Obituaries

Esther Martinez

Esther Martinez

May 5, 2011

Esther Patricia Martinez, age 40, passed away on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on September 25, 1970 in Chihuahua, Mexico, the daughter of Juan and Teresa Salcedo Martinez. A lifetime resident of Garden City, Kansas, she was a Lead Safety Monitor at Tyson, Inc. She was a member of...

E. Sims

E. Sims

May 2, 2011

E. Gail Sims, age 91, passed away on Monday, May 2, 2011 at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. She was born on November 23, 1919 in Hayward, Wisconsin, the daughter of John "Jack" and Helen Gail Hazelton Walker. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1952 moving from Lawrence, Kansas, she was a secretary for USD 457...

Ruth Heckel

Ruth Heckel

May 1, 2011

Ruth Heckel, age 82, passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on February 23, 1929 in Augsburg, Germany, the daughter of Karl Wilhelm and Berta Maria Reggel Kündinger. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1954 moving from Holcomb, Kansas, she worked at Alco for over 30 years...

Harold Wewer

Harold Wewer

May 1, 2011

Harold Eugene Wewer, age 82, passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2011 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Harold was born February 23, 1929 in Leoti, Kansas, the son of Joseph A. & Mary A. Kissinger Wewer. A 1947 graduate of Wichita County High School, Harold served in the United States Army from 1951 until his honorable discharge...

Vicki Silvey

Vicki Silvey

Apr 28, 2011

Vicki J. Silvey, age 65, passed away at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas on Thursday, April 28, 2011. She was born on January 9, 1946 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Gerald E. and Estaline June Tellus Rose. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a homemaker. In 1964 she married Richard Haston in Scott...

Elizabeth Caple

Elizabeth Caple

Apr 25, 2011

Garden City, Kansas Elizabeth Michelle Caple, age 31, died Monday, April 25, 2011 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on April 18, 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada the daughter of Stacey Basta. A resident of Garden City since 1999 moving from Las Vegas, Nevada she was employed with Every Day Kids, Inc. Elizabeth was...

Arthur Jones

Arthur Jones

Apr 25, 2011

Pierceville, Kansas Arthur V. Jones, age 94, died Monday, April 25, 2011 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. He was born January 30, 1917 in Deerfield, Kansas the son of Charles D. and Maude Phillips Jones. He was a farmer and rancher and had been a lifetime Southwest Kansas resident. He was a member of the...

James Burt

James Burt

Apr 23, 2011

James Owen Burt, age 40, died at Marble Canyon, AZ on April 23, 2011. Jim was born September 16, 1970 in Flagstaff, AZ, to Owen Max Burt and Jacqueline Arlene Auten (Lachance). Jim attended Coconino High School, Benson Union High School, and Cochise Community College (graduating in 2001). He lived in Flagstaff, AZ; Sierra Vista, AZ; Grand Canyon South Rim,...

Robert Brown

Robert Brown

Apr 23, 2011

Robert Theodore Brown, age 59, passed away at the Share Memorial Hospital in Alva, Oklahoma on Saturday, April 23, 2011. He was born on October 1, 1951 in Ransom, Kansas, the son of Jessie M. Brown (Jacka). He was a resident of Woodward, Oklahoma since 2000 moving from Scott City, Kansas. He was a truck driver and a welder. Survivors...

Dylan Amy

Dylan Amy

Apr 22, 2011

Dylan, Amy, Chase and Ansley Spencer family of Scott City, KS passed away April 22, 2011 as the result of a plane crash northeast of Topeka, KS in Jefferson County. Richard "Dylan" Spencer, 35, was born July 17, 1975 in Garden City, KS the son of Richard Burgess and Robin Anita (Stine) Spencer. He graduated from Scott City Community High...

Harold Garner

Harold Garner

Apr 18, 2011

Harold Charles Garner, age 76, graduated into the presence of the Lord on April 18, 2011 in Garden City, KS after an extended battle with cancer and COPD. He was born Feb. 17th, 1935 in Trinidad, CO., the youngest of two sons to Jesse Sheppard Garner and Helen (Chesbro) Garner. He attended grade school at Thatcher & High School at...

Joseph York

Joseph York

Apr 15, 2011

Joe York was born April 16, 1913 in a sod house near Burdett and lived 63 of his nearly 98 years in Garden City. He was a loving and caring father, grandfather and community member. Joe and Sarah Boyce married Sept l, 1936 in Jetmore, where he taught school. Joe served as principal in Sitka and Offerle before turning to...

Alvin Frank

Alvin Frank

Apr 12, 2011

Alvin E. Frank, age 87, passed away at his home in Scott City, Kansas on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. He was born on July 19, 1923 in Scott City, Kansas, the son of John and Elizabeth Allen Frank. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was a retired water well driller for Weishaar Drilling. Alvin was a United States...

Diane LaGesse

Diane LaGesse

Apr 8, 2011

Diane LaGesse died Friday, April 8, 2011, at her home in Lawrence, Kansas. Diane was born December 15, 1953 in Scott City Kansas, the daughter of James and Norma Binns. She married John LaGesse May 21, 1972 in Scott City Kansas and later moved to Newton Kansas. They had two daughters, Jenny and Amy. In 2000, Diane and John moved...

Lewis Rose

Lewis Rose

Apr 8, 2011

Lewis C. Rose, age 70, passed away Friday, April 8, 2011 at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. He was born March 1, 1941 in Scott County, Kansas, the son of Fawn William and Dorothy Katherine Strickert Rose. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was a farmer. Memberships include the First Christian Church of Scott...

Ellis Hoover

Ellis Hoover

Apr 5, 2011

Ellis H. Hoover, age 70, passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born August 30, 1940 in Pritchett, Colorado, the son of Leslie and Ardith Metzger Hoover. He moved to Colorado in 1986 then returned to Scott City in 2006. He was a retired guns and ammunition salesman. Memberships...

Heather Lewis-Unruh

Heather Lewis-Unruh

Apr 2, 2011

Heather Renee' Lewis-Unruh, age 36, passed away on Saturday, April 2, 2011 in Olathe, Kansas. She was born on July 29, 1974 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of William B. & DeLona R. McDaniel Lewis. In 1992 she graduated from Scott Community High School before attending Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas where she received a Dual Bachelors...

Rev. Harry Walz

Rev. Harry Walz

Mar 31, 2011

Garden City, Kansas Rev. Harry Cletus Walz, age 91, died Thursday, March 31, 2011 at the Lenoir Woods Nursing Home in Columbia, Missouri. He was born September 16, 1919 on the family farm in Ellis County, Kansas the son of Henry C. and Rose Ester Haneke Walz. In 1948, he received his Masters in Divinity Degree from the Perkins School...

Bill Winters

Bill Winters

Mar 31, 2011

Bill E. Winters, age 63, passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on September 7, 1947 in Blackwell, Oklahoma, the son of James Carroll and Lois Virginia Ogg Winters. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1975 moving from Ness County, Kansas, he was a manager for Grain...

Mildred Farr

Mildred Farr

Mar 29, 2011

Mildred Rosetta Farr, age 95, died Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on September 13, 1915 in Gove County, Kansas, the daughter of David Andres and Elizabeth Ellen Walker Russell. Mildred was a homemaker and had been a resident of Garden City since 1998. She was a member of...