Obituaries
Ruth Rediger Reimer
Jul 30, 2014
Goessel Ruth Rediger Reimer, 90, of Goessel, Kans., died July 30 at Bethesda Home in Goessel, KS. She was born January 8, 1924 in Wayland, Iowa, to Samuel and Minnie Sutter. Ruth lived in Wayland most of her life. She married Dallas Rediger of Milford, NE., in 1944, and they lived on the family farm outside of Wayland and shared...
Patrick Zellner
Jul 30, 2014
Patrick Zellner, 69, of North Newton, died Wednesday (July 30, 2014) at the Via Christi Regional Medical Center- St. Francis Campus in Wichita. Services are pending and will be announced by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home.
Bob Frantz
Jul 23, 2014
ROBERT LEE “BOB” FRANTZ, 66, of Newton, died Wednesday (July 23, 2014) at his home. He was born on January 29, 1948 in McPherson, Kansas the son of Cornelius B. and Dena Boehs Frantz. Bob was raised on a dairy farm in the Tampa/Durham area, he attended the Central Heights Grade School and graduated from Durham High School. Bob served...
Patrick J. Sauceda
Jul 19, 2014
Patrick Jay Sauceda, 55, of Newton, died Saturday (July 19, 2014) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born on February 28, 1959 in Newton, the son of Nicholas P. and Carmen Llamas Sauceda. A lifelong resident of Newton, Patrick graduated from Newton High School in 1977. He married Bobbi Breon on August 12, 1983 in North Newton,...
Eileen Janzen
Jul 10, 2014
Eileen Doris Epp Janzen, 91, died in her home at Kidron Bethel Village on July 10, 2014. She was born to Dietrich G. and Marie Dueck Epp on November 4, 1922 on a farm near Lushton, Nebraska. When she was 5 years old, she began going to school in a small one-room country school where she learned to speak English....
Kenneth Akers
Jul 9, 2014
Kenneth W. Akers, died Wednesday (July 9, 2014) at his home in Walton. He was born on January 29, 1943 in Newton, the son of Lawrence and Evelyn Marsh Akers. Kenneth graduated from Newton High School in 1961, he attended Emporia State College for one year before enlisting in the U.S. Navy. Kenneth married Victoria Hein in 1968 in Newton,...
Stan Briar
Jul 3, 2014
HESSTON Stan Briar, 64, died at his home on July 3,2014. He was born on July 2, 1950, in Newton, Kansas, the son of Norman N. and Maurine (Dreier) Briar. On October 5, 2002 Stan married Switlana Korobka at the Highland Trinity United Church of Christ. Stan was a 1968 graduate from Newton High School. He then went on the...
Ronnie Baxter, Jr.
Jun 28, 2014
Ronald “Ronnie” Clyde Baxter, Jr., of Newton, died Saturday (June 28, 2014) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Ks. He was born on August 24, 1971 in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Ronald Clyde and Carol Forrester Baxter, Jr. Ronnie was raised in Sand Springs, Oklahoma and graduated from high school in Pea Ridge, Arkansas. Ronnie married Tisha Jean...
Phyllis Zellers
Jun 27, 2014
Phyllis L. Zellers, 92, went to her home in Heaven, Friday (June 27, 2014) from her home in Newton. She was born on June 16, 1922 in Peabody, Ks., to Irvin and Irene Draper. Phyllis graduated from high school in Florence, Ks. She married Orville A. Zellers on July 6, 1942 at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Peabody. Orville...
Terry Wrench
Jun 24, 2014
Terry Lee Wrench, 66, died Tuesday (June 24, 2014) at his home in Newton. He was born on December 26, 1947 in Wellington. Terry was raised in Wichita and graduated from Wichita South High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Viet Nam Conflict. After being discharged he returned to Kansas, moving to Newton in 1969 at which...
Deborah Hazeltine
Jun 24, 2014
Deborah Ann Hazeltine, 59, died Tuesday (June 24, 2014) at her home in Newton. She was born on September 27, 1954 in Wichita, Ks., the daughter of Vernon Richard and Betty Lou Dooley Hazeltine. Despite having been born handicapped, Deborah enjoyed life. The Hazeltine’s had lived in Wichita for many years, moving to Newton in the late 1980’s. Deborah enjoyed...
Rebecca Romero
Jun 8, 2014
Rebecca Romero, 84, died Sunday (June 8, 2014) at Asbury Park in Newton. She was born on July 19, 1929 in Omaha, Nebraska, the daughter of Ramon and Maria Partida Ayala. She was raised in Omaha along with her two brothers John and Raymond. Rebecca married Theodore Romero on January 30, 1946 in Omaha, to which eight children were born....
Roy Regier
May 22, 2014
Roy Wayne Regier, “Rippin Roy” from Car Buddies, “Rolaids” from Ashley Franklin, “Bone Crusher” from Gordon Regier, died on May 22, 2014, at his home surrounded with loving family. Roy was born October 26, 1956 to Vernon and Hilda (Woelk) in Newton, Kansas. Roy worked at Bunting Magnetics as an assembler for almost 30 years. He was an avid motor...
Diana M Bueno
May 20, 2014
Diana M. Bueno, 61, died on May 20, 2014 in Newton, Kansas. She was born on February 20, 1953, in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas the daughter of Louise T. (Terrones) and Eugene N. Morales. Diana married Louis R. Bueno, Sr. on May 27, 1972 at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, Newton, Kansas. She graduated from Newton High School in...
Sonja Barringer
May 20, 2014
Sonja Ann Barringer, 61, died Tuesday (May 20, 2014) at her home in Newton. She was born on April 7, 1953 in Deposit, N.Y., the daughter of Marshall William and Marcella Scrambling Barringer. Sonja was raised and attended schools in Deposit. In 1985, she moved from Florida to the Newton area where she worked as an LPN for Kansas Christian...
Calvin Ridgeway
May 17, 2014
Calvin Ridgeway, 88, passed away on Saturday (May 17, 2014) at the Bethesda Home in Goessel, Ks. He was born on September 18, 1925 in DuQuoin, Illinois, the son of Calvin J. and May Stevenson Ridgeway. Calvin attended schools in DuQuoin. After graduation from high school he proudly served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II as...
Dennis H. Walker
May 8, 2014
Dennis Homer Walker, 78, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday (May 8, 2014) at his Newton home. He was born on April 17, 1936 in Newton, to Aurora E. and Florence R. (Stubblefield) Walker. Dennis was a long time member to Hall’s Chapel A.M.E. Church in Newton. On June 23, 1957, he married Sylvia J. Rossiter in Newton. She preceded him...
Henry K. Reimer
May 7, 2014
Henry K. Reimer was born on May 12, 1917, attaining the age of 96 years passing away just five days shy of his 97th birthday, on May 7, 2014 at the Schowalter Villa in Hesston. Henry was born to John H. and Katherine Heidebrecht Reimer in Meade, Ks., and attended McNulty Grade School and Meade Bible School as a youth....
Maverick Polley
May 7, 2014
Our little man, Maverick Aleczander Polley, became a beautiful angel on Wednesday (May 7, 2014). Maverick was born on September 10, 2013 at the Newton Medical Center to the parents Taegan Curtis and Jack Polley. Maverick died of complications from a viral pneumonia at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. Maverick would meet everyone with a breathtaking smile that...
Marjorie Bath
Apr 29, 2014
Marjorie May Bath, 96, died Tuesday (April 29, 2014) at the St. Luke Living Center in Marion, Ks.
She was born December 23, 1917, near Tampa, Kansas on the family farm, to Henry and Lena (Niemeier) Abeldt. After graduating from Hope High School in 1935, she went on to graduate from Business College in 1937.
After marrying her husband,...