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Danny J. Cox

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...

Gladys G. Reece

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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