Patricia A. “Pat” (Kollman) Middleton, 88, passed away June 17, 2023, in Magnolia, Texas, where she had made her home for several years.

She was born December 18, 1934, to Henry and Laura Kollman in Woodston, Kan.

Pat graduated from Woodston Rural High School after attending her early years at the one-room school in the Survey School District. Following high school, she attended and graduated from Kansas State University.

Arthur Lee “Art” Wilkens, of Stockton, passed away on July 7, 2023, at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville, at the age of 87.

He was born on April 2, 1936, the third son of Charley and Jessie (Herren) Wilkens at the family farm home in Cheyenne County, Kansas.

Art attended Walnut Grove country school through 8th grade, then Regis (a catholic boarding school) in Denver, Colo., his freshman year of high school. He then went to St. Joseph’s Military Academy in Hays for his sophomore year but graduated from McDonald Rural High in 1953.

Roy Ballard passed away on July 6, 2023, at his home in Alton, at the age of 70.

He was born on May 31, 1953, to William George and Marjorie (Boland) Ballard in Osborne.