Obituaries

Darrell W. Piper

Darrell W. Piper

Feb 1, 2026

Darrell Piper, Tribune, Kansas, age 78, passed away Sunday, February 1, 2026, at Greeley County Long Term Care in Tribune, Kansas. Darrell was born on December 25, 1947, in Wichita, Kansas, to Jack Piper and Billie Crittenden.

He grew up in Wichita, Kansas, and Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Sunny Slope High School. Darrell was drafted into the Army on September 28,...

Leon David Farr

Leon David Farr

Jan 24, 2026

Leon D. Farr, age 76, passed away on Saturday, January 24,  2026, at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on March 19, 1949, in Scott City, Kansas, the son of William Oliver and Mildred Rosetta Russell Farr. He was a lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas.

Leon worked for several different cattle companies, including Kansas Feedyard, Dickhut Feedyard,...

Rose Marie Wright

Rose Marie Wright

Jan 14, 2026

Rose M. Wright, age 71, passed away on Wednesday, January 14, 2026 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on January 3, 1955 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of William Oliver and Daisy Marie Reed Wilson. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a homemaker, farmers wife and most of all a...

James Kenneth Hoover

James Kenneth Hoover

Jan 12, 2026

James Kenneth Hoover, age 90, passed away on Monday, January 12, 2026 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on January 8, 1936 in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Harley & Ruth Huff Hoover who provided a Christian home for their two children, Harold Leroy and James Kenneth Hoover. Ken and Harold both...

Rex W. Grothusen

Rex W. Grothusen

Jan 10, 2026

Rex W. Grothusen, age 83, passed away on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at the UMC Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. He was born on November 6, 1942 in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Ralph and Viola Huseman Grothusen. He was resident of Scott City, Kansas since he was 2 years old.

He went to school at Manning Grade School and graduated...

Dee Ann Wilken

Dee Ann Wilken

Jan 9, 2026

Dee Ann Wilken, age 83, passed away on January 9, 2026, at St. Theresa Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on January 26, 1942, the fifth child of D.F. Jaeger and Lena Green Jaeger. She grew up in Leoti and graduated from Wichita Co. High School in 1960. She always enjoyed keeping in touch with her classmates, who often...

Alfredo Ochoa Castillo

Alfredo Ochoa Castillo

Jan 6, 2026

Scott City

Alfredo Ochoa Castillo, age 74, passed away on Tuesday, January 6, 2026 at the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. He was born on January 12, 1951, in Huejuquilla El Alto, Mexico, the son of Jesus Cavral and Juana Ocho Rojo Castillo. He was a resident of Leoti, Kansas since 1984, moving from Tribune, Kansas. He worked as a...

Gary E. Eitel

Gary E. Eitel

Jan 5, 2026

Gary E. Eitel, age 71, passed away on Monday, January 5, 2026, at HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. He was born on February 27, 1954, in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Marvin Eugene Eitel and Mary Lou Kennedy.

A lifelong resident of Scott City, Kansas, Gary married Deandra J. Billinger on March 2, 1974, in Shallow...

Margaret Koehn

Margaret Koehn

Jan 5, 2026

Margaret Koehn, age 97, passed away on Monday, January 5, 2026, at Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on August 11, 1928 in McPherson County, Kansas, the daughter of Tobe T. and Eva Unruh Koehn. She has been a resident of Scott County, Kansas since 1951 moving from McPherson County, Kansas.

She was a member of...

Barbara L. Nightengale

Barbara L. Nightengale

Dec 29, 2025

Barbara L. Nightengale, age 70, passed away on Monday, December 29, 2025 at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. She was born on January 10, 1955 in Merced, California, the daughter of Arthur and Lucille Dirks Friesen. A resident of the Pence Community since 1977, moving from Atwater, California, she was a homemaker and Office manager at Heartland Mill...

Darla Lynn Amerine

Darla Lynn Amerine

Dec 26, 2025

Darla Lynn Amerine, age 77, passed away on Friday, December 26, 2025 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on April 8, 1948 in Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Clyde and Ethel Schoeni Shinkle. She was a resident of Scott City, Kansas for the past forty-six years moving from Colby, Kansas. She dedicated the majority...

Opal M Bare

Opal M Bare

Dec 24, 2025

Opal M. Bare, age 90, passed away at the Greeley County Long Term Care in Tribune, Kansas, on December 24, 2025. She was born in Tribune, Kansas to Carl and Annie Bare on December 26, 1934. After high school, Opal traveled and lived in Los Angeles, California, Dodge City, Kansas, Ordway, Colorado, and finally back to Tribune, Kansas.

Opal is survived...

Randy Wade Keeton

Randy Wade Keeton

Dec 22, 2025

Randy W. Keeton, age 36, of Hendersonville, Tennessee, passed away on December 22, 2025, near his home. He was born to Randy and Marqueta Rauch Keeton on March 30, 1989, in Leoti, Kansas. He grew up in Leoti before joining the US Navy. After his time in service, Randy lived and worked in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He worked for the...

Darlene Joanne Harkness

Darlene Joanne Harkness

Dec 16, 2025

Darlene Joanne Harkness, age 73, of Leoti, Kansas, passed away at the Parklane Nursing home in Scott City, Kansas, on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. She was the daughter of Matthew and Kathryn Gittinger Ford. She was born on June 27, 1952, in Goodland, Kansas. Her family moved from Bird City to Leoti during the first year of her life, and...

Paul S. Woolfolk, Jr. ("JR")

Paul S. Woolfolk, Jr. ("JR")

Dec 14, 2025

Paul S. Woolfolk, Jr. (“JR”), age 81, passed away on Sunday, December 14, 2025 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, KS. He was born on Sept. 8, 1944 in Syracuse, Kansas, to Paul and Fannie (Singleton) Woolfolk who lived southwest of Tribune, Kansas. JR was baptized in Sheridan Lake, CO in 1960. He graduated from Greeley County High School...

Charles Leroy Miller

Charles Leroy Miller

Dec 11, 2025

Scott City, Kansas

Charles Leroy Miller, age 90, passed away on Thursday, December 11, 2025 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on December 4, 1935, in Ava, Missouri, the son of Henry Thomas and Bina Madgelene Miller Plumb. He had been a resident of Scott City, Kansas for the last fourty years.

He worked in agriculture the majority...

Connie J. McNutt

Connie J. McNutt

Dec 6, 2025

Connie J. McNutt, age 68, passed away on Saturday, December 6, 2025 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on November 18, 1957 in Kinsley, Kansas, the daughter of Charles & Nadine Morris McNutt. She was a resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2022 moving from Kinsley, Kansas, and was a homemaker.

She was a...

Juan Carlos Paredes Lopez

Juan Carlos Paredes Lopez

Nov 22, 2025

Scott City, Kansas

Juan Carlos Paredes Lopez, age 50, passed away on Saturday, November 22, 2025, at Ascension Via Chirsti St. Frances in Wichita, Kansas. He was born on August 16, 1975 in Aguascalientes, Mexico, the son of Ramon Paredes Martinez and Francisca Lopez Juarez. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2023, moving from Aguascalientes, Mexico. He worked Nissan Car...

Warren Kuttler

Warren Kuttler

Nov 21, 2025

Warren M. Kuttler, 74, of Tribune, Kansas, died in Tribune on November 21, 2025. He was born on October 9, 1951, in Boise, Idaho, to Joseph Virgil Kuttler, Jr., and Imogene Ruth (Clark) Kuttler. After many moves during his father’s Air Force tenure, the Kuttler family moved back home to Tribune, Kansas, in 1965, when Warren was in the 8th...

Gwen E. Huck

Gwen E. Huck

Nov 16, 2025

Gwen E. Huck, age 84, passed away on Sunday, November 16, 2025, at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on August 11, 1941, in Coldwater, Kansas, the daughter of Ray L. & Helen Maris Burditt. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1962 moving from Winfield, Kansas, she was a homemaker and the Director of...