Steve Tucker
Dec 31, 2016
Copeland - Steve Tucker, 67, died December 31, 2016 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City. He was born on August 3, 1949 in Montezuma, the son of Wayne and Alrena (Unruh) Tucker. Steve was a lifetime resident of Gray County. He graduated from Montezuma High School in 1967. After graduation, he went to Fort Hays State University for one...
Wilma P. Goertz
Dec 30, 2016
DODGE CITY - Wilma P. Goertz, 94, died December 30, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. She was born on February 22, 1922 at Waurika, Oklahoma the daughter of William L. and Ella (Lewis) Peters. Wilma was a graduate of Amarillo High School and Amarillo Junior College. On May 4, 1953 she married David J. Goertz at...
Geraldine "Gerry" Lee
Dec 30, 2016
Fort Dodge - Geraldine "Gerry" Lee, 84, died December 30, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. She was born on November 21, 1932 in Longview, Texas the daughter of Riley Elkin and Ethel Pauline (Sorey) Skaggs. Gerry spent her early childhood in Texas, moving with her family to Kansas in 1945. In 1949, they moved to Dodge...
Mary Lou Spanier
Dec 30, 2016
SUBLETTE - Mary Lou Spanier, 84, died December 30, 2016 at Satanta District Hospital in Satanta. She was born on February 2, 1932 five miles south of Sublette on the family farm the daughter of Otto R. and Gladys H. (Thomas) Wallace. Mary Lou was a lifetime resident of Sublette. She graduated from Sublette High School in 1950 and went...
Ronnell K. Schmidt
Dec 27, 2016
CIMARRON - Ronnell K. Schmidt, 55, died December 27, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City. She was born on February 18, 1961 at Garden City, the daughter of Kent and Shirley Mae (Dewitt) Erickson. Ronnell was a 1979 graduate of Dodge City High School. She attended St. Mary of the Plains college and later Dodge City Community College....
Glennys E. Chalkley
Dec 22, 2016
Cimarron - Glennys E. Chalkley, 90, died December 22, 2016, at The Shepherd's Center, Cimarron. She was born June 24, 1926 in rural Gray County to Pearl and Frances (Israel) Moore. She married Verne A. Chalkley on August 5, 1945 in Cimarron. Glennys was a retired government employee and her passion was being a Mary Kay Cosmetics beauty consultant. She...
Mae Koehn
Dec 22, 2016
Montezuma - Our mother and grandmother, Lydia "Mae" Koehn was born to Samuel and Lydia Nichols on September 9, 1934, at Ulysses, Kansas. She peacefully passed away on December 22, 2016, at the Bethel Home in Montezuma, reaching the age of eighty-two years. As a little baby, she lost her mother at the age of three days. Her oldest sister,...
Donald M. Weece
Dec 21, 2016
Donald M. Weece, 87, died December 21, 2016 at his home in Dodge City. He was born December 2, 1929, in Cimarron, Kansas the son of Leonard and Mae (Gardiner) Weece. Don grew up in Cimarron where he graduated from Cimarron High School and was very active in sports. After High School he served his country by enlisting in the...
Beryl Dee Underwood
Dec 21, 2016
Beryl Dee Underwood, 65, died December 21, 2016 at his home in Dodge City. He was born on October 4, 1951 in Garden City, the son of Eldon and Rosetta (Bell) Underwood. Beryl's mother died at a young age and he was raised by his aunt and uncle Ken and Kate Olinger and his grandparents, Wesley and Georgia Bell. Beryl...
Danny J. Cox
Dec 19, 2016
WRIGHT - Danny Jewell Cox, 69, died December 19, 2016 at his home in Wright. He was born at home in Pocahontas, Arkansas on October 3, 1947 the son of Freda J. Cox and Pearlie Mae (Clark) Wakeman. Danny is survived by his wife Dana Cox of Wright; a daughter, Dana J. Cox of Dodge City; a son, Collin Cox...
Virginia Katherine Bierce
Dec 16, 2016
Dodge City - Virginia Katherine Bierce, 78, died December 16, 2016 at Good Samaritan Center in Dodge City. She was born on June 8, 1938 at Garden City, Kansas the daughter of Frank W. and Lydia (Heinitz) Birzer. She married Ronald L Bierce on November 26, 1955 in Dodge City, they later divorced. Miss Bierce loved gardening and working in...
Margaret L. Kirmer
Dec 14, 2016
Margaret LaVon Kirmer, 86, passed away Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at Manor of the Plains in Dodge City. Margaret was born August 14, 1930 near Offerle, Kansas. She was the third of four daughters born to Daniel and Mary (George) Juttner. Margaret began her schooling in the Windthorst area and went on to graduate from Spearville High School in 1948....
Anna Mae Clevenger-Cragg
Dec 3, 2016
Anna Mae Clevenger-Cragg, 92, died December 3, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. She was born on June 23, 1924 in Bloom, the daughter of Walter Otto and Marjorie Ellen (Winkelman) Schmatjen. Anna Mae was raised in Bloom and graduated from Bloom High School. On October 18, 1941, she was united in marriage to A.E. (Bud) Clevenger...
Evelyn Marie Kraft-Mcgee
Dec 2, 2016
Evelyn Marie Kraft McGee (Riedlinger), 86, loving and beloved mother and grandmother, quietly passed from this life into the glory of God and the arms of her Savior Jesus on Friday, December 2, 2016, in Wichita. Evelyn was born on April 15, 1930, to Joseph and Helen Riedlinger, in Windhorst. She was the eldest of four children, including her sister...
Jessie Edith Salem
Dec 2, 2016
Ingalls - Jessie Edith Salem, 95, died December 2, 2016 at the Claremore Nursing Home in Claremore, Oklahoma . She was born on October 24, 1921 in Decatur, Arkansas the daughter of Jesse Arno and Mabel (Dale) Sprott. Edith spent her childhood in Ford and attended elementary school there. On September 22, 1937, she was united in marriage to Emmett...
Connie Hefner
Nov 30, 2016
CIMARRON - Connie Hefner, 82, died November 30, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City. She was born on November 26, 1934 at Vici, Oklahoma the daughter of Cliff and Ruth (Knittel) Green. Connie was a 1952 graduate of Holtville High School in Holtville, California. On August 23, 1953 she married Sparky Hefner in Holtville. A longtime resident of...
Manuel Blea Sr.
Nov 27, 2016
Dodge City - Manuel Blea Sr., 94, died November 27, 2016 at Trinity Manor Nursing Home in Dodge City. He was born on December 8, 1921 at Dodge City, Kansas the son of Manuel D. and Louisa (Florez) Blea. He married Frances Ontiveros on September 20, 1947, she survives. Mr. Blea worked as a welder for Mayrath for several years....
Lucille M. Mcgrew
Nov 25, 2016
DODGE CITY - Lucille Mae McGrew, 97, died November 25, 2016 at Bethel Home in Montezuma. She was born on April 20, 1919 at Cimarron, the daughter of John and Lula (Pittman) Cox. Lucille grew up in Cimarron and was a graduate of Cimarron High School. On September 4, 1943 she married Robert McGrew at Dodge City. She was a...
Jerry "Jr" Lee Reynolds
Nov 25, 2016
Copeland - Jerry "JR" Lee Reynolds, 86, died November 25, 2016 at his home in Copeland. He was born on October 24, 1930 in Wentworth, Missouri the son of Lee L. and Mary Frances (Fertig) Reynolds. JR attended the Van Buren country school near the family farm in Wentworth, walking a mile and half to school every day. From the...
Robert L. "Bob" Randall
Nov 24, 2016
DODGE CITY - Robert "Bob" Leroy Randall, 78, died November 24, 2016 at Wichita. He was born on January 10, 1938 at Old Kaw City, Oklahoma the son of John Leroy and Hattie (Stone) Randall. Robert attended schools in Minneola and joined the US Navy in 1956. He served on the U.S.S Thetis Bay in the South Pacific. He married...
