Obituaries

Mary Smith

Mary Smith

Mar 22, 2013

Mary Jeanette Smith age 89, passed away on Friday, March 22, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Jeanette was born June 17, 1923 at Pretty Prairie, Kansas the daughter of Alonzo Edmund & Jeanette Ora Del Miller Lewis. A resident of Leoti, Kansas since 1930, she was a homemaker and retired co-owner of Smith Oil Company. Jeanette...

Emaline Scott

Emaline Scott

Mar 19, 2013

Myra Emaline Scott, age 92, died Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born December 8, 1920 in Syracuse, Kansas the daughter of Levi W. and Loise O. Philpot McMasters. A resident of Garden City since 1943, she was a homemaker. On August 28, 1938, she married Robert E. Scott...

Marlene Riley

Marlene Riley

Mar 17, 2013

Leoti, Kansas Marlene Marie Riley, age 81, passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Marlene was born on the Wilson family homestead north of Marienthal, Kansas on October 11, 1931, the second of ten children to Hallie Everett & Clara Belle (Smith) Wilson. She was a 1949 graduate of Wichita County High...

Carolyn Vester

Carolyn Vester

Mar 15, 2013

Carolyn K. Vester, age 72, died on Friday, March 15, 2013 at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on July 30, 1940 in Nickerson, Kansas the daughter of Carl T. and Rosetta E. Hunt Mitzner. Before moving to Garden City, Carolyn raised her two girls and ran the Buffet restaurant in Stafford, Kansas. From 1987...

Neva Gruver

Neva Gruver

Mar 8, 2013

Neva Merle Gruver, age 96, died Friday, March 8, 2013 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born November 14, 1916 in Washington, Kansas the daughter of Roy E. and Anna L. Stolzer Gassert. A resident of Scott City since 1941, Neva had been a homemaker, a teacher and a bank bookkeeper & teller. Neva first...

Steve Wells

Steve Wells

Mar 6, 2013

Steve A. Wells, age 55, beloved husband, father and "Poppa", passed away on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas following a short illness. Steve was born October 10, 1957 at Scott City, Kansas, the son of Edd & Shirley Downs Wells. Steve grew up and attended schools in the Leoti and Scott City area graduating...

Nelle Scheuerman

Nelle Scheuerman

Feb 21, 2013

Nelle Jane Scheuerman, age 91, died Thursday, February 21, 2013, at the High Plains Retirement Village in Lakin, Kansas. She was born March 29, 1921 in Stafford, Kansas the daughter of James Henry and Anna May Heimuller Mathias. A resident of Deerfield since 1936 she had worked with AAA in Lakin, Kansas and then with her husband on the farm....

Dorothy Simpkins

Dorothy Simpkins

Feb 15, 2013

Dorothy Marie Simpkins, age 90, passed away on Friday, February 15, 2013 at her home in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on June 27, 1922 in Lakin, Kansas, the daughter of Charles and Alice Henderson McColm. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1965 moving from Colorado, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of...

Eva Jay

Eva Jay

Feb 12, 2013

Eva Onita Jay, age 105, passed away on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at Wichita County Long Term Care in Leoti, Kansas. Eva was born November 30, 1907 in Dalhart, Texas, the daughter of Roy & Nellie Fearing Hornish. She was a 1927 graduate of Bucklin High School and attended one year of classes at Southwestern College. She taught school in...

Ed Biernacki

Ed Biernacki

Feb 12, 2013

Ed "Whoppie" Biernacki, age 87, died Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born December 26, 1925 in Garden City, Kansas the son of Francis Joseph & Rosa Wolf Biernacki. A lifetime resident of Garden City, he worked as a mechanic for the Kansas Department of Transportation for 39 years, retiring in 1987....

Raymond Naab

Raymond Naab

Feb 11, 2013

Raymond P. Naab, age 76, died Monday, February 11, 2013 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on September 24, 1936 in Marienthal, Kansas the son of John and Emma Paul Naab. A resident of Garden City since 1963 he had been a salesman for Fansler Tire and later for Garden City Tire. On December...

Rosendo Gallarzo

Rosendo Gallarzo

Feb 9, 2013

Rosendo Gallarzo, Sr., age 38, passed away on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Rosendo was born March 30, 1974 at Scott City, Kansas, the son of Bernardo & Josie Rodriquez Gallarzo. While attending high school in Leoti, he lived with the Sam & Margaret Bocanegra family. He was an independent sales representative and driver...

Matlida Newcomer

Matlida Newcomer

Feb 8, 2013

Matilda " Tillie" Ruth Newcomer, age 87, passed away on Friday, February 8, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care in Leoti, Kansas. Tillie was born May 25, 1925 in Gove County, Kansas, the daughter of John & Verna Garner McLean. A lifetime resident of Scott & Wichita Counties, she was a homemaker. Tillie was a member of...

Kim Holloway

Kim Holloway

Feb 5, 2013

Kim Holloway, age 59, passed away on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at his home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on February 27, 1953 in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Lyle Eugene and Phyllis Madelene Gish Holloway. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was the Operations Manager at Blick's for many years and then at Helena...

Bessie Burch

Bessie Burch

Feb 3, 2013

Bessie Irene Burch, age 95, passed away on Sunday, February 3, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Bessie was born February 6, 1917 at her family homestead in rural Wichita County, Kansas, the daughter of Roy & Helen Graham Elder. A lifetime resident of Wichita County, Kansas, she was a homemaker. Bessie was a member of the...

Homer Campbell

Homer Campbell

Feb 2, 2013

Former longtime Garden City resident, Homer D. Campbell, age 95, died Saturday, February 2, 2013 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was born on January 11, 1918 in Garden City, Kansas the son of Wayne M. and Hazel Downs Campbell. Homer attended Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas where He was active in theatre, music and was a member of the...

Teresa Nguyen

Teresa Nguyen

Feb 1, 2013

Teresa Nguyen, age 81, died Friday, February 1, 2013 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on January 1, 1932 in Dong Thap, Vietnam the daughter of Bien Van Nguyen and Thuong Thi Ngo. She was a homemaker. She was a member of the St. Dominic Catholic Church of Garden City, Kansas. In 1951, she married...

Shana Marez

Shana Marez

Jan 30, 2013

Shana (McGaughey) Marez, age 44, died Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at the University Of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colorado following a lengthy illness. She was born on November 10, 1968 in Garden City, Kansas the daughter of Charles Frank and Joyce Lea Schaplowsky McGaughey. A 1986 graduate of Garden City High School, she had worked at Wal-Mart for several years....

Paul Edwards

Paul Edwards

Jan 29, 2013

Paul F. Edwards, age 96, passed away on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on December 3, 1916 in rural Sheridan County, Kansas, the son of Rutherford O. and Delia C. Hockman Edwards. After faming in Northwest Wichita County, Kansas since 1946 he retired and moved to Scott City,...

Lee Messenger

Lee Messenger

Jan 28, 2013

Arnold (Lee) Messenger, age 82, died Monday, January 28, 2013 at his home in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on August 8, 1930 in Eads, Colorado the son of Arno and Blanche Brown Messenger. Lee served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. A resident of Garden City since 1978 he had been a farmer and real...