Obituaries

Jan 2, 2025

Dodge City - Arlene Stude, 71, passed away on January 2, 2025 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born on March 5, 1953 in Spearville, Kansas, the daughter of Henry and Mary Norma (Hess) Schulte.

She worked for Curtis Machine then for the USD 443 sports laundry department for thirty years. She enjoyed sewing and making...

Dec 30, 2024

Derby - Bertha Althea Unruh went to be with her Lord and Savior on December 30, 2024 at the age of 89.  She was born December 2, 1935 in Hugo, Colorado to Otto and Betty Blankenship.  She lived some of her childhood in Colorado and Oklahoma.  When she was 12, her family moved to Dodge City.

During...

Dec 25, 2024

Sublette - Dianna Lynn Moser, 58, died December 25, 2024 at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City. She was born on September 16, 1966 in Satanta, the daughter of Don and Roberta (Stucker) Moser.

Dianna's childhood was spent in Sublette.  She attended school in Hugoton and graduated from Sublette High School in 1985.  Dianna enjoyed country...

Dec 24, 2024

Montezuma - Edwin Roy Classen was born to Henry & Agnes Classen on August 17, 1935, in Meade County, Kansas. He passed away on Christmas Eve 2024, at Bethel Home in Montezuma, Kansas.

Dad grew up on a farm south of Meade. He had pleasant memories of his childhood, forming close bonds with his seven brothers. They...

Dec 21, 2024

Dodge City - Charles Alvin Wells, 87, passed peacefully on December 21, 2024 at Reflection Living, Dodge City.  He was born on June 13, 1937 at Dodge City, the son of Howard Charles and Dorothy (Bond) Wells.

Charles grew up in Kansas and Washington. He joined the US Air Force and was stationed at Roswell, New Mexico....

Dec 19, 2024

Montezuma - Our father, grandfather, and great grandfather, Lee Koehn, was born to Joe and Ida (Dirks) Koehn on April 24,1927. He was the sixth child in a family of eight. He left this old earth in the early evening hours of December 18, 2024. He was 97 years old.

Dad's life was spent in Gray County,...

Dec 18, 2024

Dodge City - Michael Joseph (Woogie/Woog) Werkowitch, born in Kansas City, MO to Stephen and Helen (Hauser), was the baby of the family with two older sisters, Stephanie (Stahl) and Jeannie (Worden). He attended school at St. Joseph in Shawnee, elementary through high school graduation. There are plenty of stories of "mean" nuns and the pranks he and his...

Dec 16, 2024

Allen Neal Downing, a former resident of Copeland, passed away peacefully at the age of 93 on December 16, 2024, in Julesburg, Colorado. Born in Grant City, Missouri, on September 21, 1931, Allen was the son of Wm. Leslie "Shock" Downing and Eula Fern (Hibbs) Downing.

Allen began his farming journey at just nine years old, working...

Dec 16, 2024

Copeland - Betty Jean (Smith) Schmidt was born February 5, 1931, to Fred and Myrtle Smith at Ulysses, KS. She peacefully passed away December 16, 2024, in her room at Bethel Home, Montezuma, Ks, reaching the age of ninety-three years.

After moving from Kansas, Betty's early years were spent in DeRidder, Louisiana. In her teenage years, the...

Dec 13, 2024

Copeland - Lorraine DeAnn Valdez was born to Orlan and Lena Jantz Wedel at Copeland, Kansas, on August 8, 1943. She peacefully took her final breath and gained her eternal home on the morning of December 13, 2024, at the age of 81.

Mom spent her childhood on the farm eleven miles north of Copeland. She received...

Dec 13, 2024

Dodge City - Jack Honnold, 98, died December 13, 2024 at Manor of the Plains, in Dodge City.  He was born on October 14, 1926 at Winfield, Kansas the son of Bernard Edwin and Maurine (Dulaney) Honnold.

Jack was raised in Winfield, Kansas and attended and graduated from Winfield High School, He furthered his education by attending...

Dec 12, 2024

Dodge City - Rosemary Nolde, 92, passed away Thursday, December 12, 2024 at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. She was born on July 7, 1932 on her family farm near Offerle, Kansas. She was the daughter of Adam and Josephine (Dolecheck) Spahn.

She worked tirelessly to support her children as a clerk for Pay Day IGA,...

Dec 12, 2024

Dodge City - Judy Mae Muns, 77, passed away on December 12, 2024 at Wesley Woodlawn Hospital, Wichita.  She was born on June 20, 1947 at Dodge City, the daughter of William Woodrow and Myrtle Evelyn (Cox) Blackburn.

Judy was a lifelong resident of Dodge City and attended Dodge City public schools. On October 19, 1965 she...

Dec 12, 2024

Dodge City - Nadine Phelps, 75, passed away on December 12, 2024 with her husband and sons by her side. She was born on September 19, 1949 in Buffalo, Oklahoma, the daughter of Chester and Mary (Demitruk) Harmon.

Nadine was an administrative assistant for Attorney Dave Snapp, residential care worker for Youthville, and a financial planner at...

Dec 11, 2024

Sublette – Dr. Gene Lois (Hefner) Hicks, 94, formerly of Sublette, died December 11, 2024 at her home in Des Moines, Iowa.  She was born on December 12, 1929 on the farm of her Hefner grandparents near Yates Center, Kansas the daughter of Calvin Quentin and Lola Susan (Cook) Hefner.

Her early childhood was spent in Yates...

Dec 11, 2024

Montezuma – Thomas "Tom" Warren Lewallen, 81, died December 11, 2024 at Bethel Home in Montezuma.  He was born on October 29, 1943 in Kansas City, Kansas the son of Charles and Verda (Post) Lewallen.

As a young child, Tom lived with his family in Kansas City.  His mother passed away when he was eight and shortly...

Dec 10, 2024

Dodge City - Donald Raymund Stein was born in Spearville, KS on October 10, 1929 to Raymund Stein and Clara Stegman. He departed this life on December 10, 2024 at Brookdale Senior Living in Dodge City at the age of 95. Don grew up in Spearville, Kansas working on the family farm and dairy. He graduated from Spearville High...

Dec 8, 2024

Dodge City - Mary Elsie Williams, 78, passed away on December 8, 2024 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita.  She was born on October 2, 1946 in Moultrie, Georgia the daughter of Elzie Abraham and Mary Ellen (Castleberry) Williams.

She was very funny. She loved crosswords and playing cards including Rummy. She enjoyed cooking and dancing. Mary was...

Dec 7, 2024

Dodge City - Jill Neese, 76, died December 7, 2024 at Minneola District Hospital in Minneola, Kansas. She was born on May 19, 1948 at Phillipsburg, Kansas the daughter of William D. "Biddy" Smith and Naida (Townsend) Smith.

She married Wayne Neese on December 26, 1970 in Holton, Kansas he preceded her in death on May 6,...

Dec 5, 2024

Sublette - Shirley Earlene Passow (Hoffman), age 89, died at Gateway Gardens assisted living facility in Marble Falls, Texas on December 5, 2024. She was born January 7, 1935 in Satanta, Kansas to Lila Maude (Lindeman) and Earl Ulysses Hoffman.

Shirley lived and grew up in Sublette, Kansas with her two older brothers, Richard and Randall. The...