Obituaries

Richard Malchow

Richard Malchow

Jul 11, 2009

Richard Scott Malchow, age 38, passed away on Saturday, July 11, 2009 in Gove County, Kansas. He was born on September 10, 1970 in Ontario, Oregon, the son of Harry and Joan Mayden Malchow. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1988 moving from Arizona, he was a Roughneck on oil rigs and was currently employed with Chambless Roofing in...

Arnold Fenton

Arnold Fenton

Jul 9, 2009

Holcomb, Kansas Arnold Dean Fenton, age 67, died Thursday, July 9, 2009 at his home in Holcomb, Kansas. He was born on October 25, 1941 in Holcomb, Kansas, the son of Richard Lee and Sarah Olive Foreman Fenton. A lifetime Holcomb resident, he had worked as a truck driver for his late uncle Walter Foreman, an employee at Masonary Products,...

Helen Fouser

Helen Fouser

Jul 3, 2009

Helen M. Fouser, age 89, passed away on Friday, July 3, 2009 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on August 9, 1919 in Wichita County, Kansas, the daughter of Ellsworth and Jessie Ethel Ray Case. A resident of Scott City since 1941 moving from the family farm in Scott County, she was a...

Clay Adams

Clay Adams

Jul 2, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Clay A. Adams, age 47, died Thursday, July 2, 2009 at his home in Holcomb, Kansas. He was born March 18, 1962 in Amarillo, Texas the son of Cloyd C. & Wanda J. Spurill Adams. A resident of Garden City since June of 2008 moving from Amarillo, Texas he was employed with H & H Truck &...

Karla Ridder

Karla Ridder

Jun 24, 2009

Marienthal, Kansas Karla Kay ( Giesick ) Ridder, age 55, passed away on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. Karla was born May 23, 1954 in Leoti, Kansas the daughter of Earl Frederick & Florence Lorene Ray Giesick. She was a 1972 graduate of Wichita County High School, a lifetime Wichita County resident and was...

Loretta Buttram

Loretta Buttram

Jun 23, 2009

Loretta Jean "Jeanie: Buttram, age 77, passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at the Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, California after gallantly fighting complications of cancer. She was born on September 19, 1931 in Scott City, Kansas, the daughter of Carl Joseph & Audrey Fern Case Sheils. A resident of California since the 1960's, she spent the...

Betty Woodward

Betty Woodward

Jun 22, 2009

Betty Jean Woodward, age 83, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on February 25, 1926 in Sedalia, Missouri, the daughter of Paul M. and Iantha L. Blaine Kitterman. A resident of Scott City, Kansas since 1939 moving from Sedalia, Missouri, she was a homemaker. Memberships Include...

Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook

Jun 22, 2009

Tribune, Kansas Elizabeth Marie ( Betty ) Cook, age 79, passed away on Monday, June 22, 2009 at her home in Tribune, Kansas. Betty was born July 13. 1929 at Wellington, Kansas the daughter of Roy Zimmerman & Fern Jefferies Zimmerman. She had been a Greeley County resident for over 40 years; she was also a long time resident of...

Preston Harne

Preston Harne

Jun 21, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Preston Lee Harne, age 74, died Sunday, June 21, 2009 at his home in Garden City, Kansas. He was born August 8, 1934 in Hagerstown, Maryland the son of Leo and Pearl Mundy Harne. A resident of Garden City since May of 2009 moving from Buffalo, New York he was a retired manager of three roller skating...

Nicholas Tankersley

Nicholas Tankersley

Jun 19, 2009

Nicholas Lee Tankersley, age 18, passed away on Friday, June 19, 2009, in Leoti, Kansas. Nick was born December 26, 1990 in Leoti, Kansas the son of Steve L. & Traci Ann Spradling Tankersley. He was a 2009 graduate of Wichita County High School and was enlisted to begin basic training with the United States Marine Corp in September. Nick...

Phyllis Zimbelman

Phyllis Zimbelman

Jun 19, 2009

Phyllis Marie Zimbelman, age 82, passed away on Friday, June 19, 2009 at the Park Lane Nursing Home in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on December 13, 1926 in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of John R, and Pearl L. Chestnut Eckert. She was a 7th & 8th Grade Math Teacher in Goodland, Kansas until July 26, 1953 when she...

Herman Hearson

Herman Hearson

Jun 13, 2009

Herman Hearson, age 85, passed away on Saturday, June 13, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. He was born on February 3, 1924 in Scott City, Kansas, the son of John and Sylvia Gier Hearson. A lifetime resident of Scott City, Kansas, he was a carpenter. He was a member of the First Christian Church in...

Mary VanAntwerp

Mary VanAntwerp

Jun 12, 2009

Mary Emily VanAntwerp, age 76, passed away on Friday, June 12, 2009 at the Baylor All Saints Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas. She was born on September 18, 1932 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of John Gurley Missildine M.D. and Mary Elizabeth Cheney Missildine. She was a homemaker and a member of the Episcopalian faith. Emily attended the University of...

Roland Cornelius

Roland Cornelius

Jun 12, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Roland "Butter" Cornelius, age 72, died Friday, June 12, 2009 at his home in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on August 23, 1937 in Kingman, Kansas, the son of Ray and LaVonne Swingle Cornelius. A Garden City resident since 1963, moving from Zenda, Kansas, he was a retired meat cutter for Safeway and was an avid...

Mary Greer

Mary Greer

Jun 12, 2009

Lakin, Kansas Mary M. Greer, age 85, died Friday, June 12th, 2009 at the Kearny County Hospital in Lakin, Kansas. She was born March 6, 1924 in Wichita County, Kansas, the daughter of Vincent E. and Caroline Mary Bauck Kleymann. She had been a resident of Lakin since 2007 moving from Holcomb, Kansas where she moved to in 2000 from...

John Berning

John Berning

Jun 4, 2009

Marienthal, Kansas John Anthony Berning, age 81, passed away on Thursday, June 4, 2009 at the Wichita County Long Term Care Unit in Leoti, Kansas. John was born February 21, 1928 at Marienthal, Kansas the son of Anthony John & Hilda Laura Simons Berning. John was a 1947 graduate of Wichita County High School, a farmer and a lifetime resident...

Joellen Tarpley

Joellen Tarpley

Jun 3, 2009

JoEllen Tarpley, beloved Wife, Mother and Grandmother, was born on January 5, 1946 in Garden City, Kansas where she was raised. She then lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she raised her family. The past ten years she has lived in Phoenix, Arizona. As of June 3, 2009, Jo Ellen resides peacefully in Heaven with her Lord and Savior, Jesus...

Fred Norton

Fred Norton

Jun 1, 2009

Fred Norton, age 86, passed away on Monday, June 1, 2009 at the Homestead Health and Rehabilitation Center in Garden City, Kansas. He was born on July 1, 1922 in Marienthal, Kansas, the son of Ben Edd and Emma Caroline Hiddey Norton. A World War II Army Veteran, he was a resident of Pierceville, Kansas since 1990 moving from Scott...

Glenda Denton

Glenda Denton

May 29, 2009

Garden City, Kansas Glenda L. Denton, age 67, died Friday, May 29, 2009 in Garden City, Kansas. She was born on July 25, 1941 in Garden City, Kansas the daughter of Lawrence and Enid Earnest Lee. A lifetime resident of Garden City she had worked as a receptionist and in retail clothing sales at the Wal-Mart Store for 23 years....

Nadiene Koehn

Nadiene Koehn

May 26, 2009

L. Nadiene Koehn, age 72, passed away on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at the Scott County Hospital in Scott City, Kansas. She was born on March 29, 1937 in Copeland, Kansas, the daughter of Clemen and Lydia Nightengale Koehn. A resident of Wichita County, Kansas since 1958 moving from Copeland, Kansas she was a homemaker and taught kindergarten at Sunny...