Obituaries

Jan 6, 2023

Dodge City - Erica Eunice Donjuan, 47, died January 6, 2023 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on December 6, 1975 at Guerrero, Mexico the daughter of Manuel Donjuan and Evelia Marino.

Erica enjoyed cooking, dancing and listening to music in her spare time. She loved taking care of her parents and always...

Jan 6, 2023

Copeland - Roxie Jean Tucker, died January 6, 2023, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Gray County.  She was born on December 29, 1952, at Cheyenne Wells, Colorado the daughter of William and Geneva (McGregor) Jones.

Roxie spent her childhood in Sharon Springs where she graduated from high school.  She went on to further...

Jan 5, 2023

Satanta - Carol A. Wilson, 80, died January 5, 2023, at Satanta Long Term Care Unit.  She was born on December 29, 1942, in Hartner, Kansas, the daughter of Elmer and Dorothy (Joachims) Hartwig.

Carol's childhood was spent in Alva, Oklahoma. She graduated from Alva High School in 1960 and went on to further her education at...

Jan 4, 2023

Montezuma - Virginia Fern Koehn, 85, passed away on January 4, 2023 at Bethel Home in Montezuma. Virginia was born December 28, 1937 to Herman and Elsie (Dirks) Ratzlaff in Fredonia.

Virginia accepted the Lord as her Savior and was baptized March 23, 1950 in Scott City. Errol Koehn and Virginia Ratzlaff met each other when they...

Jan 4, 2023

Montezuma - Kathryn (Katie) Schmidt, 90, of Montezuma passed away January 4, 2023. She was born on March 6, 1932 in Hitchcock to Joseph and Mary (Schmidt) Eck. She married Franklin J. Schmidt on November 18, 1947.

Kathryn was raised in Hitchcock and Ringwood, Oklahoma during the great depression. She moved to Montezuma and lived with her...

Jan 2, 2023

John Bradley Andrews, 67, of Dodge City, Kansas passed away peacefully on January 2, 2023. He was born in Denver, Colorado on November 3, 1955. He grew up in Hudson, Colorado where he enjoyed hunting, 4-H/FFA, livestock judging and showing livestock in his youth.

Following high school, he attended Texas Christian University's Farm and Ranch Management program...

Jan 2, 2023

Sublette - Ruth Adele Phoenix, 87, died January 2, 2023 at Good Samaritan Society in Olathe. She was born on October 14, 1935 in Garden City, the daughter of Robert C. and Hedwig M. (Krug) Messerly.

Ruth was a lifetime resident of Sublette. She graduated from Sublette High School in 1953. On January 31, 1954, she was...

Jan 2, 2023

Montezuma –Mom was born on April 24,1935 to Wallace and Bertha (Yost) Schmidt at home in Haskell County, Kansas. She passed away on January 2, 2023 at Bethel Home in Montezuma.

She attended the Colusa school house. She grew up with my Dad not knowing they would fall in love and become soulmates for life. They got...

Dec 30, 2022

DODGE CITY - Edward Henry ("Eddie") Bergkamp passed away on December 30, 2022 in Tucson, Arizona. Eddie was born September 5, 1939 in San Bernardino, California, the eldest son of Mabel Gerber and Joseph Edward Bergkamp.

The family moved to Dodge City, when Eddie was a child. He attended Sacred Heart Cathedral and Saint Mary of the...

Dec 29, 2022

Dodge City - Abel Rodriguez, 75, died December 29, 2022 at St. Catherine Hospital, Garden City.  He was born on December 6, 1947 in Mexico the son of Patricio Rodriguez and Maria Luisa Quezada.

Abel grew up in Mexico and married Martha E. Terrazas on February 14, 1969 in Mexico. After their marriage they moved to Colorado...

Dec 26, 2022

Our beautiful son, Cyrus Anthony Koehn, was born to us, Rick and Tamra, on November 22, 2022. He went to be with God on December 26, 2022.  He was four weeks old.

Like most parents, we expected a healthy baby, but in the days after Cyrus was born, we saw him struggling. He was flown from Liberal...

Dec 24, 2022

Dodge City - On August 15, 1933, on a small farm in Haskell County, Kansas, Mary Lou Frank was born to Edward and Elizabeth Frank. She was the 5th of 7 children. She peacefully passed away at the age 89 in the early morning of December 24, 2022 in Aurora Colorado.

Mary Lou spent her childhood on...

Dec 24, 2022

Dodge City - Donald "Don" L. Hahn, 95, died December 24, 2022 at Brookdale House in Dodge City, Kansas. He was born on October 14, 1927. He loved to tell people that his honorary marker was the fire hydrant on Wyatt Earp between Nobilitea and Long John Silver's because that was where the Mid-wife's house where he was delivered...

Dec 21, 2022

Dodge City - Juanita Mai Wells, 94, died December 21, 2022 at her home in Dodge City, Kansas.  She was born on April 7, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Wilhelmina (Seith) Loibl.

She was a homemaker for many years, raising 10 children and later cleaned houses and offices.  She married Harold Wells...

Dec 19, 2022

Sublette - Victor L. Chaffin, 70, died December 19, 2022 at Good Samaritan Society in Liberal.  He was born on October 15, 1952 at Garden City, the son of John Henry and Betty K. (Wallace) Chaffin, Jr.

Vic was a lifetime resident of Sublette.  He graduated from Sublette High School in 1970.  He went on to further...

Dec 19, 2022

Dodge City - Rafael Rodriguez, 76, died December 19, 2022 at St. Catherine Hospital in Dodge City.  He was born on October 24, 1946 at El Torreon de San Isidro in Durango, Mexico the son of Alfonzo Delgado and Elvira Rodriguez.

He loved to work on his ranch and was always working on a project to improve...

Dec 18, 2022

Dodge City - Clyde M. Stone, 89, died December 18, 2022 at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colorado.  He was born on March 16, 1933 at Geuda Springs, the son of Louis W. and Dorismae (Graham) Stone.

Clyde grew up in Tribune and was a graduate of Greeley County High School. He married Mereta Morgan at Tribune....

Dec 15, 2022

Montezuma - Robert Lee Koehn Sr. was born to Henry B. and Nettie E. (Unruh) Koehn on April 23, 1927 northwest of Montezuma on the Frazier Ranch, where he grew up during the depression and dust storm years and witnessed the hard times. He passed away on December 15, 2022 at Bethel Home in Montezuma, reaching the age of...

Dec 13, 2022

Dodge City - Barbara Jean White Nieto, 84, died December 13, 2022 at her home in Dodge City. She was born on August 23, 1938 in Bucklin, Kansas the daughter of Euel W. Lawson and Ada K. Rader.

She grew up in Dodge City and attended Dodge City schools. Barbara received her LPN from Dodge City Community...

Dec 13, 2022

Dodge City - Shelby Andrews, 83, died December 13, 2022 at Brookdale Senior Living Center in Dodge City. She was born on December 15, 1938 at Colorado Springs, Colorado the daughter of Howard and Martina Betz.

She married Gerald Gene Schwien on October 12, 1957 in Ness City he preceded her in death on November 14, 1961...