Current Obituaries
April K. May
Jan 14, 2018
Hays, Kansas- April K. May, age 40, died Sunday, January 14, 2018. She was born July14,1977 in Lodi, California to Sylvester K and Gayle L (Mallory) Hecky. She married Henry J. "Hank" May on September 25,1999, in Hays, Kansas. She was a homemaker and moved to Hays in 1999 from California. She grew up in Wainae, Hawaii and San Jose,...
Priscilla Emigh
Jan 13, 2018
Priscilla Marie (Newell) Burton- Emigh, 95, passed away peacefully January 13, 2018, in Hays, Kansas. She was born on the family farm in Rural Rooks County, January 21, 1922. Priscilla was the oldest of seven children born to Arthur and Alice (Thibault) Newell. As the oldest, it fell on Priscillas shoulders to help her mother with all the younger children...
Neil A. Kuhn
Jan 10, 2018
Victoria, Kansas Neil A. Kuhn, age 77, died Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at his home in Victoria, Kansas. He was born September 10, 1940 in Hays, Kansas to Emil A. and Luella M. (Walters) Kuhn. Neil was a forklift operator and worked for 7 UP Bottlers in Hays for 10 years, then he worked at Western Bottlers in Victoria for...
Eugene D. 'Gene' Hotz
Jan 10, 2018
Eugene D. "Gene" Hotz, age 85, of Hays, Kansas died Wednesday, January 10, 2018, at Hays Medical Center, Hays. He was born April 15, 1932, on the farm at Almena, Kansas to Walter Harold and Alice Cora (Wilmot) Hotz. He married Carol Marie (Holsman) on March 28, 1959 at Hays. She preceded him in death on August 20, 2017. He...
Verle E. 'Doc' Montgomery
Jan 9, 2018
Hays, Kansas Verle E. "Doc" Montgomery Jr., age 88, died Tuesday, January 9, 2018, at the Good Samaritan Society of Hays. He was born June 24, 1929, in Jamestown, Kansas to Verle and Kathryn (Haskins) Montgomery Sr. He married Iris "Rusty" (Russ) on December 14, 1950 at Jamestown, Kansas. She preceded him in death on April 5, 2005. Doc was...
Terry Lee Kaiser
Jan 8, 2018
Shawnee, Kansas Terry Lee Kaiser, age 52, died Monday, January 8, 2018, in an auto accident in Wyandotte County Kansas. He was born May 30,1965, in Hoxie, Kansas to Leroy and Carol (Wiesner) Kaiser. He was a senior structural engineering technologist for Alfred Benesch & Company in Kansas City, Kansas for 14 years and a member of West Lenexa Seventh...
Lucille Flax
Jan 7, 2018
Lucille (Dreiling) Flax, age 94, formerly of Ellis, Kansas, died January 7, 2018 at the Chapman Valley Manor in Chapman, Kansas. Lucille was born on September 4, 1923 in Ellis the daughter of Mike and Rosa (Leiker) Dreiling. She married Fred Flax on August 8, 1944 at St. Marys Catholic Church in Ellis. He preceded her in death March 2,...
Robert L. Schmidtberger
Jan 7, 2018
Victoria, Kansas Robert L. Schmidtberger, age 90, died Sunday, January 7, 2018, at his home. He was born October 8, 1927, on a farm north of Gorham, Kansas, to John F. and Albina (Frank) Schmidtberger. He married Marie A. (Bollig) on October 17, 1949, at Victoria, Kansas. She preceded him in death on September 20, 2017. He was an oil...
W. Pat Dreiling
Jan 7, 2018
VICTORIA W. Pat Dreiling, 86 of Victoria, KS died Sunday January 7, 2018 at Via Christi Village, Hays, KS. He was born July 21, 1931 in Vincent, KS to Alfred and Ellen (Baier) Dreiling. He graduated from Victoria High School, served in the US Army, and attended Fort Hays State University. He married Theresa Lang on October 16, 1951 and...
Norman E. Greene
Jan 5, 2018
Norman E. Greene, age 88, of Victoria, Kansas died Friday, January 5, 2018 at Friendship Village Hospice Care, Tempe, AZ. He was born September 19, 1929 in Manhattan, New York to Myron H. and Barbara I. Greene. He married Edoline J. (Martin) on November 30th, 1957. He was a member of the Missouri Bar and practiced law in Kansas City,...
Kimberly Ann Ellison
Dec 29, 2017
Kimberly Ann Winder-Ellison, 46, Osawatomie Ks, died Friday, December 29th 2017 in her home. She was born August 27, 1971 in Osborne Ks, to Bruce Winder and Carol Werth. Kim loved her family and friends dearly. Kims children were her life. She dreamed of bigger and better things for each one of them. She was looking forward to traveling and...
Mary Matzke
Dec 25, 2017
Mary Lou (Shaver) Matzke, age 69, of Ellis passed away Monday, December 25, 2017 in Ellis. She was born September 28, 1948 in St. Francis, Kansas to Rex and Patsy (Gustafson) Shaver. She was a graduate of St. Francis High School and earned a Bachelors degree in nursing from Fort Hays State University. On December 24, 1973 she married Richard...
Thomas J. Baumrucker
Dec 22, 2017
Thomas John Baumrucker, age 77, of Hays, Kansas passed away Friday, December 22, 2017 in Hays. He was born November 15, 1940 in Hays to Ralph M. and Martina (Drees) Baumrucker. He graduated from Gorham High School in 1958 and earned 2 Bachelors degrees and a Masters degree all from Fort Hays State University. Tom owned and operated Hays Greenhouse...
Stanley J. Stramel Jr.
Dec 20, 2017
Victoria, Kansas Stanley Joseph "Stan Jr." Stramel, age 46, died Wednesday, December 20, 2017, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. He was born August 10, 1971, in Hays, Kansas, to Stanley and Patricia Ann (Hertel) Stramel. He grew up in Victoria and was a 1989 graduate of Victoria High School. He worked for over 20 years at Fort Hays State...
Kathleen 'Kathy' Edsall
Dec 16, 2017
Victoria, Kansas Kathleen Ann "Kathy" Edsall, age 66, died Saturday, December 16, 2017, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas. She was born August 29,1951, in Hays, Kansas to Alvin P. and Shirley Jean (Weigel) Braun. She married Jerry Spiess and later she married Ivan R. Edsall on March 23, 1996, in Hays, Kansas. Kathy was a homemaker, a day care...
Wilmer Rome
Dec 11, 2017
Wilmer Rome, age 91, of Victoria, Kansas died Monday, December 11, 2017, at the Good Samaritan Society of Hays. He was born December 16, 1925, in Victoria to Jacob M. and Eva (Weigel) Rome. He married Valeria (Wittman) on May 1,1945 in Vincent, Kansas. She died May 26, 1999. He was lifetime resident of Victoria, attended Victoria High School and...
Darin Alan Stiles
Dec 10, 2017
Darin Alan Stiles, age 51, of Hays, Kansas, died Sunday, December 10, 2017, in rural Rush County. He was born May 28, 1966, in Larned, Kansas to Ronald Joy Stiles and Josephine (Harr). He married Kelly A. (Gottschalk) on June 15, 1991, at Hays, Kansas. He was a manager and supervisor of the convenience stores in Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado...
Don Morris
Dec 9, 2017
Don Harvey Morris, age 67, of Hays, Kansas passed away Saturday, December 9, 2017 at the Good Samaritan Society, Hays. He was born May 4, 1950 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to William and Addie (Fox) Bodine. Don was adopted by Boyd and Grace Morris. He married Alberta Potter in Hays on July 29, 1988. Don was a Heavy Equipment Operator working...
Caron Hecker
Dec 8, 2017
Caron A. Hecker, age 76, of Hays, Kansas, died Friday, December 8, 2017, at Hays Medical Center in Hays. She was born January 28, 1941, in Orion, Kansas to William and Frances M. (Allen) Stevenson. She married Gilbert Peter Hecker on January 17, 1959, in Oakley, Kansas. She worked in accounting and was a bookkeeper all her working years. Caron...
Douglas Sandoval
Dec 5, 2017
Douglas Alan Sandoval, age 48, of Hays, passed away Tuesday, December 5, 2017 in Hays. He was born July 20, 1969 in Wichita, Kansas to JoAnn Dreiling and Timothy Daniel Sandoval Jr. He had worked as a chef and enjoyed working out, song writing, watching old tv movies and computer work. He is survived by his mother, JoAnn Sandoval of...