Melby Mortuary Obituaries
Bertha "Vonnie" Yvonne (Purcell) Imler
Apr 30, 2016
Bertha Yvonne (Purcell) Imler was born December 10, 1929 to Burr and Bertha (Miller) Purcell, in Jewell County, Kansas. She died Saturday, April 30, 2016, at Meadowlark Hills, Manhattan, Kansas, at the age of 86 years, 4 months, and 20 days. Bertha was known as Vonnie. She attended Montrose High School, graduating in 1948. She married Glenn Imler on...
David Joseph Kimminau
Apr 17, 2016
David Joseph Kimminau was the 10th child born on January 30, 1949 to William Joseph and Loretta Katherine (Weingardt) Kimminau in Nelson, Nebraska. He was called to the Lord on April 17, 2016 at Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems, Beloit, Kansas, at the age of 67 years 2 months and 17 days. David grew up and was raised on...
Ethel Virginia Mcnabb
Apr 10, 2016
Ethel Virginia McNabb of Esbon, Kansas, was born March 15, 1926, in Pinedale, Wyoming. She died Sunday, April 10, 2016, at the Golden Living Center, Downs, Kansas, at the age of 90 years, and 26 days. Her parents were John and Lillian (Mack) Boulter. She attended high school in Grangeville, Idaho and Rock Springs, Wyoming. After two previous marriages,...
Dean L. Langley
Apr 5, 2016
Dean Langley, 76, died April 5, 2016 surrounded by the members of his family by choice. Dean was very proud of his truck driving profession. He very much enjoyed the many different semis he drove, but his favorite was the blue, twin stick, single stack, 1961 Mack b61 truck. Dean also spent many years working construction for a few...
Louise Korb
Apr 4, 2016
Louise Korb, 91, of Burr Oak, Kansas passed away April 4, 2016. She was born Friday, June 13, 1924, on family homestead land in Burr Oak area. Louise attended high school in Burr Oak where she played first chair trumpet in the band and turned cartwheels as a cheerleader. After high school Louise worked for a year at the...
Vera M. Thompson
Mar 27, 2016
Vera M. (Ross) Thompson of Mankato, Kansas, was one of 8 children born to Gustav Adolph and Atta Elnora (Quick) Ross on August 19, 1914, on a farm in Jewell County, Kansas. She died at the Jewell County Hospital Long term Care, at the age of 101 years, 7 months, and 7 days. Vera was united in marriage to...
Betty Ann (Nelsen) Andreasen
Mar 26, 2016
Betty Ann (Nelsen) Andreasen, of Mankato, Kansas, was born November 15, 1934, in Harrison Township, Jewell County, Kansas, to Hans Andrew and Mildred Ethel (Fringer) Nelsen, and went to her heavenly home on March 26, 2016, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 81 years, 4 months, and 11 days. As a small child, Betty...
Dollie H. Kyte
Mar 22, 2016
Dollie H. (Howell) Kyte of Silver Springs, Maryland, was one of eleven children, born to James F. and Charity E. (Bales) Howell, October 26, 1915, in Jewell County, Kansas, and died Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at Bradenton, Florida, at the age of 100 years, 4 months and 26 days. Dollie met Clarence Oliver Kyte, Sr. and they were married...
Walter Edwin Holdren
Feb 17, 2016
Walter Edwin Holdren, of Mankato, Kansas, was born December 23, 1940 to Robert “Edwin” and Ruth (Jacobs) Holdren, in Superior, Nebraska, and passed away, Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at the Mitchell County Hospital Health Systems, Beloit, Kansas, from a long battle of lung cancer, at the age of 75 years, 1 month, and 24 days. He graduated from Montrose...
Lyle S. "Ike" Rightmeier
Feb 16, 2016
Lyle S. RIghtmeier, of Mankato, Kansas, was born August 30, 1923, on a farm four miles south of Montrose, Kansas, to Lewis and Leta (Clark) Rightmeier, and died Tuesday February 16, 2016, at the Jewell County Immediate Swing Bed, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 92 years, 5 months, and 17 days. Lyle was known as “Ike” was one...
Marlo W. Nansel
Feb 13, 2016
Marlo W. Nansel, age 69, entered into rest on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at the Kenwood View Nursing Center, Salina, Kansas. He was born June 30, 1946 in Elmore, Minnesota to Raymond and Pearl May (White) Nansel. Marlo attended a specialty school in Owatonia, Minnesota into his teens. Marlo was limited and handicapped in life and he worked as a...
Ann Tedrow
Feb 13, 2016
Ann (Tyson) Tedrow was born March 25, 1923 to Noel and Ida (Carr) Tyson at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. She passed away February 13, 2016 in Belleville, Kansas. Ann graduated from Cambridge Nebraska High School in 1941, and entered nursing training at Omaha Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, in August of 1941, graduating as an RN in 1944. Ann joined the...
Beth (Ferguson) Tyler
Jan 31, 2016
Beth (Ferguson) Tyler was born into this world June 4, 1925, to John Harold and Leatha (Bashford) Ferguson in Concordia, Kansas. Being born very premature, she was not expected to survive and was not given a middle name because that would be “too much more weight to bear.” Yet, she survived until January 31, 2016, almost reaching the age...
Delmar Garst
Jan 26, 2016
Delmar Garst was born May 17, 1944, in Minneapolis, Kansas to Charles Alfred and Velma Gertrude (Jamison) Garst. He was one of 11 children born to them. He passed away, Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at Integris Baptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 71 years, 7 months, and 9 days. Delmar spent time in the Kansas...
Lois M. (Luckey) Woods
Dec 28, 2015
Lois Maxine (Luckey) Woods obituary Lois Maxine (Luckey) Woods was born on the family farm south of Glen Elder, Kansas, on April 12, 1927. She was the eighth of ten children born to Weldon Wilbur and Florence Pleasant (Deeds) Luckey. She went to meet her Lord and Savior on December 28, 2015. Lois attended Antelope grade school, Glen Elder....
Neolin D. Taylor
Dec 28, 2015
Neolin Drexel Taylor, 85, of Topeka, quietly slipped from this life into a heavenly life with his Lord on December 28, 2015. Neolin was born on October 5, 1930, in Woodston, KS, the son of Lewis and Estella Taylor. He married Opal Conn on July 30, 1950 and they spent 65 happy years together. He is survived by his...
George M. Pfrimmer
Dec 23, 2015
George Murray Pfrimmer was born on Jan. 1, 1940 in San Gabriel, CA to Vernie and George Pfrimmer. George (or “Stub” as he was affectionately nicknamed) grew up in San Gabriel with 3 brothers. George served in the US Air Force and travelled all over Europe during his enlistment. He was discharged in 1961. George married Aurora Arellano on...
Katherine (Keeler) Grimes
Dec 12, 2015
Katherine (Keeler) Grimes of Mankato, Kansas, was born to Roy and Margaret (Chilcott) Keeler on July 31, 1918, in rural Jewell County, Kansas, and went to be with the Lord and Savior on December 13, 2015, at the Jewell County Hospital Intermediate Swing Bed, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 97 years, 4 months, and 12 days. Katherine grew...
Phyllis June Esslinger
Nov 2, 2015
Phyllis June Esslinger was born May 31, 1931 at Densmore, Kansas to Edward Edwin and Helene Mary (Cramer) Luther. She passed away November 2, 2015 at Salina Regional Medical Center at the age of 84 years, 5 months and 2 days. Her parents, Phyllis, her older brother Raymond and two younger sisters, Leta and Mary made their home on...
Kathleen Marie Kramer
Oct 16, 2015
Kathleen Marie (Gunn) Kramer was born June 14, 1921 to William Windsor Gunn and Erma Bernice (Dick) Gunn in Republic County, Kansas, and died October 16, 2015, at Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 94 years. She grew up in the Republic area, on her parent’s farm. Kathleen had four sisters, Bernice Margaret, Marion Elizabeth, Mary Evelyn, and Marjorie...