Larry Lee Butt
Sep 30, 2015
Larry Butt was born September 15, 1939, in Walsh Colorado. Larry never left Walsh and resided there until his death on September 30, 2015. Larry was the 7th child of Arthur and Mabel ( McGill ) Butt. He graduated from Walsh High School. Larry worked for his father, Texaco, Texas Oil & Gas as well as Maintenance Man for the...
Westley H Duncan
Sep 19, 2015
Westley Hereward Duncan 78, of Springfield passed away Saturday morning, September 19, 2015, at the Long Term Care Unit of the Stanton County Hospital in Johnson City, Kansas. He was born December 30, 1936 in Lamar, Colorado. He was one of nine children born to Cecil A. and Pauline (Guder) Duncan. Wes grew up in Lamar, and attended the public...
Betty Lou Hebberd
Sep 19, 2015
Betty Hebberd was born on April 26, 1950 to Elmo and Delora Hiner at the hospital in Springfield. Betty was the youngest of five children. She lived in Edler and attended school there until fourth grade when the school closed; she then attended school in Springfield. Betty graduated from Springfield High School in May of 1968. She then met the...
Wilma Jean Hannafious
Sep 19, 2015
Wilma Jean Schweizer entered this world on Tuesday, January 31, 1926, on a farm outside of Turon, Kansas and departed this life on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the Walsh Health Care Center in Walsh, Colorado. She was 89 years old. Wilma is preceded in death by her father George, mother Elsie, brothers John, Jim (James), Ralph, Earl, and Bill...
Edward Glen Newman
Sep 16, 2015
EULOGY Edward Glen Newman was born on April 21, 1929 in Stratford, Oklahoma, becoming the fifth biological, and the seventh child of Ed and Grace Newman. Caring for a family during the Great Depression required a lot of prayer and hard work both of which Glen and all of his 8 siblings learned about at a young age. Perhaps it...
Paul Vernon Wray
Sep 16, 2015
Paul Vernon Wray was born at home June 26, 1929, on the Wray homestead near Richards, Colorado, to Cecil and Cora Wray. He departed to his heavenly home September 16, 2015, from the Walsh Healthcare Center. He attended elementary school at Diamond Ridge; high school, grades nine and ten at Stonington, Colorado, and grades eleven and twelve at Walsh High...
Monte Ray Woolley
Aug 25, 2015
Monte "Mont" Ray Woolley, age 64, of Walsh, Colorado died Tuesday, 25 Aug 2015, while in Parkview Hospital, Pueblo, Colorado of a heart attack. Mont was born on 14 July 1951, in Walsh, Colorado to Earl Fred "Buss" Woolley and Corinne Elizabeth Woolley. Mont attended school in Walsh, CO and graduated from Walsh High School in 1970. He attended Denver...
Richard Eugene Smith
Aug 25, 2015
Richard Eugene Smith went home to be with the Lord in Walsh, Colorado, on Tuesday, August 25, 2015. Richard was born October 3, 1932, in San Diego, California, to Louis Aubrey and Hazel May (Moore) Smith. He was the youngest of seven children. Richard was united in marriage to Ethelyn Armenda Broyles, known to most as Lynn, on February 15,...
Louann Konkel
Aug 21, 2015
LouAnn Konkel (Baumberger) passed away Friday, August 21, 2015, at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, Colorado, after an extended illness. LouAnn was born in Hobart, Oklahoma, on July 22, 1933, to her parents, Doyle and Hazel Baumberger. She was an only child. Her family moved to Springfield, Colorado in 1948, where she ended up meeting and marrying Ivan Leroy Konkel....
John Henry Davison
Aug 4, 2015
John Henry Davison May 30, 1962 - August 4, 2015 John Henry Davison was born in Elkhart, KS on May 30, 1962, to Carl and Carolyn Davison. John passed away at the age of 53 on August 4, 2015 at Southeast Colorado Hospital in Springfield, CO. John grew up in Walsh attending Walsh Public Schools from Kindergarten through 12th grade....
Johnny Socorro Basquez
Jul 29, 2015
Johnny Socorro Basquez, born September 24, 1936, in Trinidad, Colorado, passed away after a long and brave battle with cancer on July 29, 2015, in Springfield, Colorado. Johnny was raised in Kim, Colorado. He was born to MaClovia and Carmel Basquez, whom he predeceased along with one brother Roger, two daughters, Stephanie and Marcelina, and two sons Miles-Keith and Socorro...
Jane Louise Mundell
Jul 13, 2015
Jane Louise Mundell, the daughter of Felix and Mamie (Mary Herbert) Mundell was born February 27, 1923 at her parents' home on Bear Creek northeast of Walsh, Colorado. Jane's life concluded July 13, 2015 at the Walsh Healthcare Center in Walsh. She was 92. Throughout her life Jane pursued knowledge wherever she went. Elementary school years were spent at the...
Reva Viola Whaley
Jun 19, 2015
Reva Viola Smith Whaley, age 90, a previous longtime Walsh resident, passed away June 19, at the Lamar Estates Nursing Home in Lamar, Colorado. Reva was born August 30, 1924, in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, delivered by her Aunt Cora Willis in the family home. She was the fifth child of Robert and Etta Smith. Reva had 4 brothers; Homer, Lowell,...
Vera Jean Myers
May 24, 2015
Vera Jean (McNutt) (Hickey) (Patterson) Myers was born July 24, 1923, on a farm near Freedom Oklahoma in Woodward County, Penn Township. She departed her earthly life on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 2015, 11:28 a.m., at the home of her cousin/caregiver, Janice (Lile) and husband, David Meade, at 16400 S. Moonlight Rd., Olathe, KS, where she had been residing since...
Betty Jane Rich
May 9, 2015
Pittsburg KS: Betty Jane Tincombe (Schweizer) Rich, age 88, of Columbus, KS, died Saturday, May 9, 2015. Betty was born October 11, 1927 to the Tincombe family, and was later adopted by Fred Schweizer and Edna Grant. They moved to Baca County, Colorado in 1932. They lived on the farm in Boston Community. As a child on the farm she...
Stanley Wayne Koehn
Apr 29, 2015
Much loved husband, father, grandfather, son and brother, Stanley Koehn, 62, of Walsh, Colorado, passed away April 29, 2015. Stanley was born November 14, 1952, in Montezuma, Kansas, to Loid and Glenda Koehn. Stanley started his first threes years of education at Montezuma grade school in Montezuma, Kansas. When the family moved to Wallace County in May of 1961, he...
Loretta Ruth Bohlander
Mar 26, 2015
LORETTA RUTH BOHLANDER Loretta Ruth Blundell Bohlander passed away March 26, 2015 at the age of 75. She was residing in the Springfield Long Term Care Center at the time of her death. She was born August 23, 1939 in Las Animas, Colorado. She was the fourth of seven children born to James Marion Blundell and Mamie Laura Smart Blundell....
Fay Maurine Brooks
Mar 8, 2015
Fay Brooks, of Vilas, passed away March 8, 2015, at the Walsh Healthcare Center. Funeral services were held Wednesday, March 12, at the Vilas School Gym. Interment was in the Springfield Cemetery. Mrs. Brooks is survived by her children, Bill (Patty) Brooks of Vilas, LeEtta (J.D.) Wilson of Vilas and Idella (Roger) Mashino of Guymon, Oklahoma. She is also survived...
Fern Frankie Jenkins
Feb 27, 2015
Fern Frankie "Ownbey" Jenkins Fern Frankie was the 3rd of 4 children born to Frank Canada Ownbey & Ethel Myrtle Johnston Ownbey on April 21, 1925 and she departed this life on February 27, 2015. Fern was born on a farm about 13 miles northeast of Campo. She started school at Star School. She only attended the first semester as...
Mark Earl Konkel
Feb 26, 2015
Mark Konkel was born on September 15, 1949, to Joyce and Earl Konkel in Springfield, Colorado. He grew up in Baca County, Colorado; where he attended the Butcher School through fifth grade. He attended middle school in Elkhart, Kansas, before going to high school in Hugoton, Kansas, where he graduated in 1967. He lettered in both football and wrestling during...