Obituaries

MANHATTAN — This is Day 15 of the 2013 Kansas Wheat Harvest Reports, brought to you by the Kansas City Board of Trade, the Kansas Grain & Feed Association, the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association...

KINGMAN — Danny David Yoder, 68, died Monday, July 8, 2013. He was born April 7, 1945 in Brussells, Belgium, the son of Floyd and LaVina Yoder. A longtime Kingman resident he was a retired truck...

KANSAS CITY — Loretta Margaret (Freund) Holcomb, 88, died July 7, 2013, at the KU Medical Center, Kansas City. She was born Feb. 27, 1925, at St. Leo, the daughter of Ed and Emma Armbruster Freund....

AMORET, Mo. — Reece E. Day, 92, died Wednesday, July 3, 2013. He was born June 20, 1921 at Amoret, Mo., the son of James Melvin and Anna M. Fitzgerald Day. He was a retired paint...

PRETTY PRAIRIE — Delmer Stucky, 88, died Monday, July 1, 2013. He was born Sept. 7, 1924 near Pretty Prairie, the son of R.J. and Emma Kaufman Stucky. A lifetime resident of the Pretty Prairie community,...

PRATT — Herbert W. Park,  94, died Sunday, June 30, 2013 at South Wind Hospice in Pratt. Sergeant Herbert W. Park was the son of Earl and Mina (Harris) Park. He served from 1941-1945 in the army...

QUINTER — Gladys A. Troyer, 90, died June 30, 2013 at the Gove County Medical Center LTC, Quinter. She was born Jan. 31, 1923 in Wilburton, the daughter or Alfred and Mable Tweedy Burton. A resident...

WICHITA — Beatryse J. “Bea” (Palmer) Vyff, 86, homemaker and educator, was born in Cheney, on February 6, 1927 to Ernest and Ruby Palmer. She entered heaven on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 to be with her...

ANDOVER — Dean R. Ferm, 86 retired electrician and member of IBEW Local 271, died Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Survivors include daughters, Cheryl Brady of Redondo Beach, Calif., Myrna Arb of Granby, Mo., and Lana Gillen...

VALLEY CENTER — Elwood Ellis Lawrence, 83, retired Building Contractor, passed away on Friday, June 14, 2013. He is survived by wife, Bernita; daughters, Carla Anderson, Wichita, Debbie Hullman, Klamath Falls, Ore., and Lisa Lawrence, Wichita;...