Obituary Listings

Billy B. Bryant

Billy B. Bryant

Feb 5, 2010

Billy B. Bryant, the son of Austin and Ruth Fowler Bryant, was born April 8, 1928, at Haviland, Kansas. He died February 5, 2010, at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas, at the age of 81 years, 9 months and 27 days. Billy graduated from Haviland High School in 1946, and attended the University of Kansas, where he received...

Margaret R. Smejkal

Margaret R. Smejkal

Feb 5, 2010

Arrangements will be announced by the Dean Funeral Home, Glasco.

Ronald W. Mckinnie

Ronald W. Mckinnie

Feb 3, 2010

Ronald Wallace McKinnie was born in Beloit, KS July 3, 1936 to R.W. and Mildred McKinnie. He passed away Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at the age of 73. Ron grew up on the family farm east of Glen Elder and attended Glen Elder Grade School and Beloit High School, graduating in 1954. Ron met his wife Shari while attending Kansas...

Retha V. Neff

Retha V. Neff

Feb 2, 2010

Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 P.M. Saturday at the Glasco United Methodist Church with Pastor Michele McHenry officiating. Burial will follow in Glasco Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the Nicol Home or the Alzheimer's Foundation. Retha will lie in state from 4:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Friday at the Dean Funeral Home in...

Dennis M. Holway

Dennis M. Holway

Jan 28, 2010

Dennis Marvin Holway was born March 22, 1927 on a farm near Beloit, Kansas, the son of William and Blossie Emmot Holway. He died suddenly Thursday, January 28, 2010 at the Mitchell County Hospital at the age of 82 years, 10 months, and 6 days. Dennis grew up in the Beloit area, attended country schools, and graduated from Beloit High...

Mary Aka Eloise Eloise Wadick

Mary Aka Eloise Eloise Wadick

Jan 21, 2010

Mary Eloise Wadick was born August 11, 1924 to John Charles and Marie Henrietta Heidrick Gering at Kansas City, Missouri. Surrounded by her loving family, she peacefully departed this life of 85 years, 5 months and 10 days late Thursday evening, January 21, 2010 at her home in Beloit, Kansas. Eloise, as everyone knew her, graduated from St. John's High...

Gloria Aka Jeannie Jean Cooper

Gloria Aka Jeannie Jean Cooper

Jan 20, 2010

A closed casket visitation will be held from 4:00 PM-8:00 PM Saturday, January 23, 2010 at the Dean Funeral Home. Jeannie will be cremated and her ashes will be buried in the Glasco Cemetery at 2:00 P.M. Saturday, January 30. Memorials may be given to Solomon Valley Hospice.

Harold Vanwey

Harold Vanwey

Jan 12, 2010

Harold Ira VanWey was born on July 11, 1923 in Jewell County, Kansas, the son of Ernest and Susie Schrotenboer VanWey. He died Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at the Golden Living Center in Downs, Kansas at the age of 86 years, 6 months, and 1 day. Harold grew up on the family farm and attended the Pleasant Hill Country School....

James L. Swartzman

James L. Swartzman

Jan 7, 2010

James Lee Swartzman was born March 24, 1939 to Paul Henry and Evelyn Delia Barland Swartzman at the family farmhome near Beloit, Kansas. He was released from a lengthy illness Thursday morning, January 7, 2010 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas. Jim, as everyone knew him grew up in Beloit where his parents operated a gasoline station, liquor...

Jeffery A Emerson

Jeffery A Emerson

Jan 7, 2010

Jeffery Alan Emerson, 46, was born June 25, 1963 in Osborne, Kansas to Larry and the late Kathleen Schroeder Emerson. He grew up in Tipton where he attended school and graduated in the Class of 1981. On October 13, 1984 he married his high school sweetheart Lois Mick. They started their family in Tipton and then later moved to their...

Larel "Larry" V. Goodaker

Larel "Larry" V. Goodaker

Jan 5, 2010

Larel "Larry" Von Goodaker was born on April 24, 1938 in Monterey, California, the son of William and Helen Lester Goodaker. He died Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas at the age of 71 years, 8 months, and 11 days. Larry, as he was known, grew up and attended school in California. At the...

Marjie Jean Frasier

Marjie Jean Frasier

Jan 2, 2010

Marjie Jean Frasier was born on May 28, 1937 in Smith County, Kansas, near Dispatch, the daughter of Wayne and Margeret Boxum Miller. She died Saturday, January 2, 2010 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, Kansas at the age of 72 years, 7 months, and 5 days. Jean, as she was known, grew up on the farm and attended...

Loren F. "Shorty" Bonham

Loren F. "Shorty" Bonham

Jan 1, 2010

Loren F. "Shorty" Bonham, 81,Glasco was born Oct. 12, 1928 at Simpson, Kansas to William & Faye Porter Bonham. He died Friday, Jan. 1, 2010 in Beloit. He owned Bonham Repair in Glasco for many years. His wife Gladys died in 2009. Survivors are stepchildren Donna Prochaska, Glasco, Roberta Spence, Arlington, VA, Sharon Funke, Salina, Carol Blake, Knoxville, TN; 8...

Janice D. Shumway

Janice D. Shumway

Jan 1, 2010

Janice D. Shumway was born May 12, 1948 to Leroy and Genevieve Fisher DeGroff in Jackson County, Missouri and died Friday, January 1, 2010 at Grand River Health Care Center in Chillicothe, Missouri. Janice spent her childhood years living in nearby Merriam, Kansas and made her home in Shawnee. She was a homemaker and assisted her father with his business...

Mildred Ruth Peterson

Mildred Ruth Peterson

Dec 30, 2009

Mildred Ruth Peterson, age 92, of Beloit died Wednesday, December 30, 2009. Mildred was born on November 18, 1917, in Formoso, Kansas, to Charles Emory and Nettie Merle Ellsworth Doxon. She married her husband, Francis D. Peterson on May 16, 1943, in Formoso. A teacher for 50 years, she taught in many Kansas counties, including Jewell, Saline, Lincoln, Ellis, Osborne,...

Dorcas R. Severance

Dorcas R. Severance

Dec 30, 2009

Dorcas Rae (Speer) Severance, Beloit, Kan., died Dec. 30, 2009, in Wichita, Kan. She was 78. The second of four children, Dorcas was born Feb. 24, 1931, on the family farm near Clearwater, Kan. She was the daughter of Levi Wendell and Effie Rae (Jacques) Speer. She attended country schools and was valedictorian of her class at Clearwater High School....

Ruth E. Kadel

Ruth E. Kadel

Dec 23, 2009

Ruth Elizabeth Kadel was born January 22, 1917 to James Arthur Porter and Pearl Muck Porter on a farm Southeast of Glen Elder Kansas. She departed this life of nearly 93 years at Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems early Wednesday morning December 23, 2009. Ruth grew up on a farm near Glen Elder and attended rural grade school nearby. She...

Gary Nelson

Gary Nelson

Dec 18, 2009

Friends may sign the register book from 9 AM until 5:00 PM Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at the McDonald Funeral Home. The body will be cremated and Memorial Services will be held at 10:00 AM Tuesday, December 29 at the McDonald Funeral Home. Burial of the ashes will be private. The family requests memorials be given to the Beloit Church...

Judith A. Thrapp

Judith A. Thrapp

Dec 11, 2009

Judith Ann Thrapp was born April 8, 1959 to Murl Dean and Carolyn Jean Teasley Thrapp at Providence Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Her sudden departure from this life came Friday afternoon, December 11, 2009 at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia at the age of 50 years, 8 months, and 3 days. "Judi" as everyone knew her, moved to...

John R. Bottom

John R. Bottom

Dec 8, 2009

John Robert Bottom was born February 18, 1930 to Bert Rural and Carolyn Hawkinson Bottom at Concordia, Kansas and died early Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at Salina Regional Medical Center after a rather long illness. John grew up in nearby Clyde, Kansas and his family moved to Gaylord, Kansas when he was a sophomore in high school. After his graduation,...

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