Obituaries

Bill Riggs

Bill Riggs

Mar 29, 2011

Bill L. Riggs, age 78, passed away on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on October 28, 1932 in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, the son of Lee & Autha Mae Williams Riggs. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1951 moving from Mulberry, Arkansas, he was a farmer and a rancher. He attended the...

Lonnie Snow

Lonnie Snow

Mar 27, 2011

Lonnie O. Snow, age 52, passed away on Sunday, March 27, 2011 at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. He was born on March 4, 1959 in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Jerry O. and Irene P. Wedel Snow. After graduation from Scott Community High School, he attended college in Salina for two years before moving...

Edith Yoakum

Edith Yoakum

Mar 26, 2011

Edith L. Yoakum, 89, of Scott City died Saturday, March 26, 2011. Edith has been a resident of the community since 1947. She was born April 22, 1921 in Kidder, MO to John and Mertie (Eckelberry) Bryan. Edith graduated Hamilton High School, Hamilton, MO in 1939 and Pratt-Guard Business College, St. Joseph, MO in 1940. She married Harold M. Yoakum...

Nancy Zipperer

Nancy Zipperer

Mar 25, 2011

Nancy Jo Zipperer, age 63, passed away on Friday, March 25, 2011 at her home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on February 12, 1948 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of Clarence & Mabel Rictor Campbell. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a homemaker. Memberships Include the Community Christian Church of Scott City, Kansas. Other...

Marguerite Zellner

Marguerite Zellner

Mar 23, 2011

Marguerite Mary Zellner, age 89, passed away on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at the Wichita County Long Term Care Center in Leoti, Kansas. Marguerite was born October 17, 1921 at Marienthal, Kansas, the daughter of Anthony & Cecilia Baier Baker. A lifetime resident of the Marienthal, Kansas area, she was a farm wife and homemaker. Marguerite was a member of...

Ruby Rodenbeek

Ruby Rodenbeek

Mar 19, 2011

Ruby Claire Rodenbeek, age 99, passed away on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at her home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on September 21, 1911 in Kipp, Kansas, the daughter of James Hess and Sarah Evelina Helsel Force. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a Teacher and homemaker. Ruby was a one of a kind lady...

Anna Stewart

Anna Stewart

Mar 16, 2011

Scott City, Kansas Anna Gassert Eikelberger Stewart, age 92, died Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at her home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on January 7, 1919 in Washington, Kansas the daughter of Roy and Anna Stolzer Gassert. Anna was a homemaker and had been a resident of Scott City since 1956. She was a member of United Methodist...

Mary Ryan

Mary Ryan

Mar 15, 2011

Scott City, Kansas Mary Jane Ryan, age 63, died Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on October 31, 1947 in Finney County, Kansas the daughter of Paul and Dora Scoville Ryan. Mary was a lifetime resident of Scott City and had been a secretary for Beef Belt Feeders of Scott...

Blanche Houston

Blanche Houston

Mar 15, 2011

Tribune, Kansas Blanche Viola Jeffrey Houston, age 99, fell asleep on March 15, 2011 at the Greeley County Long Term Care Center in Tribune, Kansas. Blanche was born June 11, 1911 in the Riverside community of Ness County, Kansas, the daughter of Lewis Alpheas Don & Nettie Mae Cowles Jeffrey. A resident of Greeley County, Kansas since 1947 moving from...

Ellen Leverett

Ellen Leverett

Mar 9, 2011

Ellen A. Leverett, age 52, passed away on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Center At Via Christi St Francis Campus in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on February 7, 1959 in Mott, North Dakota, the daughter of Billy Lewis and Edith Darlyne Eberhardt Brown. A resident of Modoc, Kansas since 1970 moving from Garden City, Kansas,...

Margaret Kirk

Margaret Kirk

Mar 2, 2011

Margaret Laverne Kirk, age 88, passed away on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Margaret was born February 28, 1923 in Leoti, Kansas the daughter of Curtis D'Owen & Beatrice Ruth Page Lane. Margaret was a lifetime resident of Leoti, a former clerk at Western Hardware in Leoti and a homemaker. Margaret was a...

T. Dunagan

T. Dunagan

Mar 2, 2011

T. Willard "Slim" Dunagan, age 96, passed away on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on January 18, 1915 in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, the son of Thomas Lowery and Mary E. Mallory Dunagan. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2010 moving from Oklahoma, he was a retired owner...

Raymond Koch

Raymond Koch

Mar 2, 2011

Raymond Eugene Koch, age 97, passed away on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born December 9, 1913, the second son of Jacob and Elizabeth Haefele Koch, on the family farm near Merna, Nebraska. His grandparents on his father's side had immigrated from Germany in 1854. He attended grade school...

Lillian Simons

Lillian Simons

Mar 1, 2011

Lillian N. Simons, age 70, passed away on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. Lillian was born November 2, 1940 at Marienthal, Kansas, the daughter of Reuben A. & Hazel L. Ballard Boulware. A lifetime resident of the Wichita County area, she was a farm wife and homemaker. Lillian was a member of the...

Joyce Boulware

Joyce Boulware

Feb 26, 2011

Joyce Boulware, age 83, passed away on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on January 12, 1928 in Colby, Kansas, the daughter of Walter Lesley and Lureta Louetta Cayton Johnson. A resident of Modoc, Kansas since 1964 moving from Colby, Kansas, she was a homemaker. She was a member of...

Margaret Snow

Margaret Snow

Feb 26, 2011

Margaret E. Snow, age 96, passed away on Saturday, February 26, 2011 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on March 5, 1914 in Iantha, Missouri, the daughter of Jerry B. and Mary Eliza McMillian Ambler. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1950 moving from Odessa, Missouri, she was a homemaker. She was...

Waneta Puckett

Waneta Puckett

Feb 23, 2011

Garden City, Kansas Waneta H. Puckett, age 98, died Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on May 8, 1912 at Ingalls, Kansas the daughter of Bert & Minnie Withers Cessna. A lifetime area resident, Waneta assisted in the daily operations at the Buffalo Mills Supply Company for many...

Darlene Graff

Darlene Graff

Feb 20, 2011

Marienthal Darlene Marie Graff, 73, died Sunday, February 20, 2011, at Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born August 23, 1937, in Garden City, Kansas, to John and Rachel (Marcotte) Strasser. She was a secretary for the Scott Coop Association at Marienthal for 22 years and a homemaker. She belonged to the St. Mary's Catholic Church Altar...

Duane Roemer

Duane Roemer

Feb 16, 2011

Duane A. "Pete" Roemer, age 87, passed away on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on February 24, 1923 in Gove County, Kansas, the son of George & Mabel Lilia Roemer. A lifetime resident of Healy, Kansas, he was a farmer & rancher. His memberships include the Healy Methodist...

Mary Marcy

Mary Marcy

Feb 15, 2011

Mary Marcy, age 97, passed away on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at the Wichita County Long Term Care Center in Leoti, Kansas. Mary was born June 20, 1913 at Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, the daughter of John Henry & Eva Elizebeth Kraft Stricker. Mary was a homemaker and had been a Leoti, Kansas resident since 1944. A 1931 graduate of Ransom...