Obituaries
Obituaries
Obituaries for Wamego and Alma, KS and surrounding areas
Allen William Archer
Aug 12, 2022
Allen William Archer, 70, of Manhattan, Kansas, died Friday, August 12, 2022. Al was a Professor Emeritus of Geology at Kansas State University and a long-time resident of Manhattan.
Al was born June 7, 1952, in Harford City, Indiana, the son of Don and Martha (McColly) Archer. He attended college at Indiana University and Oregon State, and Al received a...
Monty Wayne Rhine
Aug 10, 2022
Monty Wayne Rhine, 56 , of Wamego, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday (August 10, 2022) at his home in Wamego.
Born November 12, 1965 in St. Joseph, Missouri, Monty was the son of John and Dorothy LeRew Rhine. He married Angie Meritt on May 20, 1989 in Cuba, Kansas. She survives.
Monty was a graduate of Hillcrest High School in...
Randy L. Tinkel
Aug 10, 2022
Randy Lee Tinkel, 37, of Wamego, Kansas, passed away, August 10, 2022, as the result of an automobile accident east of Wamego.
Randy was born January 24, 1985, in Great Bend, Kansas, the son of Darrell and Carma (Juergensen) Tinkel. Randy was a graduate of Great Bend High School where he was a standout athlete and he attended Barton...
Ronald Alan Cox
Jul 31, 2022
Ronald Alan Cox, 71, of Wamego, Kansas, died Sunday, July 31, 2022, at the Wamego Health Center.
Ronald was born on December 29, 1950, in Oberlin, KS, the son of Ralph Eugene Cox and Georgia Ann (Teeny) Dooly.
He attended Lincoln Highschool then joined the U.S. Navy. After serving in the U.S. Navy Ronald worked for Jeffery Energy Center as...
Lula Marie Manning
Jul 31, 2022
Lula Marie Manning, 81, of Scottsdale, Arizona, formerly of Wamego, Kansas, died July 31, 2022, in Phoenix. She her husband, Duane relocated to Scottsdale several years ago from Wamego to live closer to their daughter. Lula was born November 19, 1940, near Wamego, the daughter of Alvin E. and Harriet (Welch) Griffith. She attended local grade school and graduated in...
Janet Louise Pizarek
Jul 31, 2022
Janet Louise “Nana” (Herrbach) Pizarek, 93, of rural Wamego, Kansas, formerly of rural LaPorte, Indiana, went to Heaven on the Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola on Sunday, July 31, 2022 at home with the comfort of her family.
Janet was born in Michigan City, Indiana joining 3 older brothers and 1 older sister. She attended One-Room Eddyville Schoolhouse having...
Robert D. Bates
Jul 19, 2022
Robert D. Bates, 78, of Manhattan, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday (July 19, 2022) at Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan.
Born February 25, 1944 in Wamego, Kansas, Bob was the son of Lloyd and Della (Botts) Bates. He had been married to Terry Torrey and to that union was born two children, Rachel and Russell. Bob shared the last...
Waunita R. Ault
Jul 17, 2022
Waunita R. Ault, 96, of Wamego, Kansas passed away on July 17, 2022 at Valley Vista Good Samaritan Society Care Home.
Born on October 5, 1925 at the family farm at Laclede, Kansas, she was the only daughter of Leslie and Louise (Nies) Schwandt.
She attended local schools in Pottawatomie County and graduated from Wamego High School. She...
Douglas Paul Richter
Jul 17, 2022
Douglas Paul Richter age 64, died July 17, 2022, at the Wakefield Care Home.
He was born March 26, 1957, in Wamego KS, the son of Norma and Edward Richter.
Douglas was preceded in death by his wife; Barbara Drown Richter, brothers, Kurt Richter and Ryan Richter, parents; Norma and Edward Richter, and his partner Sherice Ledbetter.
He is...
Dolorese Beavers
Jul 17, 2022
Dolorese Beavers, 86, of McFarland, KS passed away surrounded by her family on July 17, 2022. Dolie was born in Bayard, NE September 4, 1935, to Stephen Richardson and Cora Shoemaker. To say that Dolie will be missed is inadequate. Her presence as the matriarch of the family will leave an absence that will only be filled with the memories,...
Jerry Wayne Davis
Jul 16, 2022
Jerry Wayne Davis, 79, of Manhattan, Kansas, passed away on Saturday (July 16, 2022) at Wellsprings of Westmoreland. He was a loving husband for 41 years to his wife, Robin Trudy Davis.
Jerry was born July 8, 1943, in Portland, Oregon, to a young Soldier, Orville Eugene “Buster” Davis, and his wife, Amy Lee (Johnston) Davis, from Cushing, Oklahoma. Shortly...
William L. Mcafee
Jul 13, 2022
William L. “Bill” McAfee, 86, of Westmoreland, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday (July 13, 2022) at the Westy Care Home in Westmoreland.
Born April 5, 1936 in New Carlisle, Ohio, Bill was the son of Henry and Velma (Dunn) McAfee. He married Esther I. Welty on November 22, 1957 in New Carlisle, Ohio. She preceded him in death on...
Bernard R. Mayer
Jul 11, 2022
Bernard R. Mayer, 88, of Westmoreland, died July 11, 2022, at Wellsprings of Westmoreland in Kansas.
Bernard was born on the family farm southwest of Westmoreland Kansas on January 8, 1934, the son of Ed and Junia (Kanode) Mayer. He graduated from the Jenkin Rural Grade School and the Westmoreland Rural High School in 1951. After working for local...
Virginia Lorane Martin Noordyk
Jul 9, 2022
Virginia Lorane Martin was born August 10, 1919, in Atchison, Kansas from the parents of Walter J. Martin and Bertha M. Jackson. She was raised in Atchison, Kansas along with her sisters Thelma and Edna, attended schools therein and graduated from Atchison High School in 1937. Virginia worked at various jobs in Atchison before moving to Kansas City. After two...
Terri Sue Conatser
Jul 6, 2022
Terri Sue Conatser, 62, of St. George, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday (July 6, 2022) at her home in St. George.
Born October 28, 1959 in Franklin, Kansas, Terri was the daughter of Walter and Betty Maureen (Beasley) Ochs. Terri had been married to Charlie Barker. She married David Conatser on January 1, 2011 in Garden City, Kansas. He survives.
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Doris Strifler
Jul 5, 2022
Doris Strifler, 94, of Wamego, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, July 5, 2022 at the Wamego Health Center.
Born December 21, 1927 in Glarus, Switzerland, Doris was the daughter of Josef and Anna (Steiger) Ladstetter. She married Dannie E. Strifler on July 15, 1952 in Heidelberg, Germany. Doris moved frequently as her husband was in the military until he retired...
Ramona Roberta Tessendorf
Jul 1, 2022
Ramona Roberta Tessendorf was born April 6, 1930, at the home of Martha Wilhelmina (Marten) and Robert Fredrick Hartwich of Duluth, KS. She acquired her love of animals and farming being raised on the Hartwich family farm.
She was a life-long resident of Onaga, KS, and graduated from Onaga High School in 1948. She worked in Topeka for the...
William S. "Bill" Farley
Jun 27, 2022
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William S. “Bill” Farley passed away on June 27, 2022. Born in Cordova, Tennessee on September 28, 1930, within two years his father died unexpectedly, leaving his mother to raise two small children while running a farm and mercantile store in the midst of the Great Depression. At Germantown High School he met the...
Sherice Ledbetter
Jun 21, 2022
Sherice A. Ledbetter, 57, of Manhattan, Kansas, died Tuesday, June 21, 2022, in Manhattan, Kansas.
She was born on October 10, 1964, in Germany. Sherice was the daughter of Jack and Heidi Ledbetter.
Lucy is survived by her mother Heidi, her son, Kyle Ledbetter, and her brother, Michael Ledbetter.
She was preceded in death by her father, Jack Ledbetter
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Marjorie Ann Bergmann
Jun 20, 2022
Marjorie Ann Bergmann, 93, of Lillis, Kansas, died Monday, June 20, 2022. She was a life-long resident of the Lillis community.
Marjorie was born on September 20, 1928, in Grove, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Carrie (Slansky) Kalcik. She graduated from Silver Lake High School in 1946.
Marjorie married Edward L. Bergmann on September 24, 1949, at Assumption Catholic...
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