Guillermo "Will" Resendiz
Nov 25, 2012
Guillermo "Will" Resendiz, 31, died November 25, 2012 at his home, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born February 6, 1981 at McAllen, Texas, the son of Atanacio and Teresa (Rivera) Resendiz. He married Adelita Diaz at Edinburg, Texas. A Great Bend resident since 1987, coming from McAllen, he was a plasma operator for KMW Loaders. Mr. Resendiz was a member...
Gregory Allen Bean
Nov 25, 2012
Gregory Allen Bean, 54, died November 25, 2012 at his home, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born April 4, 1958 at Great Bend, the son of Paul and Norma (Trent) Bean. A lifetime Great Bend resident, he was a motorcycle mechanic for Great Bend Yamaha. Mr. Bean was a member of Cheyenne Bottoms Sportsman Club. He raced motorcycles, winning many...
Kelly Holden Benker
Nov 19, 2012
Kelly Holden Benker, 24, died November 19, 2012 in Barton County, Kansas. He was born April 6, 1988 at Kingman, Kansas, the son of Keith Wayne and Susan Lynn (Bojan) Benker. A Great Bend resident since 1993, coming from Kingman, Kelly was an electrician. He loved to play the drums and guitar, to fish and to hunt. He was a...
Sue Gladys Abraham
Nov 14, 2012
Sue Gladys Abraham, age 92, died Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend, KS. She was born January 29, 1920 in Rosalia, KS the daughter of David J. and Mahala A. (Liggett) Abraham. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Hoisington and was a nurse aide in the medical profession until...
Sylvia Ann Welch
Nov 14, 2012
Sylvia Ann Welch, 79, died November 14, 2012 at Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, Colorado. She was born July 18, 1933 at Hoisington, Kansas, the daughter of J. David and Esther (Ehrlich) Marmie. A Denver resident since 1954, coming from Great Bend, Kansas, Mrs. Welch worked for JC Penney, May D & F, Circuit City, and Mountain Bell as well as...
Douglas Wayne Steinert
Nov 12, 2012
Douglas Steinert, 62, died Nov. 12 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Born Oct. 15, 1950 in Russell, he was the son of Levi and LaVera (Steinert) Steinert. On Jan. 28, 1975 he married Darlene Naab in Russell. A resident of Hoisington since 1961, coming from Russell, he was employed in the oil patch and was a machinist. He loved...
Lorraine Johnson
Nov 12, 2012
Lorraine Johnson, 82, died November 12, 2012 at River Bend Assisted Living, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born December 20, 1929 at Great Bend, the daughter of George and Muriel (Slankard) Hoadley. She married Byron E. Johnson January 20, 1950 at St. John, Kansas. He died February 2, 1993. A lifetime Great Bend resident, Mrs. Johnson was a nurse aide...
Joann Cameron
Nov 10, 2012
JoAnn Cameron, 87, died Nov. 10 at Great Bend Regional Hospital. She was born Sept. 5, 1925, at Tonkawa, Okla., the daughter of William David and Olive DeLyte (McNeil) Rowe. She married Fred Lorn Cameron on Dec. 25, 1943, at Dodge City. He died June 22, 1987. JoAnn was a Great Bend resident since 1962, coming from Ponca City, Okla....
Lennie "Boots" Hughbanks
Nov 9, 2012
Lennie "Boots" Hughbanks, 97, died November 9, 2012 at Sterling House of Great Bend, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born April 17, 1915 at Newton, Kansas, the daughter of Willard and Ellas (Stoops) Anderson. She married Hanley Gene Hughbanks January 7, 1946 at Brewton, Alabama. He died September 29, 1988. A Great Bend resident since 1968, coming from Pratt, she...
Willis Stoskopf
Nov 4, 2012
Willis Stoskopf, 95, died Nov. 4 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born April 2, 1917 in Beaver, he was the son of Frank and Mary (Hull) Stoskopf. On July 10, 1938 he married Elizabeth McKinstry in Hagerman, N.M. A lifelong resident of Hoisington, he was a retired farmer. He enjoyed traveling, visiting with friends at the coffee shop...
Sister Louella Staab
Nov 4, 2012
Sister Louella Staab, 81, died Sunday, November 4, 2012, in the Dominican Sisters' convent infirmary, Great Bend. Born October 8, 1931, in Catherine, Kansas, as Maybell Ann Catherine Staab, Sister Louella was the daughter of the late Alexius and Celestine (Weigel) Staab. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community in Great Bend December 6, 1953, and pronounced her first vows June...
Shelby Lee Stone, Sr.
Nov 1, 2012
Shelby Lee "Stoney" Stone Sr., 78, died Nov. 1 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita. He was born May 14, 1934, at Great Bend, the son of James Nelson and Helen Lee (DuBois) Stone. A lifetime Great Bend resident, he was a heavy equipment operator, employed as a crane operator for Chicago Bridge Company and American Bridge...
Sister Mary Rose Engel
Oct 30, 2012
Sister Mary Rose Engel, 93, died Oct. 30, 2012 in the Dominican Sisters' convent infirmary in Great Bend. Born Aug. 22, 1919, in Ness City, as Mary Engel, Sister Mary Rose was the daughter of the late Anton and Pauline Hertel Engel. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community on Sept. 28, 1934, and pronounced her first vows on Aug. 12,...
Shirley Lou Smith
Oct 25, 2012
Shirley Lou Smith, 80, died October 25, 2012 at her Great Bend, Kansas, residence. She was born October 28, 1931 at Bunker Hill, Kansas, the daughter of George A. and Margaret Ellen (Peck) Hanzlick. She married Herbert Alexander Ehrlich May 26, 1950 at Ellis, Kansas. He died December 22, 1969. She then married William E. Smith in 1977. He died...
Genevieve "Jennie" Alefs
Oct 25, 2012
Genevieve "Jennie" Alefs, 92, went to her heavenly home surrounded by her family on October 25, 2012 at Country Place Senior Living, Hoisington, Kansas. She was born November 15, 1919 at St. Leo, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Appolonia Thresia (Schommer) Schulte. She married Daniel Jacob Alefs, Jr., April 5, 1941 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died March 20,...
Mary Bridget Schneider
Oct 23, 2012
Mary Bridget Schneider, 92, died October 23, 2012 at River Bend Assisted Living, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born September 18, 1920 on the family farm at Belpre, Kansas, the daughter of John Miles and Agnes Viola (Gibney) Kearney. She was a 1938 graduate of Belpre High School and an August 1941 graduate of St. Rose School of Nursing, Great...
Frank Francis Miguel
Oct 22, 2012
Frank Francis Miguel, 80, died Oct. 23 at his home in Great Bend. Born July 6, 1932, in Layton, Calif., he was the son of Antonio and Adlathe (Mendes) Miguel. He married Anita Jane Teeples in Fresno, Calif. She died in November 1991. A resident of Great Bend since 2003, coming from Fresno, Calif., he was a farm hand. Mr....
Joe D. Lane
Oct 22, 2012
Joe D. Lane, 75, died October 22, 2012 at Clara Barton Hospital, Hoisington, Kansas. He was born January 8, 1937 at Hoisington, the son of Gerald and Verda (Fox) Lane. He married Dolores "Lori" Demel December 29, 1960 at Odin, Kansas. A lifelong Hoisington resident, Mr. Lane was a postal carrier, retiring in 1999. He had previously worked at the...
Jay Louis Kimball
Oct 17, 2012
Jay Louis Kimball, 73, died Oct. 17 at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita. Born Jan. 20, 1939, in Larned, he was the son of Jay Grant and Sarah Louise (Postlethwaite) Kimball. In 1957 he graduated from Great Bend High School. On Aug. 20, 1959, he married Linda Laffer in Winfield. A resident of Great Bend since 2005, coming from...
Sister Ruth Klein
Oct 13, 2012
Sister Ruth Klein, 97, died Saturday, October 13, 2012, in the Dominican Sisters of Peace convent infirmary, Great Bend. Born January 22, 1915, in Lincoln NE, as Ruth Rose Klein, Sister Ruth was the daughter of the late Anthony and Mary Helen Hoffman Klein. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community in Great Bend July 2, 1930, and pronounced her first...
