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Delbert "Keith" Foye

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Whiting, KS

Delbert “Keith” Foye, 82, of Whiting, died Friday, December 4, 2020, at Mission Village Living Center in Horton. 

He was born August 5, 1938, at Holton, son of Delbert and Phoebe “Peggy” (Mohler) Foye, Keith graduated from Whiting High School in 1956.

He attended Whiting United Methodist Church.    

He attende


Barbara Lou Barker Fernkopf

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Topeka, KS

Barbara Lou (Barker) Fernkopf, 91, passed away December 3rd, 2020. She was born Aug. 10, 1929 in Larned Ks., the daughter of Roy B. and Beryl (Sawyers) Barker. Barbara earned a Bachelors degree at KSU, where she met Wayne Fernkopf. They were married October 7th, 1950, and moved to Axtell, Ks., for Wayne’s first teaching job, then settled in Topeka.

 


Yvonne Irene Cox

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Hiawatha, KS

Yvonne Irene Cox, 47, of Hiawatha, KS passed away Sunday Novemeber 15, 2020 in Hiawatha. She was born January 16,1973 in Holton,KS, the daughter of Stanley Minter and Alice Irene(Heiniger)Robbins.

Yvonne graduated from Holton High School in 1992 and online AM Broadcasting  School in Oklahoma. She had lived 8 years in Hiawatha and previously of Holton.

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Leola May Winters

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Highland

Highland, KS

Leola May Winters was born September 25, 1928, at Denver, Colorado, the only child of Lee and Della Wilcox Congrove. She passed away Tuesday morning, December 1, 2020, at Two Timbers in Highland, at the age of 92.

Leola May attended school in the Mountains above Fort Collins before she moved with her family where they reestablished their home near Highland, where she attended vario


Larry Kuker

Dorr and Clark Funeral Home of Falls City

Verdon, NE

Larry Kuker, 81, of Verdon, NE, passed away December 4, 2020 at Falls City. He was born April 28, 1939 on the family farm in Barada to Melvin and Marcille (Parchen) Kuker.

He married Fayrene Kessler on August 23, 1969 at Omaha, NE

Larry served in the Nebraska National Guard for six years.

Larry was raised north of Verdon and graduated from Shubert High Schoo


Dorothy Karst

Dorr and Clark Funeral Home of Falls City

Falls City, NE

Dorothy Karst, 94, of Falls City, NE, passed away December 3, 2020 at Falls City. She was born May 4, 1926 at Shubert, NE to Clark and Vera (McDowell) Lundy.

She married August Karst on August 29, 1943 at Shubert, NE.

Dorothy was raised in rural Shubert and graduated Shubert High School in 1943. When married the couple made their home on a farm northeast of Hiawatha, KS


Glenn Rider

Dorr and Clark Funeral Home of Falls City

Falls City, NE

Glenn Rider, 57, of Falls City, NE, passed away December 3, 2020 at Lincoln, NE. He was born March 20, 19623 at Falls City, to George and LeVera (Schneidewing) Rider.

He married Joyce Vogt and they were later divorced.

Glenn was raised at Falls City and graduated from Falls City High School in 1981. Following graduation he helped on the family farm, then worked for Wood


Matthew Shawn Asher

Mercer Funeral Home in Holton

Holton, KS

Matthew Shawn Asher, 60, of Holton, KS, passed away Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka. He was born September 1, 1960 in Topeka, KS, the son of Jack Asher and Marlene Joyce (Iott) Asher-Shove.

Matt graduated from Meriden High School in 1978 and later earned his Bachelor’s Degree. Matt worked as a nurse, teacher and pastor.

He was a mem


Ronald “Ron” K. Brooks

Popkess Mortuary in Sabetha

Sabetha, KS

Ronald “Ron” Kenneth Brooks, Sr., 79, of Sabetha, Kansas took the hand of God when He said “come with me” on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha.

Ron was born on March 30, 1941, the son of John and Lela (Ellington) Brooks in Sabetha, Kansas


Elmer Lee Strahm

Popkess Mortuary in Sabetha

Sabetha, KS

Elmer Lee Strahm, 92, of Sabetha, Kansas passed away Wednesday, December 2, 2020 at the Apostolic Christian Home in Sabetha.

Elmer was born September 3rd, 1928 in Sabetha Kansas, the son of Noah and Frieda (Wegman) Strahm.  He completed the 8th grade and then received his GED while serving


Gladys M. Vondrasek

Wherry Mortuary of Pawnee City

Table Rock, NE

Gladys M. Vondrasek 94 of Table Rock, Nebraska passed on Thursday, December 3, 2020 in Lincoln, Nebraska.  She was born on September 25, 1926, to Edward and Margaret (Deubelbeiss) Clark in Baileyville, Kansas. 

Services 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at Wherry Mortuary, 919 G Street, Pawnee City, Nebraska. Officiating Pastor Howard Blecha. Visitation on Monday,


Elaine E Swanson White

Popkess Memeorial Chapel in Seneca

Centralia, KS

Elaine E. (Swanson) White, 95, of Centralia, KS passed away Wednesday, December 2, 2020.She was born April 18, 1925 in Vilets, KS in the Salem community to Arvid and Lydia (Schuck) Swanson. She graduated from Vermillion High School in 1943. She last worked at the Frankfort Care Home as a CNA retiring in 1996. She married Lawrence A. White on March 7, 1945, in Warsaw, Missouri. She is survived


William "Bill" Simon

Dorr and Clark Funeral Home of Falls City

Falls City, NE

William "Bill" Simon, 67, of Falls City, NE, passed away December 2, 2020.

A Private Family Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at 2:00 PM at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Interment will be in Falls City Catholic Cemetery.

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Betty Lou French

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha

Hiawatha, KS

Betty Lou French, of Hiawatha, went to be with her Lord & Savior Tuesday afternoon, December 1, 2020, at the home of her daughter and son in law with whom she shared a home for the last two years. She was 92.

Betty Lou (as her Highland friends and family knew her) was born August 31, 1928, near Troy, KS, one of four children born to William Everett and Verlie Mae Clary Col


Donald Leroy Schneider

O'Trimble Funeral Chapel in Nortonville

Nortonville, KS

Donald Leroy Schneider, 78, of Nortonville, KS died on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, at the Village Villa in Nortonville.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 on Dec. 12, 2020 at the O'Trimble Funeral Home, in Nortonville with Pastor Jeff Cochran officiating. Memorial contributions are suggested to American Heart Association or Cancer Association and may be sent in care


Kathryn Stallbaumer

Padden Funeral Chapel in Frankfort

Frankfort, KS

Kathryn N. Stallbaumer, 101, of Frankfort, KS, died December 2, 2020 at the Frankfort Community Care Home.

Visitation is Friday, December 4, from Noon to 5 p.m. at Padden Funeral Chapel in Frankfort.

A rosary service will be held at 7:00 p.m., Friday, at Annunciation Catholic Church in Frankfort.

A funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, Decemb


Joe and Irene Martinosky

Chapel Oaks Funeral Home Hiawatha

Hiawatha , KS

Hiawatha…A perfect ending to a story book love story.  Joe & Irene Martinosky…which in later in years, where you the seen one, the other was there also!  Their love story was slowly coming to an ending when they were admitted at the Hiawatha Community Hospital, where they both had complications from Covid. 

They kept talking between themselves about


John Francis Rutten

Popkess Mortuary in Sabetha

Sabetha, KS

John Francis Rutten, 65, of Sabetha, KS formerly of Bossier City, Louisiana passed away Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at his home.

John was born April 7, 1955 in Albion, Nebraska the son of Leonard and Bonnie (Ewers) Rutten. He attended and graduated in 1973 from Hiawatha High School. John was united in marriage on June 12, 1976 to Tamra White of Sabetha. The couple moved to Louisiana


Rita Marie Winkelbauer

Dishon-Maple-Chaney Mortuary

Horton, KS

Rita Marie Winkelbauer, 97, of Horton, Kansas, passed away on Saturday, November 28, 2020 at the Hiawatha Community Hospital.

She was born on February 15, 1923 in Mercier, Kansas, the daughter of Charles and Josephine Burkart Schuetz. Rita was a homemaker and was a member of the St. Leo’s Catholic Church, Altar Society, Horton Hospital Auxiliary and loved playing cards and qu


Wilma H Manville Gummig

Harmon Rohde Funeral Home in Wathena

St Joseph, MO

Wilma H. Manville Gummig, of St. Joseph, died December 1, 2020 at Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph, Mo. Wilma was born on January 12, 1929, in Wathena, Kansas, to Wm. H. and Anna Wagenknecht Manville. 

 

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