Ruby Irene Smit
May 15, 2011
Ruby Irene Rogers Smit was born May 17, 1913 in Norway, Kansas, to Jesse Anderson and Bertha Jane (Wickliff) Rogers. She lived a full and productive life dedicated to helping others until her death May 15, 2011 in Johnson, Kansas. Ruby was 97. The Rogers (her parents) lived near Burr Oak, Kansas, a community made up mostly of farmland and...
Laurence Dow Chick
Apr 26, 2011
Laurence Dow Chick born October 15, 1921, went to be with the Lord on April 26, 2011. He was the second son born to Dow and Fern Chick. He was born on the family ranch in Baca County, seven miles east of Campo, Colorado. He was preceded in death by parents, Dow and Fern Chick; grandparents, John and Nellie Messer;...
J. Malcolm Hefley
Apr 23, 2011
J. Malcolm Hefley was born on October 15, 1952 in Canyon, Texas and passed away at BSA Hospital, Amarillo, Texas on April 23, 2011. Malcolm was the third child born to Alvis B. ( Nig) and Emily Seedig Hefley. He was welcomed to the Hefley home by brother Fred and sister Annette and a few years later little sister Sonja...
Marjorie Deweese
Apr 19, 2011
Marjorie Deweese was born in Liberal, Kansas, August 21, 1920. In 1933 she moved to Colorado with her family, where she resided until her death. In 1941 she was married to Shirley Ray Deweese who preceded her in death. Her parents, two sisters and two brothers also preceded her in death.
Hannah Joann Linderman
Apr 9, 2011
Hannah Joann Linderman Hannah Joann Linderman was born in Ardmore, Oklahoma and passed away April 9, 2011 at the age of 15 years 8 1/2 months. Hannah spent her early childhood years in and around Wichita Falls, Texas and Ardmore, Oklahoma. She attended school in Keene, Texas and Plainview, Oklahoma and the past three years at Vilas Public Schools where...
Janice Louise Mckinley
Apr 3, 2011
If one ever wanted to meet someone who exemplifies selflessness, it was Janice McKinley, who went to meet her Heavenly Father April 3, 2011. Janice Louise McKinley, born July 3, 1946, was daughter to Olen and Mary June Hardy, sister to Barbara Cogburn, Ron Hardy, Max Hardy and Brenda Hargrove She was mom to 8 children, Grandma Jan to 13...
Homer Robert Mundell
Apr 2, 2011
Homer Robert Mundell of Walsh, the eldest son of Robert Felix and Helen Clada (Dunlap) Mundell, was born February 8, 1947 in Lamar. His life ended tragically April 2, 2011 after an accident at his ranch northeast of Walsh. He was 64. Homer attended elementary schools at Bartlett, three miles from his home, and at Walsh. He graduated from Walsh...
Norma Lee Picha
Mar 29, 2011
Norma Robbins Picha (Pee-ka) was born on May 8, 1940 to Lewis Ahi Robbins and Bessie Fay Greathouse Robbins. She was the second child of five children in the family. Norma attended Walsh Methodist Church as a youth and was a member of the Lamar Methodist Church. Norma was known to say she "just wanted to believe the same way...
Charlene Gayle Cook
Mar 25, 2011
Charlene Gayle (Harlan) Cook was the second daughter born to Leon Vernon and Virgil Maude (McKinnis) Harlan. Her place of birth was Lamar, Prowers County, Colorado and she was born on April 14, 1945. There was only eighteen months of age between Gayle and older sister Shirley and they were often thought to be twins in their early years. Five...
Veta Fay Lock
Mar 21, 2011
Veta Fay Lock was born October 21, 1931, in Pritchett, Colorado, to Elden and Fay Konkel and departed this life on March 21, 2011, at the age of 79 years. Veta Fay was raised on the Thompson ranch south of Vilas until 1941, when Elden and Fay purchased their family farm 10 miles south of Vilas. She attended school in...
Ruth Leatrice Hamilton
Mar 21, 2011
Ruth "Toots" Leatrice Brown Hamilton was born to Flossie and Burt Brown on October 16, 1922, north and west of Two Buttes, Colorado. Her siblings were Maxine Brown Hutches and Kenneth "Jap" Brown. Ruth departed this life on March 21, at Southeast Colorado Hospital at the age of 88. Ruth attended grade school in the old grade school at Vilas...
Lillian Iona Dillinger
Mar 17, 2011
Lillian Iona Dillinger, lifelong resident of Baca County, passed into history and eternity on March 17, 2011, after a two month series of illnesses. She was 91. She was preceded in death by her husband Arden; two stillborn daughters, Shirley Ann and Patty Lynn; son Billy, son Jim and daughter Janie. Also preceding her were brothers Clifford and Gene "Red"...
Ina Marguerite Wright-Partain
Mar 7, 2011
Marguerite Wright-Partain, age 95, left this life on March 7, 2011, in the company of her loving family in Garden City, Kansas. She was born in Trenton, Missouri, July 1, 1915, to David Ross and Alta Victoria Field, the second child in a family of four children. Marguerite spent her early years in Missouri until the family moved to Oklahoma....
Laramie Lane Burson
Jan 16, 2011
Laramie Lane Burson was born April 29, 1932 in Walsh, Colorado and departed this world January 16, 2011 at the age of 78. Laramie was the oldest of two sons born to Earl Roy and Clover Juanita (Packard) Burson. Laramie and his brother Zolin grew up on a farm 12 miles southwest of Walsh. He had many great memories of...
Lorraine Nadine Doke
Jan 5, 2011
1918-2011 Lorraine Doke was born November 18, 1918, and departed this life at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas, on January 4, 2011, at the age of 92. Lorraine, the daughter of W.K. and Helen Burchfield, was born in Iowa and lived there and in Kansas and Oklahoma before moving to Walsh, Colorado, in December 1928, from Hooker, Oklahoma....
Earl James O'Maley
Dec 29, 2010
Earl James O'Maley , known to most of his family and friends as simply, "James," was born on January 14, 1919 to Theodore Earl and Anna Mae O'Maley on the family homestead three miles east and two miles south of Campo, Colorado, in the middle of a bad blizzard. He lived east of Campo from birth until his health failed...
Patricia Ann Holmes
Dec 22, 2010
Patricia "Patsy" Ann (Schlager) Holmes was born September 15, 1936, in Walsh, Colorado, to Claude and Jo (McComas) Schlager. She departed this life December 22, 2010, in Wichita, Kansas, at the age of seventy-four. Patsy attended Walsh schools and graduated from Walsh High School in 1954. She married her high school sweetheart, Delmar Holmes, September 18, 1954. They moved to...
Samuel Lynn Ellis
Dec 20, 2010
Samuel Lynn Ellis was born to James and Zelpha Ellis on October 12, 1961, at Elkhart, Kansas. He was the baby of the family of nine children. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Zelpha Ellis; two brothers, Norman Dale Ellis and Vernon Jay Ellis and his wife, Violet Mae (Wade) Ellis; one sister, Christina Carol Ellis;...
Dorothy Jane Utt
Dec 18, 2010
Dorothy Jane Utt was born on April 30, 1922 in Elkhart, KS to John and Virgie George. Dorothy was one of ten children – 7 boys and 3 girls. She received her education in a one-room schoolhouse in Richards, CO. She moved to Walsh, CO for her senior year, graduating in 1940. Dorothy married the love of her life, Darrel...
Billie Beth Hetrick
Dec 15, 2010
Billie Beth (Rutherford) Trahern Hetrick of Walsh, Colorado, passed away December 15, 2010 at the age of 83. The oldest of four daughters of James and Goldie (Icenogle) Rutherford, she was born December 9th, 1927 in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. At age fourteen, her family moved to Baca County Colorado. Except for a short time in Fresno, California as a teenager,...