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Richard L Hladek
Mar 19, 2012
Richard Laverne Hladek was born February 12, 1928, in rural Trego County, KS to the late Frank and Anna (Macek) Hladek. He passed away Monday, March 19, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Long Term Care at WaKeeney, KS at the age of 84. He attended rural county schools and graduated from Trego Community High School with the...
Loren Dean Jamison
Mar 11, 2012
Loren Dean Jamison was born January 10, 1928 in rural Gove County, KS to the late Ernest and Ruby Grace (Jarboe) Jamison. He passed away Sunday, March 11, 2012 at his home in Quinter at the age of 84. After graduating in 1946 from Quinter High School, Loren served in the United States Army. On May 4, 1952, he was...
Clara Nadine Kroeger
Feb 29, 2012
Nadine was born on April 3, 1924 in Hays, KS to Pete and Minnie (Tilton) Burbach. She left this Earth at the age of 87, on February 29, 2012 at the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital-Long Term Care, in WaKeeney, KS. She attended grade school at the Trego County Public School and graduated high school in 1941 from Collyer Public...
Edward M. Ziegler
Feb 21, 2012
Edward M. Ziegler was born November 2, 1920, in Collyer, KS, to the late Vincent and Elizabeth (Weisbeck) Ziegler. He passed away, Tuesday, February 21, 2012 in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney at the age of 91. As a child he attended schools in Collyer and graduated from Collyer High School with the class of 1939. He...
Edwin P. Billinger
Feb 19, 2012
Edwin Billinger passed away Sunday, February 19, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS, at the age of 91. He was born December 27, 1920, in Victoria, KS, to the late Peter and Frances (Weigel) Billinger. He moved to Trego County with his family at the age of 5 and resided in the Trego County area...
Georgia Mcnerney
Feb 12, 2012
Georgia Lavaughn McNerney was born November 27, 1913, in rural Osborne County, KS, to the late Frank and Maude (Plumb) Applegate. She passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney at the age of 98. As a child, she attended schools in Osborne, graduated from Osborne High School with the class of 1933...
Dorothy 'Dot' Jean Schneider
Feb 3, 2012
Dorothy Jean Schneider was born July 6, 1940, in rural Ness County, KS near Brownell, to the late Clark and Lova Pearl (Boone) Smith. She passed away, Friday, February 3, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney at the age of 71. She attended schools in Brownell and Ransom. On September 18, 1957, Dot was united in...
Leo L Zerr
Feb 3, 2012
A Memorial Service for Leo will be held Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 10:00 A. M. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church at Park, KS with Father James Thomas officiating. Inurnment is in the church cemetery. Memorials are suggested to Sacred Heart Catholic Church and can be sent in care of Schmitt Funeral Home, 901 S Main, Quinter, KS 67752.
Elfriede Mai
Jan 28, 2012
Elfriede Hilda Mai, 90, of WaKeeney, Kansas died Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 2:10 am at home in Greenville, North Carolina. She was born September 11, 1921 at Palmer, Kansas. The daughter of Henry William Walter & Marie Sophie (Meyerhoff) Meier she was one of six children. Elfriede was baptized and confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church in Palmer, Kansas....
Venita Lorrene Houchin
Jan 28, 2012
Venita Lorrene Norris Houchin was born December 22, 1936, in Wichita, KS, to the late Foster and Leoti (Hall) Newland. She passed away Saturday, January 28, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS, at the age of 75. She graduated from Winfield High School and attended South Western College, also in Winfield. In 1958, Venita was...
Leon J. Groom
Jan 21, 2012
Leon Jay Groom was born January 20, 1942, in Ransom, KS, to the late Ernest and Marjorie (Glick) Groom. He passed away at his home in rural Quinter on Saturday, January, 21, 2012, at the age of 70. He was a retired farmer. He attended schools in Quinter and graduated from Quinter High School with the class of 1961. He...
William "Buck" Walter Weber
Jan 17, 2012
William Walter Weber was born July 10, 1924, in Hays, KS, to the late Jerome and Pauline (Geist) Weber. He passed away Tuesday, January 17, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS, at the age of 87. Buck moved from Hays with his parents and siblings to Fort Morgan, CO in 1940, to manage a farming...
Maxine Richards
Jan 17, 2012
Maxine Richards was born December 1, 1927, in Quinter, KS, to the late William W. and Sarah (Simon) Brown. She passed away, Tuesday, January 17, 2012, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney at the age of 84. She graduated from Hoxie High School. On October 8, 1946, Maxine was united in marriage to Harvey E. Richards, Jr....
Lawrence Martin Holzmeister
Jan 17, 2012
Lawrence Martin Holzmeister was born June 26, 1922, in Loretta, KS, to the late John and Susanna (Herman) Holzmeister. He passed away on Tuesday, January 17, 2012, in the Gove County Medical Center at Quinter at the age of 89. As a child, he attended grade school in Otis, KS and graduated from Otis High School with the class of...
Rosalie G Shaeffer
Jan 15, 2012
Rosalie Grace Shaeffer died at the age of 80, January 14, 2012, at the Gove County Medical Center in Quinter, KS. Rosalie was born on the Dinkel family farm in Gove County on December 14, 1931, to Anton and Rosalia (Giebler) Dinkel. She was the seventh child in a family of eleven children. She started school in the two-room schoolhouse...
Mary E. Bayer
Jan 8, 2012
Mary Elizabeth (Beckner) Wolf, Bayer Daughter of Clyde and Maggie Beckner, born July 16th 1930. She went to be with her Maker suddenly on January 8th 2012, while worshiping in the house of the Lord. Her days on this earth were 81 years. Mother accepted her Saviour and was baptized into the Old German Baptist Brethren Church and to which...
Leonard Lee Tucker
Jan 7, 2012
Leonard Lee Tucker was born August 22, 1947, in Sutherland, NE, the son of Bud and Emily (Stoddard) Tucker. He passed away Saturday, January 7, 2012, in the Gove County Medical Center at Quinter, KS at the age of 64. He attended rural schools in Gove County, Dighton High School, and graduated from Kansas State University. On October 27, 1973,...
Mary Jane Van Aken
Jan 4, 2012
Mary Jane (Horak) Van Aken, 94, passed away January 4, 2012 at Shalom Park Care Center in Denver CO. She was born October 2, 1917 to Rudolph and Jennie (Switlik) Horak in WaKeeney KS. She attended school in WaKeeney graduating from Trego High School in 1935. She took Fort Hays State University extension courses at Trego County High School working...
Julius A. Ziegler
Jan 3, 2012
Julius A. Ziegler, 85, died January 3, 2012, at Hospice House, Hutchinson, KS. He was born March 29, 1926, on a farm west of Collyer to Peter and Otillia (Waldman) Ziegler. He was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church, Hutchinson, KS. He grew up in Collyer and graduated from St. Michael's Catholic Grade School and Collyer High School. Upon...
Vivian M Norton
Dec 31, 2011
A memorial service will be conducted by the Church of the Brethren in Quinter KS, Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 10:30 am. Memorials are suggested to Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital or Church of the Brethren and can be sent to the family.
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