Obituaries

MURDOCK – Ernest M. “Ernie” Beat, 81, died Sept. 13, 2016, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. He was born Oct. 6, 1934, at Murdock, Kansas the son of Henry L. and Barbara M. Heitz Beat.  A...

KINGMAN – Barbara Jean McBurney, 83, died Sept. 7, 2016. She was born Oct. 7, 1932, at Wichita the daughter of Artie and Vera Burger Cross. A Kingman resident since 1948, she was a retired AT&T...

WICHITA – Ellen Jane Buttemore-Schuler passed away July 24, 2106 in Wichita.  She was born May 31, 1933 in West Bend, Iowa. She is survived by her daughter, Pamela Anderson; granddaughter, Jennifer Anderson and grandson, Robert...

MURDOCK – William M. “Bill” Vaught, 49, died July 23, 2016, at his home at Murdock. He was born Sept. 22, 1966, at Rome, Georgia the son of Clarence and Edna Burstine Vaught.  A resident of...

WICHITA – Jerry Schrag passed away after a long battle with illness on July 23, 2016. As a young farm boy in Kingman, Jerry was fascinated by flight. He watched aircraft flying high over the fields...

KINGMAN – Randall J. Neal, 56, died July 14, 2016, at Hospice House of Reno County. He was born Nov. 17, 1959, at Kingman the son of Richard and Dorothy Goetz Neal.  A longtime resident of...

PRETTY PRAIRIE  – Mary Lynn Hopper, 71, Pretty Prairie, died Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Hospice and Homecare of Reno County, Hutchinson. Hopper was born February 10, 1945, in Hays, Kansas, the daughter of Sylvester George...

KINGMAN – Jody M., Dutton, 69, died July 8, 2016. She was born Dec. 21, 1946, at Kingman the daughter of Wilbur and Cedora Piller Glassner.  A lifetime resident of Kingman, she was a former employee...

KINGMAN – Helen M. Weikal, 82, died June 30, 2016, at Newton. She was born Dec. 6, 1933, at Sedan, Kansas the daughter of LeRoy and Effie Beery Jones. A longtime Kingman resident, she was a...

MURDOCK – Mary Frances Kostner Kramer, 95, died June 25, 2016. She was born Jan. 27, 1921, at Lerado, the daughter of Carl Preston and Elizabeth Myers Jones. A resident of Murdock most of her life;...