Obituaries

Sep 23, 2016

SUBLETTE - Randy Miller, 41, died September 23, 2016 in Amarillo, Texas. He was born on January 23, 1975 in Lyons, the son of Jerry and Linda (Truhlar) Miller. Randy was raised in Lyons and attended grade school there. He went on to attend high school in Sterling. On March 15, 1997, he married Becky Elliot in Abilene. She survives....

Sep 23, 2016

MONTEZUMA - Our wonderful Husband, Daddy, Son, Brother, and Friend, Brett David Nichols was born on February 18, 1984, to Mark and Kris Nichols in Dodge City. We knew he was a special gift to us from the moment he was born. He peacefully left us when God called him home on September 23, 2016, at the age of 32....

Sep 22, 2016

John H. Bordwine, 69, died September 22, 2016 at Halsey Hall in Fort Dodge. He was born on February 5, 1947 in Hugoton, the son of James William and Frances (Hartsell) Bordwine. John attended schools in Hugoton and Liberal. In 1967, he enlisted in the United States Army and served two tours in Viet Nam. In 1970, he was stationed...

Sep 22, 2016

Gyra M. Miller, 78, died September 22, 2016 at her son's home in Newton. She was born on December 3, 1937 in rural Gray County, the daughter of Pearl and Frances E. (Israel) Moore. Gyra graduated from Cimarron High School in 1955. She worked as an insurance agent for Gall and Jones Insurance in Dodge City. Later, Gyra worked as...

Sep 16, 2016

Swaim Funeral Chapel of Montezuma 506 W. Cortez, P.O. Box 421 (602) 846-7689 Obituary Facsimile Transmittal Sheet Tobie Junior Schultz Montezuma - My dear husband, our father, grandfather, and great grandfather, Tobias Junior Schultz was born to Peter and Lena (Nightengale) Schultz on December 7, 1934 at Montezuma. The Angels gently carried him home in the afternoon of September 16,...

Sep 15, 2016

Montezuma -Our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Stella Schmidt, was born as the fourth child of Gerhard and Ida (Ratzlaff) Yost on July 25, 1922 in Las Animas, Colorado. Early Thursday evening on September 15, 2016, the Lord called her home. She reached the age of 94 years. In 1925, she moved with her parents to the Copeland area and...

Sep 15, 2016

Joseph G. "Joe" Berkely, 97, was born November 11, 1918, in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, the son of Dr. Joseph G. and Goldye Johnson Berkely. As a young boy, Joe was raised on the south side of Chicago, near the shores of Lake Michigan, where his lifelong love of boating and sailing took hold. For protection from the alley gangs roaming...

Sep 15, 2016

CIMARRON - Robert "Chris" Christian Moore, 39, died September 15, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. He was born on April 27, 1977 at Ulysses the son of Robert and Suanne (Payne) Moore. Chris was a 1995 graduate of Ulysses High School and received his Bachelor's degree in AG Business from Kansas State University in 1999. On May 18th, 2006...

Sep 13, 2016

Montezuma - Robert Lee (Bob) Koehn, Jr. passed away peacefully and surrounded by his family on Tuesday, September 13 in Garden City, after battling cancer. Although he held other titles throughout his life, Bob was most proud of "husband," "dad," "Gramps," (or as Rylee says, "Framps") and "farmer." He was born in Sublette on July 5, 1956 to Robert and...

Sep 5, 2016

DODGE CITY - Gladys "Judy" Bell, 74, died September 5, 2016 at the Good Samaritan Center, Dodge City. She was born on August 26, 1942 at Dodge City the daughter of Silver and Virginia (Stout) Goodwin. Judy was a longtime resident of Dodge City. She married Alan Immell on August 2, 1959. Judy later married Duke Bell on May 4,...

Sep 3, 2016

SUBLETTE-Robert "Bob" Franklin Walters, 88, went home to Heaven on Saturday, September 3, 2016 at the Satanta Long-Term Care Unit. He was born on June 20, 1928, in Sublette, the son of Horace Franklin and Mary Josephine (Kennedy) Walters. The story is told that he was so tiny at birth that they wrapped him and put him in a shoe...

Sep 3, 2016

Dodge City - Gordon Holtfrerich, 80, died September 3, 2016 at his home in Dodge City. He was born on May 8, 1936 in Dodge City, the son of Charlie and Thelma (Gunkle) Holtfrerich. Gordon attended school in Dodge City where he played football, basketball, and baseball in grade school, junior high, and high school. He graduated from Dodge City...

Aug 31, 2016

Cimarron - Wilma G. Culver, 101, died August 31, 2016 at The Shepherd's Center in Cimarron. She was born on February 25, 1915 in Wright, the daughter of Isaac Moler and Ida Mae (Reay) Roberts Imel. At five months of age, Wilma moved with her family to Gray County south of Montezuma. In 1922, the family moved to a farm...

Aug 26, 2016

DODGE CITY - Manuel Robles, 52, died August 26, 2016 at Denver, Colorado . He was born on February 8, 1964 in Jalisco, Mexico the son of Eliseo and Luisa Robles. Manuel J. Robles was a native from Mexico who came to California in 1980 to live the American Dream at the age of 16. He started to work in...

Aug 24, 2016

DODGE CITY- Abraham Mateo Munoz, died August 24, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex Women's Center, Dodge City. He was born on August 24, 2016 the son of Victor and Marlett (Villa) Munoz. Funeral service will be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Monday, August 29, 2016 at 2:00 P.M. Thoughts and memories may be shared...

Aug 21, 2016

Dodge City - Severo "Fred" Perez, 52, died August 21, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. He was born on February 21, 1964 at Dodge City, Kansas the son of Antonio and Marguerita (Lozano) Perez. He was a avid Pittsburgh Steelers fan as well as a Kansas City Royals and KU Basketball fan. Mr. Perez loved spending time...

Aug 14, 2016

Sublette - Mary Nell (Walters) Oringderff went to be with our Lord on August 14, 2016.  She was born in Sublette, Kansas, on July 2, 1927, to HF "Frank" and Mary Walters, the fourth of six children.

Mary Nell attended school in Sublette, graduating from high school in 1945.  In 1947, she and Bob Oringderff were married...

Aug 11, 2016

James (Jim) W. Strother of Lansing passed away on August 11, 2016 at the age of 94. James was born on May 18, 1922 at Clarksburg, West Virginia to Fredrick Lambert and Mary Pearl (Nay) Strother. The family moved to the Texas Panhandle in 1926. James graduated from Stinett, Texas High School in 1941. SGT Strother served in the United...

Aug 10, 2016

Marvin was born July 20, 1923, in Yates Center, KS, the third of six children born to Charles William and Mary Martha (Fortner) Hampton. He passed away on August 10, 2016 in Dodge City. In his early teens, his family moved to his father's Cherokee Indian Land Claim near Pryor, OK. As an adult he appreciated and took pride in...

Aug 8, 2016

Jeffrey A. Hill, 70, died August 8, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex in Dodge City. He was born on October 8, 1945 in Dodge City, the son of Virgil and Anne (Shultz) Hill. Jeffrey was raised in Fowler, graduating from Fowler High School in 1963. He went on to further is education at Fort Hays State University where he...