Iva M. Cramer
Sep 21, 2018
IVA M. CRAMER Dateline/Pretty Prairie Iva M. Cramer, 95, died Sept. 21, 2018, at the Prairie Sunset Home. Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 at the Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman. Graveside services will be held in the Maize Cemetery, Maize, Kansas. Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman.
Shirley Elaine Faucett
Sep 20, 2018
Shirley Elaine Faucett, 83, died Sept. 20, 2018, in Wichita, Kansas.
She was born Sept 6, 1935, at Belmont, Kansas the daughter of Norman E. and Gladys Simons Johnson. A longtime resident of Cheney, she was a cook for the Cheney Grade School, tool trailer supervisor for Borton's Construction and was a homemaker.
On August...
Helen F. Mertens
Sep 18, 2018
SEPT 19, 2018 HELEN F. MERTENS Dateline/Kingman Helen F. Mertens, 84, died Sept. 18, 2018, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. She was born April 3, 1934, at Mt. Vernon, Kansas the daughter of Henry and Margaret Hilger Jacobs. A longtime resident of the Willowdale and Kingman communities, she was a homemaker. Helen was a member of the St. Peter Catholic...
Dean W. Swope
Sep 17, 2018
SEPT 18, 2018 DEAN W. SWOPE Dateline/Kingman Dean W. Swope, 89, died September 17, 2018. He was born July 2, 1929, at Zenda, Kansas the son of Otto H. and Zella Myrtle Johnston Swope. A lifetime resident of the Kingman community, he was the retired CO-OP manager at Brown-Spur and at Collingwood Grain in Kingman. Dean was a member of...
Geneva A. Westerman
Sep 13, 2018
GENEVA A. WESTERMAN Dateline/Nashville Geneva A. Westerman, 90, died Sept. 13, 2018, at Parkwood Village, Pratt. She was born May 22, 1928, at Sawyer, Kansas the daughter of Theodore F. and Elsie Lampe Hensiek. A lifetime resident of the Nashville community, she was a homemaker. Geneva was a member of the St. John Lutheran Church, the Dorcas Society, both of...
Mary F. Sowers
Aug 29, 2018
MARY F. SOWERS Dateline/Kingman Mary F. Sowers, 77, died August 29, 2018, at the Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born August 7, 1941, in Henry County, Missouri the daughter of Garland Clay and Fred Baker McQueen. A longtime Kingman resident, she was a homemaker. On November 6, 1976, she married Darrel W. Sowers; he died August 9, 2013....
Michael D. Pickens
Aug 29, 2018
Sept 1, 2018 MICHAEL D. PICKENS Dateline/Kingman Michael D. Pickens, 49, died Aug. 29, 2018 in Wichita. He was born Oct. 22, 1968, in Wichita the son of Roy D. and Jean Allen Pickens. A longtime Wichita resident moving to Kingman in 2017, he was a caddy at Flint Hills National Golf Course and a music sound technician. On March...
Susan L. Stecklein
Aug 27, 2018
AUG 28, 2018 SUSAN L. STECKLEIN Dateline/Pratt Susan L. Stecklein, 63, died Aug. 27, 2018, at Via Christi Medical Center St. Francis, Wichita. She was born Feb. 28, 1955, at Plainville, Kansas the daughter of Jewell and Jane Shultz Lewin. A longtime resident of Pratt, previously of Kingman, she was a receptionist and teller for the First National Bank of...
Marvin D Coon
Aug 18, 2018
Marvin D. Coon, 84, died Aug. 18, 2018, at the Kingman Community Hospital.
He was born Jan. 30, 1934, in Rago, Kansas, the son of Otis and Mary Harper Coon.
A Kansas resident most of his life, he was a retired machinist for Boeing.
Marvin was a member of the North Star Lodge...
Sally Woodson Wohler
Aug 2, 2018
SALLY WOODSON WOHLER Dateline/Kingman Sally Woodson Wohler, 62, died Aug. 2, 2018. She was born Feb. 1, 1956 in Kingman the daughter of Jim and Alice West Woodson. A longtime resident of Kingman, she was a former RN and a homemaker. Sally was a member of the Kingman Christian Church, Past Matron of the O.E.S., and the D.A.R. She was...
Jane Elaine Kaufman
Jul 30, 2018
Jane Elaine Kaufman, 77, died July 30, 2018, at her home in Pretty Prairie.
She was born May 8, 1941, at Cleveland, Kansas, the daughter of Robert T. and Helen E. Graber Krehbiel. A longtime resident of Pretty Prairie, she was a homemaker.
On Oct. 4, 1963, she married Clemon Kaufman at Pretty Prairie. Other...
Gary Dwayne Jacobs
Jul 24, 2018
Gary Dwayne Jacobs, 48, died July 24, 2018, at Wichita.
He was born March 27, 1970, at Everett, Washington, the son of Paul Earnest and Lois Juanita Stage Jacobs. A resident of Kingman, he was a mechanic for Newberry Ford and machinery maintenance worker for FabPro.
Survivors include his mother Lois; brothers Paul, Archie, Roy...
Billy J. Pfalser
Jul 20, 2018
BILLY J. PFALSER Dateline/Kingman Billy J. Pfalser, 90, died July 20, 2018 at his home. He was born March 28, 1928, at Anthony, Kansas he was the son of William Lester and Opal Elliott Pfalser. A longtime Kingman resident, he was a retired farmer having also worked at Boeing, for Ron Hageman Construction and Whites Foodliner. Billy was a member...
Dorothy Handkins
Jul 17, 2018
DOROTHY HANDKINS Dateline/Kingman Dorothy Handkins, 98, went to be with the Lord on July 17, 2018 after a very brief illness. Born November 1, 1919, to Eva and Eugene Weniger, she was a lifetime resident of Kingman County until she and Paul moved to Wichita in 2010. Dorothy taught several years in a one room school house and married Paul...
Mona Viola Steffen
Jul 17, 2018
Mona V. Steffen CUNNINGHAM – Mona Viola Steffen, 88, died July 17, 2018, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, Kansas. The daughter of Erwin and Viola Franks Wilcox, she was born March 16, 1930, at her parents' farm in rural Pratt County near Cairo, Kansas. She attended Cairo and Cunningham schools, moving to Cunningham in 1935 and graduating from Cunningham...
Walter Hubert Steffan
Jul 15, 2018
Our beloved Brother and Uncle, Walter Hubert Steffan, passed away unexpectedly on July 15 in Wichita, Kansas at the age of 82.
Walt was born to Clarence and Regina Steffan on September 25, 1935 in Nashville, Kansas. He attended St. Leo Grade School, Nashville High School, and the University of Kansas. In 1966 he married Vicky Kilcoyne....
Virginia M. Powell Dutton
Jul 11, 2018
VIRGINIA M. POWELL DUTTON Dateline/Kingman Virginia M. Powell Dutton, 91, died July 11, 2018, at Kingman. She was born Dec. 15, 1926, in Cherokee County, Kansas the daughter of Kenneth and Goldie Shideler Millard. A long time resident of the Kingman community, she retired from the Kingman Community Hospital as Payroll Clerk. Virginia was a member of the Kingman Christian...
Margaret Jane Kraus
Jul 8, 2018
MARGARET JANE KRAUS Dateline/Pretty Prairie Margaret Jane Kraus, 89, died of natural causes on July 8, 2018, at the Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was dearly loved by so many and will be sorely missed. She was born on May 26, 1929, at Springfield, Missouri the daughter of Horace and Ethel Faulkner Abernathy. A longtime resident of the Pretty...
Joy Lee Stroot
Jul 3, 2018
JOY LEE STROOT Joy Lee Stroot, 78, died July 3, 2018, at her home in Kingman. She was born Sept. 7, 1939, at Kingman the daughter of Herman and Cleo Pipkin Stroot. A longtime resident of Kingman, she retired from Wesley Medical Center and the Kingman Carnegie Library. She was a member of the Kingman Church of Christ. Joy is...
Ernest Leroy Moore
Jul 3, 2018
ERNEST LEROY MOORE Dateline/Wichita Ernest Leroy Moore, 89, died July 3, 2018. Born Sept. 30, 1928 he retired from Cessna Aircraft Company. Survivors son Charles; step-sons Jeff and Jerry Killian; sister Sheila Osborne; and 2 two-step-grandchildren. Services, 10:00 a.m., Monday, Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman.
