Josephine V. Albers
Apr 9, 2015
April 9, 2015 JOSEPHINE V. ALBERS Dateline/Cunningham Josephine V. Albers, 98, died April 9, 2015, at Hilltop Manor, Cunningham. She was born June 26, 1916, at St. Marks, Kansas the daughter of Alex and Lena Stockemer Wegerer. A longtime resident of the St. Leo and Cunningham communities, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic...
Patricia L. "Pat" Kimball
Mar 28, 2015
March 29, 2015 PATRICIA L. "PAT" KIMBALL Dateline/Kingman Patricia L. "Pat" Kimball, 56, died March 28, 2015, at her home in Kingman. She was born Sept. 7, 1958, at Nashville, Kansas the daughter of Eugene and Betty Vierthaler Hauser. A Kingman resident since 2012, previously of St. Leo, she was a homemaker and a former CNA. On Dec. 8, 1979,...
Marilyn I. Meng
Mar 27, 2015
March 28, 2015 MARILYN I. MENG, Dateline/Kingman Marilyn I. Meng, 76, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and sister died March 27, 2015. She was born at the Attica hospital to Howard and Maureen Slagell on May 22, 1938. She attended the Hebron rural grade school and graduated from Attica High School. She was a member of the St. Patrick Catholic...
Lela Mae Campbell
Mar 25, 2015
March 26, 2015 LELA MAE CAMPBELL Dateline/Kingman Lela Mae Campbell, 91, died March 25, 2015, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center. She was born Feb. 6, 1924, at Belmont, Kansas the daughter of Leo and Anna Bowyer Brown. A lifetime resident of Kingman County, she was a former teacher and secretary. She was a member of the Kingman Christian Church, the CWF,...
Doris J. Graber
Mar 24, 2015
MARCH 24, 2015 DORIS J GABER Dateline/Pretty Prairie Doris J. Graber, 80, passed away March 24, 2015, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born September 29, 1934, in Henderson, Nebraska, the daughter of Jacob J. and Helena Peters Janzen. She was employed by Citizens Bank of Kansas, Pretty Prairie, for forty-one years. She was a member of the First Mennonite...
Beatrice Marie Ptacek Gernstenkorn
Mar 23, 2015
March 23, 2015 Beatrice Marie (Ptacek) Gerstenkorn Dateline/Waterloo Beatrice Marie Ptacek Gerstenkorn was born April 10, 1924 on a farm near Dorrance, Ks and died March 23, 2015 at Via Christi Hospital, Wichita, Ks. Beatrice was the daughter of Frank and Anna (Kepka) Ptacek. A longtime resident of Waterloo and recent years, Wichita, she was a loving wife, mother, grandma,...
Victor L. Kostner
Mar 19, 2015
MARCH 23, 2015 VICTOR L. KOSTNER Dateline/Kingman Victor L. Kostner, 94, died March 19, 2015. He was born June 15, 1920 at Murdock, Kansas the son of George and Mabel Ravenstein Kostner. A longtime resident of Kingman County, he was a retired farmer. He was a charter member and lifetime member of V.F.W. Post 1164; and was a WWII veteran....
Lela Mae Hubble
Mar 16, 2015
LELA MAE HUBBLE Dateline/Kingman Lela Mae Hubble, 80, died March 16, 2015, at Clearwater, Kansas. She was born July 25, 1934, at Rago, Kansas, the daughter of Barney and Lela Holder DeWeese. A longtime Kingman resident, she was a former telephone operator for SW Bell and a former upholsterer for Cessna and Beech Aircraft. She was a member of the...
Katherine A. Goetz
Mar 13, 2015
MARCH 14, 2015 KATHERINE A. GOETZ Dateline/Kingman Katherine A. Goetz, 65, died March 13, 2015, at her home in Dodge City. She was born Nov. 11, 1949, in Kingman the daughter of Edwin and Doris Conrardy Goetz. A longtime resident of Kingman and Dodge City, she was an employee of Arrowhead West of Dodge City. She was a member of...
Candice Hill Shrum
Mar 11, 2015
CANDICE HILL SHRUM Dateline/Kingman Candice Hill Shrum, 33, died March 11, 2015, at her home in Kingman. She was born April 4, 1981, in Detroit, Michigan. A Kingman resident since 2009, she was an employee of Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. On Oct. 22, 2009, she married Walt Shrum. Other survivors include a son, two daughters, her mother, grandmother, two brothers...
Shirley J. Crossman
Mar 10, 2015
MARCH 10, 2016 SHIRLEY J. CROSSMAN Dateline/Spivey Shirley J. Crossman, 80, died March 10, 2016. She was born July 20, 1935, at Anthony, the daughter of Dick and Marrieta Culver Blakesley. A lifetime resident of the Harper and Spivey communities, she was a homemaker and a former EMS First Responder and Firefighter. On Dec. 11, 1954, she married Harry J....
Joyce L. Kaufman
Feb 22, 2015
FEB. 23, 2015 JOYCE L. KAUFMAN Dateline/Kingman Joyce L. Kaufman, 64, died Feb. 22, 2015. She was born Feb. 8, 1951, in Wichita the daughter of Melvin and Frankie Stillmon Gassert. A longtime resident of the Kingman community, she was a retired teacher. She was a member of the Kingman Mennonite Church, The Kingman Mennonite Women's Society, and the Joyful...
Rita Ann Reida
Feb 22, 2015
WATERLOO, KANSAS. Rita Ann Reida, RN died at her home Feb. 22, 2015, of complications following an automobile accident. She was born in 1934 in Kingman, Kansas, to Wm. L. and Mable (Rowley) Sheahan and grew up on a farm near Willowdale, Kansas. She graduated from St. Peter's School in Willowdale and Zenda, Kansas, High School. She attended St. Mary's...
Mimi Kiraly
Feb 7, 2015
Feb. 7, 2015 PLEASE PRINT AS WRITTEN AND LET ME KNOW THE CHARGES MIMI KIRALY Dateline/Kingman Mimi Kiraly, 94, died Feb. 7, 2015, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. She was born Aug. 12, 1920, at New York, New York the daughter of Joseph and Anna Gardina Cortese. A longtime resident of Pratt, she moved to Kingman in 2013. In 1943,...
Mary Helen Hart
Feb 2, 2015
FEB. 3, 2015 MARY HELEN HART Dateline/Kingman Mary Helen Hart, 74, died Monday, Feb. 2, 2015, at Anthony Medical Center. She was born Dec. 17, 1940, at Hays, Kansas, the daughter of Don and Maxine Vada Craig Couch. A longtime resident of Kingman County, she was a registered nurse and cosmetologist. She was a member of the Covenant Assembly of...
Rev John A. Schmitt
Jan 27, 2015
Feb 1, 2016 Rev. John A. Schmitt Dateline/Kingman Rev. John A. Schmitt, 67, died Jan. 27, 2016, at Wichita. He was born Dec. 18, 1948, at Wichita the son of Jake E. and Wara Paul Schmitt. He served as pastor at the Kingman United Methodst Church from 1996 to 2008, having also served United Methodist Churches in Garden City, Conway...
Helen M. Coon
Jan 27, 2015
JAN 28, 2015 HELEN M. COON Dateline/Kingman Helen M. Coon, 94, died Jan. 27, 2015, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. She was born Aug. 27, 1920, the daughter of Jesus and Consuello Casarez Garibay. A longtime Kingman resident, previously of Murdock, she was a wife, mother, grandmother as well as a former USD 331 bus driver and a para-educator at...
Judith Ann "Judy" Branden
Jan 24, 2015
Jan. 27, 2015 JUDITH ANN BRANDEN Dateline/Kingman Judith Ann Branden, 75, died Jan. 24, 2015, at her home in Kingman. She was born June 2, 1939, at Kingman the daughter of Warren and Opal McCartney Schaffer. A longtime resident of Montery, California, moving to Kingman in 1998, she was a homemaker. She was a member of the Kingman United Methodist...
Paul E. Beat
Jan 22, 2015
JAN 23, 2015 PAUL E. BEAT Dateline/Kingman Paul E. Beat, 101, died Jan. 22, 2015, at Wheatland's, Kingman. He was born March 30, 1913, at Cleveland, Kansas the son of Edward and Margaret Conrardy Beat. A lifetime resident of Kingman County, moving to Kingman in 1973, he was a retired livestock handler and farmer; and formerly worked for the Kingman...
Rex M. Brown
Jan 15, 2015
JAN 16, 2015 REX M. BROWN Dateline/Kingman Rex M. Brown, 82, died Jan. 15, 2015, at the Cheney Golden Age Home. He was born July 4, 1932, at Mayfield, Kansas the son of Leslie and Edna Pritner Brown. A Kingman resident most of his life, he was a retired Technical Assistant for KDOT. He was a member of the Kingman...
