Donald Joe Smith
Dec 31, 2006
Donald Joe Smith, 63, died December 31, 2006 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born the son of Galen and Bernice Moyer Smith on April 8, 1943 at Great Bend, Kansas. He married Janice Dorothy Gordier in May 1996 at Denver, Colorado. He worked in the oilfield and was a truck driver. Mr. Smith was a resident of...
Gordon Ray Smith
Dec 29, 2006
Gordon Ray Smith, age 60, died December 29, 2006 at the Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. He was born the son of Harold and Juanita Hager Smith on May 22, 1946 at Great Bend, Kansas. Mr. Smith married Sheila Rowley June 5, 1971 in Albert, Kansas. He was past manager of several body shops, and was a lifetime area resident....
Vada Ford Gruber
Dec 29, 2006
Vada Ford Gruber, 88, died at her Great Bend, Kansas, home December 29, 2006. She was born February 3, 1918 at Meade, Kansas, the daughter of Fred Franklin and Sylvia Mae Keltner Ford. She married Vernon J. Gruber May 24, 1942 at Beaver, Oklahoma. He died July 22, 1959. Mrs. Gruber was a cocktail waitress for many years and a...
Roberta Sanger
Dec 28, 2006
Roberta (Bert) Sanger, the oldest child of Robert and Wanda Davis Duff was born on April 10, 1927 near Gray in Beaver County, Oklahoma. She attended schools in Beaver County including Bethany High School. She died December 28, 2006 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation, Great Bend, Kansas. She married Henry Sanger on December 3, 1947 in Perryton, Texas. He...
Roberta Alma Sanger
Dec 28, 2006
Roberta "Bert" Sanger, 79, died December 28, 2006 at Great Bend Health and Rehabilitation Center, Great Bend. The oldest child of Robert and Wanda Davis Duff, she was born April 10, 1927, near Gray in Beaver County, Oklahoma. She attended schools in Beaver County including Bethany High School. She earned her GED and attended Barton County Community College in Great...
Sylvia Mae Adams
Dec 28, 2006
Sylvia Mae Adams, 61, died December 28, 2006 at Hospice House of Reno County, Hutchinson, Kansas. She was born November 19, 1945 at Iowa City, Iowa, the daughter of John A., Sr. and Bernice Wanita Reynolds Kahler. She married Paul Marvin Adams on January 11, 1964 at Moline, Illinois. He died July 20, 1993. She was an assisted living care...
Melvin "Champ" Wayne Simpson, Jr.
Dec 24, 2006
Melvin Wayne "Champ" Simpson, Jr., age 66, died December 24, 2006 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was born May 11, 1940 at Monegaw Springs, Missouri, the son of Melvin Clay and Frances Elizabeth Jackson Simpson Sr. He was a truck driver for R & S Transportation. Mr. Simpson was a lifetime resident of Great Bend coming from Missouri as a...
Inez Jane Royer
Dec 23, 2006
Inez Jane Royer, 87, died December 23, 2006 at Grisell Long Term Care, Ransom, Kansas. She was born at Bison, Kansas, January 4, 1919, the daughter of George and Katie Gillig Kleweno. She married Clarence Keatley, who died in 1955. She then married Mervin Royer October 5, 1964 at Great Bend, Kansas. He died August 10, 1997. A resident of...
Virginia Ella Elliott
Dec 22, 2006
Virginia Ella Elliott, 77, died at her Great Bend, Kansas, residence on December 22, 2006. She was born the daughter of James and Edna Rauhoff Pierce November 28, 1929 at Arkansas City, Kansas. She married Paul Elliott and they later divorced. She was a homemaker, and was a Great Bend resident since 1966, coming from Arkansas City. Survivors include three...
Hazel "Peg" M. Duke
Dec 22, 2006
Hazel M. "Peg" Duke, 97, died at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend, Kansas on December 22, 2006. She was born May 9, 1909 at Lane, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ernest Howe and Clara Mae Wolbert Jamison. She married Lynn Oliver Duke July 26, 1926 at Shermon, Texas. He died October 28, 1980. She was co-owner of Duke Oil Company....
Delmer Gale Brodie
Dec 20, 2006
Delmer Gale Brodie, age 77, died December 20, 2006 at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas. He was born May 24, 1929 at St. Rose Hospital, Great Bend, Kansas, the son of Dale and Christine Mueller Brodie. He graduated from St. John High School in 1947. Mr. Brodie served in the U. S. Army from September 1948 until May 1952, stationed...
Roger Walker Marsh
Dec 19, 2006
Roger Walker Marsh, 91, died on December 19 at Kiowa Hospital District Manor, Kiowa. He was born October 28, 1915, at Belle Plain, Kansas, the son of Alpheus and Mabel Walker Marsh. He married Agnes Irene Webber on June 27, 1941, in Emporia, Kansas. Agnes lived until May 1985. Roger's wife Sybil McPherson Marsh survives. Roger Marsh graduated from Argonia,...
Rodney E. Eller
Dec 17, 2006
Rodney E. Eller, 71, died December 17, 2006 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. Born the son of Clovis and Mary Chapin Eller, January 18, 1935, at Downs, Kansas, Eller was a Great Bend resident for approximately thirty-five years, coming from Greenville, Texas. He married the former JoAnn Klingensmith on April 16, 1961 at Great Bend. He was...
Stanley Odegard
Dec 17, 2006
Stanley Odegard, 85, a resident of West Palm Beach, Florida, died at his residence, December 17, 2006. He was born at Breckenridge, Minnesota, September 14, 1921, the son of Sigvart and Lena Olson Odegard. He married LaVera Emma Bruns September 29, 1943 at Hertford, North Carolina. She died January 23, 1998. Mr. Odegard was a postal clerk for the U....
Harley Ray Evers
Dec 16, 2006
Harley Ray Evers, 94, died December 16, 2006 at Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas. He was born the son of Otis and Maude Barger Evers on December 30, 1911 in Barton County, Kansas. He married Ruth Alefs June 11, 1934 at Great Bend, Kansas. She died October 3, 1986. He then married Opal Ford January 25, 1990 at Great Bend....
Herbert "Herb" Rohleder
Dec 14, 2006
Herbert "Herb" Rohleder, age 75, died December 14, 2006 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, Wichita, Kansas. He was born March 25, 1931 at Hays, Kansas, the son of Peter N. and Clara Toepfer Rohleder. He married Darlene Colby in 1951 at Ellis, Kansas. They divorced in 1973. On August 13, 1986, he married Diane Nusbaum in Oklahoma. She survives. Mr....
Karen (Brenner) Becker
Dec 10, 2006
Karen Raye (Brenner) Becker, age 66, died December 10, 2006 at Cherry Village Nursing Home, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born June 25, 1940 at Great Bend, Kansas, the daughter of Albert Patrick and Adella Mary Machal Brenner. A 1958 graduate of Great Bend High School, Mrs. Becker was a homemaker. She was a lifetime resident of Great Bend and...
Mabel L. Cook
Dec 8, 2006
Mabel L. Cook, age 85, died December 8, 2006 at the Good Samaritan Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born May 4, 1921 on the farm in Hartland Township, Kearny County, Kansas, the daughter of John and Florence Kaniper Kash. She married Norman Cook June 21, 1937 in Garden City, Kansas. He died June 22, 1989. She was a homemaker. Mrs....
Garrett Bradley Blase
Dec 5, 2006
Garrett Bradley Blase, 18, died December 5, 2006 at Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. He was born August 23, 1988 at Great Bend, Kansas, the son of Robert and Shari Ann LeRoy Blase. A senior at Hoisington High School, he was a server for Perkins Restaurant and resided in Great Bend all his life. Blase was a member of...
Mary Evelyn Dobbs
Dec 1, 2006
Mary Evelyn Dobbs, 44, died at her Manhattan, Kansas, residence on December 1, 2006. She was born September 5, 1962 at Great Bend, Kansas, the daughter of Roy T. and Louise I. Cummings Bird. She was a teacher at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, and Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas. She had resided in Manhattan since 1998, coming from Great...
