Bobby Joe Mead
May 4, 2015
Bobby Joe Mead, 78, died May 4, 2015, at Hays Medical Center. Born September 18, 1936, in Fredonia, he was the son of E.O. Mead and Aldine LaRue (Randall) Mead. Bob married Carole Annette Cronenberg on September 18, 1955, in Great Bend. She died on July 1, 2002. Mr. Mead was a Pawnee Rock resident for 40 years. He built...
Bess E. Sellens
May 2, 2015
Bess E. Sellens, 83, died May 2 at Locust Grove Village, LaCrosse. Born March 30, 1932 at Milo, Mo., she was the daughter of Allen and Mary (Brown) Laflen. Bess married Howard Sellens Feb. 7, 1953 at Hoisington. Mrs. Sellens was a Hoisington resident since 1953, coming from Moundville, Mo. She retired in 1992, after 36 years of teaching in...
Ivan H. Christy
Apr 30, 2015
Ivan H. Christy, 88, died April 30, 2015, at Country Place Senior Living, Hoisington. He was born Feb. 9, 1927, at Kansas City, Mo., to Ivan H. and Anna (Tillisch) Christy. He married Mary Louise Kircher Feb. 7, 1949, at Paola. They were later divorced. Ivan then married Gwenola Bagley Ochs March 21, 1970, at Hoisington. She died April 30,...
Theresa M. Ney
Apr 30, 2015
Theresa M. Ney, 98, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, died April 30, 2015, at Golden Living Center, Wilson, Kansas. She was born August 8, 1916, the daughter of Paul Dolechek, Sr. and Anna (Weber) Dolechek. On September 24, 1940, she married Kenneth A. Ney in Dubuque, Kansas. He died February 9, 1988. A homemaker, Theresa was a lifetime resident of...
Delores June Steadman
Apr 28, 2015
Delores June Steadman, 89, died April 28, 2015, at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood. Born September 11, 1925 at Bazine, she was the daughter of Charles F. and Lillian (DeWald) Schenkel. She married Hugh Robert "Bud" Steadman July 14, 1946, at Bazine. Mrs. Steadman was a Great Bend resident since 1943. She was a long-time secretary for Crawford and Company. She...
Stan Nelson
Apr 26, 2015
Stan Nelson, 52, of Great Bend died April 26, 2015, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. He was born Oct. 13, 1962, at Council Grove, to Byron Keith and Carolyn (Parsons) Nelson. He married Joyce Klassen Dec. 6, 1996, at Great Bend. Stan had been a Great Bend resident since 1970, coming from Lawrence. Formerly operating and managing the family business,...
Twilla Joyce Brack
Apr 25, 2015
HOISINGTON Twilla Joyce Brack, 83, died April 25, 2015, at Hays Medical Center in Hays. She was born July 20, 1931, on a farmstead West of Hoisington, the daughter of Henry Cordrey and Maudie Elizabeth (Anglin) Spires. Twilla attended Hoisington High School. On Jan. 22, 1949, she married Ralph D. Brack, in Independence. He died June 30, 2000. Twilla worked...
Muriel S. Machal
Apr 25, 2015
Muriel S. Machal, 91, died April 25, at Cheyenne Mountain Care Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Born Jan. 13, 1924, in Kinsley, she was the daughter of Ray and Ida (Robbins) Stewart. On April 3, 1957, she married Joseph Anthony Machal in Great Bend, He died on Dec. 21, 1992. A resident of Colorado Springs, Colo. for seven years, coming...
Diana Beth Kaeberle
Apr 25, 2015
Diana Beth Kaeberle, 57, died April 25, 2015 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita. Born February 5, 1958, in Greenville, Miss., she was the daughter of Donald and Reba (Atkins) Beckum. On June 20, 1992, she married Steven Kaeberle in Wilson. A 25 year Barton County resident, living most recently in Claflin, she was a secretary...
Leroy George Schartz, Jr.
Apr 22, 2015
LeRoy George Schartz Jr., 62, died April 22, 2015, at his home in Hoisington. Born May 3, 1952, in Great Bend, he was the son of LeRoy George and Viola Marie (Hermann) Schartz. He married Sharon Holcomb. They were later divorced. He recently moved to Hoisington from Great Bend, where he had worked in both the carpentry and automotive repair...
Ethel Jonas
Apr 20, 2015
Ethel Jonas, 91 died April 20, 2015 at Hays Medical Center. She was born in Barton County, Kansas near Susank on June 1, 1923. She was the second child of Lora Retta (Gardner) Jonas and Edmund "Edd" G. Jonas. Her brother, Walter was born in 1920. He passed away in 2005. The family moved to Hoisington in 1926 where Edd...
Maurice J. Damm
Apr 19, 2015
Maurice J. Damm, 81, died April 19 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, Wichita. Born June 17, 1933 at Great Bend, he was the son of Hugo L. and Louise (Shepherd) Damm. He married Kaye Fox Rupp August 22, 1972 at Woodward, Oklahoma. A lifetime Great Bend, Kan., resident, Mr. Damm was a former oilfield worker and for the past 40...
Richard "Brian" Reed
Apr 18, 2015
Richard "Brian" Reed, 38, died April 18, 2015, at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center, Topeka. He was born June 1, 1976, at Great Bend, the son of Richard L. Reed and Mary Denise (Keenan) Carroll. He married Smo Ortiz April 7, 1995, at Lawrence. He was a boxing promoter matchmaker for Empire Sports Management and Promotion. Mr. Reed lived in the...
Dale Carpenter
Apr 17, 2015
A. Dale Carpenter, 85, died April 17, 2015 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend. He was born August 3, 1929 at McPherson, the son of Franklin Arthur and Lena (Dalke) Carpenter. Dale married Lenore A. Sorensen October 12, 1950 at McPherson. He was a coach, history teacher, and guidance counselor for Great Bend High School for 34 years retiring...
Norma Lea Gray
Apr 14, 2015
Norma Lea Gray, 78, died April 14, 2015, at Southwind Hospice in Pratt. Born February 1, 1937, in Creek County, Okla., she was the daughter of Lester and Ruby (Browning) Allen. On August 18, 1952, she married Melvin Eugene Gray in Oilton, Okla. Mrs. Gray was a member of the First Baptist Church in St. John. Survivors include her husband,...
Mary M. Wondra
Apr 12, 2015
Mary M. Wondra, 92, died April 12, 2015, at Great Bend Regional Medical Center. She was born Oct. 12, 1922, in Odin, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph V. and Frances M. (Tinkel) Jenisch. Mary graduated from Odin High School. She was a homemaker and a lifetime resident of the Odin and Claflin area. Mary was a member of Holy Family...
Maxine L. Riemann
Apr 12, 2015
Maxine L. Riemann, 93, died April 12, 2015 at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood. Born March 25, 1922 at Ellinwood, she was the daughter of Carl H. and Alice Bell (Hoadley) Schmidt. She married Willis H. Riemann September 1, 1940 at Ellinwood. He died February 3, 1986 after 46 years of marriage, living in the Claflin community. She was a homemaker....
Patsy Johnene Richards
Apr 11, 2015
Patsy Johnene Richards, 54, died April 11, 2015 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, Wichita. Born August 19, 1960 at Hereford, Texas, she was the daughter of Herman McDonald "Johnny" and Ouida (Stayton) Wray. She married Gerald "Jerry" Richards July 13, 1991 at Hereford, Texas. She was a secretary for Stanion Wholesale Electric. Mrs. Richards was an Otis, Kansas resident since...
Cynthia Kay Mull
Apr 11, 2015
Cynthia Kay Mull, 78, died April 11, 2015, at Diversicare of Larned. Born December 1, 1936 at Dodge City, she was the daughter of Dillwyn Shay and Grace Lucille (Line) Baugher. She married William August Mull January 16, 1955 at Great Bend. He died August 18, 2000. She was a homemaker and was a PBX Operator at Central Kansas Medical...
Robert P. "Bob" Maneth
Apr 10, 2015
Robert P. "Bob" Maneth, 87, died April 10, 2015, at Kansas Medical Center, Andover. Born January 1, 1928 at Great Bend, he was the son of Ferdinand W. "Fred" and Kathryn Gertrude (Pivonka) Maneth. He married Dorothy A. Schneweis January 9, 1950 at Beaver. Bob was a farmer and stockman in Barton County until 1971 when they moved to Liberal....
