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....
Theresa Haffner
Jan 3, 2013
Theresa (Zimmerman) Haffner, age 90, of Quinter, died Thursday, January 3, 2013 at Gove County Medical Center, Long Term Care in Quinter. Theresa was born February 22, 1922, in rural Park, Kansas, the daughter of Theodore and Rosalie (Heier) Zimmerman. Theresa was united in marriage to Steve Haffner on June 4, 1946 in Park, Kansas. They enjoyed 50 years of...
Lydia Beardsley
Dec 28, 2012
Lydia Beardsley, former long-time resident of WaKeeney, passed away on Friday December 28, 2012 in Loveland, Colorado. Lydia was born in Fort Collins, Colorado on March 11, 1917 to George and Magdalena (Lena Schneider) Schwien. Lydia was one of eleven children born to George and Lena and was preceded in death by all her brothers and sisters except for Ruth...
Mary "Louise" (Maxwell) Sorenson
Dec 22, 2012
Mary Louise Maxwell Sorenson was born near Quinter, Kansas on September 2, 1927, and died at Presbyterian Manor in Salina, KS on December 22, 2012. She was 85 years of age. Louise was the second of seven children born to George Earl and Mary (Hargitt) Maxwell. She graduated from Quinter High School in May 1944. Due to teacher shortages during...
Ellamae G. Moheng
Dec 20, 2012
WaKeeney resident, Ellamae G. Moheng, passed away Thursday, December 20, 2012 at Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Long Term Care, WaKeeney. She was 91 years of age. She was born Ellamae G. Mensing, on December 18, 1921, the daughter of Ernest and Meta (Schwanbeck) Mensing, in WaKeeney, Kansas. Ellamae graduated from Sherman High School in Goodland. She was very proud...
Don Patterson
Dec 10, 2012
Don Patterson was born October 20, 1937, at home in Glade, Kansas the son of James and Lois (Keeten) Patterson. He passed away Monday, December 10, 2012 at Via Christi Hospital in Wichita at the age of 75 years, 40days. He attended Agra schools and graduated from Agra High School with the class of 1955. He joined the United States...
Loleeta Ann Beaver Pitts
Dec 7, 2012
LoLeeta Ann Beaver Pitts , 67, died Friday morning, December 7, 2012 in Quinter, Kansas. She was born June 1, 1945 at Hadley Memorial Hospital in Hays Kansas. She grew up on the family farm south of Quinter Kansas with her mother Vera Eleanor Stanton Beaver and Harley Leroy Beaver, stepfather. LoLeeta had surgery soon after her birth and was...
Wanda Hockersmith Gillespie Wildeman
Dec 2, 2012
Wanda (Hockersmith) Gillespie Wildeman passed away December 2, 2012 at Gove County Medical Center – Long Term Care in Quinter. She was 83 years of age. Wanda was born December 29, 1928, on the family farm in Gove County, the daughter of Chris and Nora (Evans) Hockersmith. She was a 1947 graduate of Quinter High School. Wanda was united in...
Merlin Henry Ohlemeier
Nov 24, 2012
Longtime WaKeeney resident, Merlin H. Ohlemeier, passed away Saturday, November 24, 2012 at the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital, WaKeeney. He was 86 years of age. Merlin was born July 4, 1926, the older of twin boys, to Henry William and Mabel Irma (Lynn) Ohlemeier, on the farm near McCracken, Kansas. He grew up in LaCrosse, graduating from LaCrosse High...
Donald Dale Mcwilliams
Nov 23, 2012
Don McWilliams, age 91, of Quinter, passed away Friday, November 23, 2012 at Gove County Medical Center, Long Term Care. Donald was born, the youngest of seven children, the son of Nicholas Ford and Ola Top (Halferty) McWilliams. After attending grade school in a one room school house he graduated from Hoxie High School. His college studies at Kansas State...
