Margaret Louise Smith
May 20, 2008
Margaret Louise Smith, 84, died May 20, 2008 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born August 5, 1923 at Florence, Kansas, the daughter of Ralph and Selena (Clement) Murphy. She married Robert R. Smith October 11, 1946 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died May 14, 2008. A homemaker, Mrs. Smith was a lifetime resident of Great...
Vernelia Williams
May 20, 2008
Vernelia Williams, 87, died May 20, 2008 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born December 11, 1920 at St. Leo, Kansas, the daughter of Aloysius "A. J." and Elizabeth (Schommer) Schwager. She married Howard Williams June 20, 1946 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died October 19, 1983. A longtime resident of Great Bend, Mrs. Williams was a homemaker...
Anna M. Hunsley
May 19, 2008
Anna M. Hunsley, 94, died May 19, 2008 at Life Care Center of Andover, Andover, Kansas. She was born November 27, 1913 at Redwing, Kansas, the daugther of Frank J. and Mary (Koester) Rziha. She married Joseph B. Schon September 24, 1941 at Odin, Kansas. He died September 12, 1977. She later married William B. Hunsley August 30, 1985. He...
Frank Charles White
May 19, 2008
Frank Charles White, 78, died May 19, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born October 1, 1929 at Muskogee, Oklahoma, the son of Frank and Anna Peck White. Raised by his father's parents at Coyville, Kansas, Mr. White's mother died October 4, 1929 at age 23. He started school in 1936 and graduated from Coyville...
Joyce Jeanette Schiller
May 18, 2008
Joyce Jeanette Schiller, 75, died May 18, 2008 at Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. She was born August 6, 1932 at Otis, Kansas, the daughter of John E. and Elizabeth Wilhelm Kaiser. She married Joseph John Schiller August 25, 1954 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died February 4, 2006. A lifetime Barton County, Kansas, resident, Mrs. Schiller was a homemaker....
Charles R. "Jiggs" Walls
May 17, 2008
Charles R. "Jiggs" Walls, 87, died May 17, 2008 at Labette Health Hospital, Parsons, Kansas. He was born July 7, 1920 at Estella, Oklahoma, the son of John Wesley and Bessie (Williams) Walls. He married Velma "Fern" Barnwell April 17, 1948 at Topsy, Oklahoma. He worked for Northern Natural Gas at Bushton as a backhoe operator for thirty-three years before...
Leona L. Jenisch
May 16, 2008
Leona L. Jenisch, 91, died May 16, 2008. She was born the daughter of Emil and Josephine (Zorn) Schneweis August 26, 1916 at Odin, Kansas. She married Arthur Jenisch October 16, 1946 at Odin. He died November 24, 2002. A lifetime Odin resident, Mrs. Jenisch retired from St. Rose Hospital, Great Bend, as a registered nurse. Mrs. Jenisch was a...
Vernon H. Bartonek
May 16, 2008
Vernon H. Bartonek, 86, died May 16, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born February 4, 1922 at Olmitz, Kansas, the son of Adolph J. and Anna Riedel Bartonek. He married Leona Lichter May 29, 1945 at Olmitz. Mr. Bartonek was a farmer and stockman and worked in maintenance for the State Highway Department of...
Brenda Alcala
May 15, 2008
Brenda Alcala, 23, died May 15, 2008 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born March 26, 1985 at Durango, Mexico, the daughter of Alfredo and Zenaida Reyes Alcala. She was formerly employed by Fuller Brush and Great Bend Packing and was a Great Bend, Kansas, resident since 2003, coming from Durango, Mexico. Miss Alcala...
Robert R. Smith
May 14, 2008
Robert R. Smith, 93, died May 14, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born December 11, 1914 at Hoisington, Kansas, the son of Herbert and Mayme (Tromer) Smith. He married Margaret Murphy October 11, 1946 at Great Bend, Kansas. Mr. Smith was a brakeman and conductor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. He was a lifetime...
Truman Lee Mcfann
May 13, 2008
Truman Lee "T. L." McFann, 77, died Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at Hutchinson Hosptial, Hutchinson, Kansas. He was born the son of Leo Leslie and Bertha (Proehl) McFann September 21, 1930 at Virgil, Kansas. A lifetime Barton County, Kansas, resident, Mr. McFann was a meter technician in Pawnee Rock for K-N Energy Gas Company. He was a veteran of the...
David Galen Imler
May 10, 2008
On Saturday evening, May 10, 2008, our Heavenly Father called David home, passing away at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. At 4:20 a.m. on Sunday, October 1, 1944 in Nuckolls County, near Superior, Nebraska, David Galen Imler was born. He was welcomed by not only his parents Galen and Marcile Earnestine Imler but an older sister Sharlene and...
Carl Soden
May 8, 2008
Carl Soden, 92, died May 8, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born May 21, 1915 at Hardy, Arkansas, the son of James Walter and Mahala Elizabeth Brummit Soden. He married Dorothy O. Brueggaman December 21, 1946 at Mission, Kansas. Mr. Soden was a school teacher and started the Great Bend Recreation Center in Great...
Erma V. Moore
May 7, 2008
Erma V. Moore, 81, died May 7, 2008 at Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born June 4, 1926 at Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of William F. and Gladys Myers Willard. She married Luther Moore, Jr., March 12, 1950 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died March 16, 1981. A homemaker, Mrs. Moore was a lifetime...
Christina M. Gerritzen
May 7, 2008
Christina M. Gerritzen, 88, died May 7, 2008 at Cherry Village Residential Care, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born July 17, 1919 at Hoesbrook, Holland, the daughter of John and Maria Langenweld. When she came to the United States she was a housekeeper for Father Cornelius Leunissen at Odin, Kansas, later marrying Albert H. Gerritzen on August 23, 1953 at...
Eleanor Marie Hickel
May 6, 2008
Eleanor Marie Hickel, 85, died May 6, 2008 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born April 28, 1923 at Odin, Kansas, the daughter of Fred and Anna Kirmer Zorn. She married William Hickel September 28, 1941 at Odin. He died November 30, 1986. A lifetime resident of Barton County, Kansas, Mrs. Hickel worked for...
Bessie Dueser French
May 3, 2008
Bessie Dueser French, 93, died May 3, 2008 at Great Bend Health and Rehabiliation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born September 30, 1914 at Lyons, Kansas, the daughter of Carey A. and Myrtle Chewning Griffin. She married Andrew J. Dueser November 23, 1936 at Ellinwood, Kansas. He died April 2, 1973. She then married Floyd K. "Bud" French February...
William F. "Bill" Werhahn
May 2, 2008
William F. "Bill" Werhahn, 87, died May 2, 2008 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born the son of C. H. Will and Bertha Fleske Werhahn April 12, 1921 at Great Bend. He attended the Great Bend schools. He married Darlenne Thompson October 26, 1952 at Alexander, Kansas. Mr. Werhahn was a farmer and...
Dorothy C. Welsch
May 2, 2008
Dorothy C. Welsch, 92, died May 2, 2008 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born November 4, 1915 at Edwards County, Kansas, the daughter of Thomas and Mabel May Monoghan. She married Monroe Welsch April 20, 1936 at Radium, Kansas. He died in 1980. A homemaker, Mrs. Welsch was a Great Bend resident since...
Duane L. Deutsch
May 2, 2008
Duane L. Deutsch, 63, died May 2, 2008 at his Hoisington, Kansas, residence. He was born the son of Otto and Alvina (Niedens) Deutsch March 31, 1945 at Hoisington. A lifetime Hoisington area resident, Mr. Deutsch was a Hoisington High School and Kansas State University graduate. He was a farmer and a United States Air Force veteran. Numerous cousins survive...
