May 6, 2025

Francis Henry “Ted” Kastens was born on September 24, 1930, on the family homestead north of Ludell, Kansas. He was the youngest child of Herman J. and Katharine (Gansberg) Kastens. He passed on to his heavenly home on May 6, 2025, at 94 years of age surrounded by his family. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church, Ludell,...

May 5, 2025

Sophie (Depperschmidt) Ochs, 96 of Park, Kansas, passed away on May 5th, 2025, at the Sheridan County Long Term Care Facility, Hoxie, Kansas. She was born to Alex and Josephine (Younger) Depperschmidt on July 11, 1928, at the family farm in Sheridan County.

Sophie attended country school grades 1st to 6th in Sheridan County. She experienced living in a sod house...

May 5, 2025

David Joseph Brungardt, 55, of Grinnell, died Monday, May 5, 2025. He was born September 4, 1969, in Hoxie, KS, to Elmer and Twona (Zerr) Brungardt. David was a 1988 graduate of Grinnell High School. He was a lifelong farmer and rancher and enjoyed gardening, flowers, building fence and caring for his cows. David was very kindhearted, and he loved...

Apr 30, 2025

Shirley Ann Durham was born on August 25th, 1940, to Edward and Rose (Kral) Hamm, and sadly passed away on April 30th, 2025. She was 84 years old.

Shirley was a tenacious lady, who loved life. She was smart as a whip and could do anything she put her mind to. She believed in telling the truth, even when others didn't,...

Apr 29, 2025

Larry L. Chambers, age 86, of Rexford, Kansas, passed away peacefully at his home on Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

Larry was born on June 12, 1938, in Colby, Kansas, to Herman Chambers and Lily Owens Chambers (later Plummer). He graduated from Levant High School in 1958 and proudly served in the U.S. Army attending basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri...

Apr 29, 2025

Jeanice Gayle Beagley better known as “Niecy” in her later years, passed away peacefully on April 29, 2025, at Gove County Medical Center in Quinter, Kansas. She was born in Oakley, Kansas on June 17, 1961, to Stanley Curtis Smith and Virginia Marie (McDowall) and was the oldest of their four children.

She graduated from Oakley High School in 1979. Shortly...

Apr 28, 2025

Lloyd Robert Swart, 91, passed away peacefully on April 28, 2025, at Logan County Hospital in Oakley, Kansas, surrounded by the love and laughter of his children—just the way he would have wanted it. A lifelong Oakley-area resident, Lloyd lived his life with purpose, passion, and a good story always ready to share.

From the time he bought his first tractor...

Apr 23, 2025

Ralph J. Kruse—known to family and friends as “Butch”—passed away on April 23, 2025, in Oakley, Kansas. He was born in Denver, Colorado on October 9, 1948, and moved to Oakley as a young boy, where he spent the rest of his life surrounded by the people and places he loved.

Butch grew up working on the family farm -- milking...

Apr 22, 2025

Arvilla Louise Juenemann, 87, of Selden, Kansas, died on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at Prairie Senior Living Complex in Colby, Kansas. She was born on July 30, 1937, in rural Sheridan County near Angelus to Alex and Theresa (Wessel) Schwarz. She graduated from Sacred Heart Academy high school in Wichita, Kansas, and married Gerald Juenemann on June 6, 1956. She...

Apr 15, 2025

Apr 6, 2025

Vertis Alexander Jones, 26, of Wichita, KS, formerly of Rexford, died Sunday, April 6, 2025. He was born in Wurzburg, Germany on July 26, 1998, to Vertis and Rebecca (Smith) Jones. Growing up Vertis was a Boy Scout and enjoyed doing track and playing basketball, football and baseball. In his mid-teens he moved from Colorado to Rexford, KS to live...

Apr 4, 2025

Helen Mae (Moore) Poland, 88, of Gem, KS, passed away Friday, April 4, 2025, at Citizens Medical Center in Colby, KS. She was born to Bessie (Ickler) and Robert Moore, in Faulkton, SD on February 7, 1937. Helen moved with her parents to Eastern Kansas in 1950. In 1954, Helen met Kenneth F. Poland in Wichita, KS. They were married...

Apr 4, 2025

Jon Terry Logan, 78, of Colby, died Friday, April 4, 2025. He was born in Toronto, OH on September 15, 1946, to Vernon Hoyt Logan Sr. and Donna Fay (Myers) Logan. He had one brother, Vernon Jr. Jon moved to Florida and later to Kansas.

Jon was preceded in death by his father Vernon Logan Sr, in 2004 and his mother,...

Apr 4, 2025

Anne Marie (Parkinson) Guilfoyle died at the Colby Health and Rehabilitation Center on April 4th, 2025. She was born an identical twin on November 11, 1933, in Queens, New York to Roderick and Jean Parkinson. Roderick passed away early in their childhood and Jean later married Walter Haas. The girls were born a month early before ultrasounds were available and...

Apr 3, 2025

Douglas Richard Austin was born January 14, 1953, to Richard and Estella Austin, in Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. He passed away April 3, 2025, in Colby, KS.

Doug and his two sisters grew up around the Edson community. He graduated from there and continued his education at the Goodland Vo-Tech school, studying auto and diesel mechanics. He would go on to work...

Mar 30, 2025

Brendon Eliott Glad was born July 15, 1971, in Atwood, Kansas, the youngest child of Albert Eliott and Susan (Henneberger) Glad. He died March 30, 2025, in Kansas City, Kansas, after complications from a short, but difficult battle with influenza and pneumonia.

Brendon attended Atwood Grade School and Atwood High School, Class of 1990. He had a great childhood, growing up...

Mar 29, 2025

Saturday, March 29, 2025 the skies over Hutchinson, KS opened and were filled with angelic harmony led by the beautiful bass voice of Herb singing “Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul”. When the song ended Herb took Lucille’s hand and together they went to Heaven to be with Our Lord and Savior! Lucille Bruns, our mother, grandma, great...

Mar 26, 2025

Velma Helen (Rall) Rasmussen was born May 26, 1934, in Sheridan County, KS to Irene (Richter) and Frank Rall. She was raised in a loving Christian home with 5 brothers and 4 sisters. Velma was the 9th in the line-up of 10 children. She grew up on a farm outside of Rexford, KS and attended Trinity Lutheran Church in Colby...

Mar 26, 2025

Roberta Jean “Jeanie” Gormley, 82, of Grinnell, KS, died Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at Hays Medical Center.

Jeanie was born in 1942, in Denver, CO, to Robert and Elsie Stephens. She attended two country schools growing up, then graduated from Grinnell High School in 1960.

She married Jerry Gormley in 1961. They lived in Grinnell briefly before moving to the farm. Jeanie...

Mar 25, 2025

Debra “Debbie” Susan Unger was born on June 21, 1973, in McCook, Nebraska, the youngest of five children born to Joseph D and Nadine (Riener) Green. Debbie passed away on March 25, 2025, at her home. Debbie was surrounded by her husband Dave, mother Nadine, brother Dave, sister Jeanne and her fur babies.

Debbie grew up on the family farm north...