Obituaries

KINGMAN – Virginia H. Fairchild, 96, died June 2, 2016, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, Kingman. She was born May 25, 1920, at Strauss, Kansas the daughter of Elijah and Mildred Cole Morrow.  A longtime Kingman resident...

KINGMAN – Please join us Saturday, April 23 at 1:30 p.m. for our memorial service for Dr. Shane Alexander, who left this earth too soon on Dec. 20, 2015 at age 50, and he is missed...

GARDEN PLAIN  –  Florence Alice (Youngers) Clupny, 80, passed away on April 18, 2016 in Wichita. Florence was born on October 3, 1935 in Willowdale to the late Arthur and Florence Youngers. She married Richard Clupny...

NORWICH – Robert J. Holder, 92, died April 13, 2016, in Wichita. He was born Oct. 26, 1923, at Norwich the son of Fred and Ethel Snelling Holder.  A lifetime resident of the Norwich community, he...

KINGMAN – Bruce Ashida, 60, died April 11, 2016. He was born Nov. 4, 1955, at Leoti, the son of Hideo and Amy Sasaki Ashida. A Kingman resident since 1989, previously of Ulysses, he was a...

KINGMAN – Opal W. Krehbiel, 101, died April 10, 2016. She was born Jan. 1, 1915, in Kingman the daughter of Lewis W. and Hazel Ramsey Fairchild. A longtime Kingman resident, she was a former co-owner...

KINGMAN – Alberta Ann Schwartz, 86, died April 10, 2016. She was born June 22, 1929, at Willowdale, Kansas the daughter of Clement and Rosa Bayer Hageman. A lifetime resident of Kingman County, she was a...

HUTCHINSON – Alice May Hirt, 83, passed away April 6, 2016 at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She was born September 20, 1932 in Baca County, Colo., the daughter of Charlie and Corda May Baker. Alice graduated...

KINGMAN – Merlynn H. Lantis, 91, died April 4, 2016. She was born Oct. 5, 1924, in Kingman County, the daughter of Arthur “A.T.” and Mary Cramer Crouch.  A lifetime resident of the Kingman community, she...

NORWICH – Leona M. Berry, 76, of Norwich, died Thursday, March 31, 2016 at her residence. She was born July 31, 1939 at Argonia, Kansas to William Jacob Fitz and Martha Ellen (Long) Fitz. Leona grew...