All Obituaries

Gerald Edward Berls, 78, of Ellis, Kansas passed away at home on March 26, 2020.  Services are pending with Keithley Funeral Chapel, 400 East 17th Street, Ellis, Kansas 67637.

John Bernard Stramel, age 74 of Hays, Kansas passed away Sunday March 22, 2020, in Hays.  He was born July 28, 1945 in WaKeeney, Kansas to Rudy and Matilda (Wessel) Stramel. On May 30, 1969 he married Linda Marie (Riggs). John had worked as a millwright building feedmills and grain elevators. He was a US Army Veteran serving in Vietnam in 1967-1968. He said many times the country home he tended wasn’t his, it all belongs to the Lord, he was just tending it. Psalms 23 or John 14...

Mary Jane (Weigel) Thorpe - age 68, of Olathe, Kansas, died Friday, March 20, 2020, at the Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park, Kansas. She was born September 14, 1951, in Hays Kansas, to Harold V. and Mary (Scheck) Weigel. She was a cost accounting manager for 15 years at Smoot/Magnum Systems, and retired in 2013.  She grew up in Victoria, Kansas, and was a 1969 salutatorian graduate of Victoria, Kansas.  She lived in Hays then moved to Olathe in 1987, and was a...

Note:  Change in Venue Bernadine Ruth (Homler) Kuhn, age 91, of Hays, Kansas passed away Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in Hays.  She was born at home on July 22, 1928 in Ellis, Kansas to Robert and Nellie (Bassler) Homler.  She married John Kuhn on August 20, 1945 in Ellis, Kansas. She is survived by three sons and three daughters.  Robert (Bob) Kuhn and wife Linda of Broken Arrow, OK; Zoe Gleason of Bozeman, MT; Mark (Dutch) and wife Shirley of Sterling, Ks; Linda Kuhn,...

Regis Dean Schulte – age 71, of Wichita, Kansas died Monday, March 16, 2020, at Ascension Via Christi Hospital-St. Francis Wichita, Kansas. He was born November 21,1948, at Hays, Kansas to John and Amelia “Mollie” (Dinkel) Schulte.  He married Brenda Kay (Sechler) on July 7, 1973, at Victoria, Kansas. He was a draftsman engineer at the Coleman Company in Wichita for 44 years and retired in 2011.  He grew up in Victoria and was a 1966 graduate of Victoria High...

Mabel J. (Dechant) Riedel – age 86, of Walker, Kansas, died Friday, March 13, 2020, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas.  She was born November 29, 1933, in Hays, Kansas to Joseph and Anna (Speier) Dechant.  She married Francis J. “Frank” Riedel on September 3, 1955, at Hays, Kansas.  He preceded her in death on December 4, 2016.      She was a homemaker and a CNA  at St. John’s Rest Home, Victoria, and at Cedar View Care...

  Jana Marie Hoffman, age 44, of Hays, Kansas passed away Thursday, March 5, 2020 in Newton, Kansas. She was born June the 20, 1975 in Hays to William Dale Hoffman and Mary Stahl.  She graduated from Hays High in 1993 and earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Wichita State University. Jana worked as an aesthetician and owned her own company called My Skin Care Coach. She was very active in fitness and hiking and was always looking to help others. She is...

Wilmer “Mike” Leroy Michel of Hays, Kansas passed away Thursday, March 5, 2020 at Homestead Assisted Living in Hays at the age of 93.  He was born April 20, 1926 to George and Alvina (Reinhardt) Michel at the family farmstead in Russell County Kansas. He attended country school until 8th grade then attended Russell HS graduating in 1944.  After helping his Dad with wheat harvest, he left for World War II serving in the Army in the Philippines and Japan.  He...

Emery J. Meis – age 73, died Sunday, March 8, 2020 at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas.  He was born June 29, 1946, at Hays, Kansas, to Joseph P. and Helen (Vonfeldt) Meis.  He grew up in rural Ellis County and attended the Lost Canyon School and later received his diploma from Ellis County Schools, and he also completed several art classes at Wichita State University and Fort Hays Sate University. He worked in the oil fields and then moved back to Hays in the...

Mary Ann (Schuckman) Herl – age 89, died Friday, March 6, 2020, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born January 17, 1931, on the farm near Liebenthal, Kansas, to Fred and Anna Loretta (Legleiter) Schuckman.  She married Edwin J. Herl on April 26, 1950 at    Liebenthal, Kansas.  He preceded her in death on  December 10, 1985. She worker at Skaggs Drug Store, and at St. Anthony Hospital and Hays Medical Center in the dietary department for many years....