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Felipe Lopez
May 5, 2020
Felipe Lopez, 59, died Monday (May 4, 2020) at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.
He was born on May 28, 1960 in Yurecuaro Michoacan Mexico, the son of Juan Lopez and Maria Bravo.
Felipe has been in Newton since 1985. He worked for the Ludeman Insulation Supply in Wichita.
Among his survivors is his wife Maria Parra. They were...
James D. Hampton
Apr 30, 2020
James David Hampton, 91, died Thursday (April 30, 2020) at the Newton Presbyterian Manor.
He was born on March 4, 1929 in Newton, the son of Floyd and Gladys E. Manahan Hampton.
J.D. was raised in Newton and graduated from Newton High School in 1947.
During the Korean Conflict, he served in the U.S. Army. J.D. married Nancy Chapman in...
Johnnie Fink
Apr 29, 2020
Johnnie Harrison Fink, 96, passed away quietly at the Kansas Christian Home in Newton on Wednesday (April 29, 2020) in his sleep.
Dad was born November 21, 1923 in a sod house built into the side of hill on his parent’s homestead near Monument, Kansas. He was the fourth of five children born to George Harrison and Bertha Helen...
Marjorie Schrag
Apr 28, 2020
Marjorie Lea Schrag, 86, passed away on Tuesday (April 28, 2020) at the Schowalter Villa in Hesston, Ks.
She was born on September 25th, 1933 in Lenexa, KS – adopted at six weeks by Arthur and Edna Waltner of Pretty Prairie (Hutchinson), KS. She attended a one-room school house outside of Pretty Prairie and spoke English and German fluently as...
Richard Sanders
Apr 22, 2020
Richard William Sanders, 71, passed away April 22, 2020 in Derby, Ks. He was born August 30, 1948 in Wichita, to Donald Richard and Hazel Jeanne Hendrixson Sanders. He attended Wichita West High School and Friends University. He had been the activities director at Larksfield Place for several years. Along with his parents, he is preceded in death...
Mary Watts
Apr 17, 2020
Mary Aldeen Armstrong Watts, 82, died Friday (April 17, 2020) at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Unit of the Ascension Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Francis Campus in Wichita, Ks.
She was born on June 17, 1937 in Newton, Kansas, the daughter of Frank Kenneth and Esther Viola Brainard Armstrong. Mary was united in marriage to Larry O. Watts...
LouAnn Braught
Apr 16, 2020
Chenita LouAnn Sparks Braught 65, of Newton, Kansas, died Wednesday, April 16th, 2020 at Kansas Christian Home in Newton, Kansas.
Graveside services will be Friday, May 22th, at 3:00 PM at the Hesston Cemetery in Hesston, Kansas.
LouAnn was born August 31st, 1954 in Hutchinson Kansas, the daughter of Irvin and Ruby Catlin Sparks. She went to Buhler High...
Sheila Kinsey Shaw
Apr 12, 2020
Sheila Rene Kinsey Shaw, 54, passed away on Sunday (April 12, 2020) at her home in Newton with family around her.
She was born on October 19, 1965 in Halstead, Ks., the daughter of Ray and Helen Kinsey. Sheila attended school in Palco/Damar/Zurich and high school in Great Bend, Ks.
On December 4, 2018, she married Steven Shaw, Sr. in...
Norma Ford
Apr 10, 2020
Norma Jean Ford, 72, died on Good Friday (April 10, 2020) at the home of her daughter outside of Langdon, Kansas.
She was born on May 18, 1947 in Newton, the daughter of Cornelius and Mary Lee Kelly Sieg.
Norma Jean graduated from Newton High School in 1965. The majority of her life was spent living on the family...
Sherri Weldon
Apr 7, 2020
Sherri Leann Weldon, 61, died Tuesday (April 7, 2020) at her home in Newton.
She was born on December 27, 1958 in Newton, the daughter of Kenneth B. and Connie Moyle Lord. Sherri was raised in Newton and graduated from Newton High School in 1977.
Sometime after high school Sherri married Beau Dussault in Newton. She later married Joseph Gregory...
Debra Murry
Apr 5, 2020
Debra Renae Murry, 50, died Sunday (April 5, 2020) at her home in Newton.
She was born on February 9, 1970 in Newton, the daughter of Harvey Wilson and Helen Joy Schrag Wehry, Jr. She married Steve Murry at the Faith Mennonite Church in Newton in 1998.
Debbie attended local schools, graduating from Newton High School in 1988. After...
Stella Miller
Mar 26, 2020
Stella Regina Herrman Miller was born December 14, 1920, in Liebenthal, KS, to Adam and Pauline (Diehl) Herrman. She passed away by natural causes on March 26, 2020, at Asbury Park in Newton, Kansas. Stella graduated from LaCrosse High School and attended Wichita Business College. She was a bookkeeper and ~always balanced the books and cash drawer to...
Lois Ward
Mar 18, 2020
Lois M. Ward, 95, died Wednesday (March 18, 2020) at The Oxford Grand in Wichita, Ks.
She was born on January 19, 1925 on a farm Southeast of Conway Springs, Kansas, which was know to many in the area as, the Biggs place. Lois graduated from Conway Springs High School in 1941 and received her Bachelor’s Degree from Kansas State...
Rosa Lee Greer
Mar 12, 2020
Rosa Lee Greer, 96, died Thursday (March 12, 2020) at the Kansas Christian Home in Newton.
In the city of Mulvane, Kansas, on September 3, 1923, Erwin “Lee” and Clovia Maples became the parents of a baby girl, whom they named Rosa Lee. When Rosa Lee was three years old her parents separated and she moved with her mother...
Dr. Charles Isaac
Feb 27, 2020
Charles Arnold Isaac, M.D. died Thursday (February 27, 2020) at the Newton Medical Center.
Dr. Isaac was born June 11, 1925 in Santa Barbara, California to Arnold Gerhard Isaac, M.D. and Alice Kizler Isaac.
He grew up in Kansas from the age of two and attended the Goessel and Newton schools, then later from the age of eight. He...
Josephine Murphy
Feb 24, 2020
Josephine Rowland Murphy, 93, died Monday (February 24, 2020) at Asbury Park in Newton.
She was born on March 8, 1926 in Newton, the daughter of Charles and Gertrude Thomas Rowland. Josephine was raised and attended schools in Newton.
She moved to Pueblo, Colorado where she married Jeremiah Murphy on July 8, 1965. He died on August 9, 1995.
Josephine...
Richard Brandon
Feb 16, 2020
Richard Elsworth Brandon, 88, formerly of Newton, died Sunday (February 16, 2020) at the Halstead Health and Rehab Center in Halstead, Kansas.
He was born on July 16, 1931 in Darke County, Ohio. His mother Rachel Elizabeth Brandon-Hartley died when Richard was three years old. He was raised by his dad, Wilbur Hartley and step-mother, Goldie Marie Hartley.
In 1949,...
John H. Schmidt
Feb 15, 2020
John Henry Schmidt, 85, died Saturday (February 15, 2020) at the Newton Presbyterian Manor.
He was born on January 17, 1935 in Goessel, Kansas, the son of Peter B. and Susie Goertz Schmidt, Sr. The family on a small farm between Goessel and Canton. While growing up, he helped his mother in the kitchen and her garden until his...
Michael Horn
Feb 13, 2020
Michael Christopher Horn, 40, died Thursday (February 13, 2020) in Newton.
He was born on June 6, 1979 in Newton, Kansas where he attended local schools and graduated from Newton High School in 1997.
Through the years Michael had worked at the Old Mill Restaurant in Newton, Wichita Greyhound Park, and the Newton McDonald’s Restaurant.
He was loved going...
Dr. Carol Kuhlman
Feb 11, 2020
Dr. Carol Jean Leichliter Kuhlman born on January 15, 1939 in Stafford, KS. She passed away on February 11, 2020.
She was the daughter of Dale & Mary Leichliter of Nickerson and married to Harold Keith Kuhlman August 30, 1958. She attained her bachelor of music from Ft. Hays, masters of education from WSU, & doctor of education from KU.
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