Ethel Woofter

Ethel Woofter

Mar 19, 2017

Ethel Jean Woofter Ethel Jean Woofter, 92, Colby, died Sunday, March 19, 2017, at Holmes Lake Manor, Lincoln, NE. She was born June 18, 1924 in Junction City, KS to Joseph and Jesse (Ackard) Schonberner. She married Duane Woofter on September 25 th , 941 and they celebrated their 75 th anniversary last fall. They were proud to be residents...

Darrel Lamb

Darrel Lamb

Mar 18, 2017

Darrel Dean Lamb, 86, of Colby, died Saturday, March 18, 2017, at Prairie Senior Living Complex, in Colby. He was born July 9, 1930, in Downs, KS, to C.O. and Ethel (Naumann) Lamb. Darrell grew up near Beaver City, NE, where he graduated from high school in 1948. He went on to attend McCook Community College, were he graduated with...

Naida Ginther

Naida Ginther

Mar 16, 2017

Naida Odessia Ginther was born on December 11, 1926 in Ludell, KS to Ralph and Julia (Raber) Arendt and passed away March 16, 2017 in Englewood, CO. She attended grade school in Ludell and graduated from Atwood Community High School with the class of 1944. On June 6, 1946 she was united in marriage to Harlan Ginther at the First...

Joann Miller

Joann Miller

Mar 13, 2017

JoAnn Miller, 80, of Colby, KS died Monday, March 13, 2017 at Citizens Medical Center, Colby. She was born December 13, 1936 in rural Thomas County near Rexford to Thurman and Lula (Claar) Daniel. JoAnn graduated from Oberlin High School in 1955. She married Edward Miller on December 27, 1955 in Oberlin and to this union nine children were born....

Virgil Baumfalk

Virgil Baumfalk

Mar 13, 2017

In Loving Memory of Virgil Ray Baumfalk Jr. He was born April 7, 1961 at the Rawlins County Hospital in Atwood, Kansas, the sixth child of Virgil and Nanette Baumfalk. He graduated from Atwood High School in 1979 after attending public schools in Herndon, KS, College Station, TX and Cumberland, IA. He was a BIG fun- loving Teddy Bear. He...

Nina Wilson

Nina Wilson

Mar 10, 2017

Nina Mary Wilson, 88, of Colorado Springs, died Friday, March 10, 2017, at Liberty Heights Respite Care, Colorado Springs, CO. She was born March 14, 1928 in Treece, KS. She was raised from the age of 6 by Charley and Francis Miles of Hoxie. She attended and graduated from Hoxie schools. On May 8, 1949, she married Clarence F. Wilson,...

Johnny Daniels

Johnny Daniels

Mar 8, 2017

Johnny Dean Daniels, 85, of Oakley, died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at the Logan County Manor, in Oakley. He was born August 10, 1931, in Logan County, KS, to John and Mable (Samuelson) Daniels. Johnny married Hazel Rhea on November 13, 1948 and to this union four children were born. Johnny and Hazel ran the Palace Theater for 24 years....

Richard Rippe

Richard Rippe

Mar 8, 2017

Richard John Rippe, 68, of Atwood, died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at the Rawlins County Health Center. He was born January 14, 1949, in Atwood, KS to Walter and Leta (Prideaux) Rippe. He graduated from Atwood High School in 1967, attended K-State for a year. He was a drummer in the H.S. band and was in a local band with...

James Baalman

James Baalman

Mar 8, 2017

James F. “Jim” Baalman, 78, of Grinnell, died Wednesday, March 8, 2017, in Colby, KS. He was born March 16, 1938, in Hays, KS, to Francis and Sarah (Murphy) Baalman. He graduated from Grinnell High School and attended one year of college at St. Benedict College, in Atchison, KS. He was a mechanic for 42 years and farmed for 25...

Celeste Johnson

Celeste Johnson

Mar 7, 2017

Catherine Celeste Bliss-Johnson of Ellis, succumbed to a two decade struggle with lupus at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita on March 7th. Catherine Celeste Bliss was born in Topeka on August 16th, 1969. She graduated from Atwood High, 1988; varsity athlete, cheerleader, singer, musician. She attended Colby Community College; student council president, band member, runner, cheerleader. Graduated with music degree. She...

Thomas Evans
Melvin Moss

Melvin Moss

Mar 3, 2017

Melvin Moss, 55, of Colby, died Friday, March 3, 2017 at Prairie Senior Living Complex, Colby. He was born Nov 17, 1961 to Tom and Delores (Seeberger) Moss, in Colby. He was raised in Menlo on the family farm. As a child Melvin was a dare devil and thrill seeker; climbing trees and jumping his bike and motorcycle off ramps...

Donald Saddler
Lela Heier

Lela Heier

Mar 3, 2017

Lela Mae Heier, 89, of Sharon Springs, formerly of Oakley, died Friday, March 3, 2017. She was born August 28, 1927, in Collyer, KS, to Herman and Mary (Mader) Lintel. She graduated from Oakley High School. She married Gordon Kinsley in August 1945 and to this union three children were born. She later married Francis Halbleib in February 1956 and...

Nelda Dinning

Nelda Dinning

Feb 28, 2017

Nelda Marie (Nelson) Dinning, was born June 12,1928 on a farm north of Page City in Thomas County Kansas, to Severina Johnson Nelson and Oscar Nelson. Nelda passed away peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her family, on February 28, 2017 in Westminster, CO, at the age of 88 She married Ray Gene Dinning on Dec 30, 1951, at the...

Caroline Tubbs

Caroline Tubbs

Feb 26, 2017

Caroline Josephine (Prokop) Tubbs, 82, of Levant, Ks died February 26, 2017 in Colby. She was born in Atwood, Ks. to Cyprian and Antoinette (Horinek) Prokop on January 11, 1935. She was the 4th of 11 children. She lived on a farm east of Atwood until her parents moved to the family farm northeast of Colby. While growing up on...

Norman Whittaker

Norman Whittaker

Feb 24, 2017

Send Flowers Norman Whittaker was born to Horace and Alma Whittaker on the Brewster Family Farm on July 8, 1941. He died February 24, 2017 at the age of 75. Norman hobbies included the making of peanut brittle, pies and pikles that he shared with family & friends. Norman never knew a stranger and loved to showoff his 1958 Dodge...

Karen  Horinek

Karen Horinek

Feb 23, 2017

Karen Lee (Bowin) Horinek, 57, of Atwood, died Thursday, February 23, 2017, in Englewood, CO. She was born on July 3, 1959 in Emporia, KS to Rufus and Irene (Harris) Bowin-Leech. She was the youngest of four children. Karen was raised in Osage City, KS and graduated high school in 1977. Karen joined the Air National Guard in 1978 and...

Patricia Strutt

Patricia Strutt

Feb 22, 2017

Patricia (Pat) Strutt was born in Hollis, Oklahoma on July 10, 1936 to Doyle Leon Ramsey and Myrtle Thelma (Howry) Ramsey. Pat was raised in Maysville, Oklahoma where she attended Maysville High School. In 1953 she married Thomas Richardson and they had Pat’s first son Leon Richardson. Leon died shortly after he was born. In 1955, Pat met Richard Hays...

Leona Evelyn Bigbee

Leona Evelyn Bigbee

Feb 19, 2017

Leona Evelyn Bigbee, 103, of Oakley, died Sunday, February 19, 2017. She was born January 31, 1914, south of Orion, KS, in Gove County, the third child of Edward Kelly and Grace Eva (Jenkins) Moss. She attended grade school at District #44 and went to Grinnell High School for two years. On February 2, 1932 she married Raymond Bigbee. Evelyn...