Announcements

Marvin E. Yoesel

Dorr and Clark Funeral Home of Falls City

Falls City, NE

Marvin E. Yoesel, 95, of Falls City, NE, passed away May 23, 2014 at Falls City. He was born May 2, 1919 at Rulo, NE to the late William and Elizabeth (Gatz) Yoesel.

Marvin served in th


Joan Ann Kramer

Becker-Dyer-Stanton Funeral Home in Atchison

Winchester, KS

Joan Ann Kramer, 73 of Winchester, KS, passed away Wednesday May 21, 2014 at the Jefferson County Geriatric Center, Winchester, KS. Mass of Christian burial will be 10:00 AM, Wednesday May 28, 2014 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 18760 Rogers Road, Atchison, KS, with Abbot Barnabas Senecal, OSB as Celebrant. &nb


Orlan Eugene (Gene) Teske

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Onaga

Onaga, KS

Orlan Eugene (Gene) Teske, 78, died Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at his home in Onaga, of pancreatic cancer.    He was born April 26, 1936 at the home of his parents, Arthur L. and Stella Mae (McCloughn) Teske in Onaga.  He had one sister, Edna Mae (Teske) Platt. More...

John A. Moore

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha

Rural Hiawatha, KS

John A. Moore, 81, of rural Hiawatha, died Thursday morning, May 22, 2014, at the Sabetha Manor. John was born March 29, 1933, on the family farm near Sycamore Springs, north of Morrill, one of two sons of John H. and Emily Carlson Moore.  He was a lifelong resident of the Morrill area where he attended county


Mary McAlexander

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Holton,


Sterling Wittwer

Wherry Mortuary, Humboldt

Humboldt, NE

Sterling Wittwer, age 85, of Humboldt, passed away on Tuesday, May 20, at the Methodist Hospital in Omaha. A Funeral Service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 24, at the Four-Mile Congregational Church rural Humbold


Joel Michael Wilburn

Becker-Dyer-Stanton

Atchison, KS

Joel Michael Wilburn, 25, of Atchison KS was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 south of Atchison on US Highway 59.

Funeral services will be 2:00 pm Saturday, May 24th, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev. Robert Ziegler and Rev. Ben Ockree officiating. Burial will follow in the Sunset Memory Gardens.  The family wi


Loretta Jean Walker

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary in Horton

Horton, KS

Loretta Jean Walker, 82, of Horton, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at her home, on the Kickapoo Reservation. She was born on May 30, 1931 in Horton, Kansas the daughter of Frank and Erma Simon Du Puis. Loretta worked for the Atchison Garment Factory for twenty two years. She then earned her cosmetology degree and owned and operated her own beauty s


James "Jim" Lowell Hundley

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary in Horton `

Horton, KS

James "Jim" Lowell Hundley, 79, of Horton, KS, died Monday, May 19, 2014 at Hickory Pointe Care and Rehabilitation Center at Oskaloosa, KS. He was born February 4, 1935 to William (Clay) and Elizabeth (Pearle) Moore Hundley, of Horton, KS, the fourth of eight children. He graduated from Atchison County Community High School in 1953. He received his Bac


Shirley Ruth Thayer

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary in Horton

Horton, KS

Shirley Ruth Thayer, 72 of Horton, Kansas, passed away on May 8, 2014 at the Tri-County Manor in Horton, Kansas. She was born on March 2, 1942 in Horton, Kansas, the daughter of Floyd and Elsie Randall Long. On February 24, 1958 she married Mansel "Honey" Thayer in Olathe, Kansas. He preceded her in deat


John Beck

Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca

Centralia, KS

John Amos Beck, 84, of Centralia, died Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at Eastridge Care Home in Centralia. John was born February 22, 1930, three and a half miles south of Baileyville to Joseph W. and Gladys Belveal Beck. John attended the Center Country School in Center Township south of Baileyville and graduated from the


Thomas Murray

Wherry Mortuary, Pawnee City

Pawnee City, NE

Thomas “Tom” Arthur Murray, 78 of Pawnee City, Nebraska passed away on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 with his family by his side.  He was bon on October 25, 1935 to Calvin and Katherine (Bridget) Murray in Kinsley, Iowa. More...

Clara May Branson

Becker-Dyer-Stanton

Atchison, KS

Clara May Branson, 93, of Atchison, KS died Saturday, May 17th, 2014 at the Fremont Senior Living Facility, Springfield, MO in the company of two of her daughters.

Funeral services will be 10:00 am on Wednesday, May 21st, 2014 at the First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Rachel Danner officiating. Burial will follow at 2:00 pm at the Miltonvale Ceme


John J. "Jack" Coupe

Arensberg-Pruett

Formerly of Atchison, KS

John J. (Jack) Coupe passed away peacefully with his dignity in the presence of family Wednesday, November 27, 2013, in Fr. Myers, Florida.

Mass of Christian burial will be Saturday, May 24, 2014at 10:00 A.M. at St. Benedict’s Church with Abbot Barnabas Senecal, OSB as celebrant.  Burial of the ashes will follow in St. Ann’s Cemet


Carol McAfee

Mercer Funeral Home in Valley Falls

formerly of Topeka , KS

Carol S. McAfee, Lynn Haven, FL, formerly of Topeka, died Sunday, May 18, 2014, at Covenant Hospice at Sacred Heart Hospital in Panama City, FL. She was born on Feb. 4, 1933, at Longmont, CO, the daughter of Arthur C. and Eva Fisk Skow. She had attended Manhattan Bible College. She graduated from Washburn University in Topeka in 1988. Carol was a m


Dennis Boeckman

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

formerly of Goff ,

Dennis Wayne Boeckman, 58, of Baldwin City, KS formerly of Goff, passed away May 19, 2014 at Baldwin Healthcare and Rehab. Dennis had lifelong battle with Melnick- Needles Syndrome. He was born September 17, 1955 in Seneca, the son of Raymond and Lucille (Deters) Boeckman.

Dennis had lived his younger years in Goff. He then moved to Topeka and liv


Darrell Rene Masqua

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary in Horton

Topeka, KS

Darrell R. "Ni Ka Na Sh" Masqua, Aka the "Professor" or "Perry Mason" 60, of Topeka, Kansas passed away on Saturday, May 17, 2014 at the Midland Hospice House in Topeka, Kansas. He was born on May 16, 1954 in Kansas City, Missouri the son of Sylvester and Geraldine Shopteese Masqua. Darrell graduated from Oskaloosa High School and a


Ernest Wenzl

Hayes-Popkess Funeral Home in Centralia

Vermillion, KS

Ernest Leroy Wenzl, 78, of Vermillion passed away Sunday, May 18, 2014.  Funeral service is Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at the Vermillion Community Church, formerly the Methodist Church, in Vermillion.  Visitation is More...

Gladys Forst

Kinsley Mortuary in Marysville

Marysville , KS

Gladys M. Forst, 88, of Marysville, KS, passed away May 16, 2014 at Cambridge Place in Marysville. Visitation will be Thursday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kinsley Mortuary in Marysville. A rosary service will be held at 7 p.m., Thursday,


Rudy Herrada

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha

Hiawatha, KS

  Rudy Donald Herrada, 52, of Hiawatha, died April 5, 2014 in a Wisconsin hospital due to complications of cancer. Rudy was born February 23, 1962 in England. He moved to the US as a small child and grew up in Corpus Christie, Texas. He served