Current Obituaries

Donald Schauvliege
Nov 25, 2013
Donald Charles "Chuck" Schauvliege Sr., age 61 of Hays, passed away November 25, 2013 at Hays Medical Center. He was born July 18, 1952 in Jetmore, KS to Donald and Mildred "Mickey" L. (Bowie) Schauvliege. He graduated in 1970 from Hays High School. He spent most of working career as a heavy equipment operator and foreman in the Hays, KS...
Edith Copeland
Nov 21, 2013
Edith Mae 'Edie' Copeland, 90, Hays, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at Good Samaritan Society, Hays. She was born Oct. 16, 1923, in Triig County, Ky., to James A. and Eddie (Calhoun) Shearer. She married Joseph B. Copeland on Jan. 9, 1945, in Clay Center. She worked as a telephone operator in St. Louis during World War II. She was...
Rita Staab
Nov 12, 2013
Rita Marie Staab, age 66, of Hays, passed away Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at Hays Medical Center. She was born May 17, 1947 in Hays, KS to Clarence and Bernice (Newland) Miller. She graduated in 1965 from Girls Catholic High School. She married Lambert J. Staab October 9, 1965 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hays. Rita was a homemaker...
Carol Pfeifer
Nov 12, 2013
Carol Jean Pfeifer, 50, of Naples, Florida passed away the evening of November 12th, 2013. Carol was born February 8th, 1963, in Wakeeney, Kansas to parents Allen and Alfrieda (Werth) Pfeifer and grew up in St. Peter, Kansas. She was the third child in their family of six children and graduated from Morland High School. After a successful career as...
Dorothy Mills
Nov 9, 2013
Dorothy M. Mills, 85, formerly of Hays, passed away November 9, 2013 at Benchmark Health Care Facility in Rolla, MO. She was born November 17, 1927 in Zurich, KS to Frank and Jennie (Keller) Armbrister. She was a graduate of Ellis High School and Brown Mackie. She married Jerry F. Mills November 6, 1955 at St. Johns Lutheran Church in...
Doris Applehans
Nov 9, 2013
Doris (Walters) Applehans, age 87 of Hays, passed away Saturday, November 9, 2013 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was born July 20, 1926 in Severin, Kansas to Peter and Mary (Staab) Walters. She was a 1944 graduate of Girls Catholic High School. She married Sylvester "S.J." Applehans April 19, 1948. He preceded her in death August 29, 2013....
Shirley Scholl
Nov 9, 2013
Shirley Marie Scholl, age 75 of WaKeeney, passed away Saturday, November 9, 2013 in WaKeeney. She was born July 19, 1938 in Potsdam, NY to Harvey G. and Emeretta (Hooper) Jandreau. She married Edward Albertus Scholl on August 22, 1963 in Denver, CO. He preceded her in death on March 30, 1998. Shirley had worked as a waitress, a daycare...
Adelia "Dee" Perrin
Nov 9, 2013
Adelia Ann "Dee" Perrin, age 90 of Ellis, formerly of Oberlin, passed away Saturday, November 9, 2013 at the Trego County Lemke memorial Hospital in WaKeeney. She was born July 24, 1923 in rural Decatur County near Jennings, KS to William and Anna (Flaska) Petrasek. Dee was a long time Legal Secretary for the Lund Law Firm in Oberlin and...
Sonya Jo Williams
Oct 24, 2013
Sonya Jo "Sammi" Wickwar Williams, age 70 of Hays, passed away Thursday, October 24, 2013 at Hays Medical center. She was born April 4, 1943 in Goodland, KS to Ward William Wickwar and Shirley (Brinker) Wickwar Tarbet. She was a longtime nurse at Lantern Park manor and Prairie Senior Living Complex in Colby and the Good Samaritan Society, Hays. She...
Dale V. Simoneau
Oct 16, 2013
Dale Vincent Simoneau, age 58, Hays, passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at his home. He was born December 3, 1954 in Hays, KS to Anselm and Ilene (Hamel) Simoneau. He was a 1972 graduate of Palco High School. He married Paula (Thyfault) June 7, 1975 at St. Joseph Church in Damar, KS. He was an auctioneer and salesman for...
Emil Deutscher
Oct 11, 2013
Emil A. Deutscher, age 81, of Ellis passed away Friday, October 11, 2013 at the Trego Lemke Memorial Hospital in WaKeeney. He was born March 1, 1932 in rural Trego County on the family farm to Emil Deutscher Sr. and Jennie Wendling. He graduated from Ellis High School in 1950. He married Marilyn Schumacher October 24, 1954 at Christ Lutheran...
Barbara J. Mumford
Oct 8, 2013
Barbara Jane Mumford, age 51, of Hays passed away Tuesday, October 8, 2013 in Hays, KS. She was born on Saturday, June 23rd, 1962 to Paul Harvey Skeen and Betty Jane Rice Skeen in Cleveland, Ohio. Barbara spent her formative years in Winfield, Il. with her parents, where she graduated high school from Glenbard West High School. Barbara was an...
Roland Rummel
Oct 7, 2013
Roland Albert Rummel, age 22, of Ellis passed away Monday, October 7, 2013 the result of an accident in Rural Ellis. He was born December 10, 1990 in WaKeeney, Kansas to Ronald F. Rummel and Bonita J. "Bonnie" (Matteson) Rummel. He was a concrete construction worker and a musician. He enjoyed music and songwriting and being Dad to his twin...
Harold Deutscher
Oct 5, 2013
Harold Arthur Deutscher, age 90, of Ellis passed away peacefully on October 5, 2013 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was born on July 17, 1923 on the family farm west of Ellis, Ks to Gustav and Mary (Spilker) Deutscher. He married Pauline Sundquist Scott December 31, 1965 at Christ Lutheran Church in Ellis. Harold was a farmer and stockman. Concerned...
Glenn Werth
Oct 3, 2013
Glenn Allen Werth, age 56, of Schoenchen. Passed away Thursday, October 3, 2013 at Hays Medical Center. He was born July 28, 1957 in Hays, Kansas to Ernest and Viola (Munsch) Werth. He was a mechanic and currently working as a truck driver. He was a US Marine veteran and had attended church at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Schoenchen....

Vera Legleiter
Oct 2, 2013
Vera P. Legleiter, 79, Hays, died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013, at her home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Brock's North Hill Chapel, 2509 Vine, Hays, KS 67601 Visitation Sunday 2 pm - 6 pm and Monday 9 am until service time Service Information Visitation Sunday October 6, 2013 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM 2509 Vine Street Hays,...
Mahlon Kingsley
Sep 30, 2013
David Mahlon Kingsley died Monday, September 30, 2013 at Hays Medical Center. He was 101. Mahlon was born July 7, 1912 to D.C. and Mary (Johnson) Kingsley at their home south of Ellis, Kansas. He attended country school and then upper grades in Ellis. After his father passed in 1928, he laid out of high school a year to help...
Dana Kraus
Sep 26, 2013
Dana Kraus, age 59, of Hays, died Sept. 26, 2013, of complications from leukemia. He was born April 29, 1954, at Hadley Hospital in Hays, Kansas, to mother Esther Fredericka Hueftle and father John Wesley Kraus. Dana graduated Hays High School in 1972 and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from Fort Hays State University in 1977. He...
Doris Schoenthaler
Sep 22, 2013
Doris Elizabeth (Ball) Schoenthaler, age 86, of Ellis, passed away peacefully on September 22, 2013, in WaKeeney, Kan. She was born on May 31, 1927, in Ellis, Kan. to John Wallace and Maude Agnes (Summers) Ball. She was married to Bernie Schoenthaler on June 19, 1946, at Christ Lutheran Church in Ellis. Doris worked at the Ellis Review eight years...
Eugene Robben
Sep 21, 2013
Eugene W. Robben, age 91 of Gorham, passed away Saturday, September 21, 2013 at the Golden Living Center in Wilson. He was born January 20, 1922 in Walker, Kansas to Henry M. and Elizabeth (Wagner) Robben. Eugene was raised by his Aunt Hortensia Baumrucker and family Mike and Gertrude Jacobs in Gorham. He married Margie L. Lipes on April 26,...