Obituaries

Aug 28, 2014

Rex Dale Weaverling of Mankato Kansas passed away on August 28 2014. To welcome Rex into heaven is his father Arch, mother Vera, sister Betty and sister Lois, along with many friends and colleagues. Those who will celebrate his life everyday are his wife Frances, Sue and Philip Walton, Brandon, Emily and baby Brady Barkley, Brett Ernst and Ali...

Aug 4, 2014

On August 4th, 2014, the Lord called home Zachary Tauno Kindler at the age of 35. He was born to Gary and Kris (Pietila) Kindler on June 10th, 1979 in Belleville, Kansas and raised on a rural farm east of Esbon, Kansas. Zach grew up in Esbon, KS, attending school at White Rock and graduating with the class of...

Jul 15, 2014

Karen Lynne Kyte of Silver Springs, Maryland, was born to Clarence Oliver, Sr. and Dollie H. ( Howell) Kyte, on May 14, 1939, at Fort Worth, Texas, and died Tuesday, July 15, 2014, at Holy Cross Hospital, in Silver Springs, Maryland, at the age of 75 years, 1 month and 1 day. She was a middle school teacher for...

May 20, 2014

Eileen Broughton, 94 years of age, of Mankato, passed away peacefully at her home Tuesday, May 20, 2014. She was born on November 8, 1919 in Lolita, Texas to Henry and Lydia (Byrne) Broughton. Eileen was cared for by her loving family her entire life. At the age of 11, she moved from the family farm in Texas to the...

May 18, 2014

Eugene Douglas Proctor, 86 years of age, of Mankato, passed away Sunday, May 18, 2014. He was born on February 27, 1928 in Webber to Clarence and Thelma Marie (Knapp) Proctor. Gene graduated from Mankato High School. He then served his country in the United States Army in Korea from 1946 to 1948 receiving the Army of Occupation Medal. Gene...

May 10, 2014

Marjorie Viola (Jones) David, was born in Home City, Kansas, August 15, 1921, the daughter of Clyde and Elizabeth (Wolf) Jones, and passed away Saturday, May 10, 2014, at the Family Health and Rehabilitation Center, Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 92 years, 8 months, and 7 days. After spending her first ten years in Home City, her family...

Apr 11, 2014

Donald Everett (Bud) Siemon, 86, Mankato, was born October 5, 1927, to Everett Edward and Myrtle Padden (Ridge) Siemon in Mankato. He was their second child. He had an older sister, Avis Marie, and later 2 younger sisters, Anne Arlene and Anita Lorraine. Bud left us to return to his Heavenly Father on April 11 th , 2014, at...

Apr 11, 2014

Eldon Dean Buster was born April 16th 1926 to Verda (Morris) and Ernest Buster on a farm outside of Burr Oak Kansas. He departed from this life on April 11 at the Jewell County Hospital at 87 years 11 months and 24 days. He attended school in Burr Oak, Kansas, through his junior year and then transferred to Mankato...

Apr 2, 2014

Obituary for Glenn E. Marihugh

Glenn E Marihugh, Esbon, Kansas, son of Walter Lee and Mable Lovilla (Phillips) Marihugh, was born on the family farm in Odessa Township, south of Esbon, Kansas on January 6, 1935. He was baptized at the Dentonia Church of Christ as a young boy...

Mar 30, 2014

H. Maxine Benson

Maxine Benson of Mankato, Kansas, was born on April 17, 1920 to Homer and Mabel Christensen in Concordia, Kansas, and died March 30, 2014, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 93 years.

Maxine attended rural grade schools, and graduated from Norway, Kansas, High School in 1938.

Mar 28, 2014

Mary E. Kriley of Esbon, Kansas, died Friday, March 28, 2014, at 8:30 p.m. She was 94.

Mary Elizabeth (Flavin) Kriley was born December 15, 1919, to John and Elizabeth (Heinen) Flavin, at their farm home north of Cawker City, Kansas. She grew up on the farm and attended a country school for the first three years...

Mar 20, 2014

Etta JoAnn Badger of Mankato, Kansas, was born on a farm southwest of Mankato, Kansas on December 7, 1933. She died on March 20, 2014 at the age of 80. JoAnn was the fourth child in a family of five children. She attended rural schools and later graduated from Mankato High School in 1951.

JoAnn married Roland...

Mar 7, 2014

Esther Elaine Ortman, 81, of Mankato, Kansas, passed away on Friday, March 7, 2014, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-Term Care facility. She was born on January 18, 1933, on the Ahrens family farm north of Mankato, Kansas, to Florence (Ahrens) and Arthur Thompson. Esther attended school in Hardy, Nebraska, graduating from Hardy High School in 1950. After high...

Mar 6, 2014

Lynette B. (Hansen) Koester of Mankato, Kansas, was born May 31, 1947, at Fairbury, Nebraska to Enos Emil and Ruth Lillie (Sykes) Hansen, and departed this life, Thursday, March 6, 2014, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 66 years, 9 months, and 5 days. Lynette was baptized on July 11, 1947, at the Bethany...

Mar 3, 2014

Donnie Gene Topliff was born December 26, 1934, to Clarence E. and Marguerite (Parker) Topliff at Jewell, Kansas, and died Monday, March 3, 2014, at the Republic County Hospital, Belleville, Kansas, at the age of 79 years, 2 months, and 5 days. Donn went to Sweet Home School and Jewell High School. He graduated from Jewell High School, in...

Feb 9, 2014

Dennis L. Roesti, of Burr Oak, Kansas, was born February 2, 1938, in Bashaw, Alberta, Canada, and past away, February 9, 2014, at the age of 76 years at the Republic County Hospital, Belleville, Kansas. He was born to Vincent A. and Opal Ona (Callahan) Roesti. Dennis was a graduate from Burr Oak High School, in 1956. He served...

Jan 8, 2014

Mary Elizabeth Modlin was born February 6, 1923, at Springhill, Kansas, to William B. and Susie (Miller) Morton, and died Wednesday, January 8, 2014, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term Care, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 90 years, 11 months, and 2 days. Mary had attended schools in Junction City, Horton, Ransom, Glasco, and graduated from Burr Oak...

Dec 7, 2013

David Herbert Marhenke born November 4, 1940, at Lyons, Burt County, Nebraska, and died Dec 7, 2013, Belleville Health Care, Belleville, Kansas, at the age of 73 years. He leaves to mourn brothers - Robert (Bob) Lincoln, Nebraska and Carl Tekamah, Nebraska, a nephew and several nieces. Preceded in death by his parents Walter and Mary (Corey) Marhenke, his...

Nov 3, 2013

Dorothy L. Fearing, 95, of Cumberland, Rhode Island died, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 in the Mount St. Rita Health Center, with her family by her side. Glenn Clemons Fearing, 94, died Sunday, November 3, 2013, at the Mount St. Rita Health Center. They were married for 71 years. Dorothy was born on October 13, 1917, in Harveyville, Kansas, to...

Oct 26, 2013

Pauline Lucille Reiter , 94 years of age, of Mankato passed away Saturday, October 26, 2013 at Jewell County Hospital, Long-term Care Unit in Mankato, Kansas.. She was born on March 25, 1919 in Jewell, Kansas to Albert and Elsie Bell (LaRue) Abram. Pauline was a graduate of Jewell High School and Emporia State Teacher College. She spent many...