Obituaries

NASHVILLE — Thelma K. Westerman, 98, passed away Monday, Jan. 10, 2022 at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital. She was born on July 8, 1923 at Isabel, the daughter of William and Anna (Wehling) Laverentz. On March...

Ida Louise Snell Bett, Langdon, passed away on Jan. 4, 2022, from natural causes after a long-term illness. Louise was born on Dec. 11, 1929, on the Snell farmstead in rural Reno County.  She was the...

Carol Haruf, 77, passed away peacefully at home Nov. 21, 202, due to complications of leukemia. Services will be held Saturday, Jan. 29 at 11 a.m. at the Zenda United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in...

Ryan LeRoy Smith, age 27, of Manhattan passed away Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022 at Stormont-Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas. He was born Feb. 25, 1994, in Smith Center to Bryan Smith and Sherri Lee Colby. Ryan...

Wilford “Willie” Lee Johnson 86, was born June 25, 1935, in Anthony to Daniel “Lee” and Opal (Sullivan) Johnson. He passed away on Jan. 5, 2022 in Kingman.  Willie grew up in Kiowa, moving to Kingman...

Ellen Mae Ravenstein Warner, 94, died Jan. 4, 2022 at the Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born May 25, 1927, in Kingman County, the daughter of Fred and Edna Bittner Ravenstein. A longtime Kingman...

Lorene F. Goevert, 88, Food Preparation Worker for USD 259, died Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022. Rosary will be at 10 a.m. and Funeral Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, both at All Saints...

Byron F. Siemens, 66, completed his earthly journey on Dec. 30, 2021. Byron is singing with the angels in the Lord’s presence. He was born Feb. 7, 1955, in Newton, the son of Melvin and Verna Franz...

Rodger D. “Dale” Robinson, 63, died Jan. 1, 2022 in Kingman. He was born Aug. 20, 1958, at Anthony, Kansas the son of Frank and Marquerite Bailey Robinson.  A resident of Kingman most of his life,...

By Jane M. Orient, M.D. Science has undergone a radical metamorphosis. People with M.D. or Ph.D. degrees, who have published hundreds of papers in the scientific literature, have suddenly become “anti-science”—as judged by media personalities, politicians,...