Announcements

Robert " Bob" Besinger

Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home in Atchison

Cummings, KS

Robert Dale “Bob” Besinger, 91, of Cummings, KS died Friday, July 8, 2016 at the Atchison Senior Village with his family around him.

Funeral services will be 2:00 pm on Tuesday, July 12th, 2016 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lancaster with Sr. Mary Arie officiating. Burial will follow in the Sunset Memory Gardens, Atchison.  The family will receive friends fr


Roy Neal Lassen

Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home in Atchison

Cummings , KS

Roy Neal Lassen, 73, of Cummings, KS died unexpectedly on Sat. July 9th, 2016 at the Atchison Hospital.

Graveside services and burial will be 11:00 AM on Thursday, July 14th, 2016 at Cummings Cemetery, Cummings, KS.  The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:00 pm on Wednesday, July 13th, 2016 at the Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home.  Memorial contributions are sugge


Vernice Cox

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Holton

Mayetta , KS

Vernice A. Cox, 96, of Mayetta, died Saturday, July 9, 2016 at Medicalodges Jackson County in Holton.   She was born July 13, 1919, at Paola the daughter of Vern and Oleita Christian Knoop.  After her mother died, she was raised by her father and step-mother, Allie Knoop.   Vernice had worked as a substitute teacher in a one room schoolhouse near Well


Gerald Green

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary in Horton

Oklahoma City , Oklahoma

Gerald Nah-Nah-Gozie Green 71, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a member of the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, passed peacefully from this life the morning of July 8th after a decline in his health from Vascular Dementia. He was surrounded and supported by his loving family and caregivers of Grace Living Center during the last days of his life.

Gerald was born in Kansas City, Kansas, his mot


Jack Hickman

Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home in Atchison

Atchison, KS

Jack Hickman, 82, Atchison, Kansas died Thursday, July 7, 2016 at his residence.

Mass of Christian burial will be Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at 10:00 AM at St. Joseph’s Church with Rev. Jeremy Heppler, OSB as celebrant. Interment will follow in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery. A parish rosary will be recited on Monday, July 11, at 6:30 PM in the chapel of the Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home


Anna Bell

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Winchester , KS

Anna Bell, 96, of Winchester, entered glory Thursday, July 7, 2016 at FW Huston Living Center in Winchester.

She was born January 28, 1920 in New Brighton, PA the daughter of Clark and Elsie (Lawson) Householder.  On October 12, 1939 she married David L. Bell in Monaca, PA. He preceded her in death on March 11, 1988.  She was a member of Geneva Reformed Presbyterian Churc


Mary Ann Nissen

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Wetmore , KS

Mary Ann Nissen, 85, of Wetmore, passed away July 7, 2016 at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.

She was born July 27, 1930 in Holton, Kansas the daughter of John Martin and Hazel V. (Ray) Schlodder.  She attended Hazel Grove Elementary School and graduated from Wetmore High School in 1948. On February 10, 1950 Mary Ann married Leonard E. Nissen in Wetmore.  The couple had li


Lloyd Bird

Harmon-Rohde Funeral Home in Wathena

Wathena , KS

Lloyd F. Bird, 73, of Wathena, Kansas passed away Thursday, July 7. 2016.

Lloyd was born on February 23, 1943 in St. Joseph, Missouri to Lloyd E. & Nioma H. (Wells) Bird.

He worked for Whittaker Cable of St. Joseph, Missouri & retiring from Fairbanks Morris of Kansas City.

Lloyd married Thelma Weis on July 14, 1967 in Stewartsville, Missouri. She pre


Albert James Ernzen

Barnett Family Funeral Home in Oskaloosa

Topeka , KS

Albert James Ernzen, 90, Topeka, died Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at his home.

 He was born June 29, 1926 in Atchison County, the son of John Henry and Ethel Agnes McCourt Ernzen. He was a 1944 graduate of Potter High School in Atchison County.   Mr. Ernzen worked as a self employed Auto Mechanic in Topeka for 30 years at his home. He had formerly worked many years as a


Dorothy Marie (Coash) Gardner

Becker-Dyer Stanton Funeral Home in Atchison

Atchison, KS

Dorothy Marie (Coash) Gardner, 91 of Atchison KS died Wednesday, July 6th, 2016 at the Atchison Senior Village.

Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 am on Monday, July 11th, 2016 at St. Benedicts Church with Fr. Daniel Gardner as Celebrant. Burial will follow in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery.  A parish rosary will be recited at 7:000 pm on Sunday, July 10th, 2016 at the Becker-Dy


Ferdinand " Ferdi" Niehues

Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca

Goff , KS

Ferdinand “Ferdi” Henry Niehues, 96, of Goff died on Wednesday, July 6, 2016, in the home in which he was born; just days before his 97th birthday.

Ferdi was born on July 14, 1919, on a farm southeast of Kelly, to Frank and Elizabeth Steinlage Niehues. He grew up there, and attended St. Bede's School in Kelly. After the death of his parents; he remained on the farm


Mitchell Dale Bowen

Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home in Atchison

Wichita, formerly of Atchison, KS

Mitchell Dale Bowen, of Wichita, formerly of Atchison, died unexpectedly at his home on Tuesday June 14, 2016.  

Mitchell has been cremated.  There will be a graveside service at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 9, 2016 at Oak Hill Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas, with Mr. Kris Robertson conducting.  The family invites friends to stay and visit after the service. The Arensber


JoAnn Smith

Hall Funeral Chapel of Auburn

Auburn , NE

JoAnn (Hutton) Smith, age 74 of Auburn, NE, passed away Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at the Good Samaritan Society in Auburn. A funeral service for JoAnn Smith will be held Saturday, July 9, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. at the Hall Funeral Chapel in Auburn with Pastor Tom Beutler officiating. Burial will follow the service at the Nemaha Cemetery in Nemaha, Nebraska.

Viewing and visitation is sche


Raphael “Ray” Leo Wohletz

Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home in Atchison

Atchison, KS

Raphael “Ray” Leo Wohletz, 75, Atchison, Kansas, died Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center. 

Mass of Christian burial will be Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 10:30 AM at St. Louis Church with Fr. Benjamin Tremmel, OSB as celebrant.  Interment will follow in the St. Louis Church Cemetery.  A Parish and Knights of Columbus rosary wil


Marilyn Keimig

Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home in Atchison

Atchison, KS

Marilyn Keimig, 91, Atchison, Kansas, died July 5, 2016, at Atchison Medicalodge. Mass of Christian Burial will be Friday, July 8, 2016, at 10:00 A.M. at Sacred Heart Church with Abbot Barnabas Senecal, OSB, as celebrant. Interment will follow in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 9:00 A.M. until time of service at the church on Friday. Memorial contributions


Harry " Pat" Hershey

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Holton, KS

"Another member of the greatest generation slipped the surly bonds of earth and touched the face of God”, Harry J. “Pat” Hershey, 95, of Holton, KS passed away Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at Midland Hospice House in Topeka. He was born January 23, 1921 in Belvue, KS, the son of Harry F. and Olive Louise Van Horn Hershey.

Pat graduated from Westmoreland High Schoo


Susan Ann Denton

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Holton , KS

Susan Ann Denton, 62, of Holton, KS passed away July 4, 2016 at her home. She was born October 6, 1953 in Holton, KS, the daughter of Gilbert L. and Lucile (Brown) Denton.

Susan graduated from Holton High School in 1972 and later graduated from Brown Mackie School of Business in Salina.

She had lived most of her life in the Holton community and also Topeka and Carbondale.


Gerald Schumann

Emporia , KS

Gerald Lee Schumann, 77, of Emporia died on Friday, July 1, 2016 at the Holiday Resort Care Center in Emporia.

Gerald was born on June 27, 1939 in Sabetha, Kansas the son of George Henry and Edith May Feller Schumann. Gerald was baptized into the Triune God on July 30, 1939, and was confirmed in the faith in 1953 all in Hiawatha, Kansas. He married Orinne Alice Lacy on August


Virgil Sudbeck

Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca

Baileyville , KS

Virgil A. Sudbeck, 84, of Baileyville, KS, died Monday, July 4, 2016, at his home in Baileyville.

Virgil was born September 12, 1931, on a farm north of St. Benedict, KS, the son of Franz and Mary A. Olberding Sudbeck. He grew up on the family farm northwest of St. Benedict, KS, attended St. Mary’s Grade School and graduated from St. Benedict High School in 1949. His father died


Regis Becker

Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca

Oneida , KS

Regis F. Becker, 79, of Oneida, died Friday, July 1, 2016 at his home.

He was born on August 29, 1936 on a farm south of Coal Creek, the son of Raymond L. and Rosalia Strathman Becker. He attended a country school in that area. In 1943, his family moved to a farm east of Seneca-South of Oneida; where they r