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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
June Vsetecka
Sep 16, 2013
June L. Vsetecka, age 86, passed away at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas on Monday, September 16, 2013. She was born on April 30, 1927 in Rush County, Kansas, the daughter of Lyle LaClaire and Emma Esther Waudby Newcomer. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since September of 1958 moving from Great Bend, Kansas, she was a...
Nadine Gies
Sep 13, 2013
Nadine "Deenie" Gies, age 85, passed away at her home in Iola, Kansas on Friday, September 13, 2013. She was born on September 9, 1928 in San Bernardino, California, the daughter of Joseph F. and Mabel McGuire Perry Copp. A longtime resident of Scott City, Kansas before moving to Iola, Kansas, she was a homemaker. She was a member of...
Charles Wessel
Sep 10, 2013
Charles D. Wessel, age 74, passed away at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. He was born on June 20, 1939 in Thomas County, Kansas, the son of Joseph and Mary Mindrup Wessel. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1969 moving from Oakley, Kansas, he was a Mechanic and Shop Foreman at...
Alice Summers
Sep 9, 2013
Alice Ruth Elder Summers was born into the Roy Ellsworth and Helen Elder family on March 28, 1911, on their farm southwest of Leoti, Kansas. She was the first of twelve children - six boys and six girls. The family moved to a farm west of Leoti in 1919. In 1929, she married Henry David Summers, and they were later...
Leroy Garman
Sep 8, 2013
Leroy James Garman passed away September 8, 2013, of pancreatic cancer with his family by his side. Leroy was born to Charles and Maude Garman in Turon, KS on April 22, 1928. Leroy graduated from High School in Hanston, KS. He joined the army and served from 1947-1950, primarily on the island of Guam. When he returned to the states...
Artie Brunson
Sep 2, 2013
Artie O. Brunson, age 102, died Monday, September 2, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on May 8, 1911 in Loco, Oklahoma, the daughter of William Henry & Lillie May Blevins Clarkston. A resident of Garden City since 1930 she had been in partnership with her husband of Brunson Distributing Company having...
Patricia Lewis
Aug 31, 2013
Patricia L. Lewis, age 83, passed away at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas on Saturday, August 31, 2013. She was born on May 21, 1930 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of John J. and Nina Catherine Cates Greenlee. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1936 moving from San Jose, California, she and her husband were the...
Robert Rowley
Aug 30, 2013
Robert G. Rowley, age 88, died Friday, August 30, 2013 at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. He was born on January 13, 1925 in Barton County, Kansas, the son of Glen and Roberta "Bird" Murdy Rowley. A resident of Garden City since 1969 he worked in the oil field as a pumper and he also farmed. He...
Bartolo Rojas
Aug 23, 2013
Bartolo M. Rojas, age 91, died Friday, August 23, 2013 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. He was born August 24, 1921 at Ottine, Texas, the son of Pedro and Susan Martinez Rojas. A resident of Garden City since 1941, he had worked for the City of Garden City Electrical Department, and was a WWII...
Earl Giesick
Aug 20, 2013
Earl Frederick Giesick, age 84, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, August 20, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Earl was born April 1, 1929 at Leoti, Kansas, the son of Samuel S. & Elizabeth Eva Bohl Giesick. He was a lifetime resident of Leoti and a 1947 graduate of Wichita County High School. He retired from the...
Kennith Yeager
Aug 18, 2013
Kennith Allen Yeager, age 89, passed away on Sunday, August 18, 2013 at the Ness County Hospital in Ness City, Kansas. He was born on September 18, 1923 in Conrad, Montana, the son of George Lewis and Mary Edith McCurtain Yeager. A resident of Scott County, Kansas since the Fall of 2000 moving from Mattawa, Washington, he was a rancher,...
Carol Martin
Aug 17, 2013
Lakin, Kansas Carol Marie Martin, age 77, died Saturday, August 17, 2013 at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. She was born on June 25, 1936 in Montezuma, Kansas the daughter of Edgar Royal and Norma Marie Finfrock Hornbaker. Carol was the 1954 Salutorian for the School For the Deaf in Olathe, Kansas. A resident of Lakin since...