Obituaries

Helen F. Mertens, 84, died Sept. 18, 2018, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. She was born April 3, 1934, at Mt. Vernon, Kansas the daughter of Henry and Margaret Hilger Jacobs. A longtime resident of the...

CHENEY – Shirley Elaine Faucett, 83, died Sept. 20, 2018, in Wichita, Kansas. She was born Sept. 6, 1935, at Belmont, the daughter of Norman E. and Gladys Simons Johnson. A longtime resident of Cheney, she...

Dean W. Swope, 89, died Sept. 17, 2018. He was born July 2, 1929, at Zenda, the son of Otto H. and Zella Myrtle Johnston Swope. A lifetime resident of the Kingman community, he was the...

ALLEN, Texas – Robert L. “Bob” Cole, 82, formerly of Arlington, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, in McKinney, Texas. He was born April 30, 1936, to Theodore and Viola (Keller) Cole. Bob graduated from Arlington...

NASHVILLE — Geneva A. Westerman, 90, died Sept. 13, 2018, at Parkwood Village, Pratt. She was born May 22, 1928 at Sawyer, the daughter of Theodore F. and Elsie Lampe Hensiek. A lifetime resident of the...

Vernon E. Brummer, 92, passed away on Sept. 12, 2018, at Pratt. Vernon was born Feb. 27, 1926, to Joe and Edna (Miller) Brummer, at Duquoin, Kansas.  He attended Keystone Grade School and then Zenda High...

HUTCHINSON – Ernest E. Gilley, 69, died on Sept. 4, 2018 at the Hospice House of Hutchinson. He was born on April 5, 1949, in Hutchinson, the son of Jefferson and Erma Lee (Dorris) Gilley. Ernest...

Michael D. Pickens, 49, died Aug. 29, 2018 in Wichita. He was born Oct. 22, 1968, in Wichita, the son of Roy D. and Jean Allen Pickens.  A longtime Wichita resident, he moved to Kingman in...

Mary F. Sowers, 77, died Aug. 29, 2018, at the Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born Aug. 7, 1941, in Henry County, Missouri the daughter of Garland Clay and Fred Baker McQueen. A longtime...

Susan L. Stecklein, 63, died Aug. 27, 2018, at Via Christi Medical Center St. Francis, Wichita. She was born Feb. 28, 1955, at Plainville, the daughter of Jewell and Jane Shultz Lewin. A longtime resident of...