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Glenn W. Coberly
Mar 26, 2013
Glenn Coberly 92, passed away Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at the Gove County Medical Center in Quinter KS. He was born on June 27, 1920, to Angeline Wristen Coberly and James Marion Coberly in Ransom, Kansas. His two siblings were Ruth and Esther. Glenn attended Prairie View grade school and Dighton High School. He transferred to Gove High School where...
Susan Keller
Mar 26, 2013
Susan K. Keller, age 65, died peacefully on March 26, 2013 at home in Quinter after a year long battle with cancer. Susan was born November 29, 1947, in Quinter, Kansas, the first daughter born to Charles LeRoy and Willa Dean (McConkey) Graham. Susan attended Quinter Public Schools until the family moved to Colorado Springs the end of her junior...
Mary Ellen "Nell" Hein
Mar 20, 2013
Mary Ellen "Nell" (Grant) Hein, age 90, died peacefully on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at her home in Quinter, KS. She was born to Arthur S. and Celia M. (Bell) Grant on November 29, 1922 in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia. Nell was the youngest of 4 children. She grew up in the Inverell and Brisbane area where she loved...
Larri Lee Lewis
Mar 15, 2013
Larri Lee Lewis was born in Wichita, KS on September 16, 1961 to Ronald & Jeannine (Shearmire) Lewis. He passed away Friday, March 15, 2013 in the Gove County Medical Center in Quinter, KS. As a child, Larri attended Gove Grade School. His love for sports started early. He learned to play basketball during recess with the older boys. He...
Mallory Kate Woolf
Mar 11, 2013
Mallory Kate Woolf was born without a heartbeat at 12:48 p.m. on March 11, 2013 at the Hays Medical Center. She went to be in the arms of Jesus only hours before birth. Mallory is the daughter of Greg and Shelly Woolf of Quinter, KS. She came into our lives silently, but perfect and beautiful. Mallory weighed 5 pounds 6...
Fabian Zimmerman
Mar 9, 2013
Fabian Zimmerman 84, Quinter died March 9, 2013, at Hays Medical Center. He was born May 20, 1928 south of Park at the family farm to Theodore and Rosalie (Heier) Zimmerman. He married Opal Beougher on August 30, 1955, in Grinnell, KS, he attended Sunshine School southwest of Quinter until the 8th grade. He was a grain inspector for the...
Bridget Brungardt
Feb 22, 2013
Lifelong St. Peter area resident, Bridget Brungardt, passed away Friday, February 22, 2013 at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital in WaKeeney. She was 92 years of age. She was born, May 17, 1920, on the family farm near St. Peter, the daughter of Gottfried and Barbara (Billinger) Knoll. Bridget Knoll was united in marriage to Seraphine Brungardt on May 3,...
Randy Yowell
Feb 18, 2013
Randy Charles Yowell, 65, died on February 18, 2013 at his home in Quinter, Kansas. He was born on January 21, 1948 to Harold and Marjorie (Murray) Yowell in Grainfield, Kansas. Shortly after his birth they moved to Russell, Kansas and then to Great Bend, Kansas. He excelled in sports in Great Bend and was named All-State Football, All-State Basketball...
Jerry Ivan Noel
Feb 15, 2013
SERVICE HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM at THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN GRAINFIELD Jerry Ivan Noel of WaKeeney, KS passed away on February 15, 2013 at the Gove County Medical Center in Quinter, KS. Jerry was born to Ruby and Jehu Noel on August 30, 1940 in Rosepine, Lousiana in a chicken coup, which...
Roderick B. Bentley
Feb 15, 2013
Roderick Bruce Bentley, 91, died on February 15, 2013 in Gove County Medical Center. He was born on June 20, 1921 to Art and Vera Louise (Jennison) Bentley on a ranch just south of the Smoky Hill River in Gove County where he lived and worked all of his life on the land he loved. Rod graduated from Dighton High...
Jesse James Jacka
Feb 12, 2013
Jesse James Jacka passed away Tuesday, February 12, 2013 in Quinter, Kansas at the age of 23. He was born November 9, 1989 to Robert "BJ" and Lori (Gerstner) Jacka in Quinter, Kansas. Jesse attended Quinter High School. He enjoyed riding motorcycles, coyote hunting with his dad, building coyote wagons for his nephew, driving semi trucks, his dogs, Jane, Lila,...
Lorrayne (Kobler) Deines
Feb 8, 2013
Lorrayne K. (Kobler) Deines, age 93 of WaKeeney, passed away Friday, February 8, 2013 at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney. She was born November 1, 1919 in Logan, Kansas, the daughter of Albert James and Anna Jane (Davis) Kobler. Lorrayne graduated with the class of 1937, from Morland High School, then went on to attend Fort Hays State University....
William Pearson
Feb 4, 2013
WaKeeney resident, Bill Pearson, passed away Monday, February 4, 2013, at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney. He was 90 years of age. Bill was born William Joseph Pearson on May 6, 1922, in Morland, Kansas, the son of Joseph and Mildred Alice (Clark) Pearson. He was a 1940 graduate of Morland High School. He went on to serve his...
Mary Katheryn Owens
Jan 28, 2013
WaKeeney resident, Mary K. Owens, age 71, passed away Monday, January 28, 2013 at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney. Mary was born November 22, 1941, in Hoxie, Kansas, the daughter of William and Louise (Gaede) Rall. She was a Hoxie High School graduate. She married LaVerne Owens, and they later divorced. He preceded her in death. Mary was a...
Marvin Unruh
Jan 27, 2013
Quinter resident, Marvin Unruh, passed away Sunday, January 27, 2013, at Gove County Medical Center, Long Term Care, in Quinter at age 91 years. He was born June 7, 1921, the son of Lincoln L. and Elda (Unruh) Unruh, in rural Copeland, Kansas. Marvin was a Copeland High School Graduate. In November 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army...
Gladys M. Jamison
Jan 15, 2013
Lifelong WaKeeney area resident, Gladys M. Jamison, passed away, Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at Hays Medical Center. She was 86 years of age. She was born November 15, 1926 on the family farm three miles east and one mile north of WaKeeney, the daughter of Fred and Julia (Hervey) Buchholz. Gladys attended Rinker School for 8 years and then graduated...
Walter Hein
Jan 7, 2013
Walter Alexander Hein, Grainfield, KS, age 89, died Monday, January 7, 2013 at Gove County Medical Center. He was born to Matthew S. and Julianna M. (Kraft) Hein, December 16, 1923, five miles north of Grainfield, KS in Sheridan Co. Walter was the oldest of six children. When Walter was five years old, the family moved to Grainfield where Walter...
Frances L. Wagoner
Jan 7, 2013
Frances L. Wagoner, age 82, of WaKeeney, passed away Monday, January 7, 2013 at Trego Manor in WaKeeney. She was born June 27, 1930 in rural Gove County, the daughter of Nichlos and Thersia (Shuster) Kaiser. Frances was a 1948 graduate of Collyer High School. On April 10, 1950, she was united in marriage to LeRoy Anthony Wagoner in Angelus,...
Harold Werth
Jan 5, 2013
Harold Francis Werth was born April 7, 1931, in Antonino, Kansas, to the late Felix and Anna (Klaus) Werth. He passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Gove County Medical Center in Quinter at the age of 81. On October 10, 1949, he was united in marriage to Betty Jean Jacobs in Antonino, Kansas. Together they farmed in Sheridan...
Alfred Waldman
Jan 3, 2013
Park resident, Alfred Waldman, passed away Thursday, January 3, 2013 at Gove County Medical Center in Quinter. He was 74 years of age. Alfred was born on the family farm in Gove County on June 5, 1938, the son of Nicholas and Josephine (Herzog) Waldman. Upon graduation from high school, Alfred went on to serve his country in the U.S....
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