Obituaries

ATTICA — James “Jim” Becker was born on Aug. 18, 1946 to Herman and Angeline (Laggert) Becker in Nashville. He was the first of seven children. James met and married Linda Allenbach on March 11, 1967...

KINGMAN — Barbara Jeanne (Harkrader) Smith, 89, passed away Friday, July 20, 2012 at home, in Kingman, surrounded by family. She was born March 31, 1923 to the late Herman Burns and Jossie Harkrader in Sedan....

KINGMAN — Genevieve C. Melton, 76, of Kingman, died Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at Kingman Community Hospital. She was born May 28, 1936, at Corwin, the daughter of LeRoy and Murtys Hacker Sinnett. A longtime resident...

HARPER — Gloria Jean Rinke, 67, died Sunday, July 15, 2012. She was born April 10, 1945 in Medicine Lodge, to Joseph Roy and Gertrude (Rausch) Rinke. Gloria was a retired hairdresser and Lathe worker at...

KINGMAN — Kenneth Leroy “Roy” Jones, 82, died July 12, 2012, at Kingman Community Hospital. He was born Nov. 13, 1929, at Lakin, the son of Wendell and Katherine Riffel Jones. A resident of Kingman for...

KINGMAN — Cortlandt Lloyd Dixon, 95, died Sunday, July 8, 2012. He was born Feb. 16, 1917 in Helena, Okla., to Lloyd and Gladys Dixon. Cort was a longtime manager of Farmers Coop Grain & Supply...

OST — Marie R. (Hermes) Ast, 99, died at her home Sunday, July 8, 2012. She was born Oct. 30, 1912 in Mt. Vernon, the daughter of Joseph and Catherine (Schmitz) Hermes. She was a homemaker...

ST. LEO — Rose Ann Adelhardt, 85, died July 8, 2012 at Southwind Hospice, Pratt. She was born Oct. 9, 1926 at Oconto, Neb., the daughter of Joe and Anna Kathman. A longtime resident of St....

BONNER SPRINGS — Catherine Cuddy, 95, went home to the Lord on July 7, 2012, while surrounded by her family at home. Catherine was born on Nov. 24, 1916 in Kingman, into a family of eight...

ZENDA — Sharon Rae Claphan, 66, died July 3, 2012, at Kingman Community Hospital, Kingman. She was born March 6, 1946 in Wichita, the daughter of Morrow and Edithe Bigbee Hecht. She was a resident of...