Obituaries

GREAT BEND — Sister Mary Rose Engel, 93, died Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in the Dominican Sisters’ convent infirmary, Great Bend. Born Aug. 22, 1919, in Ness City, as Mary Engel, Sister Mary Rose was the...

WICHITA — Verna Siemens, 81, homemaker and retired grade school teacher, passed away Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A Memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3 at Hope Mennonite Church, 868 N. Maize...

KINGMAN — Janice K. Courtney, 57, waitress, died Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 at Kingman. She was born Sept. 26, 1955 in Gerard, the daughter of Sylvester Ray and Betty Ann DeMart Courtney. A longtime Kingman resident;...

SPIVEY — Ruth Bane, 86, died Oct. 11, 2012 at Goddard. She was born May 2, 1926 at Clearwater, the daughter of John Barton and Jane Elila Walton Wise. A longtime Spivey resident, she was the...

WICHITA — Letitia (Tish) Palmer Mandle Ralstin, age 87, passed away at Larksfield Place in Wichita on Wednesday, Oct. 10. She was surrounded by family. Born Letitia Milburn Palmer on March 13, 1925 in Kingman, to...

KINGMAN — Nellie Carol Fornwalt died peacefully on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012 at Wheatlands Health Care Center in Kingman, surrounded by her loving family. She was born Dec. 16, 1920 to Silvers and Golia Lawson Snell,...

KINGMAN — Beverley Jean McCleskey, 64, homemaker, died Tuesday, Oct. 2 at Kingman She was born Oct. 8, 1947 at Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Berkeley and Vera Fergerson Bates. Her step-father was Basil Newman....

CHENEY — Caroline Stuhlsatz, passed away peacefully into our Lord’s arms on Sept. 16, 2012. She was born March 31, 1918, being the only daughter of Albert and Emma (Bohrer) Henning. Caroline met her husband, Paul,...

KINGMAN — William Kirk “Bill” Slyter, 55, died Oct. 2, 2012 at Hutchinson Care Center. He was born Dec. 23, 1956 at McPherson. A longtime resident of Kingman he was a construction worker. He was married...

WICHITA — Amber Kostner, 38, died Sept. 30, 2012. She was born April 24, 1974 at Wichita. Survivors include mother and step-father, Debra and Mark Grimes; father, Robert; sisters, Kamme Carlsten and Madison Grimes; grandparents, Bob...