Obituaries
Kimly Carson
Nov 14, 2022
Kimly Carson, 65, died Monday (November 14, 2022) at Peabody Health and Rehab in Peabody. He was born in Peabody and lived in Newton most of his life. Family will receive friends Wednesday (November 30, 2022) from 5:00PM - 8:00PM at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. Memorial services will be held Thursday (December 1, 2022) at 2:00PM at...
Gertrude Olson
Nov 9, 2022
A remarkable woman has left us. Gertrude Eleanor Olson died November 9th 2022 at home surrounded by her family. She was born in Lindsborg, KS on May 24, 1920 to Alma and Jack Byrn. After attending Bethany College she taught in a one room school. On June 14, 1941 she married her High School sweetheart, Erwin Olson, and began a life...
Judy Brees
Nov 7, 2022
Judy Brees, 58, died Monday (November 7, 2022) at her home in Newton. Memorial services will be at 11:00 A.M. Saturday (Nov. 12) at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home in Newton. Arrangements by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home.
Lupe Corona
Nov 1, 2022
Lupe Corona, 97, died Tuesday (November 1, 2022) at the Harry Hynes Hospice Unit of Ascension Via Christi Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita, Ks.
He was born Guadalupe Corona, the son of Gertrudis K. and Casimira Gutierrez Corona on September 26, 1925 in Waukegan, Illinois.
During World War II, Lupe served in the U.S. Navy. After being discharged...
Steven Andres
Oct 24, 2022
Steven Douglas Andres was born in Oklahoma City, OK on October 5th, 1966. He was blessed to be adopted by his loving parents, Irvin & Marie and his sister Janice of Elbing, KS. Steve spent the majority of his life in Elbing where he established his faith. He was one of the last classes to attend Elbing Grade School, before...
Mary Steinkirchner
Oct 17, 2022
Family and friends of Mary Kay Steinkirchner share the loss of this special lady who passed away suddenly on October 17, 2022. Mary was born April 16, 1956, to Leo F. (Pete) and Betty L. (Smith) Steinkirchner in Newton, Kansas. She lived in Newton her entire 66 years and graduated from Newton High School in 1974. Throughout her working career she...
Tony McCurdy, Sr.
Oct 14, 2022
Tony P. McCurdy, Sr, 75, of Newton, passed away Friday, October 14, 2022. Tony was born July 17, 1947 in Wichita to Roy Leonal and Margaret Viola (Winters) McCurdy. He was raised in the Halstead area and Tony attended Newton High School.
Tony married Doris Lucielle “Lucy” Haney in August 1966 in Kingman, KS. Lucy passed away August 9,...
Bret Johnson
Oct 14, 2022
Bret Johnson, age 63, died Friday, October 14, 2022, at his home in Newton, Kansas. He was born December 15, 1958, in Ulysses, Kansas, the son of Donald Eugene and Shirley A. (Komma) Johnson.
Bret grew up in Ulysses and attended Ulysses schools. While living in Ulysses, he had worked as a printer for Don Waterman, the local newspaper, and...
Nancy McFarlane
Oct 13, 2022
Nancy Ann McFarlane, 84, died Thursday (October 13, 2022) at the home of her daughter in Newton, Kansas.
She was born on May 3, 1938 in Newton, the daughter of Morris and Alice Billings Hogan. Nancy attended Newton schools, graduating from Newton High School. She married Walter James McFarlane on January 24, 1956 in Newton.
Nancy had been the bookkeeper...
Maria Llamas
Oct 13, 2022
Maria Elena (Nena) Llamas (formerly Olmos) passed away on October 13, 2022 at the age of 69.
Maria was born in Juarez, Mexico on January 10, 1953, the youngest of nine children. She moved to Hutchinson, Kansas to live with her sister’s family where she attended Sherman Junior High and Hutchinson High School. She later moved to Wichita, Kansas and...
Floyd Garnett
Oct 12, 2022
Floyd E. “Skippy” Garnett, 84, died Wednesday (October 12, 2022) at his home in Newton, Ks.
He was born on January 5, 1938 in Newton, the son of Harry and Edna Rose Dickinson Garnett. A lifelong resident of Newton, he graduated from Newton High School in 1956 where he played football, basketball and was on the track team. He...
Lucille Pankiewicz
Oct 10, 2022
Lucille J. Pankiewicz (91) of Newton, Kansas passed away on Monday, October 10, 2022 at Ascension Via Christi-St. Francis in Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita, Kansas. She was born to Frank and Anna Staggenborg on June 13, 1931 in Marysville, Kansas.
Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, Charles (1998); her two children, Alan (2017) and Cecilia (2013);...
Dean Hodson
Oct 9, 2022
Lyle “Dean” Hodson was born January 26, 1935 at the family home outside of Sylvia, Kansas, the son of Harry and Bertha Kelly Hodson. He passed away on Sunday, October 9, 2022 at his home in Wichita, Kansas surrounded by family as he lost his courageous battle with glioblastoma.
For several years Dean had been a truck driver for Dolly...
Ruby Davis Wills
Oct 8, 2022
Ruby Davis Wills, 97, passed away Saturday (October 8, 2022) at Newton Medical Center.
She was born October 19, 1924 in Exeter, MO to Clarence and Affie May Harrison. As an adult she spent many years caring for others as a nurse in the Kansas City area until her retirement in 1995 moved her closer to her family in central...
Etric Jones, II
Oct 2, 2022
Etric La’Ronne Jones, II, was born November 3, 1994 to Etric L. Jones, Sr. and Stephanie Louise Jones at the Newton Medical Center in Newton, Kansas. He departed his life on Sunday, October 2, 2022 in Weatherford, Texas at the age of 27.
Etric was a lifelong resident of Newton. While attending Newton High School, Etric was very active in...
Carole Malin
Sep 20, 2022
Carole Malin, 76, passed away peacefully at her home in Newton, KS on September 20, 2022. She grew up in Wichita, KS and came to Newton right after her marriage to Ralph John Malin on June 18, 1965. They met while students at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas.
She graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in Business Administration,...
Kitty Burd
Sep 18, 2022
Kitty Kay Burd, 59, died Sunday (September 18, 2022) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas.
She was born on April 2, 1963 in Huntington, W.V., the daughter of Paul H. and Dolores K. Blevins Burd. Kitty graduated from high school in California and lived in the Redding, California area for several years.
She married Patrick R. Fitch on...
Marion Regier
Sep 15, 2022
Marion Regier, 95, died Thursday (September 15, 2022) at the NMC Health in Newton.
She was born on April 12, 1927 in Richmond, Kansas, the daughter of Alfred and Emma Roeckers Wiesner. Marion was raised in Richmond and graduated from Ursuline Academy in Paola, Kansas.
In 1945, she moved to the Kansas City area where she was a bookkeeper and...
Billy Hedges
Sep 6, 2022
Billy Joe Hedges, 60, died Tuesday (September 6, 2022) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
He was born William Joseph Hedges on October 14, 1961 in Topeka, Kansas, the son of William Lewis and Vondetta Britton Hedges.
The family lived in Topeka before moving to Florence, Kansas and later settling in Newton. Billy attended schools in Newton.
Through...
Annie Martinez
Aug 28, 2022
Annie Loyola Martinez, 78, died Sunday (August 28, 2022) at her home in Newton.
She was born Dec. 29, 1943, in Emporia, Ks. The daughter and second child of John and Ida Solis. Her family moved to Newton and her education began at Washington Grade School and completed when she graduated from Newton High in 1961.
She married her...
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