Obituaries
Leah Harvey
Aug 12, 2015
Leah Harvey, age 100 of Leonardville, passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. She was born on February 18, 1915 on a farm north of Green, the daughter of Alvin George and Ethel (Lyon) Pfeifley. She was a housewife and farmed with her husband Earl for a number of years in the Green community before moving...
Bill Whearty
Aug 12, 2015
William “Bill” Thomas Whearty, age 85 of Randolph, passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. He was born on June 4, 1930 at Westmoreland, the son of Ronald Barr and Omah (Warthen) Whearty. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea. On June 18, 1954, he was married to Marjorie Faye Klocke. She preceded him in...
Della Mae Rudolph
Aug 7, 2015
Della Mae Rudolph, age 99 of Riley, passed away Friday, August 7, 2015 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. She was born on June 13, 1916 in Manhattan, the daughter of William and Ida (Wilkening) Jahnke. On October 4, 1938 in Riley, she was married to Edwin G. Rudolph. He preceded her in death in 1995. Della Mae was a homemaker...
Opal M. Humbert
Aug 4, 2015
Opal Mae Sprecker Humbert, age 89 of Wamego, passed away Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at the Wamego Health Center. She was born on April 25, 1926 in Forest City, Missouri, the daughter of Monroe T. and Stella (Walker) Rasnic. On October 13, 1945, she was married to Merlin Harold Sprecker. He precede her in death in 1980. She later married...
Jimmy Christiansen
Aug 2, 2015
Charles James “Jimmy” Christiansen, age 56 of Randolph, passed away Sunday, August 2, 2015 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House. He was born on June 16, 1959 in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Christian and Mildred Audrey “Dolly” (Perrine) Christiansen. He graduated high school in Hightstown, New Jersey in 1977. In 1984 and 1985, he went to VoTech college...
Robert S. Griffith
Jul 27, 2015
Robert Stephen Griffith, age 54 of Manhattan, passed away July 20, 2015 in Topeka, Kansas He was born on April 16, 1961 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Walter G. and Norma Jean (Shearer) Griffith. On June 20, 2014 in the Virgin Islands, he was married to Angela Schaefer. She survives of the home. Robert was a certified public accountant...
Andrea C. Richter
Jul 25, 2015
Andrea Caroline Richter, age 77 of Green, passed away Saturday, July 25, 2015 at the Clay County Medical Center. She was born on April 5, 1938 in Idana, Kansas, the daughter of Russell E. and Irene Caroline (Lippe) Green. She graduated from Clay County Community High School. On October 14, 1956 at her parent’s home in Idana, she was married...
Merlin D. Kopfer
Jul 23, 2015
Merlin Dale Kopfer, age 89 of Clay Center, passed away Thursday, July 23, 2015 at Medicalodge in Clay Center. He was born on October 8, 1925 in Clay Center, the son of August and Vera Ethel (Sherbert) Kopfer. He was a dairyman and loved playing cards, square dancing, tractor pulls and watching Nascar races. On July 3, 1946 in Manhattan,...
Bob Culbertson
Jul 18, 2015
Robert “Bob” Mitchell Culbertson, age 67 of Clay Center, passed away Saturday, July 18, 2015 at the Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. He was born on February 4, 1948 in Mancelona, Michigan, the son of Robert and Lucille (Moore) Culbertson. He served in the U.S. Army from 1971 until 1973 as a refrigeration mechanic. He was a foreman for a...
Frederick N. Fritz
Jul 16, 2015
Frederick N. Fritz, age 79 of Riley, passed away Thursday, July 16, 2015 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan. He was born on January 19, 1936, near Broughton, Kansas, the son of George Charles and Melva Alice (Hatfield) Fritz. He was baptized and confirmed in the St. Paul Lutheran Church and graduated from Clay Center Community High School....
Helena Staley
Jul 13, 2015
Helena Rosine Caroline Staley, age 96 of Leonardville and formerly of Manhattan, passed away Saturday, July 11, 2015 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. She was born on February 26, 1919 in northern Riley County, Kansas, the daughter of Friedrich and Caroline (Weidner) Grater. On August 15, 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana she was married to William “Bill” Staley. He preceded her...
Lilyan D. Oman
Jul 10, 2015
Lilyan Doris Oman, age 94 of Leonardville, passed away Friday, July 10, 2015 at the Leonardville Nursing Home. She was born on July 21, 1920 at Leonardville, the daughter of Milton and Mabel (Berggren) Johnson. She attended the Fairview Grade School and graduated from Leonardville High School in 1938. She worked as a clerk in the Farmers Union Grocery Store...
Twila Ericson
Jul 8, 2015
Twila Mae Ericson, age 87 of Manhattan, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at Via Christi Hospital. She was born on October 1, 1927, at Leonardville, the daughter of Laurin V. and Stella E. (Hageman) Wohler. On June 12, 1949 at Randolph, she was married to Paul D. Ericson. He preceded her in death in 1990. Twila was the vice...
Sylvia L. Nelson
Jul 2, 2015
Sylvia Louise Nelson, age 83 of Manhattan, passed away Thursday, July 2, 2015 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House. She was born on July 21, 1931 in Holton, Kansas daughter of Bert Bethel and Inez Irene (Edwards) Spain. Sylvia graduated from Manhattan High School in 1949. On August 26, 1950, at the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan, she was married...
Shirley Hughes Johnson
Jun 20, 2015
Shirley H. Johnson, age 70 of Riley, passed away Saturday, June 20, 2015 at the Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. She was born on December 28, 1944 in Greenville, Kentucky, the daughter of Boyce and Iva (Buchanan) Hocker. She was raised by her mother and step‐father, Elmer Hughes, graduating from Round Lake (Illinois) High School in 1963. On February...
Barbara Ann Rundquist
Jun 8, 2015
Barbara Ann Rundquist, age 83 of Leonardville, passed away Monday, June 8, 2015 at her home. She was born on February 5, 1932 in Clay Center, the daughter of George F. and Margaret E. (Nanninga) Trumpp. She grew up in the Leonardville community and at age 10 she accepted Christ as her Savior and joined the Evangelical Church in Leonardville....
Janie Martin
Jun 5, 2015
Elizabeth Jane “Janie” Martin, age 86, of Manhattan, passed away Friday, June 5, 2015 at the Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan. She was born to Lester O. and Lela Maud (Webb) Heckethorn on December 19, 1928. In 1947, after graduating from Wichita East High School, Janie attended K-State for one semester. She then enrolled at Brown Business School for a...
Omar Jay Pickett
May 24, 2015
Omar Jay Pickett, age 96, formerly of Greenleaf, Kansas, passed away Sunday, May 24, 2015 in rural Geary County, Kansas. He was born on February 22, 1919 in Washington County, Kansas, the fifth of eight children to James and Lydia (Barker) Pickett. He attended grade school for eight years at the rural Drager School. He graduated from Barnes High School...
Marcus A. Perez
May 23, 2015
Marcus Anthony Perez, Sr., age 45 of Leonardville, passed away Friday, May 22, 2015 at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan. He was born on February 13, 1970 in National City, California, the son of Jesse and Debra Sue (Rodriguez) Perez. He was married to Lisa Diann Brown in 2007 in Manhattan. She survives of the home. He was...
Ronald Dean Osthoff
May 16, 2015
Ronald Dean Osthoff, 65 of Clay Center, Kansas, died Saturday, May 16, 2015 at his residence. He was born on November 17, 1949 in Clay Center, the son of Arnold H. and Mary Gladys (Wiegers) Osthoff. He attended Morganville Grade School and three years at Morganville High School before graduating his senior year at Clay Center Community High School in...
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