Dee Pelster
Oct 12, 2013
Lodema "Dee" Pelster, 81, died October 12, 2013 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. She was born February 9, 1932, at Parsons, Kansas, the daughter of James LeRoy and Gertrude (Bennett) Garrett. She married Robert LeRoy Pelster December 22, 1953, at Miami, Oklahoma. He died August 25, 1996. A Great Bend resident since 1953, coming from Cherryvale, she was a homemaker....
Larry Robert Ruble
Oct 11, 2013
Larry Robert Ruble, 73, died October 11, 2013 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born November 30, 1939 at Great Bend, Kansas, he was the son of Frank and Helen (Schwartz) Ruble. In 1958 he graduated from Great Bend High School. On April 3, 1958 he married Vickie Boos at Alva, Oklahoma. A lifetime resident of Great Bend, he...
Dewey Ball
Oct 11, 2013
Dewey Daniel Ball, 86, died Oct. 11 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born Oct. 24, 1926, at Japton, Ark. the son of Jacob Asbury and Callie (Kirk) Ball. He married Kathrine Louise Haworth Dec. 15, 1946, at Winfield. She died Nov. 25, 2012. A Great Bend resident for 58 years, coming from Grenola, Kan., and Japton,...
Gordonna Cole
Oct 11, 2013
Gordonna (Gordy) Cole, 68, died Oct. 11, 2013 at Loma Linda Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif. She was born Jan. 11, 1945, in Rock Springs, Wyo., the daughter of Gordon and Lois (Miller) Amundson. She was a graduate from Riverton High School in Riverton, Wyo. She earned a bachelor's degree in education from the University of Wyoming in Laramie,...
Randall Phillips
Oct 9, 2013
Randall S. Phillips, 55, died Oct. 9 at his home in Great Bend. Born Oct. 12, 1957, at Great Bend, he was the son of Dale V. and Helen L. (Powers) Phillips. A resident of Great Bend, living in California for 25 years, he was employed by Wal-Mart as a stocker. He loved to golf, target shoot, play games, dogs,...
Annette Kruckenberg
Oct 9, 2013
Annette Kruckenberg, 81, died October 9, 2013 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born July 19, 1932 at Kiefer, Oklahoma, the daughter of Otho E. and Eva (Reynolds) Chancey. She married Robert L. Kruckenberg April 3, 1965 at Great Bend, Kansas. A Great Bend resident since 1963, coming from Lyons, Kansas, Mrs. Kruckenberg was...
Geraldine M. "Gerry" Peschka
Oct 8, 2013
Geraldine M. "Gerry" Peschka, 78, died October 8, 2013 at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born June 8, 1935 at Beaver, Kansas, the son of Joseph and Catherine (Kramer) Zorn. She married Elmer Alvin Peschka October 20, 1952 at Beaver, Kansas. He died March 27, 1984. A Great Bend resident since 1956, coming from Hoisington, Mrs....
Harold Joseph Blazek
Oct 8, 2013
Harold J. "Boots" Blazek, age 85, died Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood, Kansas. He was born June 2, 1928 at Claflin, Kansas the son of Joseph and Amelia (Galliardt) Blazek. Boots, a lifelong Claflin resident, graduated from Claflin High School and also attended Salt City Business College. He served his country in the United States...
Wilbur Dean Bell
Oct 7, 2013
Wilbur Dean Bell, 90, died October 7, 2013 at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Born February 15, 1923 at Great Bend, he was the son of George W. and Alma (Fesser) Bell. Mr. Bell was a lifetime Great Bend resident. On June 27, 1946, he married Mae Alice Marie Panzer at Great Bend. She died January 10, 1976. He was an...
Bernard Lavern John Pfannenstiel
Oct 6, 2013
Bernard LaVern John Pfannenstiel, 74, died Oct. 6 at Hays Medical Center, Hays. Born Sept. 20, 1939 at Ness City, he was the son of Linus and Vera (Schlitter) Pfannenstiel. He married Patricia Hickel July 28, 1962 at Ellinwood. They later divorced. He was a machine operator and shader for Kansas Brick and Tile for 45 years. Mr. Pfannenstiel was...
Philip C. "Flip" Hoss
Oct 5, 2013
Philip C. "Flip" Hoss, 86, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013, in Lenexa, Ks. He was born Aug. 8, 1927, in Seward, Ks., the sixth of nine children of Charles and Otillia (Fahrenbach) Hoss. After graduating from Radium High School, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Cavalry, serving as an antitank cannoneer. On Nov. 5, 1954, he married Betty Joann Myers...
Carol Joan Lundquist
Oct 5, 2013
Carol Joan Lundquist passed away October 5, 2013, at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend, in much of the same manner in which she was born. She died with strength, grace, and dignity. Carol was born March 27, 1927 at her aunt's home in Milwaukee, Wisc., to Carl John and Rose Caroline (Blum) Pohlman, with a remote chance of...
Lorraine Shanks
Oct 4, 2013
Lorraine Shanks, 68, died Oct. 4, 2013 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. Born Aug. 12, 1945 at Hastings, Nebr., she was the daughter of Frank and Virginia Mary (Herrman) Andrasek. On July 21, 1962, she married Robert Byron Shanks at Great Bend, KS. He died Jan. 3, 2012. As a secretery for Eldridge Fencing, Mrs. Shanks was a lifetime Great...
Guy Causey
Oct 4, 2013
Guy Causey, 58, died Oct. 4 at home in Great Bend. Born Feb. 9, 1955, he was the son of Laverne (Squires) Causey. A chemistry instructor at Barton Community College, Mr. Causey was a Great Bend resident since 2007, coming from Tennessee. He had previously taught at the University of Memphis and Harding Academy of Memphis. Prior to that, he...
Sister Mary Ann Klein
Oct 4, 2013
Sister Mary Ann Klein (Sister Mary James), 88, died Oct. 4, in the Catholic Care Center in Wichita. Born Dec. 4, 1924, in Fowler, Sister Mary Ann was the daughter of Jacob and Anna Hoffman Klein. She entered the Dominican Sisters in Great Bend on March 17, 1940, and pronounced her first vows Aug. 13, 1943. She celebrated 70 years...
Rossie Mae Lauber
Oct 1, 2013
Rossie Mae Lauber, 71, died October 1, 2013 at her Great Bend, Kansas, residence. She was born May 23, 1942 at Great Bend, the daughter of Eugene Debbs and Okla Marie (Dixon) Addington. She married Lawrence Fredrick Rowe in 1961 at Miami, Oklahoma. The later divorced. She then married Virgil Lewis in 1971 at Great Bend. They later divorced. She...
Janice Waknitz
Sep 26, 2013
Janice Waknitz died September 26, 2013 at Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne, Florida. She was born April 23, 1942 at Green Forest, Arkansas, the daughter of John Grady and Louella (Wells) Howerton. She married Charles Waknitz December 27, 1966 at Wichita, Kansas. A school teacher, she retired after thirty years of service. She was a Great Bend resident since 1976,...
Larry M. Manweiler
Sep 25, 2013
Larry M. Manweiler, age 82, died Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at Clara Barton Hospital in Hoisington, Kansas. He was born July 18, 1931 at Hoisington, Kansas the son of August and Violet (Slade) Manweiler. Larry, a lifelong Hoisington resident, was a retired Chevrolet dealer with Manweiler Chevrolet. He was an active member of Concordia Lutheran Church as president, treasurer, elder,...
Ada Mae Marquis
Sep 23, 2013
Ada Mae Marquis, 101, of Longmont, Colorado died on Monday, September 23, 2013. She was born Ada Mae Mattal on January 14, 1912 in Bison, Kansas to John J. and Sarah C. (Kleweno) Mattal. She graduated from Bison High School on May 16, 1929. She also attended an all-girl Christian trade school in Kansas City, Kansas. She married Walter D....
Velma Kay Johansen
Sep 21, 2013
Velma Kay Fitzgerald Johansen, 72, died Sept. 21, 2013 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend. She was born March 5, 1941 at North Platte, Neb., the daughter of Clarence and Doris (Wilsey) Johansen. She married Carson Fitzgerald Aug. 14, 1960 at Hastings, Neb. They later divorced. She was a registered nurse, working with the residents at Cherry Village her...
