Obituaries

Rita Adelheid Adelhardt, 103, died Sept. 27, 2026, at the Pratt Health and Rehab, Pratt. She was born Sept. 29, 1922, in rural Kingman County, the daughter of John and Emma Simon Adelhardt. A current resident...

Mary Lou Miller, 99, died Sept. 19, 2026 at Wheatlands Health Care Center, Kingman. She was born May 3, 1927, at Metz, Missouri the daughter of Edward and Gladys Goodwin Strait. A longtime Wichita resident, she...

William James “Bill” Perry, 77, passed away on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. He was born on Jan. 13, 1949, in Canton, N.Y. to January and Gladys (Brooks) Perry. Bill met Earlene (Short) Perry in 1981 and...

Marilyn Kay Beach, of Bullhead City, Ariz., passed away on July 5, 2026. She was born Aug. 8, 1950, the daughter of Leighton and Betty (Lindt) Tricket. Survivors include her husband, Jerry Beach, children, Jeromy (Heather)...

Helen M. Vierthaler, 100, died Sept. 15, 2026 at Wheatlands Health Care Center, Kingman. She was born Sept. 23, 1925, at Willowdale, the daughter of Edward H. and Leona Miller Kanngieser. A resident of the Zenda...

Paula Sue Reed died Sept. 8, 2026, in Dallas. Paula was born on Aug. 13, 1930, in Oklahoma City to Euler and Jessie (Clausen) Nyswonger.  She grew up in Oklahoma City with her brother Don and...

Robert Louis (Bob) Merritt, 95, passed away peacefully in Wakita, on Sept. 12, 2026.  Born Dec. 24, 1930, to Mary and Ora Merritt, Bob was raised in rural Oklahoma where his father and mother farmed and...

Roger Dean Robison passed from this life on Sept. 5, 2026, at the Kiowa District Hospital. It was a bittersweet day as he shared this day with his baby on her birthday.   Roger was born...

Dr. Larry Charles Schooley passed away on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026, at the age of 87. Larry was born in Wichita on Sept. 21, 1938.  In 1956, he graduated from Kiowa High School, Kiowa, as class...

Sandra Kay Cunningham, 74, passed away on Sept. 5, 2026, at the Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital.  She was born on Feb. 29, 1952, in Medicine Lodge, to I.W. “Pete” and Peggy (Axtell) Mease. Sandra married Mikeal...