OBITUARIES
Lois Berringer
Aug 10, 2015
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Lois Marguerite Berringer, 98, died Monday, August 10, 2015. She was born July 10, 1917, at Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Maggie (Laughlin) and Charlie Clauser Hooper. She graduated from Sherman Community High School in Goodland, with the class of 1934. Following graduation she taught at a country school. She and Warren William “Bill” Berringer were married on...
Bob Johnson
Jul 27, 2015
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Bob L. Johnson, 87, died Monday, July 27, 2015, at his home. He was born December 17, 1927, in Sherman County, Kansas, the son of Edna May (Gardner) and W. Henry Johnson. He attended Warren Country School and graduated from Sherman Community High School in Goodland with the class of 1945. On August 16, 1952, he and...
Alta House
Jul 25, 2015
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident Alta Mae House, 74, died Saturday, July 25, 2015, at her home. She was born February 1, 1941, at Burlington, Colorado, the daughter of Mary Lucille (Willy) and Klein P. Bowker. She graduated from Burlington High School. On September 18, 1960, she and Lawrence E. House, Jr. were married at the Methodist Church in Goodland. Surviving...
Felix Reitcheck, Jr.
Jul 23, 2015
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Felix Bernard Reitcheck, Jr., 86, died Thursday, July 23, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society in Atwood, Kansas. He was born June 22, 1929, at Hoxie, the son of Helen (Albers) and Felix Bernard Reitcheck, Sr. He attended Scott School, south of Seguin, Kansas. On June 1, 1949, he and Marcella Agnes Jacobs were married in Leoville, Kansas. In...
Patricia Knudson Perrey
Jul 21, 2015
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Patricia Louise Knudson Perrey, 94, died Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Surviving family includes her husband Dwight Perrey of Goodland; son David Knudson and his wife Roberta of Loveland, Colorado; and granddaughter Lisa Knudson and her children Noah, Lucas, and Grace, all of Chanhassen, Minnesota. Preceding her in death were her parents Myrtle (Powers) and L. N....
James "Jim" Gebhards
Jul 12, 2015
Sharon Springs, Kansas resident James Arnold “Jim” Gebhards, 84, died Sunday, July 12, 2015, at Lawrence, Kansas, in hospice care at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community. He was born September 2, 1930, on a farm near Weskan, Kansas, the son of Elizabeth (Weis) and Herman Gebhards. After graduating from Weskan High School, he farmed the family land for over sixty-five years, planting...
Helen Tellessen
Jun 23, 2015
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Helen Jean (Emig) Tellessen, 86, died Tuesday, June 23, 2015, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born May 24, 1929, in Goodland, the daughter of Helen (Murray) and George Fredrick Emig. She attended rural schools in Sherman County, and then meeting a challenge to complete graduation requirements in three years, she graduated from...
Delmar Bunker
Jun 22, 2015
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident Delmar Lee Bunker, 81, died Monday, June 22, 2015, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. He was born December 23, 1933, at Wilson, Kansas, the son of Caroline (Kaufman) and William Bunker. He attended schools in the Wilson School District. From September 28, 1951 through September 27, 1954, he served his country in the United States...
Dale Price
Jun 18, 2015
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Dale D. Price, 82, died June 18, 2015, in Goodland, Kansas, after a short battle with GBM brain cancer. Dale was born in rural Sherman County on the homestead of his granddad C.E. Price on October 19, 1932, the son of Vona (Johnson) and Wilmot Price. Dale attended school first at the Union Chapel Country...
Dorothy Palmer
Jun 18, 2015
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Dorothy Palmer, 84, died Thursday, June 18, 2015, at her home in Goodland, Kansas. She was born July 6, 1930, on the family farm north of Goodland, in Sherman County, the daughter of Christina (Schlepp) and Henry Zimbelman. She graduated with the class of 1949 from Sherman Community High School in Goodland. On November 10, 1951,...
John Herl
Jun 17, 2015
Longtime Wallace and Sherman County, Kansas resident John L. Herl, 82, died Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at Sun City West, Arizona. He was born September 8, 1932, at Sharon Springs, Kansas, the son of Ethel (York) and George Herl. He graduated from Wallace County Community High School in Sharon Springs. From 1950 through 1954, he served his country in the United States...
Jerome Bussen
Jun 11, 2015
Lifelong Wallace County, Kansas resident Jerome Sylvester “Pete” Bussen, 88, died Thursday, June 11, 2015, at Wallace County Community Care Center in Sharon Springs, Kansas. He was born April 9, 1927, at Wallace, Kansas, the son of Barbara (Fueser) and Theodore J. Bussen. He attended Gill School in Logan County, Kansas. From September 25, 1945 through January 31, 1947, he served...
Audrey Finley
Jun 6, 2015
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Audrey N. Finley, 86, died Saturday, June 6, 2015, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born February 28, 1929, in Goodland, the daughter of Mable (Gustafson) and Orville Amos. She attended Sherman Community High School in Goodland. On March 26, 1945, she and Darold Finley were married at Corpus Christi Naval Station in Texas,...
Jose Alfaro
May 29, 2015
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Jose Cano “Joe” Alfaro, 82, died Friday, May 29, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. He was born March 19, 1933, at Robstown, Texas, the son of Estefano (Cano) and Pedro Alfaro. His education included an associate degree at Saint Mary University in San Antonio, Texas. From 1953 through 1955, he served his country in the United...
Martin Mersch
May 26, 2015
Goodland, Kansas resident Martin Merrill Mersch, 67, died Tuesday, May 26, 2015. He was born November 14, 1947, at Goodland, Kansas, the son of Mable (Clark) and Guy E. Mersch. He attended schools at Roswell, New Mexico and at Goodland. He and Velma L. Beckner were married. He worked in construction. Preceding him in death were his daughter Donna K. (Mersch) Jackson...
Phyllis Van Allen
May 21, 2015
Longtime Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Phyllis Van Allen, 96, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, May 21, 2015. She was born October 22, 1918, near Stockton, Kansas, the daughter of Edna Louise (Butler) and Leslie N. Lindahl. She graduated from high school in Phillipsburg, Kansas. On January 2, 1937, she and Cecil Merle Van Allen were married in Phillipsburg,...
Helen Zaborski
May 20, 2015
Helen Zaborski, 90, resident of Prairie Senior Living Complex in Colby, passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at Citizens Medical Center in Colby. She was born July 24, 1924, at Bridgeport, Ohio, the daughter of Pauline (Korn) and Bruno Bitker. She attended Sherman Elementary School and graduated from Woodward High School, both in Toledo, Ohio. Following graduation, she worked on an assembly...
Opal Seaman
May 20, 2015
Lifelong Cheyenne and Sherman County, Kansas Opal Alice Seaman, 96, died Wednesday, May 20, 2015, at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County in Goodland, Kansas. She was born May 30, 1918, at St. Francis, Kansas, the daughter of Alma Ellen (Nicodemus) and Newton F. Dayton. She graduated with the class of 1936 from St. Francis High School. On June 15, 1941, she and...
Evelyn Bricker
May 15, 2015
Longtime Wallace County, Kansas resident Evelyn Marie (Stetler) Bricker, 105, died Friday, May 15, 2015, which was nine days before her 106th birthday, at Wallace County Community Care Center in Sharon Springs, Kansas. Evelyn was born May 24, 1909, at Washington, Kansas, the daughter of Creta (Fromm) and Amos Stetler. The family moved to Wallace County in March of 1920. When Evelyn was very young, her...
Andrea Chillcott
May 13, 2015
Goodland, Kansas resident Andrea L. Chillcott, 46, died Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Andrea was born August 15, 1968, at Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Linda L. (Candler) and Michael E. Cox. She graduated from Newton High School in Newton, Kansas, with the class of 1986. On March 21, 1987, she and David W. Chillcott were married in Newton. In 2008, they...
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