OBITUARIES
Ruth Ross
Aug 14, 2014
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Ruth E. (Briney) Ross, 85, died Thursday, August 14, 2014, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born February 26, 1929, at McDonald, Kansas, the daughter of Eva L. (Coppoc) and P. Walker Briney. She attended rural schools and graduated from McDonald High School. After graduating, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Kansas Wesleyan...
Robert Todd
Aug 10, 2014
Robert “Bob” Otis Todd, 94, passed away peacefully at his home at the Good Samaritan Independent Living facility in Loveland Colorado, on August 10, 2014. He was born February 20, 1920, the son of Elsie (Deay ) and Otis Todd in Russell Springs, Kansas. When he was one year old, the family relocated to Goodland, Kansas, and in 1939, he...
Evelyn Kling
Aug 4, 2014
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Evelyn Bessie Kling, 104, died Monday, August 4, 2014, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born June 22, 1910, at Oberlin, Kansas, the daughter of Bessie (Beneda) and Ernest Kolsky. She attended country school at Mound School. On October 6, 1926, she and John Robert Kling were married at Burlington, Colorado, and they made their...
Luella Wulf
Jul 30, 2014
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Luella “Dolly” Wulf, 85, died Wednesday, July 30, 2014, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born November 28, 1928, on the family homestead near Ruleton, the daughter of Alma (Duell) and Edward O. Middleton. She graduated from Kanorado High School with the class of 1947. On May 9, 1948, she and Cecil Lee...
Barbara Hogue
Jul 29, 2014
Barbara Jean "Amy" Hogue, 81, passed away July 29, 2014. Born June 10, 1933 in Syracuse, Kansas to Robert Bernard Werner and Golda Mae (Aldrich) Werner. She had three siblings, Betty Mae (Beilman), Robert Lee, and James Dorrel. She married John Jesse Hogue November 24, 1956. From this union, she has three children, John Robert, James Mark, and Jean Marie....
Sherry Hoss
Jul 27, 2014
Thornton, Colorado resident Sherry Marie Hoss, 66, died Sunday July 27, 2014, at Collier Hospice in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. She was born October 14, 1947, at Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Ileene Marie (Bricker) and Don Carlos Hoover. She graduated from Wallace County Community High School in Sharon Springs, and from Northwest Kansas Vocational-Technical School in Goodland. On August 21, 1963,...
Helena Parker
Jul 22, 2014
Helena M. Parker, 88, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, passed away Tuesday, July 22, 2014, after failing to recover from a fall and back surgery. Interment will be in Goodland, Kansas, with a private ceremony for the family. Helena Marie was born December 23, 1925, in Sharon Springs, Kansas, to Dorothy and Vincent Kvasnicka. Immediately after high school graduation, she challenged her father over...
Helen Cowles
Jul 17, 2014
Longtime Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Helen Josephine Cowles, 104, died Thursday, July 17, 2014, at Prairie Village Retirement Community in Sharon Springs. She was born March 15, 1910, in Logan County, Kansas, the daughter of Jessie (Travis) and Ernest Cook. She graduated from high school at Oakley, Kansas, with the class of 1928, and from college at Kansas State University in...
Ladean Unruh
Jul 16, 2014
Longtime Wallace County, Kansas resident LaDean Lynn Unruh, 77, died Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at Greeley County Hospital in Tribune, Kansas. She was born July 4, 1937, at Halstead, Kansas, the daughter of Iva (Buller) and Harry Unruh. She attended schools at Hesston and Russell Springs. On July 24, 1955, she and Richard Lee Unruh were married at the Mennonite Church...
Kenneth Okeson
Jul 11, 2014
Lifelong Weskan, Kansas resident Kenneth Alvin Okeson, 89, died Friday July 11, 2014 at the Wichita Heart Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. Kenneth was the grandson of Swedish Immigrants that homesteaded south of Weskan in the Stockholm Community. He was born on October 12, 1924 at home, in the area known as Chance, Kansas. His parents, Olaf and Karin Cecilia (Johnson) Okeson,...
Betty Webb
Jul 7, 2014
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Betty Elaine (Short) Webb, 86, died Monday, July 7, 2014, in Goodland at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. She was born November 29, 1927, in Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Bessie Verna (Stewart) and Charles Emerson Short. Betty was educated in the Goodland schools and graduated with the class of 1946 from Sherman Community High School. As a...
Gary Jensen
Jun 30, 2014
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Gary Lee Jensen, 72, died Monday, June 30, 2014, at Porter Hospital in Denver, Colorado. He was born June 2, 1942, at Goodland, the son of Lillian Lee (Hickson) and Henry Jensen. He graduated from Sherman Community High School in Goodland with the class of 1960, and from Northwest Kansas Vocational-Technical School. He served his country in the...
Carl Bowen
Jun 25, 2014
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Carl E. Bowen, 83, died Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County in Goodland. He was born August 15, 1930, at Goodland, the son of Jessie Elva (Moore) and Homer Thomas Bowen. He attended Goodland Schools, until his father’s death, when he started working full time to help support his family. He worked for Rex Road...
Marcia Way
Jun 24, 2014
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Marcia K. Way, 61, died Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at Goodland Regional Medical Center. She was born June 7, 1953, at Goodland, the daughter of Mary M. (Weis) and Leonard L. Elliott. She attended grade school through the fifth grade at Ruleton, and then graduated from Goodland High School with the class of 1971. On June 24,...
Dorothy Arnold
Jun 21, 2014
Dorothy J. Arnold, 82, of Goodland, Kansas, was born April 3, 1932, in Benkelman, Nebraska, the daughter of John and Alice (Sparks) Ellis. She died Saturday, June 21, 2014 at the Good Samaritan Society-Sherman County, in Goodland, Kansas. Dorothy attended and graduated from Benkelman High School. She graduated from McCook Community College in McCook, Nebraska, and taught school in District 66...
James Tubbs
Jun 11, 2014
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident James “Lee” Tubbs, 77, died Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at Goodland, Kansas, in Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County. He was born December 1, 1936, at a sod house north of Ruleton, Kansas, the son of Mary “Vena” (Light) and Wilbur Tubbs. He attended Ruleton Grade School, graduated with the class of 1955 from Sherman Community High School...
Vida Young
Jun 7, 2014
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Vida (Murray) Young, 101, joined her family in eternal life on Saturday, June 7, 2014, at Salina Regional Health Center in Salina, Kansas. She was born January 1, 1913, at the family home in Sherman County, Kansas, the daughter of Annie (Kolacny) and Percival Murray. Born the fifth child of ten brothers and sisters, Vida was...
Marilyn Melia
Jun 6, 2014
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Marilyn Melia, 84, died Friday, June 6, 2014, at Life Care Center Evergreen in Evergreen, Colorado. She was born April 23, 1930, at Mankato, Kansas, the daughter of Amy LaRuby (Chandler) and Murlin Sylvester Johnson. She graduated from Garden City High School in Garden City, Kansas, and then furthered her education at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas....
Billy Whitney
May 29, 2014
Lifelong Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Billy D. Whitney, 73, died Thursday, May 29, 2014, at his home. He was born April 20, 1941, in Sharon Springs, Kansas, the son of Hazel Marguerite (Baehler) and Glenn Darius Whitney. He graduated from Alameda High School in Lakewood, Colorado. On December 18, 1966, he and Wilma June Armstrong were married, and they made their...
Gloria Woodmancy
May 24, 2014
Longtime Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Gloria Belle Woodmancy, 84, died Saturday, May 24, 2014, at her home. She was born December 26, 1929, at Holyoke, Colorado, the daughter of Iva Mary (Critchlow) and Ray E. Crosby. She graduated from Holyoke High School with the class of 1947 and then furthered her education at Colorado University in Boulder, Colorado. On April 5,...
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