Obituaries
Lyle William Hafner
Nov 17, 2012
Lyle William Hafner, age 82, of Clay Center, Kansas, passed away Saturday, November 17, 2012, at the Leonardville Nursing Home in Leonardville, Kansas. He was born on December 17, 1929, on the family farm east of Clay Center, Kansas, the son of William and Anna (Schafer) Hafner. Lyle was a lifetime farmer in the Countryside Community and was a member...
Wesley Quinton Esping
Nov 6, 2012
Wesley Quinton Esping, 62, Olsburg, Kansas, died on Nov. 6, 2012. Born February 15th, 1950 to Quinton and Ruth (Bjorling) Esping, he grew up on the family farm near Mariadahl, Kansas. In 1960 the family moved to Leonardville, Kansas, where he spent the rest of his youth. In 1968 he married Coleen Fortner and moved to Manhattan. Wes worked as...
Walter Lee Richards
Nov 5, 2012
Walter Lee Richards, age 78, of Riley, Kansas, passed away Monday, November 5, 2012, at the Via Christi Village in Manhattan, Kansas. He was born on June 7, 1934 in Estes Park, Colorado, the son of Eber Lee and Rachel (Lahnert) Richards. Walter served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict and served two tours in Vietnam with...
Leon "Poots" Schultes"
Oct 31, 2012
Leon E. “Poots” Schultes age 81, of Randolph, Kansas, passed away Wednesday October 31, 2012, at the Clay Center Medical Center in Clay Center, Kansas. He was born on May 12, 1931, the eighth of eight children to Edward and Ida (Sand) Schultes. Mr Schultes spent his entire life on the family farm in the Rose Hill community north of...
Larry Earl Jones
Oct 30, 2012
Larry Earl Jones Sr., age 72, of Checotah, Oklahoma, passed away Tuesday, October 30, 2012, at Oklahoma City. He was born on December 25, 1939, at Clay Center, Kansas, the son of Thomas and Irene (McClosky) Jones. He graduated from Riley Rural High School with the Class of 1957. He was commercial contractor and had been a sheet metal worker...
Dolores Mariam Ford
Oct 29, 2012
Dolores Mariam Ford, age 88 of Leonardville, Kansas passed away Monday, October 29, 2012 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born on December 8, 1923 on the family farm southwest of Leonardville, Kansas, the daughter of John Rudolph and Louisa (Coltharp) Bletscher. She attended Union Country Grade School and graduated from Leonardville Rural High School...
Margaret A. Campbell
Oct 17, 2012
Margaret A. Campbell, age 67, of Fargo, North Dakota died Wednesday, October 17, 2012, at the Eventide Lutheran Home. She was born on August 3, 1945, at El Dorado, Kansas the daughter of Charles and Mary Dixon. She graduated from Leon High School and graduated from Kansas State University in 1969 with a degree in French. Margaret was married on...
Jane E. Gibbs
Oct 13, 2012
Jane E Gibbs, 56 of Olsburg, Kansas passed away October 13, 2012 at the Westy Community Care Home Westmoreland, Kansas. Jane Kemmerer was born August 1, 1956 in Beloit, Kansas to Robert and Patricia Kemmerer of Jewell Kansas. Jane attended Jewell schools and graduated from Jewell High School in 1974. Jane married Rick Gibbs on September 14, 1974 in Jewell...
Richard DeForrest Olson
Oct 6, 2012
Richard DeForrest Olson,age 90, of Manhattan, Kansas, a former resident of Waterville, Kansas, died on Saturday, October 6, 2012, at the Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community in Manhattan. He was born on October 3, 1922, at Richland Center, Wisconsin, the son of Otto and Margaret (Parfrey) Olson. He had been a Librarian in the rare book department at Northwestern University, an...
Kathryn Ann Weik
Sep 27, 2012
Kathryn Ann “Katie” Weik, age 83, of Randolph, Kansas died Tuesday, September 25, 2012, at the Leonardville Nursing Home in Leonardville, Kansas. She was born on January 14, 1929 in Mayday Township in northern Riley County, the daughter of Paul and Emma (Haller) Wohler. Katie worked for the State Bank of Randolph in old Randolph, Union State Bank in Olsburg...
Ken Mantz
Sep 23, 2012
Ken Mantz, age 71, of Milford, Kansas died Sunday, September 23, 2012, at the Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was born on April 5, 1941 at Pratt, Kansas, the son of Dell and Ida (Lambky) Mantz. He was a US Air Force veteran of the Vietnam Conflict. He had worked as a buyer for Beechcraft in Wichita.before becoming...
Lois E. Sylvester
Sep 18, 2012
Lois E. Sylvester, age 86, of Clay Center, Kansas, a former resident of Riley, Kansas, died Monday, September 17, 2012, at Medicalodge of Clay Center, Kansas. She was born March 24, 1926, the youngest of nine children, on the family farm east of Riley, Kansas, the daughter of Zephry and Lois (Meek) Noland. She grew up in Riley and Nemaha...
Darryl Isaacson
Sep 13, 2012
Darryl Isaacson was born May 13, 1958 at Marysville, Kansas and departed at the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas on September 13, 2012. His early years were spent in Cleburne, Kansas. He and his mother, Loretta Isaacson, moved to Lincoln Street in Manhattan, staying with Lorettas’ sister and husband, Virginia and Donald Vathauer. Darryl attended Manhattan schools....
Jeffrey J. Fronce
Sep 9, 2012
Jeffrey J. Fronce, age 52, of Manhattan, Kansas, died on Sunday, September 9, 2012, at the Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan, with his family at his side. He had lived the last year at Meadowlark Hills Stolzer House. He was born on April 26, 1960, in Manhattan, the son of Larry and Darlene (West) Fronce. He attended Manhattan schools...
Karl L. Williams
Sep 6, 2012
Karl L. Williams, age 54, of Olsburg, Kansas, died on Thursday, September 6, 2012, at his home in Olsburg. He was born on May 6, 1958, at Niagara Falls, New York, the son of Lee and Joann Williams. He attended Riley County and Blue Valley USD #384 schools. Karl graduated from Blue Valley High School with the Class of 1976....
Robert F. Hannan
Aug 24, 2012
Robert F. Hannan, age 85, of Riley, Kansas, died at his home on Friday, August 24, 2012. He was born June 22, 1927, on his grandfathers farm near Ogden, the son of William and Edna (Thorpe) Hannan. He married Bonnie McClenahan on May 13, 1951 at Clay Center, Kansas. She preceded him in death on August 2, 2001. Robert was...
Kenneth Edwin Peter
Aug 18, 2012
Kenneth Edwin Peter,age 95, of Randolph, Kansas, passed away peacefully at the Leonardville Nursing Home on Saturday, August 18, 2012. He was born April 13, 1917, on the family farm near Randolph, the son of Edwin and Helen Inskeep Peter. He attended Heller School and later graduated from Randolph High School with the Class of 1935. He married Maxine Hagenmaier...
Vincent E. Alstatt
Aug 7, 2012
Vincent E. Alstatt, 89, of Manhattan, Kansas, a former resident of Riley, Kansas, died Tuesday August 7th, 2012 at Meadowlark Hills Nursing Home. He was born May 4, 1923 in Rhinelander, Wisconsin the first child of the Reverend Eben John and Elsie Alfreda Olson Alstatt. He attended schools in McPherson and Lindsborg. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1941....
James T. Cook
Aug 2, 2012
James T. Cook, age 97, of Clay Center, Kansas, died Thursday, August 2, 2012, at his home in Clay Center. He was born May 22, 1915, at Robinson, Kansas, the son of Thomas and Iva (Wiggins) Cook. He was a auto mechanic and had worked for Mattingly Motors and Primrose Ford Company before retiring in 1987. He was a member...
Fern Florence Berggren
Aug 2, 2012
Fern Florence Berggren, age 88, of Leonardville, Kansas, died Thursday, August 2, 2012, at The Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan, Kansas. She was born December 19, 1923, at Randolph, Kansas, the daughter of William and Martha (Weber) Hagenmaier. She was a devoted homemaker and was a longtime member of the Walsburg Lutheran Church. She was married June 15, 1947,...
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