OBITUARIES
Ray Clark
Oct 22, 2014
Longtime Wallace County, Kansas resident Ray C. Clark, 97, died Wednesday, October 22, 2014, at Wallace County Community Care Center in Sharon Springs, Kansas. He was born January 5, 1917, in Pickett County, Tennessee, the son of Fronia Elizabeth (Gilreath) and Porter Everett Clark. He attended schools at Byrdstown, Tennessee. Beginning in 1937, he served his country in the United States...
Iris Schmalzried
Oct 17, 2014
Lifelong Wallace County, Kansas resident Iris D. Schmalzried, 86, died Friday, October 17, 2014, at Greeley County Hospital in Tribune, Kansas. She was born April 16, 1928, in a sod house south of Sharon Springs, Kansas, the daughter of Vera (Nealis) and Charles L. Senger. In 1947, she graduated from Wallace County Community High School in Sharon Springs. On June 1,...
Maxine Peter
Oct 9, 2014
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Maxine B. Peter, 88, died Thursday, October 9, 2014, at Goodland Regional Medical Center. She was born August 11, 1926, at Prairie View, Kansas, the daughter of Ruth (Smith) and Lambert Lokhorst. All of her grandparents immigrated from Holland to the United States, and she was proud of her heritage. She graduated from Prairie View High School in...
Jess Medina
Oct 3, 2014
Longtime Wallace County, Kansas resident Jess Medina, 85, died Friday, October 3, 2014, at Greeley County Hospital in Tribune, Kansas. He was born June 6, 1929, in Yoder, Wyoming, the son of Maximina (Pinon) and Francisco Medina. On September 22, 1951, he and Dolores Torres were married. He served in the United States Army. Preceding him in death were his parents;...
Arbutus Topliff
Oct 2, 2014
Lifelong Sherman County, Kansas resident Arbutus Topliff, 87, died Thursday, October 2, 2014, at Goodland Regional Medical Center in Goodland, Kansas. She was born June 3, 1927, at Elmo, Kansas, the daughter of Alice Suzan (Leckron) and Albert Martin “Dick” Dautel. In 1931, the family moved to Sherman County, where they made their home southwest of Goodland. She graduated with the class...
Everette Nothdurft
Sep 25, 2014
Longtime Goodland, Kansas resident Everette L. Nothdurft, 85, died Thursday, September 25, 2014, at his home. He was born May 3, 1929, in Cheyenne County, Kansas, the son of Hazel (Kelly) and William Nothdurft. He worked with Fred Schields in farming for twenty-eight years, before working with Herls Chevrolet for twenty-eight years. In 1949, he and Vivian Walz were married,...
Robert Mcfadden
Sep 8, 2014
Goodland, Kansas resident Robert Edward McFadden, 64, died September 8, 2014. He moved to Goodland in February of 2013 from Denver, Colorado. He was born August 29, 1950, at Dubuque, Iowa, the son of Helen Bertha (Martin) and James Hugh McFadden. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, Idaho State University in Pocatello, Idaho, and from Finley School of Nursing in Dubuque....
Alfred Bollig
Aug 23, 2014
Longtime Sherman County, Kansas resident Alfred G. Bollig, 88, went to be with his Lord and Savior on August 23, 2014. He died in Dalhart, Texas, where he had been a resident for the last eight years. He was born December 19, 1925, in Hays, Kansas, the son of Elizabeth (Meier) and Peter Bollig, and also the tenth of thirteen children. Alfred...
Norbert Bussen
Aug 21, 2014
Lifelong Logan County and Wallace County resident Norbert “Norb” Bussen, 91, passed away Thursday, August 21, 2014, at Logan County Manor in Oakley, Kansas. He was born July 25, 1923, near Tipton, Kansas, the son and fourth child of nine, of Barbara M. (Fueser) and Theodore J. Bussen. When Norb was three years old, the family moved to a farm one...
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...
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