Obituaries

Rita Malin, age 89, of Lawrence, passed away March 1, 2023.

Mary Anna (Hicks) Ernst, of Plainville, passed away on March 2, 2023, at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville, at the age of 77. She was born to Joseph and Sylvia (Voight) Hicks on August 31, 1945, in her Grandfather Hicks’s house in Logan.

Wilda M. Bowman, age 92, of Kearney, Neb., passed away Saturday, February 25, 2023, at the Kearney Regional Medical Center.

Pamela "Pam" Yvette Bracy, age 69, passed away peacefully on February 20, 2023. She was born on August 14, 1953, in Woodston, Kansas, to Warren and Janeva Jones, who both preceded her in death.

Lenora Mae (Boese) Stelter of Plainville passed away on February 23, 2023, at her home in Plainville. She was born on November 14, 1933, to Walter and Minnie (Krug) Boese in Alexander. She married Ralph Stelter on July 13, 1952. They were blessed with three daughters: Pam, Carol, and Kim.

Former Plainville resident Agnes “Arlene” (Gates) Rogers passed away on February 22, 2023, in Yuma, Ariz., at the age of 94. She was born on June 22, 1928, to Lewis and Ora (Ellis) Gates in Logan. She married Robert Rogers on December 21, 1951, in Zurich.

Phillipsburg resident Loretta K. Kline passed away February 14, 2023, at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville at the age of 74.  She was born February 13, 1949. Survivors include her daughters Misti Taber of Stockton and Inett Eckhout of Kearney, Neb.

Leroy (Bud) Rodman, of Stockton, went to heaven to join his wife on February 13, 2023, at Hays Medical Center, at the age of 97. He was born in Ree Heights, S.D. on July 1, 1925. He was number 12 of 13 children born to Chalmer and Elsie Rodman.

William A. “Bill” Wilson, age 85, passed February 13, 2023, at The University of Kansas Hospital, Great Bend Campus.