Gladys G. Reece
Nov 23, 2016
Dodge City - Gladys Geneva (Grant) Reece, 93, died November 23, 2016 in Dodge City. She was born April 23, 1923 in Texas County, Oklahoma, the daughter of Robert and Edith (Deaton) Grant. Gladys married Eugene Dale Reece, Sr. and to this union they had four children, Eugene Jr., Darrell, Joyce, and Janice. Her hobbies included quilting, sewing, cross-stitching, traveling...
Thomas Granville Gibson
Nov 23, 2016
Copeland - Thomas Granville Gibson, 76, of Copeland, passed away Nov. 23, 2016 in rural Copeland. Thomas was born in Friona, Texas, on February 16, 1940. He attended Friona High School and became a member of the U.S. Army's 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment from 1957-1959. He married his wife, Faye Gibson, on September 15, 1960, in Clovis, New Mexico. After...
Darlene Housman
Nov 22, 2016
Dodge City - Darlene Housman, 89, died November 22, 2016 at Good Samaritan Center in Dodge City. She was born on October 27, 1927 at Dodge City the daughter of Clarence and Sylvia (Jones) Beye. She married Walter Housman on August 19, 1949 in Dodge City, he preceded her in death on June 8, 1998. She worked as a telephone...
Frances Marie Isaac
Nov 19, 2016
Montezuma - Frances Marie (Kehn) Isaac was born to Jacob S. and Eva (Koehn) Kehn on July 24, 1927, at Copeland. She peacefully passed away on November 19, 2016 at Bethel Home, Montezuma reaching the age of 89 years. Mother spent her childhood years on a farm northeast of Copeland, Kansas, attending school at the Sunnyside Country School. As a...
Virginia P. Herrman
Nov 19, 2016
Dodge City - Virginia P. Herrman, 87, died November 19, 2016 at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Indiana. She was born on July 11, 1929 at the family home near Fowler, Kansas the daughter of Tom Scoggins and Mae Scoggins (Stillwell). She married Gerald Herrman on May 26, 1947 at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dodge City, he survives. Mrs....
Roy Max Birney
Nov 18, 2016
SUBLETTE - Roy Max Birney, 79, died November 18, 2016 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He was born on September 24, 1937 in Dodge City, the son of Earl Leon and Juel Maude (Nelson) Birney. Max was raised in Sublette. He attended high school in Garden City where he played football. After graduating from high school, Max accepted a football scholarship...
Betty Jean Gregg
Nov 16, 2016
Wichita - Betty Jean Gregg, 83, died November 16, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on September 5, 1933 at Houston, Missouri the daughter of David and Nellie (Gaddy) Mathis. On May 22, 1954, Betty married Donald Gregg at the Methodist Church in Hutchinson, Kansas, he survives. She and Don moved to Dodge City in...
Norma F. Goff
Nov 13, 2016
Norma Shearer Goff, 92, passed away November 13, 2016 at her home in Colorado Springs, CO. She was surrounded by many of her beloved family. Norma was born in Bucklin on January 27, 1924 and was the eldest child of Russell W. and Lena Pearl (Kennett) Shearer. Her childhood years were spent in Tice, Montrose, Colorado, and Bucklin. Norma married...
Wanda Lee Blackburn
Nov 11, 2016
Dodge City - Wanda Lee Blackburn was born in Dodge City Kansas, to Joseph and Ruth Hacker on January 22, 1934. She departed this life on November 11, 2016. She married Johnny E. Blackburn on September 28, 1954 in Clayton County New Mexico. She enjoyed bowling, play cards, and putting puzzles together. Wanda is proceeded in death by her husband...
Mary J. Stills
Nov 10, 2016
Dodge City - Mary J. Stills, 55, died November 10, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City, Kansas . She was born on May 18, 1961 at Bristol, Indiana the daughter of Fred John Jr. and Isabel Margaret(Adamski) Wordelman. She married Billy Stills on May 5, 1979 in Dodge City, he survives. Mrs. Stills worked at Walmart for...
Thomas J. Brown
Nov 9, 2016
Montezuma - Thomas J. Brown Jr., 74, died November 9, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. He was born on August 18, 1942 at Drumright, Oklahoma, the son of Thomas J. Sr. and Elda (Pool) Brown. Tom lived in Cushing, Oklahoma, graduating from Cushing High School in 1960. He went on to further his education at the...
Gertrude Unruh
Nov 9, 2016
Copeland - Gertrude Joy Fricke Unruh was born on July 21st ,1928 in Merced, California to Samuel L. and Katherine Mininger Fricke. She peacefully passed into eternity on November 9th, 2016 at St. Catherine Hospital at the age of 88. Gertrude struggled with heart issues and after nearly losing her in 2013, we were blessed with three years of quality...
Alan Dean Ashcraft
Nov 8, 2016
Cimarron - Alan Dean Ashcraft, 63, of Cimarron, died November 8, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center, in Wichita. He was born March 22, 1953 in Dodge City, the son of Cora Frances Ashcraft. Alan graduated from Cimarron High School in 1972. A lifetime resident of Cimarron, he worked at the Shepard Center for 40 years. On February 14th, 1989 he...
Victor B. Umanov
Nov 8, 2016
Montezuma - Victor B. Umanov was born August 3, 1946 to Boris and Maria Umanov in Samara, Russia. He departed this life on November, 8, 2016 in Montezuma. Boris and Maria along with their children moved to the Ukraine in 1954. Life as a child and youth were very difficult for Victor. In October of 1969, Victor married Maria Ghruink....
Leona Nusz
Nov 5, 2016
Montezuma -Our Mother, Grandmother, and Sister, Leona (Eck) Nusz, was born to Joseph and Mary (Schmidt) Eck on December 13, 1922 in Durham. She quietly slipped away November 5, 2016 at Bethel Home in Montezuma, reaching the age of 93 years. She grew up at Hickok and later at Ringwood, Oklahoma. Mother married Leo Nusz on March 27, 1940 in...
Robert Gene Crotts
Oct 26, 2016
Cimarron - Robert Gene Crotts, 83, passed away on October 26, 2016 at Garden Valley Retirement Center in Garden City. He was born on January 9, 1933 at his country home near Partridge to Russell Lawrence and Elizabeth (Burke) Crotts. Robert served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955. He attended Hutchinson Community College upon his discharge from...
Marvin E. Barnes
Oct 19, 2016
Marvin E. Barnes, 95, died October 19, 2016. He was born on November 5, 1920; the fourth son of Riley R. Barnes and Emma (Perkins) Barnes in Spearville, Kansas. He attended Dodge City Senior High and Dodge City Community College and served in the Army Air Force in Guatemala during WWII. He married Katherine Hauber in 1943 and returned to...
Lewis Fisher
Oct 19, 2016
Dodge City - Lewis J. Fisher, 96, died October 19, 2016 at the Bethel Home in Montezuma. He was born on August 11, 1920 at Amber, Oklahoma the son of Jay and Leona (Hardy) Fisher. He married Esther Cross on November 7, 1941 in Raton, New Mexico. She preceded him in death on September 29, 2007. Mr. Fisher enjoyed farming...
Leola "Nana" Lillian Lindsey
Oct 8, 2016
Leola "Nana" Lillian Lindsey, 89, died October 8, 2016 at Hill Top House in Bucklin. She was born on October 1, 1927 in Stavely, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of George and Gladys (Rumley) Lund. Leola was raised in Canada. She met C.O. Lindsey and in April of 1945, they were married in Texas. During the early years of their marriage...
Candice Elaine Heckenlively
Oct 7, 2016
Ingalls - Candice Elaine Heckenlively, 60, lost her battle with cancer on October 7, 2016 at her home in Ingalls. She was born on March 12, 1956 at Montezuma, the daughter of Donald and Carlene (Frazier) Wendel. Candice grew up on a farm and she attended Ingalls schools; graduating in 1974. In 2000, Candy moved in with her grandmother Myrl...
