Obituaries

Sheris Sorenson

Sheris Sorenson

Nov 17, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Sheris A. "Sherry" Sorenson, age 83, died Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born May 24, 1926 in Grinell, Kansas the daughter of Albert B. and Evelyn M. Teeter Chapman. A resident of Garden City since 1977 moving from Palmdale, California, she had been a telephone operator. She...

Ellen Drake

Ellen Drake

Nov 16, 2009

Ellen Drake, age 74, passed away on Monday, November 16, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on June 2, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Ansel and Dorothy H. Lantz Drake. In 1941, she moved to Scott City with her family where she attended school and graduated from SCHS in 1953....

Shannon Williams

Shannon Williams

Nov 15, 2009

Shannon Lynn Williams, age 28, passed away on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at Via Christi- St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Shannon was born December 14, 1980 at Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Harold Lee & Anne Marie Russell Williams. She was a student and had been a Wichita resident since 1997 moving from Tribune, Kansas. She was a...

Peter Dolan

Peter Dolan

Nov 14, 2009

Peter Dye Dolan, age 67, passed away on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at his home in Leoti, Kansas. Pete was born July 27, 1942 at Rutland, Vermont, the son of John J. & Caroline Dye Dolan. He was a 1965 graduate of Bryant College in Providence, Rhode Island, a furniture store employee and a short order cook and had been...

Eduardo Trevizo

Eduardo Trevizo

Nov 13, 2009

Eduardo Garcia Trevizo, age 65, passed away on Friday, November 13, 2009 at his home in Leoti, Kansas. He was born October 13, 1944 in Chihuahua, Mexico, the son of Jose & Celia Garcia Marquez Trevizo Cerros. He was a farmer and had been a Wichita County resident since 1974. He was a member of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic...

Tonja Wheeler

Tonja Wheeler

Nov 11, 2009

Tonja Lynn Wheeler, age 50, passed away at the Via Christi Regional Medical Center St. Francis in Wichita, Kansas on Wednesday, November 11, 2009. She was born on August 2, 1959 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of Hampton "Hank" and Lynda Roush Burnett. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas she was employed as a waitress at the Peking...

Domingo Alvarado-Contreras

Domingo Alvarado-Contreras

Nov 10, 2009

Domingo Alvarado-Contreras, age 33, passed away on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in rural Greeley County, Kansas. Domingo was born October 28, 1976 in Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, the son of Ramon & Gloria Contreras Alvarado. He was a dairyman and had been a Leoti resident since 2007. Survivors include- Wife- Beatriz Lopez- Leoti, Kansas...

Rosalie Olson

Rosalie Olson

Nov 7, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Rosalie Marie Olson, age 62, died Saturday, November 7, 2009, at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born January 6, 1947 in Shaboon River, British Honduras the daughter of Fermine and Inez Awuan Carranza. A resident of Garden City since 1980 moving from Sacramento, California, she was a cosmetologist. She was a member...

Allen Unruh

Allen Unruh

Nov 7, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Allen Unruh, age 80, died Saturday, November 7, 2009 at his home in Garden City, Kansas. He was born December 18, 1928 in Montezuma, Kansas the son of William & Augusta Unruh. A resident of Garden City since 1951 moving from Ingalls, Kansas he had been an automotive service manager for over 20 years at Schreiber Motors,...

Lewis Sassaman

Lewis Sassaman

Nov 6, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Lewis H. "Sass" Sassaman, age 84, died Friday, November 6, 2009 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born January 27, 1925 in Borough of New Berlin, Pennsylvania the son of Carl E. and Mary Nagle Sassaman. While serving at the Naval Air Station in Hutchinson, Kansas during WWII, he met Doris Jean...

Lucille Hallmark

Lucille Hallmark

Nov 5, 2009

Garden City, Kansas S. Lucille Hallmark, age 97, died Thursday, November 5, 2009, at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born November 3, 1912 in McCune, Kansas the daughter of Arch M. and Ethel Florence Clark Henderson. A resident of Garden City since 1928 moving from Cherokee County, Kansas, she had been a sales...

Steven Minor

Steven Minor

Nov 4, 2009

Steven Duane Minor, age 60, passed away on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at McAllen Heart Hospital in McAllen, Texas. He was born May 5, 1949 in Leoti, Kansas the son of Duane & Virginia Shumard Minor. Following graduation in 1967 from Wichita County High School in Leoti, Kansas, Steven was inducted into the United States Army and served during the...

Margaret Cauthon

Margaret Cauthon

Nov 3, 2009

Margaret E. Cauthon, age 83, passed away on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on July 4, 1926 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of Roy & Nellie Magill Robb, A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the United Methodist Church...

Mary Beeson

Mary Beeson

Oct 31, 2009

Mary Ann Beeson, age 71, passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at Parklane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. Mary Ann was born February 8, 1938 in Scott City, the daughter of Leo C. & Anna B. Frank Beeson. She was a 1960 graduate of Scott Community High School, a homemaker and a lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas....

Robert Simon

Robert Simon

Oct 30, 2009

Robert (Bob)(RL) Leon Simon, age 77, passed away on Friday, October 30, 2009 at the Wichita County LTCU in Leoti, Kansas. He was born November 30, 1931 at Nashville, Kansas, the son of Edwin & Marie Ridder Simon. The middle child of this family, with older brother Gerald and younger sister Gladys (Vernard), in his grade school years, he lived...

Joe Delgado

Joe Delgado

Oct 28, 2009

Joe G. Delgado, age 90, died Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on January 28, 1919 in McPherson, Kansas the son of Manuel G. and Maria Rodriquez Delgado. A resident of Garden City for most of his life moving from McPherson, he was a Maintenance Technician for the State...

Donald Walker

Donald Walker

Oct 27, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Donald Lynn Walker, age 70, died Tuesday, October 27, 2009, at his home in Garden City, Kansas. He was born August 12, 1939 in Larned, Kansas the son of John D. and L. Kathleen Sooby Walker. A resident of Garden City since 1944 moving from Larned, Kansas, he was a self employed truck driver and had delivered...

Laura Legg

Laura Legg

Oct 26, 2009

Laura Alyce Legg, age 90, passed away on Monday, October 26, 2009 at the Wichita County Long Term Care Center in Leoti, Kansas. She was born on March 31, 1919 in Republic County, Kansas, the daughter of Oda Edgar and Flora Ellen Stackhouse Hogue. A resident of Leoti, Kansas since 1999 moving from Las Cruces, New Mexico, she was homemaker....

Scott Janssen

Scott Janssen

Oct 24, 2009

Scott Janssen, 42 died Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Kansas City Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri. Scott spent his youth in Scott City, Kansas, riding horses and helping on the family farm. He graduated from Scott Community High School, and was a member of the National Champion livestock judging team at Colby Community College before moving to Kansas State...

Robert Wiles

Robert Wiles

Oct 21, 2009

Robert E. (Bob) Wiles, 61, died Wednesday, October 21, 2009 in an accident in Wichita County, Kansas. Bob was born April 3, 1948, in Scott City, Kansas to Earl & Evelyn Shumard Wiles. He grew up on the family farm in Northeast Wichita County. He graduated from Wichita County High School in 1966. He then earned a B.S. degree in...