Obituaries
Louis E. Hargrave
Jun 30, 2013
Louis E. Hargrave, age 82 of Randolph, Kansas died Sunday, June 30, 2013 at the Blue Valley Senior Living Center in Blue Rapids, Kansas. He was born on May 30, 1931 on the family farm near Leonardville, Kansas, the son of Eldon and Edith (Pollman) Hargrave. On June 3, 1951 he was married to Norma M. Pate at the Garrison...
Donald R. Carlson
Jun 15, 2013
Donald R. Carlson, age 63 of Manhattan, Kansas died Saturday, June 15, 2013 at the Via Christi Village in Manhattan, Kansas. He was born on October 31, 1949 in Westmoreland, Kansas, the son of Elvin Leroy and Barbara LaVerna (Linder) Carlson. Don washed windows professionally for businesses around Manhattan and was a member of the Worldwide Church of God. He...
Mary Frances Heeth
Jun 12, 2013
Mary Frances Heeth, age 77 of Manhattan, Kansas died Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the Via Christi Village in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born on April 24, 1936 in Johnson County, Kentucky, the daughter of Quince and Lessie (LeMaster) Trimble. Mary was a homemaker. She enjoyed playing solitaire, rummy, yahtzee and bingo, cooking and baking and watching western and classic...
Sylvia E
Jun 2, 2013
Sylvia E. (Oman) Nelson, age 67 of Manhattan, Kansas died Sunday, June 2, 2013 at the Via Christi Village in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born on December 2, 1945 at Walsburg, Kansas, the daughter of Howard A. and Caroline A. (Ruthstrom) Oman. Sylvia worked at Wal-Mart for 17 years in many different capacities and retired in 2002. It was the...
Pamela L. Marsch
May 8, 2013
Pamela L. (Larson) Marsch, age 50, of Anchorage, Alaska, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 from complications of a stroke, at the Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage. She was born on May 9, 1962 in Manhattan, Kansas, the daughter of Verlyn Dean and Paula Lou (Phillips) Larson. She graduated from high school in Dover, Delaware and Kansas State University with...
Marvin LeRoy Hook
May 3, 2013
Marvin LeRoy Hook, age 92 of Manhattan, Kansas died Friday, May 3, 2013 at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas. He was born on April 5, 1921 on the family farm north of Dysart, Iowa, the son of Ira and Jenny Hook. On December 31, 1947, he was married to Jeanette Feuerbach. She preceded in in death on...
A. Grant Sump
Apr 24, 2013
A. Grant Sump, age 91 of Clay Center, Kansas died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at the Leonardville Nursing Home in Leonardville, Kansas. He was born on January 4, 1922 on the family farm outside of Green, Kansas, the son of Albert and Maude (Gilchrist) Sump. On December 1, 1952 in Darlington, Indiana, he was married to Betty Jean Richter. She...
Benjamin Alfred Baxter
Apr 21, 2013
Benjamin Alfred Baxter, age 86 of Clay Center, Kansas died Sunday, April 21, 2013 at the Golden Living Center in Wakefield, Kansas. He was born on February 5, 1927 in Clay Center, Kansas, the son of Alfred and Bernice (Hemphill) Baxter. On February 5, 1946, he was married to Margaret Hedlund. She preceded him in death in 2009. He farmed...
Donald Wayne Zimmer
Apr 20, 2013
Donald Wayne Zimmer, age 85 of Waterville, Kansas, died Saturday, April 20, 2013 at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas. He was born at Pleasant Dale, Nebraska, on August 22, 1927, the son of Fred and Ethel (Gemmell) Zimmer. On November 16, 1947, he was married to Connie J. Sutherland. They lived in Lincoln, Nebraska where Don worked...
June Louise Chapman
Apr 20, 2013
June Louise Chapman, age 87, of Manhattan, Kansas, died Saturday April 20, 2013, at the Stormont Vail Medical Center in Topeka. She was born at Scottsville, Kansas, on June 6, 1925, the daughter of Loris and Vurble (Ridenour) Underhill. She was married on July 1, 1978, to Lewis E. Chapman. June was a homemaker and had worked at KSU, Bayer...
Jordin Marie Johnson
Apr 16, 2013
Jordin Marie Johnson, age 11 of Riley, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born on June 21, 2001 in Manhattan, Kansas. Jordin loved swimming, balloons, swinging, music and so many other things. The person she loved most was her dad! She is survived by her parents, Ted Johnson...
Earl W. Wendland
Apr 9, 2013
Earl W. Wendland, age 87 of Leonardville, Kansas, died Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. He was born in the Peach Grove Community in northern Riley County on May 11, 1925, the son of Alvin Otto and Viola Mae (Price) Wendland. He graduated from Olsburg High School in 1943. On September 1, 1950 at Kinsley, Kansas, he...
Dorothy Marie Johnson
Apr 4, 2013
Dorothy Marie Johnson, age 85 of Olsburg, Kansas, died Thursday, April 4, 2013 at the Westy Community Care Home in Westmoreland, Kansas. She was born on June 12, 1927 in Cleburne, Kansas, the daughter of Frank Wesley and Grace Marie (Churchill) Novak. She grew up in the Cleburne and Olsburg areas, graduating from Olsburg High School. On June 12, 1945,...
Arlene L. Woellhof
Apr 2, 2013
Arlene L. Woellhof, age 87, of Clay Center, Kansas, died Tuesday April 2, 2013, at the Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born in Clay Center, Kansas on October 13, 1925, the daughter of Sam and Ellen (Anderson) Weller. On May 2, 1948, she was married to Oren Woellhof. He preceded her in death on June 25,...
Ruby M. Pollard
Mar 4, 2013
Ruby M. Pollard, age 96 formerly of Junction City, Kansas, died Monday, March 4, 2013 at the Golden Living Center in Wakefield, Kansas. She was born on November 27, 1916 on her parent’s farm outside of Riley, Kansas, the daughter of Charles T. and Sophia (Riniker) Chapman. She was the last surviving graduate of Riley High School’s class of 1933....
Judith Ann Heikes
Feb 22, 2013
Judith Ann Heikes (Clampitt), of Riley, Kansas, age 70, passed away on Friday, February 22, 2013 at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born on March 11, 1942 at her parent’s home in Alma, Kansas to James Orin and Sarah (Pio) Clampitt. She married her husband of almost 41 years Leland Fred “Joe” Heikes on December 31,...
Shirley G. Carlson
Feb 7, 2013
Shirley G. Carlson, age 79, of Wichita, Kansas, died Thursday February 7, 2013, at Midwest Homestead of Wichita. She was born in Miami, Oklahoma on September 11, 1933, the daughter of Roy H. and Ruby Lucille (Peckham) Giles. She graduated from NEO A&M College, where she was a Norse Star dancer. On October 26, 1963, in Wichita, Kansas she was...
Wilma Jean Trumpp
Jan 27, 2013
Wilma Jean Trumpp, age 86, of Clay Center, KS, died Sunday January 27, 2013, at Stormont-Vail in Topeka, KS. She was born in her family home in rural Clay Center, KS on December 29, 1926, the daughter of Herman and Anna (Bauer) Friederich. She graduated from Clay County Community High School in 1945. On August 24, 1949 she was married...
Elden E. Klocke
Jan 24, 2013
Elden E. Klocke, age 95, formerly of Clay Center, Kansas, died Thursday January 24, 2013, at the Life Care Center in Andover, Kansas. He was born on February 21, 1917 in Leonardville, Kansas, the son of Fred and Mary (Sand) Klocke. On November 20, 1947, he was married to Marjorie Stitt at Clifton, Kansas. She preceded him in death on...
Elaine R. Bruns
Jan 20, 2013
Elaine R. Bruns 86, passed away on Sunday, January 20, 2013 at her residence in Zapata, Texas. Mrs. Bruns was an active member of the United Methodist Church, Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary She is preceded in death by her husband, Calvin E. Bruns and a son-in-law, John Arnold Oetinger. Mrs. Bruns is survived by her children, Kenneth...