Obituaries
Malinda Guhr
Mar 25, 2013
NEWTON Malinda Guhr, 85, passed away on March 25, 2013 at the Newton Presbyterian Manor. Malinda was born on April 18, 1927 near Meno, Oklahoma to Joseph and Eva (Koehn) Eck; the sixth child of eight sisters and two brothers. On December 27, 1949 to Arnold Guhr at the First Mennonite Church in Newton, Kansas. She was preceded in death...
John G. Hayes
Mar 23, 2013
John Gerald Hayes, 65, died March 23, 2013 at the Newton Medical Center in Newton. He was born on December 9, 1947 to Helen Blanche (Cade) and Orfis Glen Hayes in Newton, Kansas. John married Frances J. Ainsworth on May 14, 1965 in El Dorado, Kansas. He held a church membership with St. Mary’s Catholic Church of Newton. John will...
Karen K. Swarts
Mar 22, 2013
Karen K. Swarts, 74, of Wichita, retired Boeing Wichita Finance employee, passed away on Friday (March 22, 2013) at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice of Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita. Karen was born on May 20, 1938 in Newton, Ks., to Loren and Dorothy Moore Swarts, who precedes her in death. Karen graduated from Newton High...
Leland Harder
Mar 21, 2013
Leland D. Harder, 86, retired minister and seminary professor died March 21, 2013 at the Kidron-Bethel Retirement Center in North Newton. He was born July 1, 1926, in Hillsboro to Menno S. and Katherine Wiens Harder. He married Bertha Fast on August 8, 1951, in Mountain Lake, MN. Leland was a graduate of Bethel College (1948), Michigan State University (M.A.,...
Linda G. Hill
Mar 11, 2013
Linda G. Hill, 54, of Newton, died Monday (March 11, 2013) at her home. Linda Gayle Hill was born on June 3, 1958 in Oklahoma City, OK. Her parents are Harold T Perciful (deceased) and Edwina Alvarez and Arturo Alvarez Jr. (stepfather). She is survived by her son, Daniel Hill, her daughter, Emily Maker, and her granddaughter, Allison Maker, her...
Lupe Llamas
Mar 7, 2013
Lupe T. Llamas, 91, died Thursday (March 7, 2013) at Asbury Park in Newton. She was born on May 19, 1921 in Peabody, Ks., the daughter of Jesus and Manuela Melendez Torres. Lupe married Petronilo Jose Llamas on May 29, 1942 in Florence, Ks. They moved to Newton shortly after. Mr. Llamas died on October 15, 1993. Through the years,...
Maurice Regier
Mar 1, 2013
Maurice L. Regier, 71, of North Newton, died Friday (March 1, 2013) at this home. He was born March 15, 1941 in Newton, Kansas, the son of Gustav H. and Linda Regier. His mother died shortly after Maurice was born. His dad later married Hilda A. Wiebe. Maurice graduated from Berean Academy at Elbing in 1959. He married Helga Schaefer...
Becky Hjorth
Feb 24, 2013
Rebecca “Becky” Ann Hjorth, 64, passed away February 24, 2013 in Peabody, Kansas after a brief illness. She was born January 24, 1949 in New London, Connecticut, daughter of Dean and Betty (Flora) Hjorth. She grew up in Overland Park, Kansas and graduated from Bird City High School, was a Job’s Daughter, and later became a Kansas Certified EMT. She...
Robert T. McLinden
Feb 20, 2013
Robert T. Mc Linden, died on February 20th 2013, at the Peabody Nursing Home in Peabody, Kansas. He was born on April 17, 1926 to Jessie Adams McLinden and Thomas McLinden in Marion, Kansas. On June 4, 1953 Robert married Florence Bishop in Emporia, Kansas. Robert was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Newton. He served a term...
Edna Koehn
Feb 17, 2013
Edna (Dyck) Koehn, 98, died on February, 17, 2013,at Schowalter Villa, in Hesston, Kansas. She was born on September 1, 1914, to Mary Friesen Dyck Fast and Bernhard Dyck in DuBois, Idaho. On April 16, 1937 she married Cornelius “Cornie” Koehn in Newton, Kansas. She was preceded in death by her spouse Cornie, her parents , a son, Gerald. Survivors...
Ralph McIver
Feb 16, 2013
Ralph McIver, 52, of Newton, died Saturday (Feb. 16, 2013) at his home. He was born on July 25, 1960 in Hutchinson, Ks. He was raised in the Abbyville area. He moved to Newton in 1994. Survivors include his mother Helen Cox of Hutchinson; brothers Jerry McIver of Brennan, Fla., and Everett McIver of Hutchinson; sisters Elizabeth Buie and husband...
Esther Ott
Feb 11, 2013
Esther Ott, 87, died Monday (February 11, 2013) at her home in Newton, Ks. She was born December 22, 1925 in Moundridge, Ks., to Peter T. and Ida “J.C.” Gehring Stucky. On December 19, 1948, Esther married Wayne Ott in Burns, Ks. Survivors include her husband Wayne of the home; two sons, one daughter, and spouses: Tom & Sherry Ott...
Enrique Torres
Feb 10, 2013
Enrique Torres Arreola, 74, of Newton, died Sunday (Feb. 10, 2013) at the Harry Hynes Hospice of Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita. He was born on October 16, 1938 in Santo Tomas, Chihuahua, Mexico, the son of Gabriel Torres and Ines Arreola. Enrique married Ramona Avitia in 1960 in Nicolas, Bravo, Chihuahua, Mexico. They had lived...
Marjorie Fast Schowalter
Feb 5, 2013
Marjorie Fast Schowalter (Franz) age 84, died peacefully on February 5th, 2013 at Kidron Bethel Village in North Newton Kansas, where she had resided for the past five years. She had been an elementary music teacher, an accomplished pianist and costume seamstress prior to the onset of crippling arthritis. Margie received her music degree in 1949 from Bethel College in...
DeLoise Davis
Feb 2, 2013
DeLoise Davis, 87, passed away peacefully on Saturday (Feb. 2, 2013) at Asbury Park in Newton. DeLoise was born on January 10, 1926 in Bucklin, Ks., to William and Edith (Scarbrough) Ward. She was graduated at Great Bend High School. In 1950, she married Victor “Vic” Davis of Newton, where they settled to raise a family. After many years as...
Gene Redger
Feb 2, 2013
Wilbur “Gene” Redger, 86, of Newton, died Saturday (Feb. 2, 2013) at the Kansas Heart Hospital in Wichita, Ks. Gene was born September 20, 1926 in Hillsboro, Ks., the son of Adolph and Nora Jantz Redger. He was raised in the Tampa area. Gene married Jaraine Mae Decker on August 23, 1951 in Roxbury, Ks. Gene and Jaraine farmed in...
Marjorie Guthrie
Feb 1, 2013
Marjorie Ella Guthrie, 98, of Newton, died Friday (Feb. 1, 2013) at the Presbyterian Manor in Newton. She was born December 16, 1914 in Hesston, Kansas, the daughter of Charles P. and Nellie Hawkey Sauerwein. She attended schools in Newton, graduating in Newton High School in 1932. Marjorie married George Wayne Guthrie on March 31, 1936 in Norwich, Kansas. They...
Dorothy Jane Schmidt
Feb 1, 2013
Dorothy Jane (Tanner )Schmidt, 91, passed away on February 1, 2013 at the Kansas Christian Home in Newton, Kansas. Dorothy was born in Newton on March 15, 1921 to the late Jesse Edward and Lottie M. (Geabhart) Tanner. On November 8, 1938 she married Ben Schmidt in El Dorado, KS. He preceded her in death on February 23, 1998. Other...
Phyllis White
Jan 25, 2013
Phyllis A. White, 87, of Newton died Friday (Jan. 25, 2013) at Asbury Park. Services are pending and will be announced by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home.
Fred W. Puttroff, Sr.
Jan 25, 2013
Fred William Puttroff, Sr., 86, of Newton, died Friday (January 25, 2013) at the Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita. He was born on December 13, 1926 in Newton, the son of Fred Merrill and Lucille Marie Blevins Puttroff. He attended Newton schools where he graduated in 1943. After high school Fred went to work for the...
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