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Caroline Tubbs

Caroline Tubbs

Feb 26, 2017

Caroline Josephine (Prokop) Tubbs, 82, of Levant, Ks died February 26, 2017 in Colby. She was born in Atwood, Ks. to Cyprian and Antoinette (Horinek) Prokop on January 11, 1935. She was the 4th of 11 children. She lived on a farm east of Atwood until her parents moved to the family farm northeast of Colby. While growing up on...

Norman Whittaker

Norman Whittaker

Feb 24, 2017

Send Flowers Norman Whittaker was born to Horace and Alma Whittaker on the Brewster Family Farm on July 8, 1941. He died February 24, 2017 at the age of 75. Norman hobbies included the making of peanut brittle, pies and pikles that he shared with family & friends. Norman never knew a stranger and loved to showoff his 1958 Dodge...

Karen  Horinek

Karen Horinek

Feb 23, 2017

Karen Lee (Bowin) Horinek, 57, of Atwood, died Thursday, February 23, 2017, in Englewood, CO. She was born on July 3, 1959 in Emporia, KS to Rufus and Irene (Harris) Bowin-Leech. She was the youngest of four children. Karen was raised in Osage City, KS and graduated high school in 1977. Karen joined the Air National Guard in 1978 and...

Patricia Strutt

Patricia Strutt

Feb 22, 2017

Patricia (Pat) Strutt was born in Hollis, Oklahoma on July 10, 1936 to Doyle Leon Ramsey and Myrtle Thelma (Howry) Ramsey. Pat was raised in Maysville, Oklahoma where she attended Maysville High School. In 1953 she married Thomas Richardson and they had Pat’s first son Leon Richardson. Leon died shortly after he was born. In 1955, Pat met Richard Hays...

Leona Evelyn Bigbee

Leona Evelyn Bigbee

Feb 19, 2017

Leona Evelyn Bigbee, 103, of Oakley, died Sunday, February 19, 2017. She was born January 31, 1914, south of Orion, KS, in Gove County, the third child of Edward Kelly and Grace Eva (Jenkins) Moss. She attended grade school at District #44 and went to Grinnell High School for two years. On February 2, 1932 she married Raymond Bigbee. Evelyn...

Armun Jones

Armun Jones

Feb 18, 2017

Send Flowers Armun Duane Jones July 6, 1921 - February 18, 2017

Kathleen Carman

Kathleen Carman

Feb 17, 2017

Kathleen Ann Carman, 64, of Colby, passed away Friday, February 17, 2017, at her home. She was born January 1, 1953, in McCook, NE, to Earl and Marcella (Keagen) Ridpath. She grew up in Indianola, where she attended Republican Valley Schools. On February 4, 1970, she married Darrell Eugene Carman at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, in McCook. The couple was...

J. Douglas Finley

J. Douglas Finley

Feb 10, 2017

J. Douglas Finley, 61, of Colby, died Friday, February 10, 2017 in Kansas City, KS. He was born March 10, 1955, in Atwood, KS, to John and Doris (Luedke) Finley. Doug graduated from Atwood High School in 1974 and then received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Social Work, from the University of Kansas. He was a Social Worker for...

Thelma Beckman

Thelma Beckman

Feb 10, 2017

Thelma Ann (Racette) Beckman, 90, of Oakley, died Friday, February 10, 2017. She was born May 28, 1926, in Sheridan County, KS, to William and Mary (Chavey) Racette. Thelma went to grade school south of Campus, KS, then attended Grinnell High School, graduating in 1944. She then earned her teaching certificate at St. Mary’s College, in Salina and taught for...

Dorothy Metzler

Dorothy Metzler

Feb 9, 2017

Dorothy Maye Metzler was born May 17, 1926, in Gem Kansas to Josephine and Clarence Ziegelmeier. She attended the Gem Public Schools graduating in 1943. She went to Denton, Texas where she attended Texas State College for Women. She returned to the Gem area and taught classes in a one-room schoolhouse. On April 30, 1948, she married James L. Metzler....

Keith Reunitz

Keith Reunitz

Feb 7, 2017

Keith Frederick Reunitz, 69, died Tuesday, February 7, 2017. He was born on Jan. 2, 1948 in Stratton, NE to parents Vernon and Joann (Foster) Reunitz of Ludell, KS and Colorado Springs, CO. He was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran church. The family later moved to Colorado followed by a move to California. Following secondary school graduation, Keith was...

Larry Fikan

Larry Fikan

Feb 6, 2017

Larry Kent Fikan, 76, of Atwood, passed away Monday, February 6, 2017 at the Atwood Good Samaritan Home. He was the eldest child of Reno and Eileen (Kyte) Fikan and was born on October 2, 1940, at the home of his grandparents, southeast of Atwood. Larry grew up on the family farm southeast of McDonald, KS. He attended Lone Prairie...

Stephen  Finley

Stephen Finley

Feb 6, 2017

Stephen Michael Finley was born on Oct 21, 1951 in Atwood, Kan., the eldest of five sons of John "Jack" Dale and Doris Estella Luedke Finley. Steve was a lifelong resident of Atwood. He loved sports from childhood and when he attended Atwood High School, he was active in the athletics program. He earned medals in football, track, and basketball...

James Carpenter

James Carpenter

Jan 28, 2017

James Sykes Carpenter, 82, of Brewster, died Saturday, January 28, 2017, at Citizen’s Medical Center. The second son of Fred and Mary Elizabeth (Sykes) Carpenter, was born in Colby, Kansas at “Passell’s” September 10, 1934. Jim and his parents lived on a farm located about fifteen miles northeast of Brewster, Kansas, in Thomas County. When Jim was about a year...

Frank Deibert

Frank Deibert

Jan 27, 2017

Corwin Franklin Deibert was born in Hoxie, KS on March 24th, 1936 to Julius Deibert and Fairy Faye (Barr) Deibert. He went to be with the man upstairs on January 27, 2017 at the age of 80. Frank married Charlotte Lewis on July 30, 1955 in Hoxie, KS. To this union 4 children were born.   Preceding him in death were...

Dorothy Yardley

Dorothy Yardley

Jan 26, 2017

Dorothy J. Yardley passed away in Denver, CO on January 26, 2017. She was born June 3, 1927 in Murdock, NE. Dorothy was the daughter of Iva and Maude McCrory. Sister of Lela, Della, Bernice, Sarah, Edna, Ed and Maurice. She was married to Norman W. Yardley on August 18, 1946 in Murdock, NE. They had two children son, Stephen...

Gaylen  Randolph

Gaylen Randolph

Jan 26, 2017

Gaylen Lee Randolph, 76, of Jennings, KS died January 26, 2017 at the Sheridan County Health Complex, Hoxie, KS. He was born December 10, 1940, in Decatur County, KS, to Helen Maxine (Rhodes) Randolph and Louis Wesley Randolph. Gaylen was the second of five children and grew up in Allison, KS. He attended grade school at the Allison Country School...

Hilda Holste

Hilda Holste

Jan 26, 2017

Hilda Anna Magdalena (Dunker) Holste, 98, of Ludell, died Thursday, January 26, 2017, at Kearney (Nebraska) Regional Medical Center. She was born December 3, 1918, at the family farm near Ludell, the eldest child of Herman C. and Marie (Domsch) Dunker, Jr. and was baptized at home on December 9, 1918, by the Reverend Otto Moellmer. On March 20, 1932...

Rose Zimmerman

Rose Zimmerman

Jan 25, 2017

Rose Zimmerman, 93, of Oakley, died Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at Logan County Hospital. She was born November 22, 1923 to Theodore and Regina (Heier) Ziegler in Gove County. On December 31, 1945 Rose married Joseph Zimmerman. She was a homemaker and worked hard on the family farm. Rose enjoyed quilting, sewing, making clothes and cooking for her family. She...

Mayetta Schulte

Mayetta Schulte

Jan 19, 2017

Mayetta Marie Schulte, 86, of Grinnell, died Thursday, January 19, 2017 in Wellsville, KS. She was born March 2, 1930 to Otto and Regina (Dickman) Novak in Grinnell. She married David F Schulte on November 22, 1949 in Grinnell. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband David; sisters, Ann Lavon Brack and Rita Castor and brother Elwin Novak....

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