Helen Mary Brack
Jan 12, 2008
Helen Mary Brack, 81, died January 12, 2008 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born May 13, 1926 at Great Bend, the daughter of John and Frances Marek Serpan. She married Kenneth F. Brack in 1947 at Great Bend. He died January 7, 1980. Mrs. Brack was a Southwestern Bell Telephone Operator for thirty-five...
Charlene Jo Alsup
Jan 12, 2008
Charlene Jo Alsup, 53, died January 12, 2008 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born January 28, 1954 at Holyrood, Kansas, the daughter of Dale and Emma Sulc Klima. She married Jeff Alsup October 4, 1975 at Great Bend, Kansas. A lifetime Barton County, Kansas, resident, she owned and operated Charlene's Day Care and formerly worked at T....
Darlene B. Adams
Jan 8, 2008
Darlene B. Adams, 86, died January 8, 2008, at Stafford Leisure Homestead in Stafford, Kansas. She was born October 2, 1921, in Pawnee County, Kansas, the daughter of Oscar Porter and Eulalia Avery McComas. On August 1, 1942 she married Lester B. Adams, Jr., in Macksville, Kansas. He died on December 9, 1999. Darlene was a homemaker and a resident...
Eugene "Gene" Zorn
Jan 4, 2008
Eugene "Gene" Zorn, 62, died January 4, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born March 1, 1945 at Great Bend, Kansas, the son of William E. and Frances Jenisch Zorn. He married Arlene M. Lamatsch September 28, 1968 at Odin, Kansas. Mr. Zorn was an accountant for Harper Construction Company for thirty-seven years and was...
Doris June Anthony
Jan 4, 2008
Doris June Anthony, 71, died January 4, 2008 at Ellsworth Hospital, Ellsworth, Kansas. She was born July 21, 1936 at Dalhart, Texas, the daughter of James and Nancy Maudie Green Merwin. She married Miles E. Anthony in April 1956 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died December 31, 1984. She was a longtime Russell, Kansas, resident, and was a cook at...
Luceil I. Plotner
Jan 3, 2008
Luceil I. Plotner, 88, died January 3, 2008, at Clara Barton Hospital, Hoisington, Kansas. Luceil was born December 27, 1919 at McCracken, Kansas, the daughter of Ralph Monroe and Martha Schlegel Plotner. She was a resident of Hoisington since 1975 coming from Washington, D.C.. She was a retired personel relations worker for the U. S. government. Ms. Plotner was a...
Dixie Lee Dodson
Jan 2, 2008
Dixie Lee Dodson, 68, died January 2, 2008 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born July 2, 1939 at Turon, Kansas, the daughter of Harold and Edna Allen Pugh. She married Gordon Brewer in 1956 at Sylvia, Kansas. He died in 1962. She married Bob Dodson February 2, 1972 at Great Bend. Mrs. Dodson was a...
Sammy Lee Bee
Jan 2, 2008
Sammy Lee Bee, 62, died January 2, 2008 at his Great Bend, Kansas, residence. He was born October 6, 1945, the son of John and Myrtle Marie Parks Bee. A lifetime resident of Great Bend, he was a truck driver. Mr. Bee was a United States Army veteran. Survivors include his mother, Myrtle Borski, Visalia, California; two brothers, Robert Bee,...
Clyde Victor Merckle
Jan 1, 2008
Clyde Victor Merckle, 92, died January 1, 2008, at his home in Surprise, Arizona. Clyde was born on April 25, 1915, at Fly, Ohio the son of Samuel J. and Blanche Hissom Merckle. He married Margaret Evelyn Lehman December 28, 1936 at Newton, Kansas. She died June 2, 1971. He was a retired drilling contractor for the D. R. Lauck...
Paul J. Urban
Jan 1, 2008
Paul J. Urban, 88, died January 1, 2008 at Rush County Nursing Home, La Crosse, Kansas. He was born November 2, 1919 at Ellis County, Kansas, the son of John and Margaret Stecklein Urban. He was resident of Great Bend since 1953 coming from Hays, where he taught at St. Joseph's Military Academy for a number of years. Mr. Urban...
R. D. Standlee
Dec 31, 2007
R. D. Standlee, 82, died December 31, 2007 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. He was born April 11, 1925 at Winfield, Kansas, the son of David and Clara Briscoe Standlee. He married Betty Rose Kastrup November 28, 1942 at Russell, Kansas. Mr. Standlee worked in the oilfield most of his life and was owner and...
Sr. Mary Urban Hitschmann
Dec 29, 2007
Sister Mary Urban Hitschmann, O.P., 77, died December 29, 2007 at the Dominican Sisters' convent infirmary, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born Celestine Marie Hitschmann November 20, 1930 at Redwing, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Veronica Feltes Hitschmann. She entered the Dominican Sisters' community November 1, 1954, pronouncing her first vows June 13, 1957. Sr. Urban celebrated fifty years...
Roberta Rose Leiker
Dec 29, 2007
Roberta Rose Leiker, 86, died December 29, 2007. She was born April 25, 1921, near Downs, Kansas, to Robert William and Ada Rose Stuart Kiper. She married Ernest Leiker in Great Bend in 1943 and was blessed with 60 happy years of marriage before his death in 2003. She was a member of Saint Rose Catholic Parish for many years,...
Max Durant
Dec 28, 2007
Max Durant, 72, died December 28, 2007 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, Wichita, Kansas. He was born July 1, 1935 at Saint John, Kansas, the son of Robert Eugene and Mildred Irene McAllister Durant. He married Carol J. Williams September 22, 1984 at Great Bend, Kansas. He worked for Windsor Door Company then became owner-operator of A1 Mobile Glass and...
Jackie L. Miller
Dec 24, 2007
Jackie L. Miller, 68, died December 24, 2007 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born December 10, 1939 the son of Leonard Miller and Verla Lavon Dike. He married Peggy Harrell and they later divorced. He then married Marjorie Calvert Leech June 22, 2002 at Great Bend. They later divorced. Mr. Miller was a resident of...
Ray Alois Moeder
Dec 23, 2007
Ray Alois Moeder, 83, died December 23, 2007 at his Great Bend, Kansas, residence. He was born September 10, 1924 to Edward and Ida Penka Moeder at Odin, Kansas. He married Bernadine Demel April 8, 1947 at Odin. Mr. Moeder began employment and later became president of Western Truck Equipment, where he has worked for over fifty years. He worked...
Bertha Marie Haberman
Dec 22, 2007
Bertha Marie Haberman, 102, died December 22, 2007 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born the daughter of Joseph and Mary Cook Skolaut July 18, 1905 at Olmitz, Kansas. She married Frank J. Haberman in 1925 at Olmitz. He died August 7, 1972. She was a lifetime Barton County, Kansas, resident, and was a homemaker and...
Elaine Ensminger Mauck
Dec 21, 2007
Elaine Ensminger Mauck, 85, passed away December 21, 2007, surrounded by her family, and devoted aid, Tausha Davis, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Vickie and Ed McKenney, Manchester, CT. Elaine was born March 30, 1922 at Marion, Kansas. Elaine was a life long resident of Great Bend, Kansas until she moved in January 2005 to be near...
John Max Douglas
Dec 18, 2007
John Max Douglas, 82, died December 18, 2007 at his Great Bend, Kansas, home. He was born July 1, 1925, the son of John Lester and Bessie Katherine Goodwin Douglas, at Belleville, Kansas. He married Alberta F. Foos Clayton July 17, 1962 at Great Bend, Kansas. Mr. Douglas was a retired letter carrier for the Great Bend Postal Service. After...
Helen Louise Witte
Dec 17, 2007
Helen Louise Edmondson Witte, 91, died December 17, 2007 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born on April 27, 1916 in Wellington, Kansas, to Thurman Canna and Grace Ruth Purdy Edmondson (both deceased). The family moved to Great Bend, Kansas, in June of 1929. Helen graduated from Great Bend High School in 1934. In high school,...
