Obituaries

Rosalea Phyllis Hostetler died March 8, 2024, at Patterson Health Center after a gradual decline in health. She was born Nov. 21, 1936 to Ura and Della (Balmer) Hostetler, the second youngest of six children. Rosalea...

Leonard A. Probst, 80, died April 19, 2024, at Wheatlands in Kingman. Leonard was born on June 21, 1943, in Kingman County. He was the second son of William J. and Dorothy (Pelzl) Probst. After graduating...

Cynthia Diane Ogden, 64, died April 23, 2024 in Wichita. She was born Dec. 2, 1959, at Siloam Springs, Ark., the daughter of Floyd Quinton and Sarah Frances Barnes Wilkerson and step-daughter of Beulah Parker. A...

Lee Alan Keown died on March 26, 2024, as a result of a fall in his home in Pond Creek. He was born in Harper, Kan., on Jan. 7, 1956, to Robert Eugene Keown and Betty...

Anna Mae (Sladek) Patton passed away peacefully in Caldwell, Kan., on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. She was the youngest of four children born to Joseph C. and Christina L. (Chalupnik) Sladek. She was born May 9, 1935...

Barbara K. Sowers, 79, died April 2, 2024, at her home in Kingman. She was born July 27, 1944, at Kingman, the daughter of Harry and Blanche Wallace Clayton.  A lifetime resident of the Murdock and...

Levi M. Ziegler, 82, died March 24, 2024 in Wichita. He was born Feb. 5, 1942, in Kingman the son of Andrew P. and Katherine Thimesch Ziegler. A lifetime resident of Kingman, he retired from the...

Wilma Jean Forpahl was born on Dec. 28, 1931, in Knowles, Okla., the second daughter of Robert Cecil and Grace Mae (Collins) Benn. One of five children, Wilma grew up on the family farm near Knowles....

Charles William Hirst, a cherished husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend, passed away peacefully on March 23, 2024, in Shell Knob, Mo. Born on Feb. 28, 1952, in Hutchinson to Herbert and Bertha Mae (Miller) Hirst,...

Larry G. McMillian, 74, died March 30, 2024 at Hospice House of Reno County. He was born Oct. 13, 1949, in Eureka, the son of Lewis and Ollie Scott McMillian. A longtime resident of the Pretty...