Warren Harding Kopke
Aug 4, 2007
Warren H. Kopke, Great Bend, Kansas, passed away on August 4, 2007. He is survived by his wife Dorothy of the home and siblings. Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 at Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend with The Reverend William Johnson officiating. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to the scholarship of...
Carl "Chuck" Wayne Tournear
Aug 3, 2007
Carl Wayne "Chuck" Tournear, 37, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Aug. 3 in Mooresville, N.C. Chuck was born Dec. 24, 1969, in Dallas, Texas. Chuck is survived by his parents, Gary and Sally Tournear of Alamogordo, New Mexico, his brother, Garrett Tournear of Whidbey Island, Washington, his grandparents, Carl and Clara Cook of Peyton, Colorado, and...
Helen Leona Rohr
Aug 1, 2007
Helen Leona Rohr, 89, died August 1, 2007 at her home in Great Bend, Kansas. She was born August 21, 1917 at Ness City, Kansas, the daughter of Andrew and Rosa Dinges Stecklein. On September 29, 1941 she married Fred A. Rohr at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Ness City, Kansas. He died on November 24, 1994. She was a...
Urban F. Meyeres
Jul 27, 2007
Urban F. "Urbie" Meyeres, 72, died July 27, 2007 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. He was born October 12, 1934 at Beaver, Kansas. He was the son of William J. and Teresa Klug Meyeres. He was employed at Waters True Value Hardware and worked previously at Pay Day IGA and Safeway as produce manager. He was a...
James "Jake" Bennett Branstetter
Jul 20, 2007
James "Jake" Bennett Branstetter, 79, died July 20, 2007 at Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson, Kansas. Jake was born on April 14, 1928 at Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Wilfred Wallace Sr. and Nona Jane Stokes Branstetter. He was a retired drilling fluid salesman and school bus driver for U.S.D. 428. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. On...
Madalene D. Oliver
Jul 20, 2007
Madalene D. Oliver 79, died July 20, 2007 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend. She was born November 27, 1927 in Towanda, KS, the daughter of Roy Glen and Iva Baker Mosier. A longtime resident of Great Bend, she was a housewife and mother and had been an R.N. for Dr. A.W. Beahm and Dr. M.M. Swan. She was...
Jewel Imogene Ramsey
Jul 19, 2007
Jewel Imogene Ramsey, 94, died July 19, 2007 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend, Kansas. Jewel was born on July 26, 1912 at Gage, Oklahoma, the daughter of Edward and Maud Myrtle Jackson Hilliard. She was a owner and operator of a beauty salon in Great Bend in the 1950's. On May 14, 1950 she married Francis...
Paul Caleb Carrillo
Jul 19, 2007
Paul Caleb Carrill, 16, died July 19, 2007 at his home in Great Bend, Kansas. Paul was born December 21, 1990 at Liberal. Kansas. The son of Juan Carlos Carrillo and Kiili Lynn Westenhaver. He was a junior at Great Bend High School and worked at Arby's in Great Bend. He was a resident of Great Bend since January of...
Thomas A. Peschka
Jul 19, 2007
Thomas A. Peschka 52, died July 19, 2007 at Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita. He was born October 16, 1954 in Great Bend, the son of Elmer and Geraldine Zorn Peschka. He was a lifetime resident of Great Bend, and was a welder and worked in farming. On September 21, 1985 he married Sherry Crosby in...
Virama "Sue" Castle
Jul 15, 2007
Virama "Sue" Castle, 76, died July 15, 2007 at her home in Great Bend, Kansas. Sue was born on January 6, 1931 at Brady, Texas, the daughter of Earl and Leta Skinner Strother. She was a homemaker. On November 16, 1950, she married D. Castle at Clovis, New Mexico. He died on August 10, 2004. Sue was a resident of...
Evelyn Pearl Clark
Jul 9, 2007
Evelyn Pearl Clark, 81, died July 9, 2007, at Midland Hospice, Topeka, Kansas. Evelyn was born on April 2, 1926 at Cherryvale, Kansas. The daughter of Frederick Wilbur and Lulu May Brooks Rambow. On June 15, 1945 she married James Allen Clark at Cherryvale, Kansas. He died on March 12, 1982. She was a resident of Topeka, Kansas since 2004...
Elga Weldon Wilkinson
Jul 9, 2007
Elga Weldon Wilkinson, 78, died July 9, 2007 at Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson, Kansas. Elga was born on April 23, 1929 at Squires, Missouri, the son of John and Emily Plum Wilkinson. He was a resident of Great Bend since 1953 coming from Squires, Missouri. He was a heavy equipment operator for Stone Sand and Venture Corporation and worked for E-pox...
Sister Lorena Bolte Op
Jul 4, 2007
Sister Lorena Bolte OP, 58, died Wednesday, July 4, 2007, in a car accident near Syracuse KS. Born January 27, 1949, in Nelson Nebraska, as Marie Bolte, Sister Lorena was the daughter of Bernice Kathman Bolte and the late Lawrence Bolte. She entered the Dominican Sisters Community August 26, 1965, and pronounced her first vows June 13, 1968. She celebrated...
Patricia Ann Commerford
Jul 3, 2007
Patricia Ann Commerford, 78, died July 3, 2007 at her home in Great Bend, Kansas. Patricia was born on November 15, 1928 at Abilene, Kansas, the daughter of Paul X. and Mary Rauch Whitehair. She grew up in Abilene and graduated from Abilene High School. On April 29, 1950 she married Henry Bernard Commerford at St. Andrews Church in Abilene,...
Donald N. Burke
Jun 26, 2007
Donald N. Burke, 64, died June 26, 2007 at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada. Donald was born on October 18, 1942 at Dodge City, Kansas, the son of William Chauncey and Julia Hayden Burke. He was a 1960 graduate of St. Joseph's Military Academy and attended Fort Hays State University, both of Hays, Kansas. He was a casino gaming...
Ruby Rebecca Lamb
Jun 26, 2007
Ruby Rebecca Lamb, 91, died June 26, 2007, at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas. Ruby was born October 22, 1915 at Coldwater, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Lois Dickerson Crowder. On December 16, 1931 she married, Murray Lamb at El Dorado, Kansas. He died July 3, 1991. She was a homemaker. She was a resident of Great Bend and...
Howard Lee Lawrence
Jun 19, 2007
Howard Lee "Bud" Lawrence, 78, died June19, 2007, at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. Bud was born September 3, 1928 at Heizer, Kansas, the son of Charles Lee and Viola Hazel Amerine Lawrence. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. On October 5, 1954, he married Joan Montgomery at Kinsley, Kansas. He worked as a...
Albert Leon Niedens
Jun 18, 2007
Albert Leon Niedens, 74, died June 18, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital in Hutchinson. The son of John Henry and Bertha (Bitter) Niedens, he was born Feb. 17, 1933, in Hodgeman County. He moved with his family to northern Barton County in 1940 and to Hoisington in 1945. He graduated in 1951 from Hoisington High School, where he earned multiple varsity...
Gertrude Anna Augusta Newsome
Jun 17, 2007
Gertrude Anna Augusta Newsome, 95, died Sunday, June 17, 2007, at Salina Regional Health Center, Salina, Kansas. Gertrude was born May 5, 1912 at Holyrood, Kansas, the daughter of Albert E. and Bertha Christian Stratmann. She had resided in Salina for four months. She was a resident of Great Bend since 1962 coming from Hoisington, KS. She was a homemaker....
Donetta Pearl Payan
Jun 14, 2007
Donetta Pearl Payan, 52, died June 14, 2007 at her home in Great Bend, Kansas. Donetta was born on April 3, 1955 at Oakley, Kansas, the daughter of Ronald Raymond and Willa Joy Brown Herschberger. She was a resident of Great Bend since 1981 coming from Oxford, Kansas. She had worked for T.G. & Y. and Walmart. On July 10,...
