Obituaries

Phyllis Beach

Phyllis Beach

Jan 15, 2013

Pierceville, Kansas Phyllis Grayce Beach, age 89, died Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born August 31, 1923 in Nelson, Nebraska, the daughter of Kile and Lena Statz Conner. A resident of Pierceville, she had been a farmer and rancher. She was a member of the Pierceville Federated Church in Pierceville,...

George Harcharik

George Harcharik

Jan 14, 2013

George E. Harcharik, age 82, of Scott City passed away on Monday, January 14, 2013 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on February 1, 1930 in Streator, Illinois, the son of George T. and Anna Catherine Uhren Harcharik. He was one of eight children and attended St. Stephens Parochial School and Streator High School....

William Woodard

William Woodard

Jan 13, 2013

William Raymond Woodard, age 76, died Sunday, January 13, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on September 4, 1936 in Garden City, Kansas, the son of Raymond O. and Rachel Whiteley Woodard. Mr. Woodard was a retired civil service employee for the Federal Government and a U.S. Army veteran serving during the...

Lorraine Graber

Lorraine Graber

Jan 12, 2013

Lorraine Graber, age 82, died Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born July 1, 1930 in Lawrence, Kansas the daughter of Charles L. and Lila B. Shaw Curtis. She was a homemaker and had worked as a retail sales clerk. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of...

Barbara Dunlap

Barbara Dunlap

Jan 12, 2013

Barbara Ann Dunlap, age 84, died Saturday, January 12, 2013 at her winter home in Sun City West, Arizona. She was born on December 5, 1928 in Atchison, Kansas the daughter of Glenn & Flossie Jane DeMoss Shipp. A resident of Garden City since 2008 moving from Frankfort, Kansas where she had worked for Kansas Social & Rehabilitation Services for...

Marvin Naab

Marvin Naab

Jan 11, 2013

Marvin Leroy Naab, age 65, of Ingalls, Kansas, died on Friday, January 11, 2013 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, KS. He was born on March 7, 1947 in Garden City, Kansas the son of John V. and Rhoda Frank Naab. Mr. Naab had been a farmer and was a ¬¬¬¬¬U.S. Army veteran, having served during the Vietnam War....

Joyce Blau

Joyce Blau

Jan 10, 2013

Marienthal, Kansas Joyce Adele (Wonsetler) Blau, age 73, passed away following a courageous battle with melanoma cancer on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. Joyce was born July 8, 1939 at Syracuse, Kansas, the daughter of Carl Jacob & Adele Earle Wonsetler and was raised on the family farm in southern Wichita County, Kansas...

George Bauck

George Bauck

Jan 6, 2013

Leoti, Kansas George C. Bauck, age 96, passed away on Sunday, January 6, 2013 at Wichita County Health Center in Leoti, Kansas. George was born December 25, 1916 in the St. Theresa community of northwestern Wichita County, Kansas, the son of John C. & Theresa Goetz Bauck. A lifetime resident of Wichita County, Kansas, he was a farmer and rancher...

Helen Isaac

Helen Isaac

Jan 5, 2013

Helen K. Isaac, age 99, died Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. She was born July 29, 1913 in Meade, Kansas the daughter of Henry H. and Katharina Friesen. A resident of Garden City, Kansas since 1972, she was a homemaker and had been a harvest crew cook for Abe & Ben...

L.D. Parkinson

L.D. Parkinson

Jan 3, 2013

Louis Davidson "L. D." Parkinson, 92, died Thursday January 3 at his home in Scott City after a long illness. He was born in Rexburg, Idaho on November 29, 1920, one of eleven children born to Henry G. Parkinson and Hannah A. Parkinson of Rexburg. He graduated with honors from the University of Idaho in 1942 where he received a...

Florence Yocum

Florence Yocum

Jan 2, 2013

Florence Anna Yocum, age 84, died Tuesday, January 2, 2013 at the Legacy @ Park View in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born on May 7, 1928 in Prairie Home, Nebraska the daughter of Bernard and Lydia McColm Toland. She was a homemaker and had been a resident of Garden City since 1950. She was a member of the Calvary Baptist...

Elnora Sloan-Butler

Elnora Sloan-Butler

Jan 2, 2013

Elnora Elizabeth Sloan Butler, age 89, died Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at the Homestead Health & Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. She was born May 24, 1923 in Pawnee County, Kansas the daughter of George and Harriet Myers Hahn. A resident of Garden City since 1945 she was a farm wife and homemaker. She was a member of the...

Donald Hedges

Donald Hedges

Dec 30, 2012

Donald E. Hedges, age 80, passed away on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at the Porter Hospital in Denver, Colorado. He was born on November 11, 1932 in Offerle, Kansas, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Hazel Gladys Schenk Hedges. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1956 moving from Manhattan, Kansas, he was a Teacher and School Administrator and a...

Dwain Ingram

Dwain Ingram

Dec 27, 2012

Dwain M. Ingram, age 77, passed away on Thursdayy, December 27, 2012 at Galachia Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Dwain was born January 24, 1935 at Rago, Kansas, the son of Cortlandt Dwight & Myrna Blanche Minor Ingram. A resident of Greeley County, Kansas since 1941, he was a farmer and musician. Dwain was a member of the United Methodist Church...

Clark Showalter

Clark Showalter

Dec 26, 2012

Clark "Jack" Marion Showalter, Sr., age 78, a former Garden City resident, recently moving to Apache Junction, AZ, died on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at the Hospice of Arizona, in Mesa, Arizona. He was born on January 11, 1934 in Hutchinson, Kansas the son of Clark Miller & Bertha L. Rhodes Showalter. Mr. Showalter had been an optician and was...

Charles Mayer

Charles Mayer

Dec 26, 2012

Charles W. Mayer, age 82, passed away on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at the Prowers Medical Center in Lamar, Colorado. He was born on April 14, 1930 in Crowley County, Colorado, the son of William Charles and Grace Collins Mayer. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1958 moving from Crowley County, Colorado, he owned and operated the A&W Drive...

Pamela Hahn

Pamela Hahn

Dec 19, 2012

Pamela Jane Hahn, age 65, passed away on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care in Leoti, Kansas. Pam was born December 2, 1947 at San Diego, California, the daughter of Samuel & Juanita Horton Clemens. A resident of Wichita County, Kansas since 1971 moving from Port Hueneme, California, she was a homemaker, school bus...

Dorothy Rivenburg

Dorothy Rivenburg

Dec 19, 2012

Dorothy M. Rivenburg, age 90, passed away on Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at Westridge Assisted Living in Girard, Kansas. Dorothy was born July 6, 1922 on the family farm at Sharon Springs, Kansas, the daughter of Elmer & Effie Burns Chaney. Dorothy graduated of Greeley County High School in 1941. She was a homemaker and had lived the majority of...

Louis Vasquez

Louis Vasquez

Dec 18, 2012

Louis N. Vasquez, age 88, died Monday, December 18, 2012 at the St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on January 15, 1924 in Manzanola, Colorado, the son of Florentino and Concha Navarez Vasquez. A resident of Garden City since 1970 he had worked for the ACRA Plant in Garden City retiring in 1984. Louis was a...

Gilbert Knipp

Gilbert Knipp

Dec 13, 2012

Gilbert Knipp, age 98, passed away on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on June 8, 1914 in Ellinwood, Kansas, the son of Peter Joseph and Sophia Arnesdorf Knipp. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1930 moving from Ellinwood, Kansas, he was a farmer & cattleman. On June...