Franklin Winston Nelson
Jan 17, 2017
BURDETT – Franklin Winston Nelson (Lynn) 74, passed away January 17, 2017, at Aberdeen Village in Olathe, Kansas. He was born November 25, 1942 in Ness City, KS, the son of Albert & Irene Nelson. Lynn met Sharon, his wife of 53 years at Ft Hays State University. The couple moved to Burdett, Kansas after college where Lynn had a...
Debra Jean (Dreiling) Robinson
Jan 10, 2017
Larned- Debra Jean (Dreiling) Robinson, 53, passed away January 10, 2017 at Hays Medical Center. She was born July 29, 1963 in Great Bend, KS, the daughter of Ralph and Anna Marie (Peg) Turner Dreiling. A longtime area resident she was an Assistant Manager at Pizza Hut of Larned. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Survivors...
Florence Evelyn Johnson
Jan 10, 2017
Pawnee Rock - Florence Evelyn Johnson, 91, passed away January 10, 2017 at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned. She was born March 2, 1925 in Fowler, the daughter of Robert Lee and Evelyn Rose Chipman Stillwell. Moving from Cunningham in 1957 she was a lifetime area resident of Pawnee Rock, she was a GBM Welder. She was a member of...
Esthel Fern Cook
Jan 6, 2017
Larned- Esthel Fern Cook, 94, passed away January 6, 2017 at the Hospice House of Reno County. She was born January 23, 1922 in Nekoma, KS. the daughter of John and Emma Phillips Nash. A lifetime area resident of Larned, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, Larned, the Home Demonstration Unit and the...
Laura (Janie) Benish
Jan 6, 2017
Spearville- Laura (Janie) Benish, 63, passed away January 6, 2017, at her home in Spearville. She was born August 16, 1953, in Scott City, the daughter of Jim Graham and Dorothy Clinton Blackmon. A longtime area resident, she was a retired Optometrist Assistant. She was a member of the Saint John the Baptist Catholic Church, Spearville. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting...
Eileen Ida Hagerman
Dec 27, 2016
Larned - Eileen Ida Hagerman, 94, was promoted to her eternal home on December 27, 2016 at The Gardens assisted living facility in Kansas City, Missouri. Eileen was born March 22, 1922, in Bison, Kansas to Henry and Eva Wienick Schwindt and was the youngest of six children. She graduated from Bison High School in 1940 after which she worked...
Sherman Leon Mcintyre
Dec 26, 2016
Rozel - Sherman Leon McIntyre, 78, passed away December 26, 2016 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born December 13, 1938 in Iowa City, Iowa; the son of Vernon and Arez Anderson McIntyre; a resident of Rozel for the last 27 years, moving from Norton, Kansas. He was a painter and drywall finisher. He was a member of...
Ruby May Hunter
Dec 26, 2016
Larned – Ruby May Hunter, 80, passed away December 26, 2016, at Diversicare of Larned. She was born February 18, 1936, in Missouri, the daughter of Victor and Luzelle Mitchell Chase. A longtime area resident, moving from Arkansas, she was a retired Licensed Mental Health Technician at the Larned State Hospital, Larned. She was a member of the First Southern...
Michael (Mike) A. Giles
Dec 23, 2016
Larned - Michael (Mike) A. Giles, 67, passed away December 23, 2016 at Country Living of Larned. He was born May 11, 1949 in Stafford, KS; the son of Benjamin M. and LaVera Schartz Giles. A lifetime area resident; he was a Farmer, Rancher and a Commodities Broker. He loved the simple life and lived on his own terms. He...
James W. Crowe
Dec 17, 2016
Garfield - James W. Crowe, 55, passed away December 17, 2016 at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned. He was born June 2, 1961 in Cheyenne, Wyoming; the son of Orville and Patricia Olson Crowe. A lifetime area resident; he was a truck driver. James loved hunting and fishing and was a big outdoorsman. He loved his grandchildren and taking care...
Lois R Colburn
Dec 17, 2016
Jetmore – Lois R. Colburn, 91, passed away December 17, 2016, at the Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore. She was born July 23, 1925, in Great Bend, the daughter of Marcellus A. and Ethel B. Whitchurch Gibbs. A lifetime area resident, she was a homemaker/farmwife. She was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, United Presbyterian Women, taught Sunday school,...
Mary Katherine Hinkle
Dec 17, 2016
Pawnee Rock – Mary Katherine Hinkle, 67, passed away December 17, 2016 at the Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned. She was born October 23, 1949 in Rogers, AR., the daughter of Burl and Cleva (Dean) Schell. Mary worked in the Laundry service and she was a volunteer for Community Support Service Program in Dodge City. Survivors include: son Leland (Mickey)...
Cleo Dick
Dec 15, 2016
Burdett - Cleo Dick, 97, passed away December 15, 2016 at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend. She was born October 23, 1919 in Rush County, Kansas; the daughter of Issac E. and Bertha Williams Miller. A lifetime area resident; she was a homemaker. She loved making wedding cakes, gardening, canning, making quilts and Clothes. She also loved raising chickens....
Wanda M. Kollhoff
Dec 15, 2016
Burdett- Wanda M. Kollhoff, 90, passed away December 15, 2016 at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She was born February 18, 1926 in Burdett, KS. the daughter of W.T. and Leora Moore Crockett. An area resident, she was a homemaker and a Nurses Aid. She was a member of the United Methodist Church of Burdett, United Methodist Women and the American...
Patricia A. Barrett
Dec 12, 2016
Larned- Patricia Ann (Schinstock) Barrett, 78, passed away December 12, 2016 at Diversicare of Larned. Pat was born in Kinsley, KS to Joe and Edna Schinstock on October 29, 1938. She graduated from Kinsley High School. She then attended the St. Rose Dominican School of Nursing in Great Bend, KS, where she earned her RN degree. On December 31, 1959...
Robert (Rip) C. Gorman
Dec 11, 2016
Burdett - Robert C. (Rip) Gorman, 83, passed away December 11, 2016 at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned. He was born March 16, 1933 in Waco, Texas; the son of J. Paul and Winnie Reagan Gorman. He was an Oil and Gas Engineer. He was a member of Faith Fellowship Church, American Legion, Burdett, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and...
Mary Lou Sinclair
Dec 9, 2016
Jetmore - Mary Lou Sinclair, 91, passed away December 9, 2016 at Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore, Kansas. She was born September 16, 1925 on the family farm south of Hanston; the daughter of Leland Clair and Maybelle Viola Avery Rumford. A lifetime area resident, she was a School Bus Driver for the Hodgeman County School System. She also worked...
Nola E. Ochs
Dec 9, 2016
Jetmore- Nola Essie Ochs passed away on December 9, 2016, at Manor of the Plains, Dodge City, Kansas. She was born November 22, 1911, near Ramsey, in Fayette County, Illinois, the oldest daughter of Ollie and Ethel (Lawson) Hill. Nola's family moved to a farm near Ainsworth, Nebraska, and she attended elementary school in small, rural, one-teacher schools there. In...
James V. Cossman
Dec 7, 2016
Jetmore- James "Jim" Vernon Cossman, 91, passed away December 7, 2016 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, KS. He was born December 7, 1925 in Dodge City, KS the son of John V. and Dessie Glunt Cossman. A lifetime area resident of Jetmore he was a farmer. He was a member of the United Presbyterian Church, Jetmore. He attended Pleasant View...
Darlene R. Smith
Nov 29, 2016
Jetmore – Darlene R. Smith, 89, passed away November 29, 2016, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Center at Via Christi St. Francis Campus, Wichita. She was born March 9, 1927, in Hodgeman County, the daughter of Nicholas and Irene Beck Hahn. A lifetime area resident, and a recent resident of Regent Park, Wichita, she taught school for two years at...
