We have a brand new updated website! Click here to check it out!

Month: May 2019

Della Ann Ranker

Posted on

Della Ann Ranker, age 86, passed away May 11, 2019, at Medical Lodges of Great Bend. She was born Nov. 17, 1932, at Ellsworth, to Otto F. and Anna C. (Kohls) Haase. Della married William Von Ranker Oct. 23, 1951, at Ellsworth. He passed away Feb. 16, 2016.

A 1950 Graduate of Ellsworth High School, Della had been a resident of Great Bend since 1956, coming from McCook, Neb. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where she held an active role as a Sunday School teacher, and was employed by Security State Bank for 22 years, retiring in 1995.

Survivors include three sons, David Ranker and wife Ronda of Hays, Steve Ranker of Florissant, Mo., and Philip Ranker and wife Darcee of Solana Beach, Calif.; four grandchildren, Matthew Ranker and wife Becca, Amy Brooks and husband Wyatt, Hayley Ranker, and Lynsie Ranker and husband James; five great-grandchildren, Noah, Caleb, Gracie, Hope and Isaac Ranker. She was preceded in passing by her husband Bill; and by one brother Otto Haase, Jr.; and by one sister, Edith Reed.

Services are pending. Memorials may be given to Trinity Lutheran Church, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.

Carol Herber

Posted on

February 9, 1935 – May 10, 2019

An obituary and services are pending with Plumer Overlease Funeral Homes.

Lila P. Engelhardt

Posted on

Almena resident Lila P. Engelhardt passed away May 10 at her home in Almena at the age of 84.  She was born Feb. 9, 1935 in Kanona, KS, the daughter of Franklin & Augusta (Soderlund) Towery.

Survivors include her son Daniel of Norton; her daughter Carlene Schemper of Holdrege, NE; her brother, Francis Towery of FL; her sister, Leola Curtis of Denver, CO; 6 grandchildren & 13 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wed. May 15 at 10:00 a.m. in the Long Island United Methodist Church with Pastor Ted Stapleton officiating.  Burial will follow in the Mt. Hope Cemetery, Almena.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Lila Engelhardt Memorial Fund.

Online condolences: www.olliffboeve.com.

Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Karen M. (Herrman) Williams

Posted on

Karen M. (Herrman) Williams, 64, Liebenthal, Kansas, died Thursday, May 9, 2019, at Locust Grove Village, La Crosse, Kansas.

Karen was born May 24, 1954, in Great Bend, Kansas, the daughter of Elmer F. Herrman, Sr., and Dolores G. (Burgardt) Herrman.  She was a lifelong resident of Rush County, Kansas.  A 1972 graduate of La Crosse High School, La Crosse, Kansas, she was an assembly line worker at Travenol, Hays, Kansas, for several years.

She was a member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Liebenthal, Kansas.

She married Ray D. Williams, they divorced.

Survivors include:  three brothers, Kenny Herrman (Kathy), Liebenthal, Kansas, Jerry Herrman (Cindy), Liebenthal, Kansas, and Elmer Herrman, Jr. (Sandy), Timken, Kansas; and one sister, Connie Stewart (John), La Crosse, Kansas.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Visitation will be Sunday, May 12, 2019, from 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Janousek Funeral Home, La Crosse, Kansas.  A vigil service and rosary will be at 7:00 P.M. 

Church visitation will be Monday, May 13, 2019, from 9:30 A.M. to 10:20 A.M. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Liebenthal, Kansas.

Funeral service will be Monday, May 13, 2019, at 10:30 A.M. at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Liebenthal, Kansas, with Father Eric Gyamfi officiating.  Interment will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Liebenthal, Kansas.

Memorials are suggested to St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Liebenthal, Kansas.

Condolences or remembrances may be left for the family at www.charterfunerals.com/locations/janousek-lacrosse.php.

Arrangements were by Janousek Funeral Home, 719 Pine Street, P O Box 550, La Crosse, Kansas 67548, 785/222-2517.

Eugene Rohr

Posted on

Eugene Rohr, age 90, of Munjor, Kansas died Thursday, May 9, 2019, at Via Christi Village Care Center Hays, Kansas. He was born June 9, 1928, at Munjor, Kansas to Matt and Clara (Ruder) Rohr. He married Margie J.(Walker) on September 25, 1954, at Wichita, Kansas. She preceded him in death on January 20, 2017.

He had a home repair business for 30 years and was a farmer. He was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Council #11492 both of Munjor, Kansas. He was a veteran of the US Army. Gene enjoyed gardening, pickling black berries, playing pinochle, and always was interested in sports since he was a pitcher for 16 years.

Survivors include one son, Tom Rohr and wife, Therese, Rogers, AR; three daughters, Patricia Rohr, Broomfield, CO; Laura VonLintel and husband, Bill, Hays, KS; Cheryl Bohacek and husband, Matt, Omaha, NE; one brother, Julius Rohr and wife, Mary Jane, Wichita, KS; one sister, Lorene Pfeifer and husband, Dan, St. Louis, MO; one brother-in-law, Jim Burgardt, Denver, Co; seven grandchildren, Katie Griest (Justin), Mary Beth Tritt (Bryce), Annie Rohr, Ben VonLintel, Nick VonLintel, Hannah Bohacek and Cate Bohacek; four great grandchildren, Carter VonLintel, Charlotte Griest, Jack Griest and Benjamin Griest.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; three brothers, Tony, Clarence and Alvin Rohr; two sisters, Irene Legleiter and Mary Ann Burgardt.

Services are 11:00 A.M. Monday, May 13, 2019, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Munjor, Kansas. Burial in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery, Munjor, Kansas with military honors by the Hays V.F.W. Post #9076.

A Knights of Columbus and parish rosary will be at 10.30 A.M. Monday, at the church.

A visitation will be from 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. Monday, at the church. The family suggests memorials to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church or Hospice of Hays Medical Center.

Services are entrusted to Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601. Condolences can be left by guestbook at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or via e-mail to [email protected]

Kan. deputies work second rescue in floodwater in as many days

Posted on

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office says officials are searching for two missing people who left a car that was overcome by floodwaters in east-central Kansas.

Photos are from the Loyon County Deputy’s in-car camera show the Thursday’s water rescue -courtesy Lyon Co. Sheriff

Deputies responding to a call about 4:30 a.m. Saturday of a car in floodwater in Emporia found a car that had floated into a ditch that had people inside. Firefighters were able to get to the car by boat and rescued two men and a 17-year-old girl.

The three told their rescuers that two other people had left the car around 2 a.m. when it went into floodwaters. Despite a search, the sheriff’s office said the two people had not been found hours later.

Saturday’s rescue was the second in as many days. Deputies rescued a 19-year-old woman Thursday after her car was swept off a Lyon County roadway by floodwaters.

Company says it was told duck boats were OK before fatal sinking

Posted on

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — An entertainment company that owned a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer is disputing that an independent inspector told it that its vehicles did not comply with a government standard.

Duck boat involved in the fatal accident- Photo courtesy NTSB

Steve Paul says Ripley Entertainment hired him in 2017 before it bought the boats from Missouri company Ride the Ducks International to determine whether they met the Department of Transportation’s regulations. Ripley says Paul passed the boats in his report.

Paul has said he inspected 24 of the 40 boats that Ride the Ducks was selling and that all of them were deficient under the department’s standard because of the location of their tailpipes.

Florida-based Ripley ultimately purchased 22 of the boats in December 2017. One sank in Branson last July, killing 17 people.

FHSU online student to present research on electoral college, swing states

Posted on
Clayton

FHSU University Relations

Jonathan Clayton, a Fort Hays State University Virtual College student, was accepted to present his research, “What Makes a State Swing?,” at the quarterly Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies conference at Johns Hopkins University in Rockville, Maryland.

Clayton will graduate this spring with his Master of Professional Studies with a concentration in political management. He also received his Bachelor of Arts in political science from FHSU.

His research received a Graduate Scholarly Experience Grant from the FHSU Graduate School and Scholarship Environment Committee and also placed third at the 2019 John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activities Day in the graduate empirical research category.

The paper tests the definition of a true “swing state” in presidential elections by examining battleground states, bellwether states and shift states, or those states who alternate between political parties during an election.

Clayton then studied the results of these elections to determine what these swing states have in common based on household income, racial demographics, population density, political party affiliation, voting behavior and voter registration.

Clayton will present virtually for the conference on the afternoon of June 11.

Driver charged with murder for crash that killed Kan. woman, 12-year-old

Posted on
Mia Collins -photo Sedgwick County

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A fleeing driver in a Wichita crash that killed two people and injured her passenger has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

24-year-old Mia Collins made her first court appearance Friday on nine counts, including aggravated battery, possession of methamphetamine and driving while license suspended.

She is accused of leading officers on a chase Sunday in a stolen BMW. After about 1 mile the car collided with a car and another SUV at an intersection.

First responders on the scene of the fatal Sunday accident -photo courtesy KAKE

The crash killed 70-year-old Maria Wood and 12-year-old Rosemary McElroy and critically injured Wood’s daughter, 36-year-old Jenny Wood, a popular Wichita musician known for performing with children.

The driver of the SUV that was hit also was hurt. Collins was on probation at the time.

LATURNER: Does your business have unclaimed cash? You might be surprised.

Posted on
Jake LaTurner, Kansas State Treasurer

During the month of May we celebrate National Small Business week. As the Kansas State Treasurer, I have had the privilege of working with small businesses in many capacities. One of my favorites is when I have the opportunity to reunite small businesses with money that has somehow gone unclaimed.

Currently the Treasurer’s office has over $50 million dollars that belongs to “non-human entities”, which means businesses, schools, cities, counties, and the like. Of that 50 million, the bulk belongs to small businesses like family farms, local gas stations, lawn care businesses, corner cafes.

Kansans are tremendously vigilant when it comes to searching our website for themselves and/or their loved ones but it’s important to know that roughly 15% of the missing money that the state owes your community is owed to the businesses within your community. Local businesses often invest locally and it is gratifying to watch unclaimed money go from just sitting in Topeka to being returned and reinvested within communities throughout the state.

One such opportunity came about last year when our office was touring all 105 Kansas counties conducting local searches to connect Kansans with their unclaimed cash.

In the city of Sedan, a local resident noticed a substantial sum of money that belonged to the Sedan City hospital. She reached out to the hospital administrator and they were able to claim $24,000, just the amount they needed to finish the hospital’s aging roof.

Both the hospital and the residents of Sedan were delighted at the windfall. The new roof meant they could finish the much-needed renovations for the hospital without adding extra financing. In a town the size of Sedan, keeping their hospital open means hundreds of citizens won’t have to drive hundreds of miles for their medical care, people who work for the hospital can continue to keep their jobs, and family members of those who need hospital care can remain close by while their loved ones are being looked after. Win, win, win.

I want to encourage anyone with a small business to check our website regularly as part of their business practices. It is very simple to search online at kansascash.com to see if there is any unclaimed property there waiting to be found. We work very hard at the Treasurer’s Office to reunite both individuals and businesses with this unclaimed cash because it belongs to them and we want them to be able to use it where it can do the most good.

Jake LaTurner is the Kansas State Treasurer.

Recipes sought for EHS alumni cookbook

Posted on

In order to attempt to preserve a bit of history often overlooked, the Ellis High School Alumni Association Cookbook Committee is working on a special project.

The Committee is now accepting recipes from a variety of community sectors, including past and present teachers, school cooks, administrative members of the school district, graduates or EHS Class of 2019.

Recipes are being collected now and includes those who attended/taught at the old country schools, St. Mary’s School, Washington Grade School, Ellis Junior High and Ellis High School facilities. You may submit “in memory of” any EHS Alum.

To submit recipes (a limit of 4 recipes per family), you can email to: [email protected], or download a form off of our Facebook page: Ellis High School Alumni (KS), or pick up a form locally from the Ellis Review, Ellis Alliance, Trio Home Center, Ellis Golf Club, USD 388 District Office, Ellis Credit Union, Salon 816, Golden Belt Bank and Equity Bank.

Recipes can be returned to the above mentioned email address or to PO Box 212, Ellis, KS 67637. Recipes are due by May 31 in order to be put in the cookbook. Publication target date is this fall.

– SUBMITTED –

Victoria High School 2019 graduates

Posted on

The Victoria High School graduation is at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 12.

Below is the list of graduating seniors.

Seniors 18-19

Katherine Braun

Morgan Braun

Walker Braun

Ally Dinkel

Wyatt Dreiling

Tyler Engel

Tyler Knoles

Thomas Leiker

Amy Leroux

Caden Oberle

Alexia Oxenford

Layton Riedel

Jacob Schroeder

Keoni Sweat

Lorraina Vonfeldt

Kali Weber

Jacob Wellbrock

Chantel Whisman

Ashlyn Windholz

Cooper Windholz

Michael Wohler
Copyright Eagle Radio | FCC Public Files | EEO Public File