Obituaries

KINGMAN — Sheila K. Watkins, 59, died Jan. 18, 2013. She was born Jan. 17, 1954 at Kingman, the daughter of Bob and Genevieve Sinnett Melton. A longtime Kingman resident, she was a homemaker. She was...

KINGMAN — Eva Lehner died Jan. 15, 2013, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center. She would have been 100 years old on Jan. 30. Eva Beatrice Pipkin was born Jan. 30, 1913 in Kingman, the daughter of Wiley...

PRATT — Bertha Margaret Fischer, 91, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Nov. 29, 1921 at Willowdale, the daughter of August W. and Katherine (Greiving) Goetz. On Feb. 22,...

CUNNINGHAM — Vernon G. Glenn, 78, died Jan. 14, 2013. He was born Aug. 18, 1934, at Preston, the son of James E. and Marguerite Northrop Glenn. A longtime resident of Cunningham, he was a retired...

TOPEKA — Virginia Lee Fisher, 86, Topeka, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. She was born Jan. 7, 1927, in St. Joseph, Mo., the daughter of Harry S. and Elsie L. (Snow) Perkins. She graduated from Topeka...

ZENDA — Irma Lee Swingle, 87, died Jan. 11, 2013, at Wheatlands Healthcare Center, in Kingman. She was born Dec. 3, 1925, at Langdon, the daughter of Alfred James and Nona Lawson Fluke. A longtime resident...

SOUTH HUTCHINSON — Harold G. “Ole” Oelkers, 86, loving husband and father, of South Hutchinson, died Jan. 9, 2013 at Wheaton House at Mennonite Friendship Communities. Ole was born Aug. 2, 1926 at Clyde, the son...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Marjorie Hinderliter, 83, loving mother, wife and friend, died Jan. 9, 2013 in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ray Hinderliter; and son, Daniel Hinderliter. Survivors include...

NEWTON — Sally June Fiedler, 75 passed away Jan. 8, 2013, at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice, Wichita. She was born June 1, 1937 to Russell and Rruth Ingram-Nebergall in Newton. She married Laverne Ray Fiedler in...

Spartanburg, S.C. — Roy Dean Strahm, 70, husband of Winifred Lucille Strahm, passed away peacefully at the Spartanburg Regional Home Hospice on Tuesday, January 8, 2013, after a hard-fought battle with cancer. A longtime resident of...