Joseph "Van Earl" Charvat
Mar 13, 2020
Joseph “Van Earl” Charvat, age 87 of Ellsworth, passed away on Friday, March 13, 2020 at the Good Samaritan Village in Ellsworth. Van was born on January 5, 1933 to Joseph and Josephine (Lilak) Charvat in Dorrance, Kansas. He grew up in the Russell County area but attended Dorrance High School, graduating with the class of 1951. Following High...
Dale William Mcconchie
Mar 12, 2020
Dale William McConchie, 85 of Plainville, was called to be with his Lord and Savior on Thursday, March 12, 2020, where he was surrounded by family at the Wagoner Care Center in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Dale was born May 1, 1934, on the Saline in Ellis County to and Stella (Carmichael) McConchie. He was a graduate of Plainville , and...
Ida Mae Casper
Mar 12, 2020
Ida Mae Casper passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the Wheatland Nursing Home in Russell at the age of 88. She was born on October 12, 1931 to David and Lydia (Mikulecky) Galliart in Wilson, Kansas. She was raised in Wilson and graduated from Wilson High School with the class of 1949. Following her graduation she was...
Duane Rolland Miller
Mar 11, 2020
Duane Rolland Miller, age 99 of Stockton, Kansas passed away on March 11, 2020 at the Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton. He was born on July 18, 1920 on the homestead at Bow Creek to Harley and Florence (Cunningham) Miller. Duane was a lifetime resident of Rooks County. He attended country grade school at Mt. Lebanon and graduated from...
Roy Lee Smith
Mar 10, 2020
Roy Lee Smith passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Phillipsburg, KS at the age of 72. He was born on August 17, 1947 in Leavenworth, KS to the late Bertram E. and Lora (Eskridge) Smith. He was a graduate of Andrews (TX) High School, and Toledo Butcher School. He married Patricia Burghart in Las Vegas, NV on...
Gail Mongeau
Mar 9, 2020
Gail L. Mongeau, age 63 of Plainville, passed away on Monday, March 9, 2020 at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville. Gail was born on December 5, 1956 in Hays, Kansas to Levi and Grace (Meyers) Mongeau. He grew up around Zurich and attended and graduated from Palco High School. Following his graduation he attended the K-State Vocational...
Bertha Louise Brown
Mar 5, 2020
Bertha Louise Holzhauer was born on February 23,1924 to Paul and Emma (Keller) Holzhauer in Palco, Kansas in the home she lived in until she was married. Bertha married her high school (Palco, KS) sweetheart, Dwite Brown, on June 10,1943. She gave birth to five children and was the matriarch to 77 family members when she went to be...
Wilma M. Welch
Feb 26, 2020
Wilma M. (Holcombe) Welch, age 65 of Stockton, passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 in Hays, Kansas. Wilma was born on May 19, 1954 at St. Joseph Hospital in Wichita, Kansas to Doyle and Neva (McCormick) Holcombe. She grew up in the Sedgwick and Rooks County area. She met and married Charles Welch on October 3, 1998 at...
Betty Mattas
Feb 21, 2020
Betty Mattas, age 87 of Wilson, passed away on Friday, February 21, 2020, in Tipton, Kansas surrounded by her loved ones. Betty was born to Henry J. Kepka and Charlotte (Lilak) Kepka on December 17, 1932, in rural Dorrance, Kansas. She had five siblings; Raymond, Harold, Leonard, Alice, and Adeline. Betty grew up in Dorrance where she attended Dorrance...
Bentley A. Pywell
Feb 9, 2020
Bentley Albert Pywell, age 56 of Damar, passed away on Sunday, February 9, 2020. He was born in Great Bend, Kansas on May 22, 1963 to George and Carolin (Mongeau) Pywell. Bentley was a lifetime resident of Rooks County, growing up in Plainville and graduating from Plainville High School with the Class of 1981. After high school he attended...
Lucretia J. "Creech" Cunningham
Feb 3, 2020
Lucretia J. “Creech” Cunningham, 80, passed away Monday, February 3, 2020 at her home in Wilson, KS. She was born October 8, 1939 in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas to William Riley and Wanetta (Huelett) Storment. Creech was a graduate of Hays High School in Hays, KS. She was united in marriage to Gary B. Cunningham on June 17, 1965 in...
Arnold Kratky
Jan 25, 2020
Arnold P. Kratky, age 68 of Wilson, passed away on Saturday, January 25, 2020 in Clearwater, Kansas. He was the son of Paul and Emma (Adamek) Kratky, born on May 29, 1951 in Topeka, Kansas. Arnold grew up in Wilson and graduated with the class of 1970, he then attended a vocational agriculture school out of Beloit for two...
Robert "Bob" Malir
Jan 18, 2020
Robert C. “Bob” Malir, 87, of Wilson passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2020. He was born on April 16, 1932 to RC and Emma Posusta Malir on the family farm south of Wilson. He attended the one room stone school “Ziska” in Noble Township. Bob was in the last country school class to graduate when Ziska closed in...
Mark Andrew "Sparky" Hays
Jan 17, 2020
Mark “Sparky” Hays, age 59 of Woodston, passed away on Friday, January 17, 2020. He was born on August 26, 1960 in Russell, Kansas to Carl and Johnita (Cink) Hays-Haines. Sparky spent his life in Rooks County and graduated from Stockton High School in 1978. He was united in marriage to Leona Drullinger on April 3, 2015 at the...
Elsie Irene Sebesta
Jan 10, 2020
Elsie Irene (Friebus) Sebesta passed away January 10, 2020 at Wilson Care & Rehab at the age of 92. Elsie was born on June 14, 1927 to John and Lydia (Wallert) Friebus in Dorrance, Kansas. She attended Dorrance schools and graduated from Dorrance High School in 1945. Elsie married Ernest Sebesta on June 27, 1945 in Wilson, Kansas. She...
John "Jack" Budig
Jan 4, 2020
John “Jack” L. Budig, age 71 of Hill City, Kansas passed away on January 4, 2020 in Hill City. He was born to Arthur and Viola (Dreiling) Budig on August 11, 1948 in Hays, Kansas. Jack grew up in Plainville where he graduated from Plainville High School with the class of 1966. After high school he enlisted in the...
Loren Dwight Hale
Jan 4, 2020
Loren Dwight Hale passed away on January 4, 2020 at the Solomon Valley Manor in Stockton, Kansas, at the age of 91. He was born the third child to Arthur and Nora (Murphy) Hale on September 27, 1928 at their farm home in Logan County, Kansas. In 1939 he moved with his family to his grandparent’s farm north of...
Elizabeth "Betty" Staab
Jan 1, 2020
Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Staab, age 88 of LaCrosse, passed away on January 1, 2020 at the Locust Grove Village Nursing Home in La Crosse. Betty was born on November 8, 1931 to Alex and Evelyn (Bieker) Koerner in Hays, Kansas. She grew up near Hays where she attended school and later met and married Gerald Staab on April 29,...
Lavonne Normandin
Dec 29, 2019
Lavonne Mary Normandin, age 83 of Plainville, passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2019 at the Redbud Village in Plainville. Lavonne was born on November 25, 1936 in Bogue, Kansas to Hobson and Lorenda (Bellerive) Desair. She was raised in Damar, Kansas where she graduated with the class of 1954. Lavonne was united in marriage to Duane Normandin on...
Alfred "Al" Becker
Dec 29, 2019
Alfred “Al” Herman Becker, age 101 of Plainville, passed away on Sunday, December 29, 2019 at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville. Al was born on January 6, 1918 in Rooks County, Kansas to Bernhard and Pauline (Adam) Becker. He was a lifetime resident of Rooks County; he attended Country School and Sacred Heart Grade School. He was...
