Carma L. Chrisler, age 58, of Hays, Kansas died Monday, October 7, 2019, at her home.
Funeral Mass will be 10:00 A.M. Thursday, October 10, 2019, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, 18 and Vine, Hays, Kansas.
Services are entrusted to Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601.
Judith A. “Judy” Braun, age 76, died Monday, October 7, 2019, at the Ellis Good Samaritan Center.
A full obituary is pending.
Services are entrusted to Cline’s-Keithley Mortuary, 412 Main Street, Victoria, Kansas 67671.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The union representing workers at pork processing plants has sued the federal government to challenge new rules finalized in September that allow companies to set line speeds and turn more food safety tasks over to company employees.
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and local unions in Kansas, Minnesota and Iowa have joined with nonprofit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen to file the lawsuit in federal court in Minnesota.
The lawsuit alleges that the new rules announced in September by the U.S. Department of Agriculture violate the Administrative Procedure Act because it is not backed by reasoned decision-making and should be set aside.
A USDA spokeswoman says the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
Shirley Beecher, 83, passed away October 3, 2019, in Lawrence, Kansas.
Shirley was born March 7, 1936, in Studley, Kansas, the daughter of Adolph and Regina (Billinger) Brungardt. She was the oldest of three children. During her childhood days, the family moved to Bogue, Kansas, where Shirley graduated from high school in 1954.
Following graduation, she moved to Denver, Colorado, where she graduated from business college. She married the love of her life, Norman Beecher, April 21, 1956 in Damar, Kansas. The couple moved to Great Bend where Norman was a front-end mechanic and Shirley a bookkeeper. In 1960, 1961 and 1962, she and Norman had three children: Jeff, Gina and Greg. During this time she was a very busy mom and homemaker.
In 1963, she and Norman moved to Hill City and opened “Beecher Sinclair” full-service gas station. Which they owned and operated until I-70 opened to the south, leaving Highway 24 less traveled and therefore less busy. She then continued her career as a bookkeeper working for several years in the private sector.
However, she spent the majority of her professional career in service of Hill City, Unified School District 281 as the secretary of Hill City High School. She loved the hustle and bustle of all the students’ activities. After serving there for many years, she moved to the district office and held the position of Clerk of the Board of Education until she retired July 1, 1999.
If you knew Shirley, you obviously knew she loved the color red, from her home décor to her favorite clothing and right down to those meticulously groomed fingernails! She enjoyed watching her favorite NFL teams, the Dallas Cowboys and the Kansas City Chiefs on Sundays.
Shirley was an active member of the Catholic Church and served on the parish council. She and Norman were also active with the Kansas Western Horseman’s Association. Norman and the three children, as young as
four and as old as fourteen, participated in horse shows for many years. Jeff, Gina, and Greg won many trophies during this time. Gina remembers going to church at 8:00 on Sunday mornings and then rushing home to make bologna sandwiches and packing a cooler of Shasta pop, while Jeff, Greg, and Norman groomed and loaded the horses in the trailer. The family also traveled to the state horse-shows for ten plus years winning many awards there, as well. Shirley was always there to cheer her husband and children on, but she was also an announcer, timer, and scorekeeper at many of these events.
As her children entered middle and high school, the horses took a back seat to sporting events in which her children were involved, including football, basketball, wrestling, track, and softball. She attended these activities faithfully.
Later, after her children graduated from high school, trade school, and college; she and Norman took advantage of some time to themselves. They were active in the Graham County Rodeo for over 25 years, in which Shirley did some announcing and time keeping at these annual rodeos. Additionally, she and Norman enjoyed playing darts, pitch, and attending wedding dances where Shirley loved to polka.
After Norman passed away in June of 2001, she and her girlfriends formed “The Garden Club.” She said they chose this name because they were all “blooming idiots.” The club gathered every Friday for fun and cheer.
She was a devoted wife, mother and doting grandmother and will be missed immensely.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Adolph and Regina; husband, Norman; sister, Connie and daughter-in-law, Peggy (Chick) Beecher, wife of Jeff.
She is survived by her brother Don, Solomon; children: Jeff Beecher, Lawrence, Gina Fischer, Kingman, Greg Beecher and wife Rhonda (Sauer) Beecher, Rose Hill; six grandchildren and one great granddaughter.
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By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Hays USD 489 school board will meet at 6:30 tonight at Hays High School for a work session.
The board will tour the high school and discuss HHS career and technical pathways.
An executive session will be conducted if needed.
The HaysMed Birthing Center will host a Remembering Together Remembrance event on Sunday, October 20.
Participants are asked to meet in Hadley Room 2 at HaysMed at 2:00 p.m. This special service is for anyone who has experienced a loss through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss.
KSRE
MANHATTAN – Your County/District Kansas State Research and Extension director recently received a packet of information regarding the Master Farmer-Master Farm Homemaker/Family Nomination process for 2019. The Master Farmer/Master Farm Homemaker award is a great recognition tool to honor a successful farm family who supports the community and supports your local KSRE Extension programs! Now is the time to think of those farm families deserving of such recognition, and begin the nomination process.
Follow this link to the nomination instructions. And, then follow this link to the forms necessary to be completed in the nomination process. Nominations must be submitted to the KSRE Extension Administration office by November 26, 2019. If you have questions, contact Daryl Buchholz, [email protected], 785-587-4913; or Sue Robinson, [email protected], 785-532-5820.
Don’t miss the chance to nominate a deserving farm family from your community for statewide recognition. Great candidates may be those you’ve recognized locally for the support of your local Extension programs. This K-State Research and Extension Program is co-sponsored with the Kansas Farmer magazine, and is provided excellent financial support by Kansas Farm Bureau, Frontier Farm Credit, and American AgCredit.
Mary L. Todd, age 86, passed away on Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at Wichita County Health Center LTCU in Leoti, Kansas.
Mary was born June 1, 1933 in Akron, Colorado, the daughter of Ted Ray & Ethel Olive (Bailey) Dickson. A resident of Leoti, Kansas, since 1966 moving from Parks, Nebraska, she was primary checkout clerk at several Leoti grocery stores retiring in 2004.
On December 27, 1951, she married Harold Todd at Akron, Colorado. Harold passed away on January 24, 1987, in Leoti, Kansas
Mary’s surviving family includes-
One son-
Mike & Kay Todd- Scott City, Kansas
Three Grandchildren-
Ryan & Shannon Todd- Gainsville, Florida
Jeff Gilmore- Terry, Mississippi
Chastel & Eric Vallerand- Gainesville, Florida
Five Great Grandchildren-
Lyra Todd, Callen Todd, Alden Todd, Nathan Vallerand & Kambrea Gilmore
Numerous nieces and nephews and special friends
Her parents, two siblings, Allen Dickson & Alice Rogers, and a grandson, Brett Todd precede her in death.
Services will be held at 4:00 pm on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at Leoti Cemetery in Leoti, Kansas with Rev. Don Williams officiating.
Memorials may be given to Wichita County Health Center Long Term Care Unit in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home, PO 161, Leoti, Kansas 67861.
Betty I. McPhail, 83, passed away October 6, 2019 in the comfort of her home with her loving family present.
She was born August 22, 1936 in Larned, the daughter of Frank and Laurine Burris Hawk. A lifetime area resident; she worked in Housekeeping at Larned State Hospital, and is fondly remembered as a kind and cheerful person.
She was a member of Larned Assembly of God Church, she loved sewing, knitting and crocheting, she enjoyed taking swimming classes, painting, and doing ceramics to keep her mind and body active, enjoyed dancing with the cruise directors on their cruise vacation and was a Betty Boop enthusiast.
On October 5, 1957 she married Harold McPhail in Larned, Kansas. He survives.
Other survivors include; four daughters, Jonell Branstine, Larned, Shirley (Richard) Beltz, Larned, Sandra (Steve) Turley, Hoisington, Lachel (Jimmy) McDonald, Larned; ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by; her parents.
Cremation has taken place and no services are planned at this time.
GEARY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating three suspects on drug charges after a traffic stop on Interstate.
Just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday, deputies stopped a vehicle for a speeding and arrested Dakota L. Atkinson, 20, Riverside, Missouri, Madison N. Morris, 18 and Evan J. Hoffman, 22, both of Gladstone, Missouri on drug related allegations.
Morris and Hoffman are being held for multiple requested charges that include suspicion of Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and No Drug Tax Stamp.
Atkinson was arrested on requested charges of Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, No Drug Tax Stamp, Speeding and Driving While License Suspended. The remain in custody, according to online jail records.
The annual Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat canned food drive is set for Tuesday, October 8, 2019 in Hays.
Volunteers will be going door to door collecting non-perishable food items from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Food items such as canned meats, canned vegetables, canned fruit, and boxed meals are much needed at this time.
To assure residents that the items collected are for the Community Assistance Center, all volunteers will be wearing an identification badge with “Trick or Treat So Others Can Eat” clearly printed. Please leave items on the porch if you will not be home or do not want someone ringing the doorbell. Youth and adult volunteers from Hays give of their time to make this food drive a success.
Any house missed or those living in a rural area may take food items to the Community Assistance Center in Hays located at 12th and Oak until noon October 31, 2019.
At approximately 6:20 p.m. Saturday, Barton County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a reported injury accident on the Barton/Russell county line on the Susank blacktop.
A 2012 Harley-Davidson operated by Gregory Allison, 60, rural Great Bend, was westbound on the county line, according to a news release.
Investigation at the scene indicated Allison failed to negotiate the curve going south onto Susank Road. The motorcycle went into a skid, sliding over 100 feet. Allison was thrown from the bike, landing in the west ditch.
A helicopter was called to the scene, and Allison was transported by air ambulance to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
Deputies believe excess speed was a contributing factor. Allison’s condition is not known, the sheriff’s office said in the news release.
