Obituaries
Franklin Cunningham
May 31, 2022
Franklin Eugene Cunningham, age 95 of Leonardville, passed away Tuesday, May 31, 2022 at the Clay Center Presbyterian Manor.
He was born on March 2, 1927 in Huntington, West Virginia, the son of Milburn and Jane (Greenwood) Cunningham. He was raised in Washington, Indiana where he graduated from high school. He served in both the U.S. Army Infantry, U.S. Army...
Al Visser
May 28, 2022
Albion D. Visser, age 87, of Sidney, passed away on to our heavenly home surrounded by his family on Saturday, May 28, 2022 at Sidney Regional Medical Center.
He was born on May 22, 1935 in Riley, KS to Martha (Sylvester) and Edward Visser. He was the youngest of 8 children. He graduated from Kansas State with an Agriculture Economics...
Melvin Padgett
May 22, 2022
Melvin Darrell Padgett, age 79 of Manhattan, passed away Sunday, May 22, 2022 at his residence.
He was born on November 26, 1942 in Manhattan, the son of Robert L. and Gladys C. (Iseman) Padgett. He graduated from Manhattan High School.
On June 30, 1963, he married Nancy L. Tiemeyer in Clifton. She survives of the home.
Melvin was a...
William McReynolds
May 20, 2022
William H. McReynolds, age 76, of Blue Rapids, passed away Friday, May 20, 2022, at Bryan Medical Center West in Lincoln, Nebraska.
William was born October 15, 1945, in Independence, Missouri, to John and Florence B. (Ipson) McReynolds. He attended Blue Rapids High School. William worked for Pyramid Manufacturing in Onaga and then Travalong Trailers in Waterville, retiring...
Richard "Rick" Thompson
May 18, 2022
Richard C. “Rick” Thompson, age 65, of Omaha, passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.
Rick was born July 31, 1956, in Omaha, to Eugene J. and Iris I. (Fleck) Thompson. He married Deborah D. Claycamp on August 17, 1973, in Omaha. He joined four of his brothers in the...
Helen Wieters
May 16, 2022
Helen Pauline Wieters, age 97 of Randolph, passed away Monday, May 16, 2022 at the Leonardville Nursing Home.
She was born on February 1, 1925 at the family farm south of Walsburg, the daughter of John Herbert and Emma Marina (Johnson) Holtman. She was baptized and confirmed in the Walsburg Lutheran Church, attended Walsburg Grade School and graduated from Randolph...
Doris "Dody" Dice
May 14, 2022
Doris M. “Dody” Dice, age 68, of Blue Rapids, passed away on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Bryan Medical Center East in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Dody was born on December 6, 1953, at Tonganoxie, to Lloyd H. and Meriem W. (Hershey) Zimmerman. She graduated from Perry High School in 1970. On February 15, 1974, she married Eugene S. Dice in...
Shirley Wohler
May 11, 2022
Shirley Irene Wohler, age 86 of Riley passed away Wednesday, May 11, 2022.
She was born on July 31, 1935 in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the daughter of Clyde Edwin and Imo Isabelle (Jones) Rowland.
On December 1, 1951 she married Robert (Bob) Walter Wohler in Pawnee City, Nebraska. He preceded her in death in 1995.
Shirley was a farmwife and...
Margo Braly
May 8, 2022
Margo Donitte Braly, age 60 of Wamego, passed away Sunday, May 8, 2022 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House.
She was born on March 12, 1962 at Fort Riley, Kansas, the daughter of Donald Eugene and Margaret Jane (Fisher) Mefford.
On February 12, 1983, she married Richard Dana Braly. He survives of the home.
Margo graduated from Manhattan Area Technical...
Jeanette J. Van Kirk Oentrich
May 6, 2022
Jeanette J. Van Kirk Oentrich, age 92, of Barnes, passed away at the Washington County Hospital in Washington on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Jeanette was born October 25, 1929, on her family’s farm near Greenleaf. She is the daughter of Ralph W. and F. Geveane (Wanamaker) Clark. She graduated from Barnes Rural High School in 1947. She went on...
Alan Keith
May 4, 2022
Alan Palmer Keith, age 84 of Manhattan, passed away on Wednesday, May 4, 2022 in Kansas City, Kansas after a brief illness and hospitalization. He was born on September 10, 1937 in Glendale, California to Lloyd and Evelyn (VanAllen) Keith. He joked that he was “born in a garage and delivered by a veterinarian,” which wasn’t exactly true, but...
Brenda Kientz
Apr 27, 2022
Brenda K. (Springer) Kientz, age 81, died April 27, 2022 at the Leonardville Nursing Home in Leonardville, Kansas.Brenda Kay Kientz was born on a farm northeast of Riley on February 19, 1941 to Oscar Bennett Springer and Mabel Ruth (Rubart) Springer. She graduated from Riley Rural High School in 1959 and Manhattan Area Vo-Tech in 1978.Brenda married Kenneth Kientz on...
Vickie Burkman
Apr 27, 2022
Vickie Jo Burkman, age 64 of Shawnee, passed away Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at her residence. She was born on July 27, 1957 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Leroy Junior and Mary Lena (Beeler) Steele. On May 2, 1981 in Kansas City, Kansas, she married Galen Ray Burkman. He survives of the home. Vickie...
Dwaine Shorman
Apr 24, 2022
Frederick “Dwaine” Shorman passed to his heavenly choir on Sunday, April 24, 2022, at the age of 91.
Dwaine was born on July 22, 1930, the second son and third child of William Frederick and Lauretta Victoria Sumners Shorman in Morganville, Kansas.
His elementary years were spent at Morganville and Clay Center Schools. He was president of his senior class...
Marjorie (Mapes) Nevitt
Apr 20, 2022
Marjorie A. (Mapes) Nevitt, age 92, passed away at her home in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022.
Marjorie was born November 23, 1929, on the family farm west of Waterville, Kansas. She is the daughter of Arthur V. and Fannie M. (Pomeroy) Mapes.
She graduated from Waterville High School in 1947, then went on to...
Kenneth L. Wanamaker
Apr 20, 2022
Kenneth L. Wanamaker, age 74, of Blue Rapids, passed away on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, at Crestview Nursing Home in Seneca, Kansas.
Ken was born January 6, 1948, in Marysville, to John H. and Beulah A. (Jewell) Wanamaker and was raised in the area by Don & Beulah Nider. He graduated from Valley Heights High School in 1967. After...
Virginia "Jean" White
Apr 5, 2022
Virginia F. “Jean” White, age 73, of Blue Rapids, passed away peacefully at her home with family about her, on Tuesday, April 5, 2022. Jean was born April 25, 1948, in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the daughter of James and Irene F. (Jarzynka) Whitley.
Jean had worked at Cambridge Place as a Certified Medicine Aide for twenty years, retiring...
Mary Jane Oberhelman
Mar 31, 2022
Mary Jane Oberhelman, age 97 of Riley, passed away Thursday, March 31, 2022 at Ascension Via Christi in Manhattan.
She was born on September 20, 1924 in Barnston, Nebraska, the daughter of Byron and Julia Octavia (Day) Sailors. The Sailors family moved from Nebraska to Leonardville in 1928 attending grade school then moved to Riley in 1937 where she finished...
Wilma Loecker
Mar 25, 2022
Wilma Doris Loecker, age 68 of Manhattan, passed away Friday, March 25, 2022 at her residence. She was born on September 20, 1953, in Manhattan, the daughter of William Woodrow and Doris Mildred (Tuman) Rosell. On October 19, 1984, she married Arlen Joseph Loecker. He survives of the home. Wilma worked most recently at Stonecreek Family Physicians,...
Michael Diederich
Mar 15, 2022
Michael “Mike” L. Diederich, age 74, passed away at Stormont Vail Health Center in Topeka, on Tuesday, March 15, 2022.
Mike was born in Concordia, on January 22, 1948, to Vernon A. and Evelyn I. (Laird) Diederich. He graduated from Linn High School in 1967. That fall he joined the US Air Force. Then on December 2, 1967, at...
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