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Bobby Dale Mckinney

Bobby Dale Mckinney

Apr 13, 2016

Dodge City - Bobby Dale McKinney, 66, died April 13, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City. He was born on March 22, 1950 in Dodge City, the son of George and Colleen (Tolson) McKinney. Bobby was a lifetime resident of Dodge City. He was a graduate of Dodge City High School. In 1968, Bobby joined the United States...

John Salvador Sandoval Jr.

John Salvador Sandoval Jr.

Apr 12, 2016

Neptune Beach, Florida - John Salvador Sandoval, Jr., 50, died April 12, 2016 at Neptune Beach, Florida. He was born on August 13, 1965 at Dodge City, KS the son of John S. and Patricia (Saucedo) Sandoval. Mr. Sandoval worked as a mechanic for Pep Boys in Wichita. He enjoyed working with his hands and could fix anything. He enjoyed...

Sandra J. Williams

Sandra J. Williams

Apr 12, 2016

DODGE CITY - Sandra Jeanette Williams, 73, went to be with the Lord on April 12, 2016 at Trinity Manor Nursing Home, Dodge City. She was born on November 27, 1942 at Albia, Iowa the daughter of Homer Ray and Agnes Lennea (Carlson) Stewart. Sandy attended Pleasant Point Country School in Bluff Creek Township and was a graduate of Albia...

Henry Martens

Henry Martens

Apr 9, 2016

Copeland - Henry Martens, 47, died April 9, 2016 at his home in Copeland after a three year battle with cancer. He was born on May 5, 1968 in Mexico, the son of Cornelius and Tina (Thiessen) Martens. On July 2, 1989, he married Margaret Loewen in Mexico. She survives. They moved to Garden City in 1992. They later moved...

Kenneth W. Fry

Kenneth W. Fry

Apr 4, 2016

Ford - Kenneth W. Fry, 69, died April 4, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita . He was born on November 9, 1946 at Scott City, the son of Charles Noah and Nancy Lee (Sharp) Fry. Kenneth played football and wrestled through high school and graduated from Kinsley High School, Kinsley, in 1964. He continued his education through Dodge City...

Philip Earl "Phil" Travis

Philip Earl "Phil" Travis

Mar 29, 2016

Ft. Dodge - Philip Earl Travis, 84, died March 29, 2016 at Halsey Hall at Ft. Dodge. He was born on November 22, 1931 at Eskridge, the son of Reuben and Ruth (Bryan) Travis. He graduated from Eskridge High School in 1949. Phil was a veteran of the Korean War serving in the U.S. Navy for four years on the...

Eileen Gilchrist

Eileen Gilchrist

Mar 28, 2016

Sublette - Eileen Gilchrist, 84, died March 28, 2016 at her home in Sublette. She was born on May 10, 1931 on the family farm near Mullinville, the daughter of Orville and Hattie (Kilgore) Ochs. Eileen moved with her family to Haskell County when she was six. She attended the Santa Fe School. On November 9, 1947, she married Don...

Crystal Janet Frazier-Denton

Crystal Janet Frazier-Denton

Mar 26, 2016

INGALLS - Crystal Janet Frazier-Denton, 80, died March 26, 2016 at the Good Samaritan Center, Dodge City. She was born on November 11, 1935 at Copeland, the daughter of Melvin David and Myrl Irene (Stebbins) Frazier. On September 5, 1954 she married Vernon Denton at Logan, New Mexico. He preceded her in death on October 26, 2013. Crystal worked at...

Elisabeth Teichroeb

Elisabeth Teichroeb

Mar 26, 2016

Copeland - Elisabeth Teichroeb, 46, died March 26, 2016 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City after battling an extremely hard fight with cancer for four years and four months. She was born on January 17, 1970 at Mexico, the daughter of Johan and Maria Doerksen (Dyck) Neufeld. Elisabeth married Enrique (Henry) Teichroeb on July 11, 1987 in Mexico. He...

Rowena Huff

Rowena Huff

Mar 21, 2016

Rowena Huff, 95, died March 21, 2016 at her home in Dodge City. She was born on September 3, 1920 in Lyons, the daughter of William Frank and Irene (Worth) Temple. Rowena attended Mitchell School in Rice County thru the eighth grade. She then went on to Lyons High School, graduating in 1937. Rowena worked as a telephone operator in...

Virginia R. Miller

Virginia R. Miller

Mar 18, 2016

Ensign - Virginia R. Miller, 85, died March 18, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. She was born on July 21, 1930 near Mullinville, Kansas the daughter of Clay and Sybil (Gordon) Neier. She graduated from Mullinville High School in 1948. Mrs. Miller continued her education by attending and graduating from St. Anthony School of Nursing in...

Vicki Marie Reed

Vicki Marie Reed

Mar 15, 2016

Montezuma - Vicki Marie Reed, 57 passed away at her home in Montezuma on Tuesday, March 15, 2016. She was born April 1, 1958 in Dodge City, the daughter of Victor & Louise (Blackwelder) Thomas of Montezuma. Vicki was a graduate of Montezuma High School, and Fort Hays State University, with a B.S. in Elementary Education, and later a Masters...

Barbara Jean Carter

Barbara Jean Carter

Mar 11, 2016

Dodge City- Barbara J. Bauer Carter formerly of Dodge City, Kans., died March 11, 2016 at Avita Senior Living Center in Wichita. Mrs. Carter was born in Larned, on December 10, 1934, to Vernon Earl Bauer of Radium and Kathryn Mildred Mallow Bauer of Dundee. She was 81 years old. Mrs. Carter grew up on a farm near Radium. She...

Lula May Woodson

Lula May Woodson

Mar 10, 2016

COPELAND - Lula May (Craver) Woodson, 101, died Thursday, March 10, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains in Dodge City. Lula May was the daughter of Robert (Bob) E. and Anna E. (Phillips) Craver. She was born on March 21, 1914 in Natrona, Pratt County, and moved to Copeland with her family when she was four years old. Her...

Russell Lee Hargett

Russell Lee Hargett

Mar 4, 2016

MONTEZUMA - Russell Lee Hargett, 91, died March 4, 2016 at Halsey Hall in Fort Dodge. He was born on December 13, 1924 in Montezuma, the son of William Floyd and Minnie (Feldman) Hargett. Russell was a graduate of Montezuma High School. He served his country in the United States Army during World War II in the Pacific Theater. On...

Virginia L. Nicolet

Virginia L. Nicolet

Mar 3, 2016

Cimarron - Virginia L. Nicolet, 90, died March 3, 2016 at Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City. She was born on February 5, 1926 at Kansas City, Missouri the daughter of O.M. and Virginia (Richmond) Larsen. She married Albert "Skeet" Nicolet on February 16, 1947 in Kansas City, Missouri, he preceded her in death on December 9, 2011. They met...

Betty Jane Broadbooks

Betty Jane Broadbooks

Mar 3, 2016

DODGE CITY - Betty Jane Broadbooks, 90, died March 3, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. She was born on June 15, 1925 at Edwardsville, the daughter of James and Bettie E. (Hurd) Barger. Betty was a 1943 graduate of Dodge City Senior High School. On December 30, 1965 she married Ray Broadbooks, Jr at Cimarron. She...

Robert L. Swaim

Robert L. Swaim

Feb 28, 2016

Dodge City - Robert L. Swaim, 87, died February 28, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. He was born on September 18, 1928 at Hooker, Oklahoma, the son of Harold Lee and Cynthia Nelda (Alloway) Swaim. Bob grew up at Hooker, Oklahoma, and attended schools there through ninth grade. He moved with his family to Dodge City...

Donald Lee Skinner

Donald Lee Skinner

Feb 26, 2016

Dodge City - Donald Lee Skinner, 90, died February 26, 2016 at Presbyterian Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. He was born on September 8, 1925 in Stevens County, the son of Troy Tony and Hazel Mae (Hageman) Skinner. Don attended elementary school at Center Valley Country School in Stevens County. At the age of 15, he moved to Rose...

Larry J. Maurer

Larry J. Maurer

Feb 24, 2016

DODGE CITY - Larry J. Maurer, 85, died February 24, 2016, at Morton County Senior Living, Elkhart. He was born on February 25, 1930 at Montezuma, the son of John J. and Adeline E. (Eck) Maurer. Larry grew up in Montezuma and was a 1948 graduate of Montezuma High School. He joined the US Navy immediately after high school and...

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