Obituaries

Aug 10, 2014

Ingeborg “Inga” Wiens Inga Wiens, 80, of Oakley, KS passed away on August 10, 2014 in Germany, while on vacation visiting her family. She was born June 18, 1934. She was one of five children, three girls and two boys. On June 25, 1960 she married Walter Wiens, while he was serving overseas in the US Army. She was a...

Aug 9, 2014

Lawrence Bohme, 62, of Colby, died Friday, August 9, 2014 at his home in rural Rawlins County. He was born August 14, 1951 to Henry and Maxine (Thomas) Bohme. He graduated from Atwood High School, Colby Community College and Fort Hays State University. After graduating from college he entered the United State Air Force and served in the states and...

Aug 7, 2014

Peter Galen Stone, 62, of Oakley, died Thursday, August 07, 2014 at his home. He was born Sept 7, 1951 to Robert and Jessie (Staub) Stone in Dallas, TX. He married Elaine Weber on September 18, 1986. Pete attended the University of Texas at Austin for one year and then worked there in the glass blowing department. He also worked...

Jul 31, 2014

Maria O. (Salazar) Finley, 89, of rural Rawlins County, died July 31, 2014 at Citizens Medical Center, in Colby. She was born July 29, 1925 to Perfecto and Aurelia (Mares) Salazar in Watrous, New Mexico. Maria attended school in Watrous, New Mexico and moved to Las Vegas, New Mexico when she was a teenager. She was working at the local...

Jul 28, 2014

Francis J. Niemeth, 88, of Mescalero, New Mexico, died Monday, July 28, 2014 in El Paso, TX. He was born Jan 10, 1926 to Henry and Elizabeth (Versch) Niemeth in Herndon, KS. He served in the United States Army. He was a life time member of the Atwood Knights of Columbus and American Legion. Preceded in death by his parents;...

Jul 24, 2014

Madonna Lee (Huss) Anderson Madonna Lee (Huss) Anderson, age 77 of Gem, KS, passed away on July 24, 2014 at Citizens Medical Center in Colby, Kansas. Madonna was born on June 18, 1937 at home on the Huss family farm outside the community of Herndon, Kansas. She was the fifth of seven children born to John and Emma (Kiplinger) Huss....

Jul 24, 2014

When He calls me I will answer. I will be somewhere listening for my name. The Angels came for our beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother Verla Weber early on the morning of July 24, 2014. Verla Elsie Lockard was born August 14, 1916 at the farm home of her parents in Dickinson County, Kansas near Elmo. She was the...

Jul 22, 2014

Dal Brean Schultz, 22, of Grainfield, died July 22, 2014. He was born June 30, 1992 in Hays, KS to Douglas and Ronna (Adelhardt) Schultz. He graduated from Wheatland High School in 2010 and then attended Dodge City Community College, where he played football for one year. He was a cattleman and had started his own cattle operation. He also...

Jul 21, 2014

George Nickolas Albers, 81, of Grinnell, died Monday, July 21, 2014. He was born August 26, 1932 in Sheridan County, KS to Anton and Helen (Schulte) Albers. On June 22, 1957 he married Carol Moore and to this union fifteen children were born. He worked for the City of Grinnell and later owned and operated the Grinnell Standard Service Station....

Jul 16, 2014

Send Flowers John F. Cooper July 13, 1948 - July 16, 2014 John Francis Cooper, 66 years old, was born on July 13, 1948 to Charles and Ethel Cooper. He was born and raised in Colby and was known by many throughout the Northwest Kansas area. John passed away on Wednesday the 16th of July 2014 in a single car...

Jul 8, 2014

Dallem Jay Argabright, 80, of Atwood, died Tuesday, July 8, 2014. He was born July 7, 1934 to Earl and Jessie (Jackson) Argabright in Atwood. He married Connie Cooper on June 5, 1957 at the First Christen Church in Atwood. He was an air plane pilot and worked as a crop duster. He was a member of the American Legion,...

Jul 7, 2014

Marilyn M. Selby 84, passed away Monday July 7th, 2014. She was born Sept. 2nd 1929 at her parents’ home south of Brewster KS to Newton and Alice (Parker) Smith. Survivors: Son Robert B. Selby, of Colby. Daughters Linda Schwarz and husband Eugene, of Grinnell. Scarlet Hill and Husband Mark, of Oakley. Sister Erma Tubbs, of Colby. Seven Grandchildren, 10...

Jul 7, 2014

Jul 4, 2014

Mary Jo Youngblood, 91, of Atwood, died Friday, July 4, 2014 at her home. She was born August 19, 1922 to Ray A. and Gertrude (Brown) Cox on a farm in Graham County South of Hill City. In 1928 the family moved to Rawlins County from Graham County. In January her father Ray was struck by a truck and killed....

Jul 2, 2014

Donna (Marshall) Waterman was born November 13, 1922 in Rexford, KS to Jess and Mabel (Thieler) Marshall. She was baptized August 18, 1946. She was united in marriage to Martin Waterman Sr. on February 3, 1949. She was a member at Trinity Lutheran Church in Colby, KS and Redeemer Lutheran Church in Atwood. She departed this life on July 2,...

Jun 29, 2014

Noel (Al) Lipton, 71, of Atwood, passed away, after a battle with cancer, on June 29, 2014 at the Rawlins County Health Center. He was born September 9, 1942 in Seattle, Washington to Fredrick and Francis (Kelly) Lipton. In 1965 he received a letter from the draft board in Kansas City, KS to join the United States Army. He moved...

Jun 26, 2014

Jane Sawyer Kersenbrock Jane Sawyer Kersenbrock, age 76, died June 26, 2014 at Norton Community Hospital, Norton, KS. She was born July 29, 1937 in Boston, Mass. to Paul and Mildred (Dodge) Sawyer. Jane attended grade school at the Little Red School House in South Sudbury, Mass. where the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was authored . She graduated...

Jun 25, 2014

Wilbur Leebrick Obituary Wilbur P. Leebrick was born November 4, 1918 in rural Rawlins County, Kansas to Charles H. and Minta Lewis Leebrick and died June 25, 2014 in Colby, Kansas. He was the last born in a family with three sisters and a brother who died in infancy. Wilbur attended rural schools through eighth grade and graduated from Atwood...

Jun 19, 2014

Jun 15, 2014

Merle Eldon Dible, 84, longtime resident of Oakley, died Sunday, June 15, 2014 at the Logan County Hospital. He was born July 27, 1929 to Clarence and Lola (Keefer) Dible, on a farm in Thomas County near Menlo. Merle spent his early years from age 3-7 in Denver at the National Jewish Children’s Hospital with bronchiectasis. He then spent the...