Obituaries in Kansas Newspapers (arranged by city)
Kenny Janzen
d. April 20, 2014
Hillsboro – Kenny Janzen, 47, died April 20, 2014 at Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita. He was born September 11, 1966 to Ralph and Charlene (Stinchcomb) Janzen in Hillsboro. Survivors include: wife, Katrina (Borquez) Janzen of Rural Hillsboro; son, Joshua Schmeal of Topeka; daughters, Katlynn Schmeal of Halstead, Jessica Janzen of Wichita, Tanesha Borquez of Rural Hillsboro, Tamera Beach of Clearwater; brothers, Corey Janzen of Rural Hillsboro, Ray Janzen of Hillsboro; parents of Hillsboro. Celebration of Life Service will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 26, 2014 at the Hillsboro United Methodist Church officiated by Pastor Morita Truman. Family will receive guests from 8:00 a.m. until service time at the Church on Saturday. Memorials to The Hillsboro F.F.A. or the American Diabetes Association in care of Jost Funeral Home P.O. Box 266 Hillsboro, Kansas 67063.
Gladys C. Brewer
(August 27, 1908 - March 22, 2012)
Gladys Charleen McAdams Brewer died March 22, 2012, at Schowalter Villa in Hesston, Kansas.
Memorial Services will be held at 2:30 P.M., Sunday (April 1, 2012) at Schowalter Villa.
She was born on August 27, 1908, in Newton, Kansas, the daughter of Frank Goodwin McAdams and Ella Krebs McAdams. Her grandfather, Henry H. McAdams, was the first mayor of Halstead, Kansas.
Gladys married
Dr. William McKelvey Brewer on February 2, 1930, in Abilene, and they were happily married
for 42 years until his death on February 17, 1972.
Survivors include a daughter, Joy Scott, two sons, Mac Brewer and John Brewer, and a foster son, Egon Sommer, thirteen grandchildren, and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
Gladys was preceded in death by her sister Alice McAdams and her half brother, Fred Beckmeyer.
Bill and Gladys moved to Hays, Kansas, in 1930, where they started housekeeping and raised their family. Except for a temporary relocation in Topeka during World War Two, they remained in Hays until Dr. Brewer’s retirement in 1971, when they moved to Hesston.
Throughout her adult life Gladys was actively involved with the United Methodist Church, the P.E.O., and the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Gladys was widely known for her curiosity, love of life, sense of decorum, organizational skills, and bottomless love for family and friends. Among avocations, reading was probably her first love, but she also loved to recite poetry, sing, and cook. Her autobiography has been a fascinating read for all who knew Gladys and for many who didn’t. She loved to plant and care for flower gardens, and she decorated her homes in Hays and Hesston with art and artifacts that she collected from travels ranging from England to Taiwan. On many of her international trips Gladys was accompanied by her long-time Newton friend. Dr. Frances Allen.
Gladys’s body was cremated, and a memorial stone will be added in her honor to the plot of Dr. William Brewer in GreenwoodCemeteryin Newton.
Arrangements are by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, Newton.
Stephen Dale McCombs
d. December 15, 2014
Stephen Dale McCombs, 34, died December 15, 2014 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. He was born May 24, 1980 in Wichita. Survivors include: son, Tracy Leon McCombs of Lehigh; parents, Robert Diaz of Moundridge, Barbara Diaz of Lehigh; grandmother, Juanita McCombs of Lehigh; brother, Mike McCombs of Lehigh; sisters, Stephanie Newman of Valley Center, Jennifer Epstein of Midwest, Oklahoma. Family will receive guests from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Saturday, December 20, 2014 at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro. Interment will follow at Lehigh MennoniteCemeteryrural Lehigh. Memorials to Stephen McCombs memorial fund in care of Jost Funeral Home P.O. Box 266 Hillsboro, KS 67063.
Carrol Kay Stevens
(April 15, 1934 - November 3, 2011)
CARROL “KAY” STEVENS, 77, of Newton, died Thursday (Nov. 3, 2011) at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita as the result of an automobile accident in Newton on Oct. 28th at the corner of Broadway & Columbus.
She was born on April 15, 1934 in Newton, the daughter of Clayton Henry and Neva Irene Porter Sooby. She attended schools in Newton and Elbing before the family moved to Venezuela in the late 1940’s, Kay returned to the United States and graduated from high school in Ellsworth, Ks., in 1951. She later attended Wesley School of Nursing in Wichita.
Kay married
Buster Claude Stevens on May 28, 1953 in Newton. They moved to Denver, Colo., in 1959. There she did home health care and worked several years as a cashier at Kings Sooper Grocery. Kay and Buster returned to Newton 14 years ago.
Kay was a member of the American Legion Ladies Auxillary. A very generous lady who loved helping others. She loved spending time with her family, roaming the grocery stores, time with her sister doing folk art painting. Kay enjoyed the sounds at the casino and watching “Young and The Restless”.
Survivors include two daughters April Starr Long of Martinsville, Ind. And Misty Dawn Gilliam and husband Richard of Palisade, Neb.; brother Donald Sooby and his wife Carol of Newton; sisters Judy Gronau and her husband Cline of Newton, and Beverly Ralph of San Marcos, Tex.; 10 grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren.
Kay is preceded in death by her parents; husband Buster on Dec. 24, 2006; son Sidney Vaughn Stevens; daughter Carolyn Irene Vigil.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M., Monday (Nov. 7, 2011) at the Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday 1pm til 6pm, where the family will receive friends between 2 and 4.
A memorial has been established with the Newton Homeless Shelter and American Lung Assoc., contributions may be sent to Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, 120 E. Broadway, Newton, Ks. 67114.
Arrangements are by Broadway Colonial Funeral Home, Newton.
Arnold W. Regier
d. April 25, 2014
Marion – Arnold W. Regier, 83, died April 25, 2014 at Parkside Home in Hillsboro. He was born October 8, 1930 to Henry and Tena (Rempel) Regier in Hillsboro. He married
Edith Vogt August 2, 1957 in Enid, Oklahoma. Survivors include: wife, Edith Regier of Marion; son, Greg (Shelley) Regier of Marion; daughters, Carol (Ernie) Sweat of Wichita, Beth (Tim) Rohrig of Wichita; brother, Herb (Wilma) Regier of Marion; sister, Marge (Eugene) Christensen of Marion, Luella Popp of Hillsboro; sister-in-law, Eileen Regier of Clay Center; 7 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. Celebration of Life Service will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at The Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro officiated by Pastor Loyal Martin. Interment will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at The Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren ChurchCemeteryin Hillsboro. Family will receive guests from 6 to 8 Tuesday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro. Memorials to The Tabor College Fine Arts Center in Care of Jost Funeral Home P.O. Box 266 Hillsboro, Kansas 67063.
Raymond B. Toews
Raymond B. Toews, 78, died Dec. 1 in Wichita.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro, with family greeting friends at that time.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro, with the Rev. Dave Platt officiating. Burial will be at Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren ChurchCemeteryin Hillsboro.
He was born on Oct. 16, 1926, in Lustre, Mont., to Jacob J. and Marie (Friesen) Toews. He was a farmer.
On July 17, 1952, he married
Helen Rempel in Mountain Lake, Minn. He was a member of Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; a son, Steve and Deborah of Hesston; two daughters, Lynette Toews of Denver, and Carol and Dan Harrison of Hillsboro; three sisters, Marjorie Reimche of Harvey, N.D., and Amanda Well and Rosella Toews, both of Glasgow, Mont.; and four grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by an infant baby sister, two brothers and an infant grandson.
Memorial funds have been established with Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church’s building fund or Lustre Christian High School.
John Ratzlaff
d. April 16, 2014
Hillsboro – John Ratzlaff, 92, died April 16, 2014 at Parkside Home in Hillsboro. He was born September 18, 1921 to Aaron and Anna (Penner) Ratzlaff in Corn, Oklahoma. He married
Edna Reimer in Corn, Oklahoma on January 26, 1943. Survivors include: sons, Don (Marilyn) of Hillsboro, Glenn of Hillsboro, John of San Rafael, California, Jim (Cheryl) of Hutchinson; brother, Barney of Tulsa, Oklahoma; sisters, LeOra Grunau of Hillsboro, Bertha Pauls of Reedley, California, Arlene Flaming of Enid, Oklahoma, 13 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren. Celebration of Life Service will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at Parkview Mennonite Brethren Church in Hillsboro officiated by Pastor Steve Schroeder. Memorials to Mennonite Brethren Board of Missions in care of Jost Funeral Home P.O. Box 266 Hillsboro, Kansas 67063.
Myrtle Luella (Loucks) Stutzman
Myrtle Luella (Loucks) Stutzman was born near Canton on May 9, 1924, the daughter of Joseph S and Clara (Bitikofer) Loucks.
The ninth of ten children, she grew up on the family farm and attended a rural school and Canton High School. She was graduated from Hesston Academy in 1948. She trained as a Licensed Practical Nurse through Kansas City, Mo., General Hospital.
She was a membership of the Pennsylvania Mennonite Church near Hesston, which relocated to Hesston as Whitestone Mennonite Church.
Myrtle was married
to Orville Stutzman, Feb. 12, 1959, at Spring Valley Mennonite Church, and made their home in Goessel.
In 1967 the family moved to Hesston, and Myrtle became deeply involved with a children‘s Wednesday evening Bible Memory Program. She and Orville were also active in the Newton, Kansas chapter of the Gideons International. In the early 1970s she returned to work as a Licensed Practical Nurse at Bethel Home for the Aged in Newton, retiring in1985.
In July 2009 following an illness she became a resident of Schowalter Villa where she resided until her death.
Survivors include husband, Orville, daughters Twila Chaloupek and Bonita (Gene) Stoddard, Carol (George) Donovan, and son Kent; seven grandchildren, one sister, Vera Diener and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers: Ernest, Phares, Vernon and Charlie; and four sisters: Mildred (Rhine Benner), Erma (Clyde Jantz), Marjorie (Knight), and Ethel (James Posar).
A visitation was held Wednesday, July 23, from 6 to 8 at Miller-Ott Funeral Home in Hesston.
Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 24, at Whitestone Mennonite Church in Hesston. Interment will follow at EastlawnCemeterynear Hesston.
In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to Gideon's International or Schowalter Villa and may be sent in care of Miller-Ott Funeral Home, 107 S. Lancaster, Hesston, KS 67062
Pauline H. Miller
(March 9, 1927 - March 13, 2012)
Pauline H. Miller, 85, of Newton, Kansas died Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at Asbury Park. She was born on March 9, 1927 in Thomas Township, Ellsworth County, near Lorraine, Kansas to LeRoy and Alva (Steinberg) Janzen. She married
William D. Miller August 21, 1944 in Ellsworth, Kansas. He preceded her in death on July 22, 2007. She grew up on a farm in Ellsworth County and attended school in Lorraine, Kansas. She received her GED in 1971 in Newton, Kansas. She was a homemaker. She enjoyed flower gardening and embroidering tea towels and giving them away. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Newton. She is survived by a daughter, Maxine Williams of Newton; 1 granddaughter and husband Lynette and Jeff Wyss of Newton; two great-grandchildren, Brandon and Erin Wyss of Newton; two brothers, Marlin Janzen of Albuquerque, New Mexico and Glenn Janzen of Wichita; two half brothers, Larry Janzen, Texas, Norman Janzen, Halstead and one half sister Delores Hiebert, El Dorado, KS. She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother Wayne Janzen and a half sister Judith Regehr; and son-in-law Gerald Williams. Visitation will be Sunday, March 18, from 1:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Broadway Colonial Funeral Home. There will be family greeting time on Monday, March 19, 2012, from 9:30 A.M. to service time. Funeral Service will be held at 10:30 A.M., all at the funeral home. Burial will be at 3:00 P.M. at the Lorraine Baptist Cemetery, Lorraine, Kansas Memorials may be made to Lorraine Baptist Church in care of the funeral home.
Marvin D. ‘Bart’ Bartel, 88
Marvin D. “Bart” Bartel, 88, of Lititz, Penn., passed away on Saturday, Mar. 14, 2015, at Landis Homes.
born in Halstead, he was the son of the late David Andrew and Marie F. (Dyck) Bartel.
He is survived by his wife, Martha (Stoltzfus); five children: Cindy Sohar, Margaret Freed, Rose Weaver, Albert Bartel, and Jane Haught; 12 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and three sisters: Mildred Mueller, Halstead, Frances Bartel, Moundridge, and Dorothy Dick, Halstead.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Marvin W.; and five siblings: Albert, Ruth Marie, Roland, Olen, and Edna.
A celebration of life was held Wednesday, Mar. 18 at Landis Homes.
Groff-High Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
Ethel Marie (Ebersole) Lind
Ethel Marie (Ebersole) Lind, died April 24, 2015 in Showalter Villa at Hesston, the place of her birth. A public memorial service has been scheduled for May 24 at the Hesston Mennonite Church Community Room at 2:30 p.m. Memorials are suggested to Friends University and the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains.
Irma Dahl
d. February 13, 2013
Irma Mary Dahl was born July 28, 1910 in Canton, Kansas, to John P. and Maria (Unrau) Franz. Most of her early life was spent on a farm in Northwest Kansas where she was raised with three brothers and one sister. When she was thirteen years of age her family attended a revival meeting in a school house not from where the Franz family lived. It was here where mom made the most important decision of her life – the decision to accept Jesus Christ as her savior.
Twelve years later it could be said that mom made the second most important decision and she married
Abraham B Dahl on September 29, 1935 near Mingo, Kansas. To this union were born nine children. Six daughters: Frances (Neil-deceased) Unruh, Reedley, CA., Lillian (Dick-deceased) Falls, Kingsburg, CA., Dorothy Dahl, Hillsboro, KS, Sharon (Clyde – deceased) Schroeder, Hillsboro, KS., Beverly (Jim) Boese, Longmont, CO., and Barbara (Ted) Braun, Mooresville, NC., and three sons: Calvin (Arlene Friesen) Dahl, Maple Grove, MN., Willard (Mary) Schmidt) Dahl both deceased, and Donald Dahl, Hillsboro, KS. Obviously, with this many children life was demanding and difficult but she excelled at being a caring mother , a loving wife and devoted Christian.
Additionally, she is survived by twelve grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
Irma passed away peacefully on February 13, 2013 at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro at the age of 102. A celebration to honor her life will be held 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at the Hillsboro Mennonite Brethren Church. Burial will be held at the Hillsboro M.B. Cemetery. Memorial to the Wichita Union Rescue Mission in lieu of flowers please.
