Archive By Section - Obituaries
GREAT BEND – Bill J. McKown, 58, died March 19, 2014 at his home in Great Bend.
March 19, 2014
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CLAFLIN - Marie Lillian Thomas, 78, died March 17 at Presbyterian Manor in Salina. Born Jan. 6, 1936 in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was the daughter of John and Dorothy (Brown) Rigat. She attended grade school and graduated high school in 1953 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She worked as a secretary at a corporate law firm in New York until she met and married William P. "Bill" Thomas who was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. They were married on Aug. 8, 1954, at Our Lady of Miracles Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. They left New York on ...
March 18, 2014
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WILSON - Patricia A. Stiles, 90, died Sunday, March 16, in Little River. She was born July 27, 1923.
March 18, 2014
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Sister Mary Lawrence Hoffman, 84, died March 15, at the Dominican Sisters' Convent Infirmary in Great Bend. Born July 13, 1929, in Hays, as Dorothy Ann Hoffman, Sister Mary Lawrence was the daughter of the late Michael William and Margaret Feltis Hoffman. She entered the Dominican Sisters' Community on Aug. 15, 1946, and pronounced her first vows June 10, 1949. She celebrated 60 years of religious profession in 2009. Sister Mary Lawrence was a teacher in parochial elementary schools of Kansas all of her ministerial life, most of the years from 1949 to 2000, and was principal of the grade ...
March 17, 2014
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HOISINGTON - Travis Lee Davis, 38, died Sunday, March 16 at his home in Hoisington. Born July 5, 1975 at Great Bend, he was the son of Mike and Debbie (Littrell) Davis.
March 17, 2014
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ELLINWOOD - Crockett A. "Cap" Proffitt, 65, died March 16 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. Born June 21, 1948 at Sterling, he was the son of Vern Gayle and Jacquelyn Crockett Proffitt.
March 17, 2014
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ARNED - Debra Gayle Harbert, 51, died March 14 at her home in Larned. She was born Jan. 17, 1963, in Larned, the daughter of James Edward Sr. and Virginia Lee Woelk Smith. A longtime area resident, she was the co-owner and manager of Guy's Liquor Store. She was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church, Larned. On June 20, 1992, she married Guy Harbert in Larned. He survives.
March 15, 2014
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Elverta Marie Yahne Lawrence, 89, died March 14, at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend. She was born Dec. 12, 1924 at Barton County, the daughter of Roy and Lillie (Mische) LeRoy.
March 15, 2014
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AURORA, Colo. - Earl Wesley Burroughs passed away on March 12, in Centennial, Colo. Born on Feb. 9, 1933, in Lyons, he was the son of Merle Burroughs and Ruth Burroughs. On June 7, 1956, he married Betty June Phipps.
March 15, 2014
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PAWNEE ROCK - Margaret Cooper Blackwood, 81, of Benton, Ark., died March 11. Born June 22, 1932, in Larned, she was the daughter of the late Durward F. and Gladys Holopirek Cooper. Her family moved to Jonesborow, Ark., when she was 14. She attended Mississippi College for Women (the "W") for one year before transferring and graduating from Arkansas State College where she was a member and president of Alpha Gamma Delta. On Aug. 30, 1953, she married the late Thomas W. Blackwood, and in 1964, moved to Benton, Ark. She had a passion and true talent for painting in oils ...
March 15, 2014
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James Spencer died March 7, 2014.
March 12, 2014
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WICHITA - Clarence Arvin Mai, 92, died March 12 2014.
March 12, 2014
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GREAT BEND - Velma Leona Johnson, 99, died March 11, 2014 at Sterling House of Great Bend.
March 12, 2014
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GREAT BEND - Robert E. Schaub, 82, died March 11, 2014 at Hays Medical Center.
March 12, 2014
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HOISINGTON - Walter Lee Meharg, 87, passed away March 9, 2014 in Alva, Okla. at Beadles Nursing Home.
March 12, 2014
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