Obituaries

Mar 25, 2025

Glenda Colson, 83, passed away March 25, 2025 at Salina Regional Health Center, Salina.

She was born June 19, 1941 in Blaine, Kansas, the daughter of Glenn and Orlene Wagner Wahl.   A longtime area resident, she was a hairdresser a massage therapist and worked at IBP in Holcomb.

She was a member of the Grace...

Mar 24, 2025

Patricia J. (Jody) Mitchell, 87, passed away March 24, 2025 at Diversicare of Larned.

She was born June 19, 1937 in Larned, the daughter of Robert and Ellen Jones Olsen.

A lifetime area resident she was a meter maid for Larned police department and worked in housekeeping at Larned State Hospital. She previously attended the...

Mar 24, 2025

Paula Beth (Wildgen) Brown  passed away March 24th, 2025 in Sarasota, FL at the age of 85.

She was born on November 8th, 1939 in Great Bend, KS to Judge Maurice A Wildgen and Pauline E (Yeager) Wildgen. She was a middle sister to Susanne (Wildgen) Haymaker and Maureen (Wildgen) Outcalt. She was raised in Larned, KS...

Mar 19, 2025

Jetmore - Mom left on her last adventure the evening of March 19th blizzard.

Doris Aileen Denton, died March 19, 2025 at Down's Rehab and Nursing Home.

She married Cecil Duaine Denton February 7, 1953 in Cimarron, KS.  He passed August 2, 2013.  They were married 60 years.

She was a member of...

Mar 16, 2025

Marcia King passed away peacefully in her home in the presence of her loving family. Marcia was a strong and caring person and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

Marcia was preceded in death by her parents, a still born brother, and her sister Marilyn. She is survived by her husband, Dick, of 63...

Mar 15, 2025

Jetmore  - Clearnce Birdell Fakes, 92, passed away March 15, 2025 at Village Manor, Abilene.

He was born June 3, 1932 in Hodgeman County, Kansas the son of Roy Birdell and Ammie Killgore Fakes.  A longtime area resident of Hodgeman County and the surrounding area; he was a Probate Judge for 9 years and also worked at...

Mar 14, 2025

Roy Glenden Daum passed from this life on  March 14, 2025, at home with his beloved wife, LuAnn.

Roy was born in Cannelton, Indiana, on September 9, 1942 to Roy Edward and Juanita Jackson Daum. At the age of 14, he was converted to Catholocism and began attending Catholic High School. After graduation, he joined the Benediction...

Mar 12, 2025

Clara Louise Goodrich, 92, passed away March 12, 2025 at Country Living Memory Care of Larned, Larned, Kansas.

She was born November 17, 1932 in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Orin Lee and Mildred Mauck Goodrich. Clara moved to Kansas in 1973 where she was a Music Therapist and the Music Therapy Supervisor from 1976-1993 at Larned...

Mar 9, 2025

Billie Luree Bauer Welch, 88, Topeka, KS, formerly Larned, KS, passed away March 9, 2025 in Topeka, KS. She was born June 8, 1936, in Larned, the youngest of three daughters born to Vernon E. and Kathryn M. (Mallow) Bauer.

She was raised in the Radium community and graduated from RHS in 1954. She married Neal E....

Mar 7, 2025

Jetmore  - Peggy J. Hillman, 78, passed away March 7, 2025 at Ascension Living Via Christi Village, Hays.

She was born September 22, 1946 in Dodge City, the daughter of Edward and Ruth Adams Kline.  A lifetime area resident; she was a homemaker, farm wife and an Insurance Associate for Farm Bureau.

She was a...

Mar 7, 2025

Linda LaVern (Spreier) Hardgrove, who lived a life of faith through her words, actions, and art, died peacefully at her Windsor, CO home on March 7, 2025, after a brief illness. She was 80 years old.

Born in Atlantic City, NJ, to LaVern and Lucille Spreier, she and her family returned to western Kansas after WWII, first...

Mar 1, 2025

Jetmore – George N. Muilenburg, 87, passed away March 1, 2025 at Hodgeman County Health Center, Jetmore.

He was born October 25, 1937 in Cedar Vale, KS, the son of Virgil Carl and Grace Metcalf Muilenburg.  A longtime area resident, he was an auto parts man.

He was of the Christian faith and enjoyed racing...

Mar 1, 2025

Larned  - Jay Lawrence Giessel, 69, passed away March 1, 2025 at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned.

He was born April 13, 1955 at Larned; the son of John Jacob and Inez Leona Birzer Giessel.  A lifetime area resident he was a farmer and of the Christian faith, served on the Soil Conservation board, the Golden Valley...

Feb 28, 2025

Nancy Kaye Schmidt, 74, passed away February 28, 2025 at Diversicare of Larned.

Cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time.

Memorials may be given to Pawnee County Humane Society in care of Beckwith Mortuary, PO Box 477, Larned, Kansas 67550.

Feb 26, 2025

Damon Lynn Rhoades

7/6/1960 – 2/26/2025

After a long and heartbreaking battle with Young Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Damon Lynn Rhoades passed away peacefully at his home in Loveland, Colorado with his wife, Phyllis by his side.

Born July 6, 1960 to Donald and Clema Rhoades in Los Angeles, California. Damon graduated from Fair...

Feb 19, 2025

Rena Mae Stapleton, 80, passed away February 19, 2025 at Stafford County Hospital, Stafford.

She was born August 22, 1944 in Great Bend, the daughter of Joseph Carl and Anna Magdeline Wendel Feist.

A lifetime area resident she was an LPN at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital and later worked in the kitchen at the Welcome...

Feb 17, 2025

Larned  - Emma L. Jones, 97, passed away February 17, 2025 at the Northcrest Living Center, Council Bluffs, Iowa.

She was born November 21, 1927 in Bazine, Kansas; the daughter of Albert and Dorothy Margaret Friebus Tittel.  A lifetime area resident, she worked at Alco in Larned, Kansas for 30 years until her retirement.

She...

Feb 14, 2025

Bruce Dirks passed from this life to the next one on February 14, 2025 at the age of 96.  He was born on January 11, 1929 to Elmer and Alyce Dirks at the Larned hospital.  When he was two years old the family moved to Cimarron KS and farmed there until they returned to Pawnee County in 1942.

Feb 12, 2025

Ruth Marie Robbins, 97, passed away February 12, 2025 at her home in Larned.

She was born April 23, 1927 in Harrison County, Missouri, the daughter of Ray and Mary Rhea Maize Linthacum.

A lifetime area resident, she was a painter, did wallpapering, and also provided end of life care for many family members. She...

Feb 11, 2025

McPherson – Paul Jeffery Picard, 69, passed away February 11, 2025 at McPherson Health and Rehab, McPherson, Kansas.

He was born October 5, 1955 in San Diego, California, the son of Stan and Ruby June Romine Picard.

He lived in Russell before moving to Haviland in 2005 and later moved to McPherson.  Paul was a...