Donna Brickley
Sep 6, 2015
Donna Fay Brickley, 68, died Sept. 6, 2015, at Almost Home Inc. in Great Bend. Born Feb. 28, 1947, in Great Bend, she was the daughter of Thomas and Edith (Cobler) Bonham. On June 23, 1967, she married Billy Brickley in Great Bend. He survives. A resident of Lyons since 2011, coming from Great Bend and Hoisington, she was a...
Dorothy A. Rodie
Sep 5, 2015
Dorothy A. Rodie, 87, of Hoisington, KS, passed away September 5, 2015, at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend. Dorothy was born to Frank and Marie (Autzen) Dickerson, August 24, 1928, at Stark County, ILL. Dorothy married Marvin Rodie May 10, 1952, at Hays , KS. Marvin passed away September 7, 1997. A long time Hoisington resident, Dorothy was a...
Helen C. Detmer
Sep 3, 2015
Helen C. Detmer, 76, died September 3, 2015 at Almost Home, Inc., Great Bend, Kan. She was born October 5, 1938 at Great Bend, Kan., the daughter of John A. and Helen F. (Huslig) Debes. She married John H. Detmer September 5, 1964 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Great Bend, Kansas. A lifetime Barton County resident, Mrs. Detmer was a...
Gene Mull
Sep 2, 2015
Gene Mull, 78, died September 2, 2015, at his home in Great Bend. Born March 5, 1937, in Great Bend, he was the son of Elmer Eugene Sr. and Mildred Bertha (Werhahn) Mull. On April 5, 1958, he married Patsy Sue Smith at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Great Bend. A lifetime resident of Barton County, he was a buyer...
Fern Boger
Sep 2, 2015
Fern Boger, 91, died September 2, 2015, at Brookdale Senior Living in Tulsa, Okla. Born August 4, 1924, in Hoisington, she was the daughter of John and Lydia (Eichman) Lust. On January 2, 1946, she married Emanuel Boger in Hoisington. He died on July 7, 2014. A resident of Great Bend since 1947, coming from Hoisington, she was a homemaker....
Kenneth Ballard King
Aug 31, 2015
Kenneth Ballard King, 89, died August 31, 2015 at AMG Specialty Hospital, Wichita, Kan. He was born September 2, 1925 at Maryville, Mo., the son of Eugene James and Margaret Grace (Allen) King. He graduated from Conception High School, Conception, Mo., and attended the University of Kansas and Purdue University. He enlisted in the United States Navy at the age...
Mary B. Gunn
Aug 29, 2015
Mary Gunn, 97, died August 29, 2015, at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood. Born February 24, 1918, she was the daughter of Adrian and Elyse (Bendel) Goodman. She was a graduate of the University of Southern California. On October 23, 1939, she married Richard J. Gunn in Los Angeles, Calif. He died on September 29, 1999. She was the co-owner...
Neal Carpenter
Aug 24, 2015
Neal Carpenter, 91, died August 24, 2015, at Cherry Village in Great Bend. Born August 18, 1924, in Cottonwood Falls, he was the son of Earnest and Rose (LaLodge) Carpenter. He graduated from Chase County High School and went to Radio School in Kansas City, where he later taught Army pilots how to operate radios during World War II. During...
Charlie M. Ross, Jr.
Aug 21, 2015
Charlie M. Ross, Jr., passed away Friday August 21, 2015 at the Newton Medical Center, after a long illness. Charlie was born November 21, 1943, son of the late Colonel and Mrs. Charlie Ross Sr. He is survived by longtime life partner, Ben Wooding; sisters, Danny R. Fleming, Villa Rica, Ga.; Betty R. Hawthorne and Mary J. Ross, both of...
Frank Priesner
Aug 20, 2015
Frank Priesner, 98, died August 20, 2015, at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend. He was born March 14, 1917, at Hoisington, the son of Frank and Mildred Priesner. He married Bertha M. Wells November 9, 1940, at Great Bend. She died June 17, 2008. He was warehouse manager for O'Neill Tank Company. Mr. Priesner was a Great Bend resident...
Donald Maynard Beers, Jr.
Aug 20, 2015
Donald Maynard Beers Jr., 52, died Aug. 20, 2015, at his home in Great Bend. Born July 10, 1963, he was the son of Donald and Mary (Brown) Beers Sr. A lifetime Barton County resident he was a machinist for Aaron's Repair. He was a hot rod, motorcycle, and drag racing enthusiast, also enjoying tools, guns, rock and roll, and...
Leta E. Ochs
Aug 19, 2015
Leta E. Ochs, 73, died August 19, 2015, at her daughter's home in Great Bend. She was born December 7, 1941, in Carthage, Missouri, the daughter of Floyd Dean and Valaska LeVerne (Henderson) Jackson. Leta graduated from Hutchinson High School. A resident of Hoisington for the last 44 years, she worked in housekeeping for Cheyenne Meadows and Great Bend Health...
Allen M. Juergensen
Aug 17, 2015
Allen M. Juergensen, 79, died August 17, 2015, at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend. Born July 18, 1936, in Sagerton, Texas, he was the son of Olaf and Agaetha (Schulz) Juergensen. He was employed by Western Power and Light at the Mullergren Plant and retired as a load dispatcher at Centel. Mr. Juergensen was a radio electronic technician...
Randall Lugene "Randy" Ritter
Aug 13, 2015
Randall Lugene "Randy" Ritter, 62, died August 13, 2015, at his mother's home in Great Bend. Born June 6, 1953, in Hoisington, he was the son of Gene and Barbara (Drake) Ritter. A long-time resident of Hoisington, also residing in Yates Center and Salina, he was an engineer for the Missouri-Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad. He was a guitar and...
Rita Klug
Aug 13, 2015
Rita Klug, 73, passed away on August 13, 2015, surrounded by her husband and family, at Almost Home, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born February 3, 1942, in Great Bend, the daughter of John and Margaret (Boor) Schneweis. She was a 1960 graduate of Odin High School. She later married James Klug on November 18, 1961, in Beaver, Kansas. Rita...
George B. Ashauer
Aug 11, 2015
George B. Ashauer, 74, died August 11, 2015, at Leisure Homestead in St. John. Born May 28, 1941, in Litchfield, Ill., he was the son of Andrew and Selma (Wisnaskey) Ashauer. On January 30, 1959, he married Nelda Mitchell in Clayton, Mo. He was a resident of St. John for 15 years, coming from Colorado Springs, Colo. Survivors include his...
Betty "Joann" Clark
Aug 8, 2015
Betty "JoAnn" Clark, 76, passed away Aug. 8, 2015, at Peabody Health and Rehab in Peabody. She was born July 31, 1939 in rural Rogers County, Okla., the daughter of Malcom John "Moon" and Josie Mae (Parks) Mullis. She has lived her entire life in the Hoisington area. She was a homemaker and at the age of 43 she received...
Louise Brack
Aug 6, 2015
Louise Brack, 91, died August 6, 2015, at Hospice House of Reno County, Hutchinson. She was born June 6, 1924, at Great Bend, the daughter of William Adolph "Bill" and Mary Olive (Weiman) Budde. Louise married Morris Elwood Brack August 21, 1942, at Albert. He died May 24, 1983. A lifetime Albert resident, Louise was a farmer, working for LaCrosse...
Lynn R. Davis
Aug 6, 2015
Lynn R. Davis, 69, died August 6, 2015, at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood. He was born Feb. 11, 1946, in Larned, Kansas, the son of Albert and Florentine (Bieker) Davis. Lynn graduated from Larned High School in 1964. Originally from Larned, he moved to Hoisington in 2011. In his earlier years Lynn worked at the CO-OP in Larned, and then...
Wayne Merle Temple, Iii
Aug 6, 2015
Wayne Merle Temple, III, 52, died August 6, 2015, in Walworth County, Wisconsin. He was born March 29, 1963, the son of Wayne Merle Temple, Jr. and Donna Jean (Westhoff) Temple. Wayne was a truck driver for Swift Trucking. He previously worked as a residential and commercial painter in Denver and Las Vegas for 30 years. Wayne was a resident...
