Zulet Rodriguez Harp
Mar 16, 2012
Zulet Rodriguez Harp, 38, of Great Bend died Friday, March 16, 2012 in Barton County. She was born April 13, 1973 in Mexico the daughter of Ricardo and Griselda (Ortega) Rodriguez. Zulet graduated from Ulysses High School and moved to Great Bend in 1999 where she attended Barton County Community College. She currently worked at Love's Convenience Store in Great...
Derwin Disque
Mar 13, 2012
Derwin Disque, 55, died March 13, 2012 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born November 5, 1956 at Ellsworth, Kansas, the son of Clarence and Delores (Woods) Disque. He married Karen West September 29, 2007 at Lake Wilson, Kansas. A lifetime Claflin, Kansas, resident, Mr. Disque was a freight operator and tire salesman at Orscheln's Farm and Home,...
Robert Lane Bates
Mar 10, 2012
Robert Lane Bates, 89, died March 10, 2012 at his home in Great Bend. He was born June 16, 1922 at Hingham, Mass., the son of Fred and Helen (Lane) Bates. Mr. Bates married Phyllis Kolterman November 2, 1952, in Topeka. They were later divorced. He then married Neoma L. (Dennis) Williams Nov. 8, 1975, in Great Bend. She survives....
Siegfried O. Gutowski
Mar 9, 2012
Siegfried Sieg O. Gutowski, age 93, died Friday, March 9, 2012 at Larned Health Care Center in Larned, Kansas. He was born March 31, 1918 at Waldhausen, East Prussia (Germany) the son of Peter and Emelia (Press) Gutowski. Sieg has been an area resident since 1953 coming from Germany. He worked and retired from C.O. Mammels Grocery Store. He was...
Mildred Bean
Mar 8, 2012
Mildred Bean, 97, died March 8, 2012 at Country Place Senior Living, Ellinwood. She was born Aug. 21, 1914 at Jetmore, the daughter of Lloyd M. and Ethel M. (McGee) Scothorn. She married Jay W. Bean June 29, 1933 at LaCrosse. He died March 7, 1963. She was a clerk at the Dodge City Dillons store and was a pastry...
Beverly Ann Herrod
Mar 8, 2012
Beverly Ann Herrod, 66, died March 8, 2012 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born April 13, 1945 at Great Bend, the daughter of Cy DesMarteau Jurgensen. Beverly was a lifelong Great Bend resident who was a homemaker. She was of the Roman Catholic faith. She loved to fish, camp and play cards. Survivors include four sisters,...
Thelma Marie Ridgeway
Mar 4, 2012
Thelma Marie Ridgeway, 86, died March 4, 2012 at Medical Lodge of Kinsley, Kinsley, Kansas. She was born June 2, 1925 at Dallas, South Dakota, the daughter of Oliver and Helen Emma (Stone) Nelson. She married Fredrick C. Ridgeway January 14, 1944 at Dighton, Kansas. He died October 10, 1986. A Great Bend resident since 1943, coming from Chadron, Nebraska,...
Connie Schneweis
Mar 2, 2012
Connie Schneweis, 64, died March 2, 2012, at her Great Bend, Kansas, residence. She was born August 17, 1947 at Great Bend, Kansas, to Albert Anton & Sarah Josephine (Smith) Maes. She married Larry L. Schneweis June 14, 1969, at Holy Name Catholic Church, Bushton, Kansas, he survives. Mrs. Schneweis was a Great Bend, Kansas resident since 1969, coming from...
Dustin W. "Bubba" Buess
Mar 2, 2012
Dustin W. "Bubba" Buess, 22, died March 2, 2012 at St. Alexius Medical Center, Bismarck, North Dakota as the result of an automobile accident. He was born May 24, 1989 at Great Bend, Kansas, the son of Rodney Wayne Buess and Stephanie Marie Morrison. A lifetime Great Bend resident,Mr. Buess was a roughneck for Nomac Drilling. He was a member...
Teresa L. Alkire
Mar 2, 2012
Teresa L. Alkire, 61, died Friday, March 2, 2012 at Great Bend Regional Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas. She was born January 22, 1951 at Woodward, Oklahoma the daughter of Leland and LaVina (DeWalt) Redding. Teresa graduated from Hoisington High School and was a lifelong area resident. She worked in the foodservice industry. She was very artistic and enjoyed painting....
Sister Marietta Urban
Mar 1, 2012
Sister Marietta Urban, 83, died Thursday, March 1, 2012, in the Dominican Sisters Convent Infirmary, Great Bend, Kansas. Born October 20, 1928, in Loretto, Kansas, as Viola Margaret Urban, Sister Marietta was the daughter of the late Jacob and Catherine Suppes Urban. She entered the Dominican Sisters Community in Great Bend, Kansas, August 31, 1942, and pronounced her first vows...
Theda Debes
Feb 27, 2012
Theda Debes, 89, died February 27, 2012 at Pawnee Valley Community Hospital, Larned, Kansas. She was born October 4, 1922 at Waurika, Oklahoma, the daughter of Columbus Frederick and Willie Pearl (Glazner) Sparkman. Her father died when she was six years old. She was raised by her mother and step-father, Delbert Easter Elliott. She married Irvin Martin Debes January 15,...
Mildred R. Hanaberry
Feb 26, 2012
Mildred R. Hanaberry, 92, died Sunday February 26, 2012 at Ellsworth County Medical Center in Ellsworth, Kansas. She was born April 7, 1919 at Holyrood, Kansas the daughter of John and Anna (Ehler) Siemsen. Mildred was a homemaker and a lifelong Holyrood resident. She was a member of St. Pauls Church of Christ and the American Legion Womens Auxiliary both...
Shirley Leeann Jones
Feb 25, 2012
Shirley L. Jones, age 60, died Saturday, February 25, 2012 at Clara Barton Hospital, Hoisington, Kansas. She was born February 12, 1952 at Topeka, KS. the daughter of Alois and Pauline (Waldschmidt) Kisner. Shirley was a longtime Hoisington resident coming from Ellis. She was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Hoisington. On May 17, 1969 she married...
Vernon Mccord
Feb 25, 2012
Vernon McCord, 79, died February 25, 2012 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born November 4, 1932 the son of J. R. and Martha (Day) McCord. He married Imogene Reeves in Arkansas and were later divorced. He then married Betty Wilson December 20, 1979 at Larned, Kansas. A Great Bend resident since 1969, coming...
Elmer C. Dupree
Feb 23, 2012
Elmer C. Dupree, 90, died February 23, 2012 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born July 10, 1921 at Knowles, Oklahoma, the son of John L. and Clara Mae (Taylor) Dupree. He married Rhea M. Brown December 21, 1941 at Chester, Oklahoma. She died October 16, 2009. A Great Bend resident since 1951, coming...
Elda M. Schroeder
Feb 21, 2012
Elda M. Schroeder, 95, died February 21, 2012 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born November 20, 1916 in rural Pawnee County, Kansas, the daughter of Fred and Elizabeth (Gerdes) Hanken. She married Trois M. Schroeder October 2, 1940 at Albert, Kansas. He died December 24, 1987. A rural Albert resident most of her...
Lillian Irene Hoffhaus
Feb 20, 2012
Lillian Irene Hoffhaus, 91, died February 20, 2012 at Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital, Yukon, Oklahoma. She was born October 4, 1920 at Albert, Kansas, the daughter of Garrett and Mary Katherine (Wagner) Arnold. She married John Frank Hoffhaus April 21, 1946 at Albert, kansas. He died April 9, 1991. A Yukon resident since September 2011, coming from Great Bend...
James Allen Queen
Feb 19, 2012
James Allen Queen, 80, died February 19, 2012 at his home, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born October 8, 1931 at Otis, Kansas, the son of Jesse Thomas and Amelia (Schlegel) Queen. He married Opal M. Schroeder Denney June 8, 1961 at Great Bend. She died March 12, 1991. A resident of Great Bend most of his life, Mr. Queen...
Barbara J. Mcpherson
Feb 18, 2012
Barbara J. McPherson, 81, died February 18, 2012 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend, Kan. Born January 12, 1931 at Fort Wayne, Ind., she was the daughter of Arthur and Vada Wasson. She was a 1954 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Nursing. On March 25, 1951, she married Brock R. McPherson at Arkansas City, Kan. She...
