Obituaries

Melvin Livengood
Apr 11, 2008
Melvin Lawrence Livengood was born on August 11, 1912 the son of Lawrence Frank Livengood and Delta Mae McKinnie Livengood.He was one of four children born to this union. He grew up in the Morrill area and attended Sabetha schools and graduated from Sabetha High School. After graduation he worked for Gibbs Clothing Store in Topeka, Kansas as a...

Lester Marti
Apr 2, 2008
Lester W. Marti, 86, of Sabetha passed away Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at his home. He was born the son of William and Martha (Bieri) Marti on August 25, 1921 in Bern, KS. He graduated from Bern High School and in 1946 married Marie Butikofer at Elgin, IA. They lived on a farm near Bern for 55 years before...
Milosh Kabriel
Apr 1, 2008
Milosh Edward Kabriel, 90, passed away Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at the Community Memorial Hospital in Marysville, Kansas. He was born May 20, 1917 on a farm south of Summerfield, Kansas the youngest son of Frank Kabriel and Frances Suchy Kabriel. He was a twin and his twin sister died at age 10. He attended the Mina School near...

Norma Riddle
Mar 29, 2008
Norma J. Riddle, 73, of Sabetha, died Saturday, March 29, 2008 at the Sabetha Manor under hospice care. She was born March 5, 1935 in Falls City, NE to Clifford and Catherine Halbert. She attended Honey Creek schools at Salem, NE and went on to receive degrees from Peru State and Kansas State Universities. She devoted many years to...

Lorene Weick
Mar 27, 2008
Lorene Weick, daughter of Ray and Emma Schreifer Randolph, was born on April 20, 1916 in Leona, Kansas. She was baptized in the Leona Christian Church on July 30, 1933. She attended school in Leona and graduated from Leona High School in 1934. She married Roy Weick on August 15, 1935 in Hiawatha, Kansas. To this union were born...

Ruth Puckett
Mar 25, 2008
Gladys Puckett, 90, of Sabetha, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at the Apostolic Christian Home. Gladys was born the youngest daughter of John A. and Bertha (Engle) Kauffman on August 12, 1917 in Abilene, Kansas. She grew up in Abilene and attended Abilene schools, graduating from Abilene High School in 1936. After High School, she worked for the...

Jeanette Heiniger
Mar 23, 2008
JEANETTE HEINIGER, 76, of Fairview, KS died on March 23, 2008 at a Topeka hospital. She was born in Shreveport, LA on July 9, 1931 to Jack and Dorothy Bonner Dyer. She attended Fair Park High School in Shreveport and after graduation worked as an administrative assistant. Following a marriage to Peter Attarian, Jeanette was married on September 14,...

Charles Mawhinney
Mar 23, 2008
Charles Allen Mawhinney Sr., 56, of Sabetha passed away on Sunday, March 23, 2008 at his home. He was born the only son of Edwin and Dorothy (Hodges) Mawhinney on September 18, 1951 in Portland, OR. Charles was inducted into the US Army and served his country during Vietnam. He worked for MAC as a fabricator and was an...
Bonnie Heideman
Mar 21, 2008
Oneida, KS - Bonnie Heideman, 77 died Friday, March 21, 2008 at the Life Care Center of Seneca. Bonnie was born October 20, 1930 at Axtell, KS the daughter of Floyd McKinley and Grace Thomas. She attended school at Axtell. She married Bernard James Heideman on December 11, 1951 at the St. Michael's Catholic Church in Axtell. Bernard precedes...
Leslie Little
Mar 20, 2008
Centralia, KS - Leslie Charles Little, 90, of Centralia, KS died Thursday, March 20, 2008 at the Onaga Community Hospital in Onaga, KS. He was born March 4, 1918 on a farm near Coin Iowa. He was the son of Otis and Mabel Little. As a infant he moved to Centralia with his family. He attended Boardman rural school...
Barbara Hill
Mar 19, 2008
Barbara Nadine Hill, 75 formerly of Axtell, died of cancer Wednesday morning at the Sabetha Manor in Sabetha, Kansas. Barbara was born June 24, 1932 the daughter of Glen and Hattie "Tift" Dean in Axtell, Kansas. She attended Axtell High School and worked as a nurse's aide at the Axtell Hospital and later for Doctor Hash in his office...
Kathleen McGarry
Mar 13, 2008
Marysville, Kansas: Kathleen E. Reed McGarry, 92 of Marysville, KS died Thursday morning March 13, 2008 at the Cambridge Place Care Center where she had been a resident for the previous couple of weeks. Katie was born February 16, 1916 near Milroy, Minnesota the youngest of 10 children born to Thomas Reed and Agnes Clarken Reed. She attended school...

Wayne Chadwick
Mar 1, 2008
Wayne A. Chadwick, 75, of Topeka, passed away on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at a Topeka hospital. He was born on September 24, 1932 near Vermillion, KS, the son of Alvan and Amy Clear Chadwick. He graduated from Centralia High School in 1950 and attended Kansas State University. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War. Wayne had...

Myrtle Ford
Feb 26, 2008
Myrtle Frances Ford was born on February 11, 1915 at White Cloud, Kansas the daughter of Abraham Troxell and LaVina Christian Troxell. As a child she attended and graduated from Cedar Creek School. On January 25, 1939 Myrtle married Martin Ford at the Nemaha County Courthouse in Seneca, Kansas. They became the parents of two sons. Myrtle spent her...
Clarence Heinen
Feb 26, 2008
Clarence Ernest Heinen, 85 passed away Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at his home. He was born February 3, 1923 in Kelly, the son of Barnhard and Pauline Heinen. He married Irene Meyer on August 1, 1949. He began farming at Kelly then moved to rural Axtell in 1955 and continued to farm until he retired in 1995 and moved...

Nery DeLeon
Feb 20, 2008
Nery DeLeon, 22, of Guatemala, passed away Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at Holton Community Hospital. Nery worked for Polaris Explorer and had been working in the Sabetha area. Viewing for co-workers and friends will be held Monday, February 25 at 7:00pm at the Popkess Mortuary Chapel in Sabetha. Nery will be flown home to Guatemala after his services.
...Paul Spring
Feb 19, 2008
Paul G. Spring, 86, of Sabetha, passed away Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at the Sabetha Community Hospital. Paul was born on Thursday, September 8, 1921 at home in Bern, Kansas to Earl and Esther (Bearg) Spring. He graduated from Sabetha High School in 1940. Paul attended Kansas State University where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity....
Candance Kubrak
Feb 5, 2008
Candance Sue Kubrak (Candy), age 42, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, formerly of Seneca, Kansas, joined her Lord on February 5, 2008, following a valiant battle against cancer. Candy was the loving wife of Jerome, Broadview Heights, Ohio; and daughter of Lucille and the late Robert Kibler, Seneca, Kansas. She is survived by her husband, mother, sister and brother-in-law Cynthia...

Marie Owens
Feb 3, 2008
Marie Owens was born on April 19, 1912 the daughter of Irl and Maggie (Shuster) Baker on a farm near Ozawkie, Kansas the oldest of four girls. Marie graduated from Ozawkie High School and entered the Bethany Methodist School of Nursing in Kansas City, Kansas and graduated as a register nurse in 1933. Marie was united in marriage to...

Dorothy Christenson
Jan 8, 2008
CENTRALIA, KAN. - Dorothy Halligan Christensen, 90, died on Monday, Jan. 8, after a lingering illness. She was born in Old Orchard, Maine, on Sept. 27, 1917, the first of 10 children born to Alonzo M. and Gladys Alexander Tibbetts. Her elementary schooling was in Farmington and Durham, Maine, schools, and she graduated from Thornton Academy in Saco, Maine,...