Marcia G. Paulsen
Aug 21, 2013
Marcia Gail (Francis) Paulsen, 64, passed away Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at Phillips County Hospital. She was born in Riverside, California to Merl and Geraldine (Hopson) Francis on October 18, 1948. The family then moved back to Phillipsburg where Marcia graduated from high school. On May 5, 1968, she married Dennis Paulsen. They resided north of Phillipsburg near the family...
Karen Jean Bach
Aug 19, 2013
Karen Jean (Covey) Bach, age 70, passed away peacefully at her home in Woodruff, Kansas on Monday, August 19th, 2013. Karen was a devout Christian and was ready to go to her Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord. Karen was born on May 30th, 1943 in Oxford, Nebraska. She was the first of two girls born to Eugene "Gene" and Eileen...
Warren Wesley Willis
Aug 3, 2013
Warren W. Willis, 90, of Joplin, died August 3, 2013, at Spring River Christian Village, his home since 2012. He was born November 22, 1922, in Kirwin, KS, the son of Ulysses S. Grant and Grace Brewer Willis. On January 6, 1946, he married Helene E. Jensen of Soldier, IA, in Omaha, NE. Warren attended the Kirwin farm school and...
Roy O. Bretton
Jul 27, 2013
Roy Orlin Bretton, son of Mavor & Ethel (Smith) Bretton, was born January 25, 1942 in Kirwin, Kansas and passed away July 27, 2013 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas at the age of 71. He grew up on the family farm with his brothers, Ralph and Rex, and sisters, Lila and Luella. Roy attended elementary school and...
Glade T. Lienberger
Jul 22, 2013
Glade Taylor Lienberger passed away on July 22, 2013 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska, at the age of 94. He was born on June 18, 1919 to Elsie Myrtle (Taylor) and Marsdon M. Lienberger on a farmstead near Randall, Kansas. Glade graduated from Randall High School on May 20, 1938 and then joined the Signal Corp, U.S. Air...
Pauline E. Mankin
Jul 21, 2013
Pauline Ellen (Shoemaker) Mankin passed away July 21, 2013 in Salina, Kansas after a lengthy memory impairment illness. She had been a life-long resident of Phillipsburg, and was 94 years old. Her deceased parents were also lifetime residents of the Phillipsburg area, Charles F and Esther M (Clonch) Shoemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband William...
Rex Vanallen Kellogg
Jul 20, 2013
Rex Van Allen Kellogg, son of Alvin Ray & Bessie (Van Allen) Kellogg, was born September 29, 1922 west of Bogue, Kansas in Graham County and passed away July 20, 2013 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas at the age of 90. Rex attended elementary school and high school in Bogue, graduating with the class of 1941. He...
Ada Kathryn Rose
Jul 17, 2013
Rural Agra Resident, Ada Kathyrn Rose, passed away Wed., July 17, 2013 at the Deseret Health & Rehab Center in Kensington, KS at the age of 93. She was born October 26, 1919 in Kirwin, KS, the daughter of Fred & Gertie (Downing) Zoller. Her husband, Lee, preceded her in death on Jan. 6, 2003. Survivors include her son, Steven...
Carla M. Opliger
Jul 16, 2013
Carla Marie (Stockman) Opliger, 71, passed away peacefully at her home in Topeka, Kansas on July 16, 2013 surrounded by loving family. She was born in Kirwin, Phillips County, Kansas, daughter of Warren Julius Stockman and Merle Marie (Moore) Stockman, on July 15, 1942. Carla spent her early childhood in Kirwin and received her education there. She graduated with the...
Shelby Lynn Hale
Jul 14, 2013
Phillipsburg resident, Shelby Lynn Hale, passed away Sun., July 14, 2013 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, KS at the age of 48. She was born February 24, 1965 in Memphis, TN, the daughter of Shelby & Francis (Gunter) Williamson. Shelby worked as a title clerk for a car dealership. Survivors include her mother, Francis Townsdin, of Phillipsburg; daughters,...
Brian R. Allison
Jul 11, 2013
Brian Richard Allison was born to Orlis (Red) Allison and Norma (Hunt) Allison ON May 4, 1958 at the Phillips County Hospital. He departed this earthly life on July 11, 2013 at the Hays Medical Center following a brief illness. Brian is a lifelong resident of Phillips County. Brian graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1976 and attended Colby Community...
Alice L. Chance
Jul 10, 2013
Phillipsburg resident, Alice L. Chance, passed away Wed., July 10, 2013 at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, KS at the age of 92. She was born March 17, 1921 in Phillips County, KS to Arthur & Cicely (Jones) Pembridge. Alice was a homemaker and mother. Her husband, Dean, preceded her in death in 1975. Survivors include her sons, Brian...
Joe F. Sandstrom
Jul 6, 2013
Joe Fred Sandstrom, son of Fred & Blanche (Wagner) Sandstrom, was born March 8, 1922 in Ash Valley, Kansas and passed away July 6, 2013 at the Phillips County Retirement Center in Phillipsburg, Kansas at the age of 91. Early in life Joe's parents always took him to Sunday school and church where he was later baptized as a child...
Johanna M. Soodsma
Jul 5, 2013
Johanna Margaret Soodsma, second child of Klaas & Margaret (VanderLugt) Van Dyke, was born into a God-fearing farm family on September 7, 1930 in Beaver Creek, Minnesota. She grew up near Leota, Minnesota and graduated from Western Christian High School in 1948. She went on to teach grade school at Inwood, Orange City, Pease, Leota and Cutlerville Christian Schools. On...
Eleanor V. Mccall-Mueller-Wehe
Jul 5, 2013
Eleanor Vonda Wehe, daughter of Edward Frank (Dick) Fix & Ella (Seeger) Fix, was born March 6, 1923 in Speed, Kansas and passed away July 5, 2013 at the Phillips County Retirement Center in Phillipsburg, Kansas at the age of 90. After graduating from high school Eleanor married William H. McCall (Bill) on January 28, 1942 in Phillipsburg, Kansas. Four...
Archie H. Smith
Jul 5, 2013
Archie Harrison Smith, son of Martin Ralph Smith & Mary Viola (Wisehart) Smith, was born January 19, 1933 in Kirwin, Kansas and died on July 5, 2013 at the Carmel Hills Healthcare & Rehab Center in Independence, Missouri at the age of 80. He was inducted into the U.S. Army on April 2, 1953 and earned a Korean Service Medal,...
Marvin C. Vanderveen
Jul 2, 2013
Marvin Christopher VanDerVeen, 75, passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at Norton County Hospital. He was born on the family farm to Michael and Dora (Erickson) VanDerVeen on March 20, 1938. He graduated from Long Island High School and then served in the Air Force for four years. On October 14, 1966, he married Wauneta Schemper. They resided in Prairie...
Pauline Roth Bales
Jun 28, 2013
Polly Roth Bales (Pauline Elsie Roth), 92, of Lawrence, passed to a better life on June 28, 2013 at home. She was born to the late John P. and Anna (Rutschman) Roth on June 30, 1920 in Whitewater, Ks where she was reared on the family farm. The lessons of humble servitude she learned from her parents' example colored her...
Joimae Grismore
Jun 22, 2013
Joimae (Lee) Grismore was born August 18, 1935 to Lorraine (Scott) and Jesse Lee and passed away at the age of 77 on Saturday June 22, 2013 at the Deseret Health and Rehab Facility in Kensington, KS. Joimae attended grade school at Kirwin, KS and was Valedictorian of her graduating class. She later obtained her High School Diploma through a...
Terry Duane Shields
Jun 17, 2013
Terry Duane Shields, son of Ronald & LuJuana (Geist) Shields, was born June 27, 1961 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas and passed away June 17, 2013 at his home in Phillipsburg at the age of 51. In his early years he attended the Scott City Grade School, Garden City Junior High School, and graduated from Deerfield High...
