Obituaries
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...
Melvin R. Stucky
Jan 22, 2013
Melvin R. Stucky, 87, of Newton, died Tuesday (January 22, 2013) at Schowalter Villa in Hesston, KS. He was born on the family farm on December 22, 1925 in Moundridge, KS., the son of John D. and OTillie (Schrag) Stucky. Melvin attended schools in Moundridge. Melvin married Aldene Fern Duerksen on June 22, 1948 in Newton. She died on December...
Dorsey Baker
Jan 21, 2013
Dorsey Leverne Baker, 59, of Lindsay, died Monday (Jan. 21, 2013) at the Methodist Hospital in Dallas, Tx. Dorsey was born in Newton, Ks., on May 25, 1953, the son of Dorsey Dewitt and Lavera (Asendorf) Baker. He attended schools in Newton, graduating from Newton High School in 1971. Dorsey married Charlette Nancy Taggart on July 7, 1977. He had...
Shawn M. Lindsey
Jan 14, 2013
Shawn Lindsey, 34, was born on October 18, 1978 to Susie (Funk) Lindsey and Clyde W. Lindsey in Newton, Kansas. Survivors include his Mother, Susie, Newton and Father, Clyde Lindsey, Wichita; 3 daughters, Alexis Lindsey, Newton, Lenae and Madison Vermilyea, Walton; sister and brother-in-law, Anita and Alan Vermilyea; Paternal Grandmother, Rose Marie Lindsey, Newton; Uncle, Ronnie Funk, Denver, CO. Preceding...
Ray Roberson
Jan 4, 2013
P. Raymond “RAY” Roberson, 95, of Newton, died Friday (Jan. 4, 2013) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born on September 13, 1917 in St. Augustine, Texas, the son of Paul Bryant and Onnie Bell Brown Roberson. Ray married Maxine Mable Trickel. They owned and operated the Roxy Theater and West Vue Drive-In Theater in Newton for...
Michael J. Childs, Jr.
Jan 2, 2013
Michael J. Childs, Jr., 37, died Wednesday (Jan. 2, 2013) at his home in North Newton. MEMORIAL SERVICES will be held at 2:00 P.M., Saturday (Jan. 19, 2013) at the Agco Communications Center, 420 W. Lincoln Blvd., in Hesston. A memorial has been established with Caring Hands Humane Society, contributions may be sent to the funeral home. He was born...
Shirley Hurley
Dec 31, 2012
Shirley M. Hurley, 83, went to be with her Savior on Monday, December 31, 2012 in Newton, Ks. Shirley was born May 16, 1929, in Dodge City at home, to Carter E. and Ada (McCammon) Calder. She married Lucius M. “Mike” Hurley on March 23, 1947. A graduate of Dodge City High School and Wilcoxen Beauty School, she owned and...
JoEllen Koerner
Dec 29, 2012
JoEllen Koerner, 75, died on December 29th, 2013 at her home in rural Newton, Kansas. She was born on August 3, 1937 to Helen Adamson and Don Joe McGinn at the Axtell Hospital in Newton, Kansas. On June 9, 1956 she married Charles A. Koerner at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Halstead, Kansas. He preceded her in death on...
Jean Roberson
Dec 22, 2012
Frances Jean Roberson, 90, of Temple, Texas, died Saturday (Dec. 22, 2012) in Waco, Texas. Jean was born on September 4, 1922 at the Axtell Hospital in Newton, Ks., the daughter of Claude E. and Grace (Watson) Adamson. She married Glenn David Roberson on September 19, 1952 in Bentonville, Ark., he died on June 5, 1975. In 1926, Jean along...
Verna Adrian
Dec 22, 2012
Verna Pearl Adrian (100) died Saturday, December 22, 2012 at Asbury Park in Newton, Kansas. She was born on September 18, 1912 in Buhler, KS to Jacob J. and Gertrude (Wiens) Adrian. Both preceded her in death. After attending Pleasant Plain Elementary School, she continued her education at Halstead High School. As a young lady, she witnessed her mother’s concern...
James M. Patton
Dec 17, 2012
JAMES M. PATTON, 85, of Newton, died Monday (Dec. 17, 2012) at the Newton Medical Center. He was born on June 23, 1927 in Walton, Kansas the son of Harriett Elizabeth Griffith and Alva R. Patton. He was a graduate of the Walton High School. Jim was a lifetime member of the Walton United Methodist Church. He also held a...
Donald L. Boese
Dec 13, 2012
Donald "Don" Lee Boese, 71, of Cameron, Texas, fought a good and brave fight...after battling a rare lymphoma cancer and other health complications, he went to be with Jesus while surrounded by his family on December 13, 2012. Don was born August 6, 1941, in Burns, Kansas, to Andrew and Margaret Adrian Boese. On March 10, 1962, he married Sherry...
Effie Koppes
Dec 10, 2012
Effie Myrtle Koppes, 98, of North Newton, died Monday (Dec. 10, 2012) at Asbury Park in Newton. Her father’s family immigrated to the United States in 1874 when he was four years old. They settled in the Pawnee Rock, Kansas area. That is where she was born on October 10, 1914, the daughter of John J. and Effie Wedel Schmidt....
Antero Romero
Nov 25, 2012
Antero Gloria Romero, 81, died Sunday (November 25, 2012) at his home in Newton. He was born on August 16, 1931 in Durango, Mexico, the son of Geronima Romero and Indalecio Gloria. He married Maria Petra Martinez and they moved to Newton in 1997. He had retired from Tortilla King in Moundridge where he worked in the packaging department. Survivors...
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