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Matthew Michial Grove

Matthew Michial Grove

Nov 21, 2008

Matthew Michial Grove was born April 29, 1987, in Colby, Kansas. He attended Colby schools and graduated with the 2006 class. He passed away November 21, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 21. During high school Matt was active in football and was a pole vaulter in track. After graduation, Matt was employed...

Gordon Eugene Ernst

Gordon Eugene Ernst

Nov 4, 2008

Gordon Eugene Ernst was born March 20, 1950, to Arnold Elvin and Neva Joyce (Mills) Ernst at Beloit, Kansas, and he died Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 58 years, 7 months, and 14 days. Gordon was educated and graduated from Burr Oak High School before attending and graduating from North...

Edward Lee Mcentee

Edward Lee Mcentee

Oct 27, 2008

Edward Lee McEntee was born November 13, 1940, at Kansas City, Missouri, to Edward E. and Esther (Johnson) McEntee, and died Monday, October 27, 2008, at his home in Burr Oak, Kansas, at the age of 67 years, 11 months, and 14 days. Edward lived thirty four years in the Kansas City area. Where he was educated, and employed...

Sidney C. Dillinger

Sidney C. Dillinger

Oct 18, 2008

Sidney Clyde Dillinger was born in a sod house on a farm in Sherman County, Kansas, July 3, 1912, to Troy Clyde and Amanda (Thompson) Dillinger. He died October 18, 2008, at the Long Term Care Unit of Jewell County Hospital at the age of 96 years, 3 months, and 15 days. Sidney was the middle child in a...

E. Maxine Dempsey

E. Maxine Dempsey

Oct 10, 2008

E. Maxine (Rominger) Dempsey was born November 22, 1919, in Mitchell County, Kansas, second child of Roy and Minnie (Kittel) Rominger. She departed this life on October 10, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term Care, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 88. She grew up on a farm near Randall called the Kissinger Place, located 5 miles south...

Morris Lynn Hillman

Morris Lynn Hillman

Sep 4, 2008

Morris Lynn Hillman was the second child born to Cecil and Marvalee (Gentry) Hillman on February 26, 1947, in Beloit, Kansas. Morris was baptized in the Ionia United Methodist Church. He attended school in Glasco, Ionia, and Esbon, and received a mechanics degree from Wichita Vo-Tech. He was united in marriage to Judy Jean Hake on September 15, 1963,...

Michael Thompson Smith

Michael Thompson Smith

Aug 24, 2008

Michael was born October 19, 1957, at Denver, Colorado, to Norman and Sylvia (Young) Smith and died August 24, 2008, at Exempla Lutheran Medical Center, Wheatridge, Colorado. Michael was a high school graduate, and was employed by the State of Colorado as a special investigator. He is survived by his parents, Norman and Sylvia Smith of Arvada, Colorado, and...

Aletha Marie Logan

Aletha Marie Logan

Aug 23, 2008

Aletha Marie (Reed) Logan was born January 26, 1918, to Dick and Millie (Freestead) Reed, in Jewell County, Kansas. She died August 23, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term Care Unit in Mankato, Kansas. Aletha grew up south of Formoso, graduating from the eighth grade at Custer School. Being the oldest daughter in a family of eleven, Aletha,...

Carl Wayne Studer

Carl Wayne Studer

Aug 7, 2008

Carl Wayne Studer was born September 25, 1928, to Ray and Martha (Patrick) Studer, in Jewell County, Kansas, and died at his home, August 7, 2008, at the age of 79 years, 10 months, and 12 days. Carl graduated from Scandia High School, Scandia, Kansas. Carl met and married Roberta Maxine Woddell, on January 19, 1959, at Concordia, Kansas....

Jerald Eugene Caylor

Jerald Eugene Caylor

Aug 1, 2008

Jerald Eugene Caylor was born on October 3, 1941, to John and Opal (Hillman) Caylor, near Burr Oak, Kansas. He was the youngest of three siblings. At an early age the family moved from their farm to Mankato. Jerald received all his schooling at Mankato. He graduated from Mankato High School in 1960. Jerald enlisted in the Navy in...

John Henry Ford Bartholomew

John Henry Ford Bartholomew

Jul 25, 2008

John H. Bartholomew was born December 27, 1923, in Hershey, Nebraska, to Earnest John and Maude Marie (Briggs) Bartholomew and died July 25, 2008, after a long struggle with lung and digestive problems, at the age of 84 years, 6 months, and 28 days. John grew up and lived most of his life in the Mankato, Kansas, farming community....

Dorothy May Munro

Dorothy May Munro

Jun 30, 2008

May (Smith) Munro obituary Dorothy May (Smith) Munro, was born March 14, 1914, to Bernice and Edward Smith in Junction City, Kansas. She was one of nine children. Dorothy died June 30, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 94 years, 3 months, and 16 days. Dorothy married Willard Jahnke in 1935, they had...

Carl Lee Mcelroy

Carl Lee Mcelroy

Jun 28, 2008

Carl Lee McElroy obituary Carl Lee McElroy was born August 12, 1920, on a farm north of Randall, Kansas, to Ray Adolphus McElroy and Ena May (Stauffer) McElroy, and died June 28, 2008, at the Jewell County Hospital Long-term care, Mankato, Kansas, at the age of 87 years, 10 months, and 16 days. Carl graduated from Randall Rural High...

Dorothy Ruby Oliver

Dorothy Ruby Oliver

Jun 15, 2008

Dorothy Ruby Scarrow Oliver, daughter of Amy Alice Hindman and Martin Luther Scarrow, was born on a farm near Lebanon, Nebraska on December 3, 1905. She departed this life on June 15, 2008, at the Long-term Care, Jewell County Hospital, Mankato, Kansas at the age of 102 years, 6 months and 12 days. She spent her early childhood days...

Thomas (Tom) Ward West

Thomas (Tom) Ward West

Jun 11, 2008

Thomas Ward West was born April 29, 1938, to Kenneth Victor and Gwen (Topsy) Maxine (Bottorf) West, close to Montrose, Kansas, and died June 11, 2008, after a battle with cancer at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 70 years old. Tom, as his friends and family called him, was a graduate of...

Lydia Lorraine Frye

Lydia Lorraine Frye

May 25, 2008

LORRAINE FRYE Lydia Lorraine Powell was born June 13, 1922, on a farm North of Montrose to L. Ira Powell and Ethyl Una Cole Powell and passed away May 25, 2008, at Riverview Manor in Oxford, Kansas, at the age of 85 years, 10 months, and 12 days. Lorraine attended Jewell County schools in Montrose, Mankato and Burr Oak....

Vickie Ruth Moon

Vickie Ruth Moon

Mar 18, 2008

Vickie Ruth Moon, age 47 years, 9 months, and 3 days, was born June 15, 1960, in Beloit, Kansas, and departed this life on March 18, 2008, at Mitchell Co. Hospital, Beloit, Kansas. The last 7 ½ months of her life were spent in hospitals and Hilltop Lodge. Vickie was born to J.E. Moon, Jr. and Vivian Ruth (Carpenter)...

Ronald W Clegg

Ronald W Clegg

Mar 9, 2008

Ronald W. Clegg was born In Beloit, Kansas on May 19, 1948, and passed away on Sunday, March 9th, 2008, in Delaware, Ohio, at the age of 59 years, 9 months, and 20 days. Ron was the older of two children born to Arden and Ruth (Binggeli) Clegg. He was a member of the Christian Church, and attended school...

Dale G. Countryman

Dale G. Countryman

Feb 11, 2008

Dale Gene Countryman was the first born of Leonard Angelo and Pearl (Loomis) Countryman, on June 21, 1939, in Jewell County, Kansas. Dale had one brother, Steve and wife, Jayne of Bentley, Kansas; two sisters, Judy and husband, Blaine Wells of Cedaredge, Colorado, and Rita and husband, Dennis Thompson of Beloit, Kansas; and a step-brother, A.C. and wife, Kathy...

Jack D. Bradrick

Jack D. Bradrick

Feb 2, 2008

Jack D. Bradrick was born on November 22, 1932, in Formoso, Kansas, and was called home to be with the Lord on February 2, 2008, in Salina, Kansas. He was 75 years old. Jack was born to Carl Birdsell Bradrick and O’Dessa Willella (Dunn) Bradrick on a farm near Formoso, Kansas. He attended Formoso Grade School through the 6th...

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