Mildred Van Pelt
Jan 15, 2014
Mildred E. Van Pelt, age 90, passed away on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on July 17, 1923 in Atwood, Kansas, the daughter of Edward Lee and Mae Cecil Benson Lemen. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1950 moving from Dighton, Kansas, she was a homemaker. She was...
David LeClair
Jan 12, 2014
David Ross LeClair, age 67, died Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Via Christi St. Francis Campus in Wichita, Kansas. He was born on November 13, 1946 in Breckenridge, Minnesota the son of Lester and Mazie Swartz LeClair. A resident of Garden City since 1974 he had been a door craftsman for Cash & Carry Lumber of Garden City for...
Jerry Doornbos
Jan 7, 2014
Dr. Jerry A. Doornbos, age 75, passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on August 31, 1938 in El Dorado, Kansas, the son of H. Clair and Mildred Wilson Doornbos. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was Veterinarian, Farmer and Stockman. Jerry graduated from Kansas State University with...
Marion Young
Jan 7, 2014
Marion Joe Young, age 81, passed away on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. Mr. Young was born November 10, 1932 at Fellsburg, Kansas, the son of Marion Lyle & Ada Lavina Derley Young. A resident of Greeley County since 1946, he was a farmer. Mr. Young was a member of the United Methodist...
Michael Kitch
Jan 4, 2014
Michael D. Kitch, age 63, passed away on Saturday, January 4, 2014 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on June 21, 1950 in North Platte, Nebraska, the son of Harold E. "Gene" and Darline Dirks Kitch. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was a restaurant owner and operator. He was a member...
Raymond Fox
Jan 4, 2014
Raymond Lewis Fox, age 78, died Saturday, January 4, 2014 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born January 5, 1935 in Salina, Kansas the son of Ferris Myron Lewis and Mary Naomi Hammontree Fox. A resident of Garden City since 1972, he had been a high school educator, counselor and coach; an independent contractor; and served...
Hilda Gruver
Dec 30, 2013
Hilda O. Gruver, age 98, passed away on Monday, December 30, 2013 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on September 6, 1915 in Kingswood, Kentucky, the daughter of Robert Lee and Sallie Betti Skaggs Lockard. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since May of 1970 moving from Kingswood, Kentucky, she was a homemaker....
Ervin Schneider
Dec 25, 2013
Tribune Ervin Schneider, age 91, passed away on Wednesday, December 25, 2013 at The Village On Lee Retirement Center in Lawton, Oklahoma. He was born on April 29, 1922 in Stafford, Kansas, the son of Edward Henry and Laura Fritzemeier Schneider. In 1952 he moved to Tribune, Kansas from Stafford, Kansas and was a Farmer, Stockman and Businessman. He was...
John Rodriguez
Dec 24, 2013
John C. Rodriguez, age 60, passed away on Tuesday, December 24, 2013 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on January 26, 1953 in Amarillo, Texas, the son of Jose R. and Antonia Cruz Rodriguez. A resident of Leoti, Kansas since 1997 moving from Dimmitt, Texas, he was a truck driver for Seaboard Farms of...
Harold Smith
Dec 19, 2013
Ness City, Kansas Harold Lee Smith, age 84, passed away on Thursday, December 19, 2013 at Cedar Ridge Nursing Home in Ness City, Kansas. Mr. Smith was born April 24, 1929 in Albion, Indiana, the son of Thomas & Gertrude Compton Smith. Employed in the oilfield industry, he had been a Ness City resident since 1969 moving from Kingman, Kansas....
Esther Rhoe
Dec 17, 2013
Esther Lois Rhoe, age 98, died Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born May 7, 1915 in Fairview, Kansas the daughter of William T. and Rosabell Farley Herrell. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1950, she had been a waitress at Walker's Bar for many years. Survivors include: One...
Neva Duncan
Dec 11, 2013
Neva Fern Duncan, age 91, passed away on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care in Leoti, Kansas. Neva was born April 27, 1922 at the family homestead in Wichita County, Kansas, the daughter of Roy E. & Helen E. Graham Elder. A lifetime resident of Wichita County, Kansas, she was a secretary for several...
Leonard Mullen
Dec 8, 2013
Leonard L. Mullen, age 84, passed away on Sunday, December 8, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Leonard was born December 25, 1928 at the family homestead in Cheyenne County, Colorado, the son of Phillip M & Lottie Kellogg Mullen. A resident of Leoti since 1956 moving from the Kit Carson County, Colorado area, he was a...
Barbara McKenna
Dec 5, 2013
Barbara J. McKenna, age 75, died Thursday, December 5, 2013 at the Homestead Assisted Living Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born March 30, 1938 in Herington, Kansas the daughter of Tom & Winona Strohmeier Holzmeister. A resident of Garden City since 1973, she was a paraprofessional for USD 457 for many years and retired as a childcare provider....
Phyllis Corrigan
Dec 4, 2013
Phyllis L. Corrigan, 85, died Wednesday, December 4, 2013, at the Centre Avenue Health & Rehab Facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. She was born September 4, 1928, in Garden City the daughter of Amel and Grace (Marmon) Landgraf. A resident of Garden City her entire life, she was a homemaker. Phyllis was a member of the First United Methodist Church...
Evelyn Stegman
Nov 30, 2013
Marienthal, Kansas Evelyn Rose "Evie" Stegman, age 80, passed away on Saturday, November 30, 2013 at Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. Evie was born October 27, 1933 on the family homestead one and a half miles east and north of Marienthal, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph Mathias & Veronica Elizabeth Heile Berning. Father Cyprian later baptized her in...
Elizabeth Friesen
Nov 29, 2013
Elizabeth K. Friesen, age 94 died Friday, November 29, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born July 6, 1919 in Meade, Kansas the daughter of Henry H. and Katherine Friesen. A resident of Garden City since 1985, she had been a first grade school teacher in Ulysses, Kansas. She was a member of...
Leon Nicholson
Nov 23, 2013
Walter "Leon" Nicholson, age 71, passed away at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas on Saturday, November 23, 2013. He was born on March 31, 1942 in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Walter & Montez Barnes Nicholson. A lifetime resident of Garden City, Kansas, Leon was a farmer until 1984, worked for Western State Bank from 1983 until...
Melvin Kirk
Nov 22, 2013
Melvin L. "Corkey" Kirk, age 74, passed away on Friday, November 22, 2013 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on August 11, 1939 in Guymon, Oklahoma, the son of Roy Roscoe and Marguerite Lillian Fankhouser Kirk. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 2003 moving from Grand Prairie, Texas, he was a US Navy Veteran and...
Matthew Bender
Nov 21, 2013
Matthew Merle Bender, age 27, passed away on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at Wichita, Kansas. Matthew was born November 6, 1986 in Tribune, Kansas the son of Kenneth L & Kerry Arnold Bender. He was a 2005 graduate of Greeley County High School and in 2009 he graduated from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agriculture....