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...
Todd Allen Swanson
Dec 13, 2009
Todd Allen Swanson was born to Larry & Sharon Brasier Swanson joining a brother Larry and later a sister Sharese in Overland Park, Kansas. The early years were full of sports and week-ends at the lake skiing and fishing. Following graduation from Shawnee Mission North High School, he obtained a communications degree from Pittsburg State University. After completing a degree...
Beulah M. Klitzke
Nov 30, 2009
Beulah Klitzke of Ness City passed away at the Ness County Hospital in Ness City on the 30th of November 2009 at the age of 98 years and 334 days. She had been a resident of the Long Term Care facility at that hospital for seven years. Born in Ransom as Beulah Mae Schaefer on December 31, 1910 to Heinrich...
Ferlyn O. Moore
Nov 26, 2009
Ferlyn O. Moore, age 86, died Thursday, November 26, 2009 at his home in Ness City, Kansas. Born January 22, 1923 on the farm near Bazine, Kansas the son of Earl O. and Hermina G. Schaben Moore. He was a machinist with Cessna Aviation Industries and a farmer. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Ness City, Shriners...
Raymond Richard Lamoree
Nov 18, 2009
Raymond Richard Lamoree. age 87, died Nov. 18, at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Born Feb. 18, 1922 at Gorham, Kansas to Levi and Laura Sanders Lamoree. He graduated from Beeler High School in 1940. He joined the Army in 1942, serving in Europe during World War II, receiving the Silver Service Star. He received his discharge from the...
Howard Scott Wells
Nov 18, 2009
Howard Scott Wells, 78, died Wednesday, November 18 at the Ness county Hospital, Ness City. He was the son of William H. and Alice Flaiz Wells. He was born September 1, 1931 at the family farm near Scott City, Kan. He was a cattleman, horse trainer and cowboy who had been a Ness City resident since 1985. Prior to that,...
Ilene V Maier
Nov 9, 2009
Ilene V. Maier, age 83, died Monday, November 09, 2009 at the Ness County Hospital, Ness City, Kansas. She was born on September 15, 1926 on the family farm South of Bazine. She was a homemaker and a member of the Saint Luke's Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aide, Bazine. On December 29, 1945 she married Julius Maier at Bazine....
Elza "Hap" Stull
Nov 4, 2009
Dateline: Brownell, Kansas Elza Emmet "Hap" Stull, age 99, died Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at the Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born on October 14, 1910 in Brownell, Kansas the son of Jacob and Jennie Randall Stull. He was a stockman, rancher and was a wall plasterer and at one time ran a restaurant. He was a member...
Kathryn Blocksome
Nov 3, 2009
Kathryn (Noll) Blocksome, age 89, died November 3, 2009 at the Rhode Island Suites, Ransom, Kansas. She was born September 24th, 1920, in Ransom, the daughter of Leonard Jr. and Eva (Daniels) Noll. She was an elementary school teacher in the Arnold and Ransom School Districts, starting her career in 1939 in a country school house. She retired in 1984...
Connie L. Davis
Oct 27, 2009
Connie L. Davis, age 56, passed away on October 27, 2009 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born on May 6, 1953 at Lima, Ohio the daughter of Bernard and Lois Layton. She had been a relief postmaster at the Utica Post Office and was a cake decorator. She had been a resident of Utica since August 1994,...
Donald D. Winter
Oct 21, 2009
Donald Dean Winter, age 71, died Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. Born December 12, 1937 in Marion, Kansas the son of Ferd and Helen Hein Winter. He was an oilfield pumper and volunteered for many activities such as boy scouts and little league baseball. He was a 1956 graduate of Marion High School. On January...
