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Betty Jane Dryden-Monical
Sep 10, 2011
Larned – Betty Jane Dryden-Monical, 89, died September 10, 2011, at Country Place Senior Living, Larned. She was born June 16, 1922, in Pawnee County, Kansas, the daughter of Bryan T. and A. Edna Linder Williamson. A lifetime area resident, she was a homemaker and secretary. She was a member of the United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Farm Bureau...
Terry Ray Foos
Sep 3, 2011
Terry Ray Foos, 60, passed away September 3, 2011 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born February 11, 1951 in Great Bend, the son of Theodore C. and Glendoris Rein Foos-Blattner. A lifetime area resident; he was a member of the United Methodist Church, Burdett and the Assistant Director for the Burdett EMS, and a volunteer for the...
Wendell W. Fertig
Sep 3, 2011
Garfield - Wendell Wayne Fertig, 86, passed away September 3, 2011 at the Medicalodge, Kinsley. He was born June 10, 1925 in Garfield; the son of Frank Abraham and Freda Blume Fertig. A lifetime area resident he was a farmer. He was of the Christian Faith. On April 3, 1955 he married Patty Jane Blackburn at Larned. She passed away...
Wayne J. Seba
Sep 1, 2011
LARNED-Wayne J. Seba, 77, died September, 1, 2011 at Denver, CO. He was born March 8, 1934 in Pawnee County, KS, the son of John and Louise Josefiak Seba. He graduated from Rozel High School, Rozel, KS, in 1952, worked as a cement mason in Denver, CO, and retired in 1984. He enjoyed fishing in the Colorado mountains with his...
Alice Katherine Elizabeth Ebert
Aug 31, 2011
Larned - Alice Katherine Elizabeth Ebert, 94, passed away August 31, 2011, Dallas, Oregon. She was born April 17, 1917 in Barton, County, KS, the daughter of Fred and Ann Steinert Heinze. A lifetime area resident, moving to Oregon in 2008; she was a Licensed Mental Health Technician for the Larned State Hospital. She was a member of the American...
Alice Marie Chaffee
Aug 30, 2011
Alice Marie Eakin Chaffee, 80, passed away July 24, 2011 at her home in McAllen, Texas. Memorial Service will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 at the United Methodist Church, Burdett; with Pastor Brad McCoy presiding. Inurnment will be in the Brown's Grove Cemetery, Burdett. Memorials may be given to the Paralyzed Veterans or the Local Food Bank, both in...
Joe Slavin
Aug 29, 2011
Joe Slavin, a longtime resident of Burdett, Kansas walked on peacefully at the age of 94, on August 29th, 2011. One of eleven children, Joe was born on December 18th, 1916 to parents James Slavin and Dellie Ott Slavin. He resided in Lexington, Oklahoma until age 16 where after obtaining permission from his father, James Slavin, hitchhiked throughout the United...
James F. English
Aug 18, 2011
James "Tex" English, 74, died August 18, 2011, at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned. He was born September 15, 1936, in Texas. A longtime area resident, he was a truck driver. He was of the protestant faith and a member of the Lion's Club, Larned. On Feb. 11, 1971, he married Anne A. Robbins at Larned. She died December 13,...
Velma Harman
Aug 9, 2011
Velma Harman – 77, died August 9, 2011, at her home in Garfield. She was born March 5, 1934, in Stafford County, the daughter of James Henry and Carrie Weve Cassady. A longtime area resident, she was a USD #495 school bus driver. She was a member of the Fort Larned Lions Club. On February 18, 1954, she married G-...
Gladys Ethel Hungate
Aug 5, 2011
Gladys Hungate, 98, of Clinton, Iowa, formerly of Larned, died Friday, August 5, 2011, at the Alverno Health Care Facility, Clinton, Iowa. A funeral service will be held at the Beckwith Mortuary in Larned, Kansas, at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 20, 2011, with burial in the Larned Cemetery. Gladys was born May 2, 1913, in Pawnee Rock, Kansas, to Benjamin...
Millard Keith Barrett
Aug 4, 2011
Larned - Millard K. Barrett, 78, died August 4, 2011 at his home, Larned. He was born February 15, 1933 in Larned. The son of Hugh M. and Elizabeth Boyer Barrett; a lifetime area resident he was a Farmer. He was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus, he was on the Apache Bowling league...
Doris G. Sapp
Aug 3, 2011
LARNED – Doris Geraldine Sapp, 93, died August 3, 2011 at the Smoky Hill Rehabilitation Center, Salina, KS. She was born August 17, 1917 in Larned; the daughter of Allen C. & Vena (Easley) Palmer. She was a lifetime area resident and worked as a bookkeeper for the City of Larned for 24 years. Doris was a very active member...
Albert Earl Querbach
Jul 27, 2011
Hanston – Albert Earl Querbach, 91, died July 27, 2011, in Hanston. He was born January 18, 1920, at Hanston, the son of William John and Ellen Jane Baldrey Querbach. He was a well-known and respected farmer/rancher who lived most of his life in the Hanston area except for in the mid 1920's when the family moved to Montrose, Colorado,...
Wayne H. Ward
Jul 26, 2011
Wayne H. Ward, 89 passed peacefully on Tuesday, July 26th in Loveland, Colorado where he has resided for the last four years. Wayne was born on April 22, 1922 in Elmdale, Kansas to William H. and Beth Ward. On June 19, 1943 he married Jean Drummond in Emporia, Kansas. He attended Elmdale schools and in 1940 he was named the...
Cheryl R. Lytle
Jul 22, 2011
Larned - Cheryl R. Lytle, 67, died July 22, 2011 at the Country Place Senior Living Center, Larned, KS. She was born July 31, 1943 in Great Bend. She was the daughter of Chet and Elaine (Davidson) Lytle. Her pre-school years were spent in Belpre, KS. The family moved to Leoti, KS during her elementary school years. For 40 years...
Ruth V. Wells
Jul 21, 2011
Ruth V. Wells, 91 died July 21, 2011 at Via Christi St. Joseph Campus in Wichita. She was born October 28, 1919 in Kinsley, Kansas the daughter of Harry and Gladys Jones Husted. A longtime resident of Larned, she had been employed by Doerr's Mercantile and the Larned State Hospital. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church,...
Jayme W. Salmans
Jul 16, 2011
Garden City – Jayme W. Salmans, 56, died July 16, 2011, at his home in Garden City. He was born April 1, 1955, in Great Bend, the son of Francis and Delores Service Salmans. He was a longtime area resident. He was of the christian faith and loved to play with trains and big trucks. Survivors include: father, Francis Salmans,...
George Van Vleet
Jul 9, 2011
Jetmore - George Van Vleet, 83, died July 9, 2011, at his home. He was born June 20, 1928 at Goodwell, Oklahoma, the son of George and Myrtle (Henderson) Van Vleet. He came with his family from the Greely County area in 1937 in a drought to Valley township where he died in a drought. He raised hogs and cattle...
Vernon Wilbur Smith
Jun 22, 2011
Vernon Wilbur Smith, 99, died June 22, 2011 at the Rush County Nursing Home, LaCrosse. He was born December 10, 1911, the son of Arthur & Iona Newport Smith. A lifetime area resident, he was a Farmer. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, and Lions Club both of Burdett, a former bank Director of Burdett State Bank...
Douglas E. Thomas
Jun 20, 2011
Jetmore - Douglas E. Thomas, 62, died June 20, 2011, at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City. He was born March 4, 1949, at Dodge City, the son of Lewis Gilbert and Lucille B. Rynerson Thomas. He was a schoolteacher at Sharon Springs prior to moving to Hanston in 1976. He was a truck driver and equipment operator around the Hodgeman...
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