal service will be on Saturday, May 8, 2:00 pm with Father Henry Hildebrandt presiding. American Legion Olin Cole Post No. 392,...
Isidore J. Gerstner
Mar 18, 2010
Isidore J. Gerstner, age 90, died Thursday, March 18, 2010 at the Wichita County Long Term Care, Leoti, Kansas. He was born February 27, 1920 in Ness County the son of Jacob and Rosa Gabel Gerstner. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Church, Cheyenne Wells, Colorado and a World War II United States Air Force Veteran. He served...
Bernard F. Schuler
Mar 13, 2010
Bernard F. Schuler, age 76, died March 14, 2010 at the Veterans' Administration Hospital, Clinton, Oklahoma. He was born March 6, 1934 in Ness City, Kansas the son of Otto and Clara Werner Schuler. He was a member of the machinist union Dist Lodge 70 IAM & AW AFL-CIO for the aircraft manufacturing industry having worked in Wichita for many...
Harvey Earl Moore
Mar 13, 2010
Dateline: Ness City, Kansas Harvey Earl Moore, age 96, died Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Cedar Village, Ness City. He was born on November 25, 1913 on the farm South of Bazine, Kansas the son of Earl O. and Hermina G. Schaben, Moore. He was a farmer and stockman and lived most of his life on the farm in Bazine....
Ann Garrelts
Feb 27, 2010
M. Ann Garrelts, age 68, died Saturday, February 27, 2010 at her home near Hays. She was born on July 10, 1941 in Maywood, California the daughter of Jesse and Helen Doty Clouston. Ann held many jobs throughout her life, but her favorite was being a handcrafted soap maker as the craftswoman and owner of Smokey Hills Suds. Ann and...
Juanita Louise Vanwinkle
Feb 23, 2010
Dateline: Ransom, Kansas Juanita Louise VanWinkle, age 88, died February 23, 2010 at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom. She was born on September 6, 1921 in Ransom the daughter of Cecil and Elizabeth Petty Zordel. She was a homemaker and a member of the Ransom Church of Christ. On November 11, 1960 she married Vernon VanWinkle in Ransom. He preceded...
Michael Philip Fehrenbach
Feb 19, 2010
Michael Philip Fehrenbach, age 62, died at his home in Ness City on Friday, February 19, 2010. He was born on February 27, 1947 in Ransom the son of Frank and Albertina Flax Fehrenbach. He worked as a floor hand for Pickrell Drilling for many years. He retired in January 2009. He was an avid gardener and canned everything, he...
Joyce Sidebottom
Feb 6, 2010
Sidebottom, Joyce Marie, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, February 6, 2010. Joyce and her twin sister, Jean, were born in Yutan, NE, June 11, 1932 to Carl and Lorene Wannow. She is preceded in death by her parents and daughter, Linda Pacheco. Joyce married Wayne Sidebottom in Wichita on July 12, 1963. Survivors include her husband, Wayne;...
Marcella O Lutters
Feb 1, 2010
Marcella O. Lutters, 87, died Monday, February 1, at the Grisell Memorial Hospital, Ransom. Marcella was born at the family farmhouse northwest of Ransom on January 16, 1923 to Joseph P. and Matilda Elizabeth Young Kraus, the youngest of 11 children. She attend Pink School north of Ransom all 8 grades. She was the piano player for the family band...
Betty Leone Sidebottom
Jan 26, 2010
Betty Leone De Vore Sidebottom, 86, passed away Wednesday, January 26, 2010 in Harlingen, Texas. Betty was very active in the Delta area for many years along side her husband Otis Sidebottom who passed away in 1999. A longtime member of the Edcouch Order of the Eastern Star, # 859, she was elected as Worthy Matron in 1988-1989 and again...
Maurine Fritzler
Jan 13, 2010
Maurine Fritzler was born Leila Maurine Haynes on October 13, 1923. All of her life she went by her middle name, Maurine, rather than her first name. She passed away on 1/13/2010, at her home.^ She is survived by her elder sister, Jean, two sons, Max and Mike, four grandsons, two step-grandsons, and six step great grandchildren. Maurine and Jean...
Virginia Lee Cranston
Jan 2, 2010
Virginia Lee Cranston, 87, died Jan. 2, 2010, at Harry Hynes Hospice Center, Wichita. She was born on Aug. 2, 1922, the daughter of Herbert and Isabelle Gager Dumler. She was a homemaker and had lived in Ness City, Kansas until 1955. On April 1, 1942, she married Dudley Cranston in Ness City. He preceded her in death on Aug....
Anthony James Dumler
Dec 31, 2009
Anthony James "Tony" Dumler, age 51, passed away Thursday, December 31, 2009 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City. He was born Dec. 4, 1958 in Dodge City, Kansas the son of Gustave and L. Merle Smith Dumler. He was a Production Foreman for Mull Drilling and he loved his job. He was an avid hunter and fisherman. Tony was...
Mark Allen Rohr
Dec 28, 2009
Dateline: Midwest City, Oklahoma Mark Allen Rohr, age 55, died December 28, 2009 at Midwest Regional Medical Center, Midwest City. He was born June 12, 1954 in Ransom, Kansas the son of Levane and Luvera Stoecklein Rohr. Survivors include his parents of Colorado Springs; son, Matt Erb, Hays, Kansas; daughter, Melissa Hampton, Kansas City, Missouri; two brothers, Neil Rohr, Houston,...
Joshua Dean Stieben
Dec 27, 2009
Joshua Dean Stieben, age 18, died Sunday, December 27, 2009 in rural Ness County. He was born October 16, 1991 in Hays, Kansas. He is the son of Rudy and Rhonda Stieben Rolo. First and foremost Josh was a cowboy. He was a student at Western Plains High School class of 2010, STUCO rep., football team for four years, Future...
James C. Ellis
Dec 26, 2009
James Carl Ellis, age 76, died Sat., Dec. 26, 2009 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born Sept. 26, 1933 in Maramec, OK the son of Amos and Harriet "Hallie" Longgrear Ellis. He was a retired oil field pumper and a veteran of the United States Army. On Jan. 1,1954 he married Donna McBeth in Lyons, Kansas. She...
Kale D. Prose
Dec 19, 2009
Graveside Services for Kale D. Prose will be held at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, Dec 29, 2009 at the Buda Cemetery in Ness City, Kansas. Kale was born on April 7, 1932 in Alamota, Kansas to the late Fillmore and Myrtle (Schryer) Prose. He passed away on Saturday, December 19, 2009 in Davis at the age of 77. Kale served in...
Orrin D. Oppliger
Dec 18, 2009
Orrin Dean Oppliger, 74, passed away Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Central Kansas Medical Center, St. Rose Campus, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born to John and Eunice Haug Oppliger on Feb. 6, 1935, in Ransom, KS. On Dec. 10, 1955, he married Naomi Ickes at Leesville, LA. She survives. Other survivors include: sons, John and wife Kathy, Frontenac, KS,...
Vera Mcfadden
Dec 16, 2009
Vera (Rohr) McFadden, 81, of Ness City, died on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at the Montrose Memorial Hospital in Montose, Colorado. She was married to Rex McFadden of Bazine on August 2, 1952. He preceded her in death. Memorial service will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, May 8 at the Sacred Heart Church in Ness City. Graveside service...
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