Sarelda Hall
Nov 4, 2012
Sarelda Catherine (Stone) Hall passed away from cancer on November 4, 2012 at the house near Pearland, Texas. She was born August 17, 1923 in northeast Phillips County, Kansas where she remained a lifelong resident until two years prior to her passing when she moved to Texas for radiation treatment and to be cared for by her children. Sarelda was...
Ethel Larick
Oct 30, 2012
Ethel Marie (Hadley) Larick, second child of Truman Hadley & Violet (Wieczorkowski) Hadley, was born in Prairie View, Kansas on June 21, 1922. She passed away at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas on October 30, 2012 at the age of 90. Ethel attended school through eighth grade and then worked for local ladies around Prairie View as a...
Margaret Lappin
Oct 20, 2012
Margaret Becker Lappin was born February 16, 1917 on a farm 4 miles southeast of Logan to Gotfried Paul Becker and Emma D States Becker. She attended elementary school at Stone School. Margaret graduated from Logan High School in 1934 and continued her education at St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Concordia Kansas graduating in 1939. On December 31st...
Von Fowler
Oct 16, 2012
Norton resident, Von Fowler, passed away October 16, 2012 at the Norton County Hospital in Norton at the age of 91. She was born Nov. 20, 1920, the daughter of Walter & Maude (Bowen) Hendrickson. She worked for the Norton Daily Telegram for several years. Survivors include her daughters: Elizabeth Howard of Almena & Julie Fowler of Norton; 4 grandchildren...
Irene M. Hilbrink
Oct 10, 2012
Phillipsburg resident, Irene M. Hilbrink, passed away Wed., Oct. 10, 2012 at the Deseret Nursing Home in Kensington, KS at the age of 85. She was born July 19, 1927 in Kensington, KS to Ranke & Marie (Rahjes) Bienhoff. Irene worked as a Measurement Clerk for KN Energy in Phillipsburg. Survivors include her sons, Kent of White Plains, NY and...
Nila Eilert
Oct 1, 2012
Kirwin resident, Nila P. Eilert, 68, of Kirwin, died Monday, October 1, 2012 at her home. She was born at home in rural Smith County on February 2, 1944 to Garner and Beth Merrill. She was a homemaker. Nila attended Windy Point School, a small country school, until eighth grade. She graduated from Esbon High School in 1961. Upon graduation,...
Tillie L. Goracke
Sep 24, 2012
Phillips County resident, Tillie L. Goracke, passed away Monday, September 24, 2012 at the Phillips County Retirement Center at the age of 87. She was born October 21, 1924 on the farm near Macon, Nebraska, the daughter of Focke & Catherine (Miller) Diener. Tillie was united in marriage to Francis J. Goracke on August 8, 1954 at the home of...
Mildred Millie White
Sep 16, 2012
Mildred Marie Lawson was called home to be with our Lord and Savior September 16, 2012. She was born July 11, 1932 to Bertha Mae Troutt Lawson and James Franklin (J.F.) Lawson in Jefferson City, Missouri, the youngest of seven children. She grew up a preacher's child, moving from Missouri to Oklahoma and then Oregon at a young age. In...
Lucille Kennedy
Sep 12, 2012
Nellie Lucille (Gipe) Kennedy, youngest daughter of Maud Frances (Cook) Gipe and Arthur Levi Gipe was born December 29, 1919 in Phillips County, Kansas. She passed away Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at the Phillips County Retirement Center in Phillipsburg, KS at the age of 92. Lucille attended the Walnut school in Walnut Township and graduated from the 8th grade. On...
Wauneta Abbott
Sep 5, 2012
Wauneta Berdina McRae was born May 30, 1927, in Franklin County, Nebraska to James and Regina (Schnuerle) McRae and passed away September 5, 2012 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, KS. She attended grade school at Sunny Hill country school and high school at Franklin High School. One of Wauneta's childhood memories was the flood that swept down the...
Dale M. Detwiler
Sep 5, 2012
Dale Max Detwiler, son of Henry Allen & Hilma (Drotts) Detwiler, passed away September 5, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska at the age of 89. Dale was born March 22, 1923 on the family farm in Athol, Kansas. He attended Cedar Ridge Grade School and graduated from Athol High School in 1941. Following high school he...
Georgia M. Endsley
Sep 1, 2012
Georgia Mae (Newton) Endsley was born to Fred and Mabel (Sheldon) Newton on October 10, 1945, in Lexington, NE. She departed this life on September 1, 2012, at the Deseret Nursing Facility at Kensington, KS. She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Mabel Pickerill, and one nephew, Tim Phillipson. Georgia leaves to mourn her passing; one son,...
Donald W. Hayes
Aug 30, 2012
Donald W. Hayes, son of George Wallace & Alice Mary (Jahnke) Hayes, was born June 10, 1926 in Riley County, Kansas. He died August 30, 2012 at Logan Manor in Logan, Kansas at the age of 86. He attended schools in Riley, Kansas graduating from Riley Rural High School with the class of 1944. His lifelong love of sports began...
Louise Johnson
Aug 18, 2012
Agra resident, Louise Johnson, passed away Saturday, August 18, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska at the age of 77. She was born October 13, 1934 in Rooks County, Kansas the daughter of Lawrence & Winnie (Haines) Mason. She was a homemaker. She married Arlan Johnson on December 4, 1970 in Sabetha, Kansas. He survives. Other survivors...
Lawrence (Larry) M. Sweat
Aug 14, 2012
Lawrence "Larry" Sweat was born September 5, 1922 in rural Kirwin, Kansas to Martin F. Sweat and Rosa-O. (Abernathy) Sweat and passed away August 14, 2012 in Loveland, CO at the age of 89. He attended grade school at Jaybird District 137 in Claudell, KS and graduated from high school in Beloit, KS in May, 1940. In October, 1942 Lawrence...
Berta Y. Van Diest
Aug 14, 2012
Berta Yvonne (Brown) Van Diest was born March 24, 1931 in Prairie View, KS to Burton & Marguerite (Goeken) Brown and passed away Tuesday, August 14, 2012 at Logan Manor in Logan, KS at the age of 81 years young. She attended elementary and high school in Prairie View, graduating with the class of 1949. Following graduation she worked at...
Shirley J. Beim
Aug 9, 2012
Shirley Joan Beim, eldest child of Walter & Helen (Wernecke) Klotz, was born March 4, 1936, on her family's farm northwest of Phillipsburg, Kansas. She passed away Thursday, August 9, at the Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas at the age of 76. Shirley attended Morningstar Country School, achieving an eighth grade education in seven years by advancing from third...
William "Bill" Godfrey
Aug 8, 2012
Long Island resident, William "Bill" Godfrey, passed away Wed., Aug. 8, 2012 at his home in Long Island, KS at the age of 51. He was born Nov. 3, 1960 in Phillipsburg, KS to Robert C. & Ila Marie (Schilowsky) Godfrey. Bill worked as a heavy equipment operator for Phillips County. Survivors include his brothers, Albert Leroy, of Anthony, KS...
Dean Bruning
Aug 3, 2012
Dean Bruning, age 76, of Rogers, AR passed away August 3rd, 2012 in Bentonville, Arkansas. He was born September 6th, 1935 on a farm North of Speed, Kansas to the late William and Velma Bruning. He was raised on the farm as a young boy before moving to Glade at the age of seven. Dean went to primary school in...
Opal Spiker
Aug 1, 2012
Phillipsburg resident, Opal Spiker, passed away Aug 1 at the Phillips County Retirement Center in Phillipsburg at the age of 91. She was born Oct. 30, 1920 in Wetmore, KS, the daughter of Roy & Cora (Spicker) Heikes. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her son Dennis of Colorado Springs, her sister, Katherine Owens of Phillipsburg, 3 grandchildren & 5...
