Donald "Don" E. Poelma
Feb 7, 2015
Donald Ernest Poelma was born at the Mitchell County Hospital on January 7, 1942 and died February 7, 2015, at the Mitchell County Hospital at the age of 73 years and 1 month. Don was the third son of George Ernest Poelma and Golda Esther (Elder) Poelma. His brothers were John Charles "Jack" Poelma (deceased) and William Theodore "Bill" Poelma....
Norma A. Fleming
Feb 5, 2015
Norma Ann Fleming was born on March 13, 1926 on a farm near Beloit, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Verna A. Briney Petterson. She died on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit at the age of 88 years, 10 months, and 23 days. Norma lived most of her life in the Beloit area, where...
Charles O. Samuelson
Feb 1, 2015
Charles Samuelson, at the age of 67, passed away on February 1, 2015 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas. He was born February 23, 1947 in Atchison, Kansas. He has lived in the Beloit area since 1980. Charles loved fishing, motorcycles, and working on cars, though he hasn't been able to do that for some time now. He...
Mildred I. Porter
Feb 1, 2015
Funeral services will be at 10 AM Friday, February 6 at the McDonald Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 9 AM to 8 PM Thursday at the funeral home. The casket will remain closed. Memorials may be given to Solomon Valley Hospice.
Raymond O. Holl
Jan 30, 2015
Raymond Orville "Gus" Holl, the seventh son of Harry Henry Holl and Martha Maria Dorthea Wolting Holl, passed away peacefully at home on January 30, 2015. Raymond was born December 2, 1930, at the family farm near Shady Bend, Kansas. The farm, known around the country as a geographical photographical point called Tater Mountain, was founded by Raymond's grandfather, John....
Marie Holloway
Jan 29, 2015
Eunice Marie Holloway passed away Thursday, January 29, 2015 at Hilltop Lodge in Beloit, Kansas. She was born April 10, 1912 at the family home on a farm northeast of Cawker City in Erving Township, Jewell County, Kansas to Joe and Mary Caroline (Callie) Rhoads Wierenga. Marie attended White Swan rural school, graduated from Athens Rural High School in the...
James "Bud" R. Louthan
Jan 27, 2015
James Robert "Buddy" Louthan was born on October 11, 1946 in Concordia, Kansas, the son of Moses Franklin and Lila Maxine Leinen Louthan. He died on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at Hilltop Lodge in Beloit, Kansas at the age of 68 years, 3 months, and 16 days. Buddy, as he was known, grew up in the Simpson area, and lived...
Evalyn M. Swearingen
Jan 24, 2015
The family is honoring her wishes for cremation and the placement of her ashes on her farmland.
Donald R. Sellers
Jan 22, 2015
Donald Ralph Sellers was born near Tipton, Kansas on November 14, 1930. He passed away on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at Hilltop Lodge in Beloit, Kansas. He was the son of Fred Thomas and Flossie Marie Lawson Sellers. His family moved to Beloit in 1935. He graduated from Beloit High School in the Class of 1949 and was Class President....
Berniece Gouldin
Jan 19, 2015
Berniece E. Gouldin began her journey with us on September 27, 1924 on a farm east of Beloit, Kansas. She was born to Leo Francis and Edith Jane Hamilton Gholson. And, after being with us for 90 years, 3 months, and 22 days, she was called home on January 19, 2015 to begin her eternal journey with Jesus and to...
Arlene Bridge
Jan 16, 2015
Nettie Arlene (Davis) Bridge was born in Newport, Nebraska on January 15, 1920 to Clyde I., and Phebie (Smith) Davis and passed to her Heavenly Home on January 16, 2015 at the age of 95 years and 1 day in Beloit, Kansas. She lived her early years in Nebraska and Kansas, traveling wherever her father, a barber, could find employment....
Lila June Schmitz
Jan 10, 2015
Lila June Schmitz passed away on January 10, 2015 at the age of 88 years and 9 months. She was born on April 17, 1926, the daughter of Bert Gaston and Lottie Goodshaw Gaston at Beloit, Kansas. She was the youngest of three children. She went through eight years of grade school in a one room rural school house in...
Carla Janean Shoemaker
Jan 7, 2015
Interment of her ashes will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, May 9, 2015 in the Glenwood Cemetery at Glen Elder. Memorials may be given to the American Cancer Society.
Elena S. Snider
Jan 5, 2015
Elena S. Snider, 57, of Greeley, CO passed away January 5, 2015 at Life Care Center of Greeley. She was born November 17, 1957 in Beloit, Kansas to Veronica Ann and Harold Raymond Snider. Elena, with her family left Kansas in 1961 and moved to Greeley. She attended Franklin Elementary School and graduated from Special Help School in 1979. Elena...
Dorothy File
Jan 4, 2015
Dorothy Pearl (Phelps) File was born to William Frederick and Pearl Montez (Marley) Phelps on January 15, 1917 in rural Wayne, KS on her parent's farm. She passed from this life peacefully on Sunday, January 4, 2015 at the age of 97 years, just eleven days shy of her ninety-eighth birthday, at the Hilltop Assisted Living Center in Beloit, KS....
William "Bill" G. Watson
Dec 30, 2014
William George Watson, better known as Bill, was born on February 22, 1934 in Lincoln County, Kansas to Emery Horace and Hazel Ann Loy Watson. He passed away on December 30, 2014 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas after a lengthy illness. Bill spent the first five years of his life on a farm west of Barnard, Kansas....
Keith D. Oakley
Dec 29, 2014
Graveside Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, January 3, 2015 in the Prairie Grove Cemetery in Cawker City. Memorials may be given to the charity of the donor's choice. Friends may call from 9:00 A.M. until 1:00 P.M. Saturday at the McDonald Funeral Home.
Donald J. Swisher
Dec 19, 2014
Donald J. Swisher (Don), 82, passed away December 19, 2014, at Mitchell County Hospital, Beloit, KS. Don was born February 29, 1932 in Vesper, KS to Kyle Upton and Loretta R. (Snavely) Swisher. He graduated Vesper High School in 1950, served his country in the Army (operating 40mm anti-aircraft guns) during the Korean War from 1951-53, and graduated Brown Mackie...
Barbara N. Ernsbarger
Dec 10, 2014
Barbara N. Ernsbarger was born on July 12, 1939, the daughter of Emery and Maxine Sheets Yenni in Concordia, Kansas. She died Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at the Nicol Home in Glasco, Kansas at the age of 75 years, 4 months, and 28 days. She spent her whole life in and around Glasco, where she grew up, attended school, and...
Steven R. Schmidt
Dec 7, 2014
Steven Ray Schmidt, age 54, died at his home in Glen Elder on December 7, 2014. He was the son of Donald Raymond and Connie Virginia Wyman Schmidt of Ionia. He was born on November 6, 1960 in Beloit and raised in Ionia. He attended school in Jewell and Randall through 1979. He was united in marriage to Kelly Snyder...
