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Donald M. Gillespie
Jun 24, 2010
Donald Martin Gillespie was born July 21, 1953, in Quinter, KS, to the late Varney 'Pete' and Margaret (Schurr) Gillespie. He passed away Thursday, June 24, 2010, in the Gove County Medical Center at Quinter, at the age of 56. As a young child, Don and his family resided in Grainfield where he attended elementary school, and graduated from Wheatland...
Darlene M. Burbach
Jun 19, 2010
Darlene Marie Burbach was born September 28, 1930, in Greeley, KS. She was the oldest of eight children born to the late Huldrich and Velma (Tippin) Winter. She passed away Saturday, June 19, 2010 in the Trego Manor at WaKeeney, KS. As a child, she attended schools in Kersey and LaSalle, CO and graduated from Fort Hays State University with...
Armella Annastasia Struss
Jun 1, 2010
Armella Annastasia Struss was born April 19, 1926 in Graham County, Kansas to the late Wendeline and Eugenia (Riedel) Rome. She passed away on June 1, 2010, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Long Term Care at WaKeeney, KS at the age of 84. She was raised in Graham County, Kansas and attended rural Graham County schools. On March...
Corene Beth Day
May 24, 2010
Corene Beth Day was born July 11, 1935, south of Edmond, KS on the family farm in Norton County, to the late Bert and Inza (Huffman) Griffey. She passed away Monday, May 24, 2010, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS at the age of 74. She graduated from Edmond High School. She loved and played basketball...
Carol Billinger
May 23, 2010
Carol Ann Billinger was born January 1, 1947, in Quinter, KS to the late Nick and Josephine (Herzog) Waldman. She passed away Sunday, May 23, 2010, in the Salina Regional Health Center at Salina, KS, at the age of 63. She attended elementary school in Park and graduated from Park High School with the class of 1964. She attended college...
Henry Kraus
May 22, 2010
Henry Kraus was born July 30, 1909, in rural Rush County, KS, to the late William and Eva Elizabeth (Schwartzkopf) Kraus, Sr. He passed away in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Saturday May 22, 2010, in WaKeeney, KS at the age of 100. He attended schools in rural Trego County as a young child. He started flight training in...
Beulah L. Lang
May 22, 2010
Beulah L. Lang was born September 11, 1915, in Trego County, KS, to the late Charles and Minnie Mae (Jennings) Garvin. She passed away Saturday, May 22, 2010, in the Ellis Good Samaritan Society at Ellis, at the age of 94. As a young girl, she attended school in Trego County. On July 12, 1938, Beulah was united in marriage...
Kenneth Norbert Deutscher
May 21, 2010
Kenneth Norbert Deutscher was born September 16, 1943, in Ellis County, to the late Arnold Norbert and Georgia Irene (Groff) Deutscher. He passed away Friday, May 21, 2010, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS at the age of 66. After attending school in Ellis and graduating from Ellis High School in 1961, he attended Kansas State...
Warren R Conner
May 19, 2010
Warren Reed Conner, 81 died Wednesday, May 19, 2010, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS. He was born October 20, 1928, in Holyrood, KS, to Warren C. and May (Reed) Conner. He married Jeanne Custer on June 13, 1954, in the Presbyterian Church at WaKeeney. They resided in Ashland, KS thirty-five years before moving to WaKeeney...
Henry Deines
May 12, 2010
Henry Deines was born October 1, 1915 on the family farm ten miles SW of WaKeeney, KS. He was the sixth son born to the late Fred W. and Catherine M. (Fabrizius) Deines. In his first eight years of school, he and his siblings, rode a horse and buggy to a one-room country school three miles from their farm. He...
Vera Irene Roberts
May 10, 2010
Vera was born October 12, 1918 at Jerome, Kansas, to George and Eva Alice Weekly Orten. When she was two years old, the family moved to Grainfield where she attended all her school years, graduating in 1938 from Grainfield High School. (She attended the most recent high school reunion and wore a grass skirt like those all the ladies wore.)...
John Charles Cain
May 8, 2010
John Charles Cain was born in Peabody, KS, on October 11, 1931, to the late Frank J. and Twyla Belle (Skinner) Cain. He passed away Saturday, May 8, 2010 in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital at WaKeeney, KS at the age of 78. He attended Trego Community High School in WaKeeney. On July 2, 1955, he married Norma Drake....
Joyce Christina Beougher
May 5, 2010
Joyce Christina (Hanna) Beougher was born on August 30, 1938 at Plum Creek in Jerome Township in Gove County. She was the second child to William I. "Hap" & Edna C. (Johnson) Hanna. She passed away Wednesday May 5, 2010 at Hays Medical Center at the age of 71. Joyce grew up in Gove County, attended Gove Grade School, graduated...
Glen Riggs
May 2, 2010
Glen LaRoy Riggs was born November 14, 1936, in Hays, Kansas to Warren and Inez (Powers) Riggs. He passed away at his home in WaKeeney, Kansas on Sunday, May 2, 2010 at the age of 73. He graduated from Trego Community High School with the class of 1954. On June 2, 1954, Glen married Carolyn Flagler. Glen and Carolyn celebrated...
Martha Jean Mcdaniel
May 1, 2010
Martha Jean McDaniel, 79, Quinter, KS died Saturday, May 1, 2010 at Hays Medical Center. She was born September 13, 1930 in Granite City, IL to Floyd and Beulah (Medlin) Cochran. Jean married Donald W. McDaniel, Sr. on February 20, 1954 in Tunica, MS. He preceded her in death on December 9, 1990. She was a homemaker, owner/operator of Osmond...
Thelma Losey
Apr 25, 2010
Thelma Losey was born September 6, 1920, in Cannelton, IN to the late Thomas Earl and Anna Marie (Huff) Rawlings. She passed away Sunday, April 25, 2010, in the Gove County Medical Center at Quinter, KS at the age of 89. As a young girl, Thelma attended schools in Anderson, IN. Thelma married Bill Losey in August of 1937. He...
Ronald D. Schwien
Apr 21, 2010
Ronald D. Schwien was born July 22, 1936, in Denver, CO, to the late William and Bertha (Meisner) Schwien. He passed away Wednesday, April 21, 2010, at his home in rural Trego County, KS, at the age of 73. After World War II, his family returned to WaKeeney where he graduated from Trego Community High School. He Attended Fort Hays...
Anthony John Kraft
Apr 18, 2010
Anthony 'Tony' John Kraft was born December 11, 1917 in Hays, KS, to the late Wendelin and Veronica (Haffner) Kraft. He passed away Sunday, April 18, 2010 in the Smoky Hill Rehabilitation Center at Salina at the age of 92. He attended elementary schools in Park and graduated from Park High School with the class of 1936. On August 22,...
Arthur 'Art' Lee Hilzer
Apr 15, 2010
Arthur Lee Hilzer was born August 3, 1929, in Grover, CO, to the late Henry and Esther (Lear) Hilzer. He passed away Thursday, April 15, 2010, in the Gove County Medical Center at Quinter, KS at the age of 80. He was raised on a farm in Grover, CO and later served in the United States Navy. In his early...
Pauline Fabrizius
Apr 12, 2010
Pauline Fabrizius was born November 4, 1905, in rural Russell County, KS, to the late John Fred and Maria Magdelena (Mai) Deines. She passed away Monday, April 12, 2010, in the Trego County Lemke Memorial Hospital Long Term Care in WaKeeney at the age of 104. As a small child, Pauline attended the Bender Hill Rural School in Russell County....
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