Melvin Moss
Mar 3, 2017
Melvin Moss, 55, of Colby, died Friday, March 3, 2017 at Prairie Senior Living Complex, Colby. He was born Nov 17, 1961 to Tom and Delores (Seeberger) Moss, in Colby. He was raised in Menlo on the family farm. As a child Melvin was a dare devil and thrill seeker; climbing trees and jumping his bike and motorcycle off ramps...
Lela Heier
Mar 3, 2017
Lela Mae Heier, 89, of Sharon Springs, formerly of Oakley, died Friday, March 3, 2017. She was born August 28, 1927, in Collyer, KS, to Herman and Mary (Mader) Lintel. She graduated from Oakley High School. She married Gordon Kinsley in August 1945 and to this union three children were born. She later married Francis Halbleib in February 1956 and...
Nelda Dinning
Feb 28, 2017
Nelda Marie (Nelson) Dinning, was born June 12,1928 on a farm north of Page City in Thomas County Kansas, to Severina Johnson Nelson and Oscar Nelson. Nelda passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family, on February 28, 2017 in Westminster, CO, at the age of 88 She married Ray Gene Dinning on Dec 30, 1951, at the...
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...