KENSINGTON – Patricia Gean (Donovan) Bienhoff was born August 10, 1937 in Kansas City, Ks the daughter of Douglas and Mae (Belcher) Donovan. She passed away August 24, 2018 at Prairie Wind Villa in Phillipsburg, KS at the age of 81.

Pat spent her first years in Kansas City where she finished the first grade. The family moved often after that as her parents began studying for the ministry and teaching. Pat attended eight different schools before graduating from Smith Center High School in 1955. She attended Phillips University in Enid, OK for one year before returning home to Smith County where Pat and Don were married on November 4, 1956 at the Christian Church in Smith Center with her father performing the ceremony. Their Church home the rest of their lives was St John Lutheran Church in Kensington except for a few years during retirement when they lived in Kearney NE and attended Family of Christ Lutheran Church.

Their first child, Teri Lynn, was born in July 1957 with serious physical and mental disabilities. Don and Pat were able to keep her at home with them for three years before her admission to the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka, KS in September 1960. That same week their son, Curtis Jay, was born and in April 1962 son, Robert Wayne, was born to complete the family. The Church was their guiding influence through the rest of their lives raising their children and working on the farm.

Besides being a devoted farm wife, Pat was employed by the Kansas Nebraska Gas Company for several years and after that by the State of Kansas in the Family Services Department. She also served as a Conservator for several people while they were in nursing home care. Pats family always came first though. She was a devoted Mother and Grandma and she attended as many of their events as possible.

Pat served the Church in many ways enjoying most providing group music and occasionally a solo. When St John was presented with a set of hand bells, Pat was asked to organize a bell choir and become the first director. She enjoyed this challenge very much. Music was a very important part of her life.

Pat will be greatly missed by those who loved and knew her.

Pat was preceded in death by her parents, daughter Teri Lynn, Don, husband of 60 years, and sister in law Irene and husband Paul Hilbrink.

Survivors include her son Curtis and wife Natalie of Kensington and son Robert and wife Amy of Kensington. Four grandchildren Kyle and wife Morgan of Kensington, Michaela of Manhattan KS, Deidra and husband Dylan of Kensington, and Blayne and wife Alyssa of Kensington, six great grandchildren Alexis, Barrett, Peyton, Declan, Harbor, and Fynley, and nieces, nephews, and numerous cousins and friends.

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Edmund Lee McCabe, age 89, died Saturday, August 18, 2018 at the Good Samaritan Society of Ellis, Ellis, Kansas.

He was born August 1, 1929, in Coffeyville, Kansas to Lester and Ella (Penn) McCabe. Ed grew up in Kansas and graduated from Bunker Hill High School in 1948 and went on to attend the Salt City Business College in Hutchinson.

In 1950 he began a 35-year career with Laughlin-Simmons Co. of Oklahoma City, as an oil field surveyor. In 1985 he began his own oil field survey company “American Elevations, Inc.”, retiring in 1996.

He is a veteran of the Korean War, serving in Japan and Korea with the U.S. Army from 1951-1953 and was a long-time member of the Russell and Hays VFW Post.

He was married for 63 years to Martha Jean (Sandidge) until her death in 2016. Survivors include two daughters, Martha Lee McCabe, Wichita, KS; Amy Stump and husband, Frank, Thornton, CO; daughter-in-law, Teresa McCabe, Quitman, GA; a grandson, Matthew Dorzweiler, Hutchinson, KS; two granddaughters, Sara Masura and husband, Jon, Bayfield, CO; Lisa Dorzweiler, Wichita, KS; four-step-grandchildren, Nathan Dreiling and wife, Kasey, Hays, KS; Scott Stump and wife, Sarah, Macon, GA; Jim Stump, Portland, OR; and Jennifer (Stump)Patterson and husband, Leonard, Renton, WA; along with many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his in-laws, Henry and Minnie Mae (Austin) Sandidge; his wife, Martha Jean, and his son, John Ed McCabe; his brothers, Lester, Raymond, Irvin “Toot”, and one infant brother, Bardell; his sisters, Rocena Ulrich and Jo Ella Patterson.

Services will be held at 10:00 A.M. Saturday, September 1, 2018, at First Baptist Church, 12th and Fort, Hays, Kansas. Military honors will be conducted by the Hays V.F.W. Post No. 9076. A private family inurnment will be at a later date.

The family will receive friends from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. Friday, August 31st at Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 E. 22nd , Hays, KS 67601 and from 9:30 to 10:00 A.M. Saturday, at the church.

Memorials are suggested to First Baptist Church-Hays in care of the mortuary.

Condolences can be left by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or sent via email to [email protected].

Longtime Goodland, Kansas, resident Glenda Kay Garret, 77, passed away on Sunday, August 26, 2018 at the Goodland Regional Medical Center in Goodland.

Glenda was born on February 25, 1941 in Brewster, Kansas to Fred and Bernice (Eicher) Oldham. She grew up and attended school in Brewster and graduated from Brewster High School in 1959.

On July 3, 1978, Glenda married Gary Garrett in Reno, Nevada. Glenda worked for many years until her retirement as a clerk for the Sherman County Treasurer’s office.

In her spare time, Glenda enjoyed quilting and baking, and attending Mass regularly at the Catholic Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents and daughter Angie Garrett.

She is survived by her husband Gary, her daughter Brenda, a son Todd McIlnay (Heather) of Littleton, CO, and daughter Kristi (Ryan) Johnson of Parker, Colorado. She is also survived by eight grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, August 29, 2018 at 10:00 AM MT at the Goodland Cemetery in Goodland, KS with Father Andrew Rockers officiating.

Memorials may be designated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Goodland and may be left at the services or mailed to Koons-Russell Funeral Home, 211 N. Main Ave., Goodland, KS 67735.

Online condolences for the family may be left at www.koonsrussellfuneralhome.com.

Funeral service arrangements are entrusted to Koons-Russell Funeral Home in Goodland.