Obituaries

Mar 13, 2025

Edmond - Sue Ann Soto, 69, died March 13, 2025 at Integris Southwest Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She was born on April 24, 1955 at Wichita, Kansas the daughter of Everett and Jean (Emmons) Koelling.

She was raised in Copeland, Kansas and attended and graduated from Copeland High School in 1973. She moved to Dodge...

Mar 11, 2025

Dodge City - Milton Lee Smith, 85, died March 11, 2025 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born on September 20, 1939 at Garden City, the son of Sam and Susie (Unruh) Smith and the youngest of nine children.

Milton's growing up years were spent on the family farm, north of Copeland. He attended school...

Mar 4, 2025

Scott City - Betty J. Land, 86, died March 4, 2025, at her daughter's home in Scott City.  She was born on November 13, 1938 in San Patricio County Texas, the daughter of Clarence and Bessie (Brasher) Sorenson.

Betty spent her childhood in several towns across Texas, where she attended school and experienced a variety of local...

Mar 1, 2025

Donitta Wiles passed away on March 1, 2025, at her home in Lansing Kansas. She was born in Broken Bow, Nebraska on March 11, 1933, and spent her childhood on a ranch, where her father raised nationally recognized Purebred Hereford cattle. She had her own Palomino horse named "Pal" and spent many days riding the range and herding cows...

Feb 28, 2025

Kenneth Dean Hamilton, Jr. (Hambone) went home to be with Jesus on February 28, 2025, at his home in LaVerne, California. He was born on June 21, 1950, in Dodge City, Kansas to Kenneth Dean Hamilton, Sr. and Norma Jean (Lembright) Hamilton.

Kenny attended Richland Valley Grade School, Dodge City Junior and Senior High Schools, and Dodge...

Feb 28, 2025

James E Wheatley, age 99, went to be with his Lord and Savior on February 28, 2025, at the Kansas Soldiers' Home in Fort Dodge, Kansas. He was a resident of Finney County since 1942.

Mr. Wheatley was born August 22, 1925, in Beggs, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, the second of four children born to Walter Riley Wheatley...

Feb 25, 2025

Dodge City - Stella B. Martinez, 90, passed away with her family by her side on February 25, 2025 at her home in Dodge City.  She was born on September 17, 1934 at Dodge City, the daughter of Henry and Lila (Salas) Blea.

Stella was a lifelong resident of Dodge City. On February 28, 1953 she married...

Feb 24, 2025

Dodge City - Cresencio César Gusmán, de 55 años, falleció el 24 de febrero de 2025 en Dodge City.  Nació el 15 de junio de 1969 en Oaxaca, México, hijo de Onésimo Guzmán y Alicia Santiago.

Cresencio era una persona especial que amaba con todo su Corazon a su esposa e hijos. Siempre trabajo arduamente para darle...

Feb 23, 2025

Dodge City - Terry L. DuPree, 72, passed away on February 23, 2025 at Dodge City.  He was born on September 12, 1952 at Dodge City, the son of Raymond E. and Shirley (Johnston) DuPree.

Terry grew up in Dodge City and later near Wilroads. He was a graduate of Ford High School in Ford. Growing up...

Feb 21, 2025

Dodge City - Mary Lou Ewy (Sangster) died February 21, 2025 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita Kansas. She was born August 14, 1931 in Protection, Kansas to Ralph Sangster and Lucy Marie Stevenson.

She married Ben A. Ewy April 19, 1951 in Protection Kansas.  They were married for 52 years until his passing on November 4,...

Feb 21, 2025

Dodge City- Joyce Ann (Maley) Rumbaugh, 80, passed away peacefully on February 21, 2025 at Reflection Living in Dodge City, Ks. Though her mind had been compromised by Alzheimer's over the past few years, she now knew full-well where she would reside and who she would see waiting there.

Born to James and Edna (Wolfe) Maley in...

Feb 19, 2025

Cimarron - Robert G. Vath, 81, died February 19, 2025 at The Shepherd's Center in Cimarron, Kansas. He was born on December 19, 1943 in Dodge City, Kansas the son of Irwin G. and Muriel L. (Baker) Vath.

He married Elizabeth Jane Schartz on June 6, 1965 at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Ingalls, Kansas she survives....

Feb 13, 2025

Dodge City- Marvin Ackers, 87, died February 13, 2025 at Saint Catherine Hospital in Dodge City. He was born in Liberal Kansas on June 4, 1937 to Leo and Mabel (Hostetler) Ackers.

The family moved from Kansas to the San Francisco area in 1941, where Leo helped to rebuild the Pacific Fleet as shipwright, after Pearl Harbor. ...

Feb 13, 2025

Dodge City - Dennis Wesley Renner, 68, died February 13, 2025 at St. Catherine's Hospital, Dodge City.  He was born on November 13, 1956 in Ventura, California, the son of Byron and Sheila (Brady) Renner.

Dennis loved riding his motorcycle, was a golf fanatic, and had a wicked sense of humor. Most of all he loved his...

Feb 13, 2025

Dodge City - Leandro Huizar-De Los Santos, 76, died February 13, 2025 at his home in Dodge City. He was born on February 27, 1948 in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico, the son of Juan Huizar-Ceballos and Soledad De Los Santos- Alderete.

In June of 1970, he married Luz E. Rojas.  The couple moved from Juarez to Kansas in...

Feb 6, 2025

Cimarron - Our Beloved Daughter, Beloved Sibling, and a friend to everyone she met, Mikayla Lynn Overton, "Mickey" 3, passed away Thursday, February 6th in Kansas City MO. Mikayla was born February 19th, 2021, in Dodge City. The daughter of Micheal Overton and Cayse Larman.

Mickey loved playing Barbie's with her older sisters and picking on her...

Feb 1, 2025

Kalvesta - Marcie Louise (Litton) Heady was born September 19, 1964 in Quinter Kansas. She was the seventh child of Halbert Keith Litton and Margaret "Peggy" (Moss/Litton) Muehlenkamp. She lived in Hoxie for the first five years of her life, where she and siblings would play cowboys and Indians. From there, she moved to Fort Garland, Colorado, which she...

Jan 31, 2025

Dodge City – Florence L. Lee, 97, passed away peacefully at the Hodgeman County Health Center on January 31, 2025. Florence was born on her family farm in rural southwest Hodgeman County on March 21, 1927, the youngest child of Irvin and Millie (Zelenka) Miller.

Florence attended grade school at a nearby country school and then Jetmore...

Jan 29, 2025

Dodge City - Edward S. Phillips, 80, passed away with his family by his side on January 29, 2025 at St. Catherine Hospital of Dodge City.  He was born on December 28, 1944 at Dodge City, the son of Cleo and Anna Loraine (Dunn) Phillips

Ed was a lifelong resident of Dodge City and a graduate of...

Jan 28, 2025

Dodge City- Jerry Milford Rumbaugh, 84, passed away with family by his side on January 28, 2025, at Manor of the Plains in Dodge City, KS. After enduring a long battle with Alzheimer's and Dementia, Jerry was finally able to rest in the arms of his Savior and remember fondly all the days that had been made hazy.