Obituaries

Raymond Keith Harper

Raymond Keith Harper

Jul 29, 2024

Raymond Harper, age 67, passed away on Monday, July 29, 2024, at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. He was born on January 5, 1957, in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas to Kenneth & Juanita Heaton Harper. He was a member of the community for the past 20 years. Ray was a member of St. Joseph Church in Tribune, Kansas, Knights...

Valerie L. Stewart

Valerie L. Stewart

Jul 27, 2024

Valerie Stewart, age 82, passed away on Saturday, July 27, 2024, at her home in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on November 12, 1941, in Yardell, Arkansas, the daughter of Doy & Nellie Ruth Dolsby Harp. Valerie was a lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, and was a retired school bus driver for USD 466 for 46 years. 

She was...

Betty Jo Yotter

Betty Jo Yotter

Jul 26, 2024

Betty Jo Yotter, age 94, passed away on Friday, July 26, 2024, at the Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. She was born on November 11, 1929, in Mount Vernon, Kansas to Loren & Hazel Wilson Armstrong. Her life brought her from Kansas to California and back to Kansas. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of...

Branda R. Smith

Branda R. Smith

Jul 22, 2024

Branda R. Smith, age 38, passed away on Monday, July 22, 2024, at the St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado. She was born on September 27, 1985, in Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Mike & Rhonda Weehunt Beckner. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2006, she was a homemaker.

Branda was a member of the Prairie View Church of the...

Charles Edward Norton

Charles Edward Norton

Jul 19, 2024

Charles “Charlie” Edward Norton, age 81, passed away on Friday, July 19, 2024, at his home in Leoti, Kansas. He was born to Walter Wade and Clara Francis Moore Norton on November 25, 1942, in Scott City, Kansas, and was a lifelong resident of Leoti. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1964, Charlie served as an armorer in the 2/21st...

Cloy W. Logan

Cloy W. Logan

Jul 11, 2024

Cloy Wallace Logan, age 87 passed away on Thursday, July 11, 2024, at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on October 4, 1936, in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Clyde & Adlee Wallace Logan. A resident of the Pence Community in Scott County, Kansas for over sixty years, he was a lifelong farmer...

Norma Jean Heiney

Norma Jean Heiney

Jul 4, 2024

Norma Jean Heiney, age 89, passed away on Thursday, July 4, 2024, at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on February 22, 1935, in Garnett, Kansas, the daughter of Theodore and Benita Brown Williamson. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2000 moving from Ford, Kansas, she was a homemaker.

In 1953, she married Carl...

Luella "Elaine" McCaslin

Luella "Elaine" McCaslin

Jun 23, 2024

Luella ‘Elaine’ McCaslin, age 94, passed away on Sunday, June 23, 2024, at the Greeley County long-term care facility in Tribune, Kansas. 

Elaine was born on October 12, 1929, in Hays, Kansas to Joseph Hayes and Luella Elsie Petersilie McDonald. She was the oldest of 4 sisters

She grew up in Ness County, KS moving to Tribune, KS during her high school...

Arlyce Steele

Arlyce Steele

Jun 9, 2024

Tribune

Arlyce J. Steele, age 87, passed away on Sunday, June 9, 2024, at the Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. She was born on July 6, 1936, to Lewis Merlin & Doris Williams in Imperial, Nebraska. When she was six, the family moved to Wilroads Gardens, Kansas.

She was a member of the Tribune community since 1961, moving from Garden...

Erlinda G. Rayas

Erlinda G. Rayas

Jun 8, 2024

Tribune

Erlinda G. Rayas, age 81, passed away on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at the Greeley County Long Term Care in Tribune, Kansas. She was born on October 12, 1942, to Eulalio and Faustina Ortiz Gutieriez in Bass Drop, Texas. From there, she moved to Brownsville, Texas, to Ulysses, KS, back to Brownfield, and finally to Tribune, Kansas where she lived...

Charles Blau

Charles Blau

Jun 2, 2024

Charles Leslie Blau, age 91 passed away on Sunday, June 2nd, 2024, at the Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, KS. Some knew him as Charles or Chuck, but he was known as Charlie to his beloved community. 

Charlie was born October 5th, 1932, at the home of his Uncle Don and Aunt Annie in Russell Springs, KS; the last son...

Linda Ann Dinning

Linda Ann Dinning

Jun 2, 2024

Linda A. Dinning, age 74, passed away on Sunday, June 2, 2024, at the Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado.  She was born on October 11, 1949, in Dodge City, Kansas, the daughter of Howard & Joan Harger Koehn.  A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she worked at Park Lane Nursing Home for 16 years in Scott City, Kansas....

Marjorie Ann Kuhn

Marjorie Ann Kuhn

May 27, 2024

Marjorie Ann (Baker) Kuhn passed away on May 27th, 2024 in Poteau, OK. 

Marjorie was born on November 29th, 1938, in Scott City, KS to Franklin Howard & Ester Julia (Armentrout) Baker. 

Marjorie was a loving mother of 3, son Brian Foos of Poteau, OK, daughter DeeAnn Ritucci of Denver, CO, son Kevin Foos and wife Toni of Poteau, OK. She was...

Bart E. Hunt

Bart E. Hunt

May 25, 2024

Bart E. Hunt, age 58, passed away on Saturday, May 25, 2024, at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas.  He was born on October 19, 1965, in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Bertys Eugene and Pearl Jeanette Sadler Hunt.  A lifetime resident of Wichita County, Kansas, he was a farmer and rancher in both Wichita County and...

Alice Sanchez

Alice Sanchez

May 18, 2024

Alice Sanchez, age 84, passed away on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at her home in Kansas City, Kansas.

She was born in Post, Texas to Jose and Rafaela (Hernandez) Camargo on July 5, 1939. She was a member of the Leoti Community for a decade of her life with other years spent in Goodland, Topeka, Gardner, and Kansas City, Kansas.

Alice was...

Steve Scott Schwindt

Steve Scott Schwindt

May 11, 2024

Steven Scott Schwindt, age 69, passed away on Saturday, May 11th, 2024, at his home in Leoti, Kansas.

He was born on May 23rd, 1954, to LeRoy & Ruby Ford Schwindt. He grew up in the Leoti Community.

Steve was a wonderful person. If you were his friend, you knew it. He loved his children, April and Alicia. He loved his family; blood...

Drew Lynn Hoeme

Drew Lynn Hoeme

Apr 28, 2024

Drew Lynn Hoeme was born January 29, 1949, in Scott City, Kansas, to Andrew V. and Betty E. (Triffet) Hoeme. He died on April 28, 2024, peacefully at his home in Olathe, Kansas listening to the Beach Boys with family by his side.

He married Diane Jeanne Engleman on July 11, 1969, in Colby, Kansas. 

He is survived by his wife; son, Kevin...

Kathleen A. Moore

Kathleen A. Moore

Apr 18, 2024

Kathleen A (Rudolph) Moore, age 71, passed away on April 18, 2024 in Scott City, Kansas. She was born November 28, 1952, to Lowell L and Patricia L (Hollingsworth) Rudolph.



Kathleen spent her early life on the family farm northwest of Scott City on Ladder Creek.  She attended District 5 Rudolph School, finishing her primary schooling at Beaver Flats School. Kathleen...

Kathleen Mae Byerly

Kathleen Mae Byerly

Apr 15, 2024

We had to say goodbye to a precious lady. Kathleen Mae Byerly, age 87, passed away on Monday, April 15, 2024, at the McPherson Hospital in McPherson, Kansas. 

She was born on October 14, 1936, in Towner, Colorado to Russell and Jania McWilliams Hofmeister. On June 17, 1956, she married William (Bill) Byerly in Towner, Colorado. He survives.

Kathy is survived by...

Gary D. Kitch

Gary D. Kitch

Mar 19, 2024

Gary D. Kitch, age 86, passed away on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the Rice County Hospital in Lyons, Kansas.  He was born on July 26, 1937, in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Charles & Merle Hull Kitch.  A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas until 2022 moving to Sterling, Kansas, he was the owner and operator of Kitch...