Obituaries

Nanon Clare

Nanon Clare

Oct 24, 2013

Nanon Clare, former Western Kansas resident, age 80, passed away on Thursday, October 24, 2013 at Terrace Grove Assisted Living in Logan, Utah. Nanon was born and raised on a farm 10 miles south of Sublette, KS on June 16, 1933 to Raymond L. and Mildred l. Black Bird. She had three brothers: Randall, Julian Lee (who died at the...

Rosa Peters

Rosa Peters

Oct 22, 2013

Rosa Rovenna Peters, age 89, died Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on March 5, 1924 in Leoti, Kansas the daughter of Allie Kellogg and Ava Bell Henry Childs. A resident of Garden City since 1945, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the Seventh Day...

Vivian Sharpe

Vivian Sharpe

Oct 21, 2013

M. Vivian Sharpe, age 80, passed away on Monday October 21, 2013 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on November 12, 1932 in Scott County, Kansas, the daughter of Clive G. and Nellie M. Scott Sharpe. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, she was a special sister. She was a member of...

Edna Burroughs

Edna Burroughs

Oct 21, 2013

Edna Marie Burroughs, age 82, died Monday, October 21, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on January 17, 1931 in Billings, Oklahoma the daughter of Franklin F.A. and Mabel E. Major Blocker. Edna was a homemaker and had been a resident of Garden City since 1959. She was a member of the...

Doris Campbell

Doris Campbell

Oct 19, 2013

Doris Mae Campbell, age 95, formerly of Garden City, passed away on October 19, 2013 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Doris was born October 25, 1917 in Pueblo, Colorado, daughter of Allen and Bertha Brinley. Doris married Homer D. Campbell on June 18, 1939, graduated from Garden City High School and went on to graduate from Garden City Community College in...

Helen Pelnar

Helen Pelnar

Oct 15, 2013

Helen I. Pelnar, age 95, died Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. She was born June 17, 1918 in Marienthal, Kansas the daughter of Michael N. and Angelina M. Biel Paul. A resident of Holcomb since 1938 she was a homemaker. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church and was a...

Robert Armstrong

Robert Armstrong

Oct 14, 2013

Lt. Col. (Retired U.S. Air Force Reserves) Robert (Bob) Armstrong, 92, of Topeka and formerly of Hutchinson, KS, passed away in Topeka on October 14, 2013. Bob was born in Salina, KS on April 3, 1921 the son of Roy D. and Loretta (Harrington) Armstrong of Scott City, KS. He was raised in Scott City and graduated from Scott Community...

Crystal Travers

Crystal Travers

Oct 12, 2013

Crystal Maxine Travers, age 80, died Saturday, October 12, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on January 24, 1933 in Garden City, Kansas the daughter of Don R. and Allie Christmas Kells Carroll. A resident of Garden City since 1958 she was a homemaker, a school bus driver for USD 457, a...

Lois Garner

Lois Garner

Oct 7, 2013

Lois May Garner, age 77, went home to be with the Lord October 7, 2013 in Garden City, Kansas. She was a resident of Garden City for 48 years. She was born on May 9, 1936 in Pueblo, Colorado to Charles and Georgia Stokes. She was preceded in death by her husband (Harold Garner), her mother (Georgia Stokes), her father...

Cecelia Weir-Weisenberger

Cecelia Weir-Weisenberger

Oct 7, 2013

Cecelia P. Weir-Weisenberger, age 72, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013 at Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on March 27, 1941 in Armagh, Northern Ireland, the daughter of Robert James & Mary Theresa Hagan Weir. She grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland and after WWII moved to Edinburgh, Scotland where she finished her schooling....

Shirley Rein

Shirley Rein

Oct 7, 2013

Shirley Jean Rein, age 70, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013 at Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on May 25, 1943 in Tacoma, Washington, the daughter of George T. and Verna May Adam Hasty. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1974 moving from Sugar City, Colorado, she was a retired teacher for USD...

Clifford Dean

Clifford Dean

Oct 7, 2013

Clifford Lynn Dean, age 61, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2013 in Scott County, Kansas. He was born on June 18, 1952 in Scott City, Kansas, the son of Eli Mark and Sue Daily Dean. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Clifford was a cattle truck driver. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Scott City,...

Frances Luke

Frances Luke

Oct 6, 2013

Frances V. (Kostner) Luke, age 95, passed away on Sunday, October 6, 2013 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born September 26, 1918 at El Dorado, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Alice Ryan Mulnix. She was a longtime resident of Scott City, Kansas and she was a homemaker. Frances was a member of...

Hilton Tokoi

Hilton Tokoi

Oct 3, 2013

Leoti, Kansas Hilton Keith Tokoi, age 75, passed away on Thursday, October 3, 2013 in Leoti, Kansas. Hilton, the son of Iver & Inez Luckcuck Tokoi, was born November 18, 1937 in rural Ness County, Kansas. After moving from Utica, KS to Leoti in 1976, he was a farmer, owner, and operator of TFT Hay Services. Hilton was a member...

Ronald Thon

Ronald Thon

Sep 30, 2013

Ronald Irvin Thon, age 89, passed away on Monday, September 30, 2013 at Greeley County Health Center in Tribune, Kansas. Ron was born August 22, 1924 in Tribune, Kansas, the son of Charles Hugo & Mary Elizabeth Swilley Thon. He was a lifetime resident of Greeley County and in 1963 he began operation of Ron's Oil Company, semi-retiring in 1992....

Edward Tomchak

Edward Tomchak

Sep 27, 2013

Edward Walter Tomchak, age 85, passed away on Friday, September 28, 2013 at the Woodhaven Nursing Home in Ellinwood, Kansas. He was born on August 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of John S. and Tekla Tomchak. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1963 moving from Amarillo, Texas, he was a salesman for Amarillo Hardware of Amarillo, Texas....

Zella Unruh

Zella Unruh

Sep 19, 2013

Zella Fay Unruh, age 91, passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at the Bethel Home in Montezuma, Kansas. She was born on June 23, 1922 in Greensburg, Kansas, the daughter of Lincoln and Leah Peaster Dirks. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1948 moving from Greensburg, Kansas, she was the owner and operator of The Bake Shop and...

Charles Harris

Charles Harris

Sep 19, 2013

Tribune, Kansas Charles William Harris, age 84, passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2013 at Greeley County Health Center Long Term Care in Tribune, Kansas. Charles was born September 30, 1928 at Wellington, Kansas, the son of Robert William (R.W.) & Goldia M. Zimmerman Harris, joining his older sister Wilma in the family. In 1930 the family left Sumner County...

Audrey Hunter

Audrey Hunter

Sep 17, 2013

Tribune, Kansas Audrey Leone Hunter, age 91, passed away on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at Greeley County Health Center in Tribune, Kansas. Audrey was born June 6, 1922 in Tribune, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph Porter & Oma Douglas Smith. A lifetime resident of Tribune, Kansas, she was a ranch wife and partner in Hunter Livestock Company and a former...

Melvin Giesick

Melvin Giesick

Sep 16, 2013

Melvin Eugene Giesick, age 79, passed away on Monday, September 16, 2013 at Castle Rock Adventist Hospital in Castle Rock, Colorado. Mel was born October 6, 1933 at Leoti, Kansas, the son of Samuel & Eva Bohl Giesick. He had recently moved to Castle Rock with their primary residence still in Leoti , Kansas since 1984 moving from Burlington, Iowa....