OBITUARIES
Judith Willems
Jan 29, 2013
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Judith C. Willems, 72, died January 29, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County in Goodland. She was born January 9, 1941, at Goodland, the daughter of Anne (Darnauer) and Edmund Ochsner. She graduated with the class of 1959 from Sherman Community High School in Goodland, and then attended Fort Hays State University at Hays. On December...
Paul Walker
Jan 28, 2013
Former longtime Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Paul L. Walker, 93, died Monday, January 28, 2013, on the day of his 46th wedding anniversary, at Fulton Manor in Fulton, Missouri. He was born April 27, 1919, at Benkelman, Nebraska, the son of Emma (Gross) and George Lawrence Walker. He graduated as valedictorian and class president from Wallace County Community High School with...
Patricia Adelgren
Jan 27, 2013
Former Goodland, Kansas resident Patricia (Becker) Adelgren, 45, died January 27, 2013, at John F. Keever, Jr. Solace Hospice Center in Asheville, North Carolina. Pat was born October 25, 1967, in Goodland, the daughter of LaVaughn (Carr) and Eugene Becker. She graduated from Goodland High School with the class of 1986, and from Fort Hays State University in 1990. On November...
Robert Langdon
Jan 25, 2013
Lifelong Sharon Springs, Kansas resident Robert Lee Langdon, 64, died Friday January 25, 2013, at the Prairie Senior Living Complex in Colby, Kansas. Robert was born June 29, 1948 at Boothroy Memorial Hospital in Goodland, Kansas, the son of Cleo Elizabeth (Kyner) and Emerson Harmond Langdon. He attended and graduated from Winona High School in 1965. While in school he...
Howard Forsythe
Jan 17, 2013
Lifelong Cheyenne and Sherman county resident Howard G. Forsythe, 82, died Thursday, January 17, 2013, at the Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. He was born Howard Gene Forsythe on July 1, 1930 in St. Francis, Kansas, the son of Florence Cora (Angel) and Howard W. Forsythe. He attended and graduated from St. Francis High School in 1951. After high...
Michael Doxon
Jan 14, 2013
Sherman County, Kansas resident Michael Lee Doxon, 25, died Monday, January 14, 2013, at his home. He was born September 17, 1987, at Sterling, Colorado, the son of Karla Marie (Suter) and Curtis Lynn Doxon. He had moved from Jewell to Sherman County in the spring of 2000. He earned his GED at the Goodland Learning Center. He worked in agriculture, and...
Lester Frazier
Jan 7, 2013
Lifelong Goodland, Kansas resident Lester J. Frazier, 88, died Monday, January 7, 2013, at Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler, Kansas. He was born May 21, 1924, at Wallace, Kansas, the son of Martha Mary Minnie (Hackerott) and William Pickering Frazier. He graduated from Sherman Community High School in Goodland with the class of 1942. He served his country in the...
Edgar Osborn
Jan 3, 2013
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Edgar “Ozzie” Osborn, 88, died Thursday, January 3, 2013, at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. Edgar was born on August 27, 1924 in Frankfort, Kansas, the only child of Charles and Eva (Potter) Osborn. He graduated from Frankfort High School in 1942. Edgar served his country in the United State Navy. While in the Navy...
Thelma Luther
Dec 27, 2012
Wallace County, Kansas resident Thelma May Maxine Luther, 89, died Thursday, December 27, 2012, at Greeley County Hospital in Tribune, Kansas. She was born March 7, 1923, at Wallace, Kansas, the daughter of Ina Mae (McKinley) and Henry Earl Mather. She attended country schools in Wallace County. In 1939, she and Lloyd Aaron Luther were married at McAllaster, Kansas. They had lived...
Glenn Weis
Dec 22, 2012
Lifetime Sherman County, Kansas resident Glenn J. Weis, 83, died December 22, 2012. He was born October 9, 1929, at Denver, Colorado, the son of Ruby (Pentico) and Pete Weis. He attended Brownville School in rural Sherman County, and graduated from Brewster High School. He had worked for Lobo Enterprises as a gas well pumper for the last 20 years. Preceding...
Lloyd Harden
Dec 10, 2012
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident Lloyd Russell Harden, 85, died Monday, December 10, 2012, at Trego Manor in WaKeeney, Kansas. He was born March 18, 1927, at Ashland, Kansas, the son of Florence E. (Bard) and Paul R. Harden. He grew up on the family farm in Lexington Township of Clark County, Kansas. He had one sister, Frances, and five brothers, Duane,...
Harold Schmalzried
Dec 6, 2012
Longtime Wallace County, Kansas resident Harold Daniel Schmalzried, 90, died Thursday, December 6, 2012, at Wallace County Community Care Center in Sharon Springs. He was born September 4, 1922, at Dighton, Kansas, the son of Marie M. (Bahm) and Carl DeLoss Schmalzried. He graduated from Dighton High School with the class of 1940. He served his country in the United States...
Vivian Jensen
Dec 6, 2012
Former longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Vivian Jensen, 94, died on December 6, 2012, at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City, Kansas. Vivian M. Jensen was born on July 21, 1918, in Goodland, Kansas, the daughter of Luella M. (Sperry) and James A. Amos. Vivian had a brother Donald Amos and a sister Margaret Amos Stuart. She graduated from Sherman Community High School...
Larry Davis
Dec 5, 2012
Granbury, Texas resident Larry E. Davis, 68, passed away peacefully in his home Wednesday, December 5, 2012. He was born February 21, 1944, in St. Francis, Kansas, the son of Lucille E. Eaks and Grant W. Davis. He graduated from Goodland High School in Goodland, Kansas, with the class of 1962, and then earned his degree at Pittsburg State University in...
Berniece Peters
Dec 3, 2012
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident Berniece A. Peters, 94, died Monday, December 3, 2012, at Aspen Siesta Nursing Home in Denver, Colorado. She was born November 12, 1918, at the family home in Johnson City, Missouri, the daughter of Jessie (Shoemaker) and Fred Murphy. She graduated from East High School in Denver, Colorado with the class of 1936. On February 26,...
Edward Stroyek
Dec 3, 2012
Garden City, Kansas resident Edward J. “Eddie” Stroyek, 94, died Monday, December 3, 2012. He was born February 6, 1918, in St. Joseph, Missouri, the second child of Anna (Nerka) and Michael Stroyek. After the death of his father, his mother married Thomas Bindyk and the family moved to Sherman County, Kansas, in 1930. He attended school at Edson, Kansas through the...
Berna Biem
Dec 2, 2012
Berna (Eliason) Biem, age 92, died at the Southern Hills Nursing Home in Tulsa, OK on Sunday December 2, 2012. She had been a resident at the Home for the last year and a half. Berna was born December 12, 1919 in Opheim, MT. She was the daughter of Olaf and Selma (Holmes) Eliason. She joined a brother, Hollis. Joining the family in the...
Forrest D. Harrison
Dec 2, 2012
Lifelong Wallace County resident Forrest D. “Snick” Harrison, 90, died Sunday, December 2, 2012, at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. He was born August 27, 1922, north of Wallace, Kansas, the son of Iva (Capper) and Thomas Allen Harrison. He attended Lake Creek Country School and Wallace High School. He served his country in the United States Army in the 5th...
Janice Mote
Nov 21, 2012
Lifelong Weskan, Kansas resident Janice Lynn Mote, 73, died Wednesday November 21, 2012 at the Sharon Springs Community Care Center, Sharon Springs, Kansas. Jan was born July 22, 1939 in Weskan, to Alta Lucy (Cambridge) and Howard Collins. She attended and graduated from Weskan High School in 1957. On May 26, 1957, Jan was united in marriage to O.D. Mote...
Leo Hatcher
Nov 15, 2012
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Leo C. Hatcher, 79, died Thursday, November 15, 2012, at Good Samaritan Society—Sherman County in Goodland. Leo was born April 15, 1933 in Modale, Iowa, the son of Harvey and Mabel (Wilding) Hatcher. Leo’s father farmed the Missouri River bottoms near Modale until he became weary of the floods. Harvey had custom combined wheat near Colby, and liked...
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