Kenneth E. Douglas, age 88 of Macon, Missouri, passed away Sunday, April 21, 2019 at his home.  Born March 23, 1931 in Belleville, Kansas, the son of John Lester Douglas and Bessie Katherine (Goodwin) Douglas.  On January 1, 1955 in Concordia, Kansas, he was united in marriage to Shirley June Thompson who preceded him in death on October 6, 2017.   Also preceding him in death were his parents; one brother, Max Douglas, and four sisters, Marjorie, Dorothy, Helen, and...

Isabel Anne Hansen Isabel Anne Hansen, 100, was born on November 5, 1918, and passed away March 25, 2019, at Mesa Manor Center in Grand Junction, Colorado. She is the daughter of Elfreda and Hans Peter Wilhelm Hansen. In 1919 the Hansen family moved to a farm south of Belleville, Kansas. Isabel attended elementary school at Grace Hill, a one room country school. She graduated from Belleville High School in 1937. Isabel took a test to teach elementary school after high school. She taught at...

Obituary of Betty L. Zenger Betty L. Zenger, the daughter of Leon Chizek and Bessie (Trecek) Chizek, was born March 7, 1939 in rural Cuba, KS and passed away March 21, 2019 at Topeka, KS at the age of 80 years, 14 days. Betty grew up north of Cuba, KS, attending the Haworth Country School and then attended and graduated from Cuba High School. She worked in the telephone office in Cuba, KS following her graduation. On March 12, 1960 she was united in marriage to Keith A. Zenger and to this...

Obituary of Virleen J. Mumm Virleen Joy Derowitsch Mumm was born to Elmer Derowitsch and Bernice (Elliott) Derowitsch on March 15, 1930 on the family farm southeast of Chester, Nebraska and passed away on March 18, 2019 at Osceola, Nebraska at the age of 89 years and 3 days. Virleen attended star school district 57 in Rose Creek Township in Republic County and then attended high school in Chester, Nebraska for three years and then graduated her senior year in 1947 from Belleville High...

Ajay Manher Patel Ajay Manher Patel, 44, of Belleville, Kansas passed away on March 16, 2019. The funeral service will be held at 10:00 A.M., March 20, 2019 at Bachelor-Surber Funeral Home, 1322 19th Street, Belleville, Kansas 66935. Cremation will follow the funeral at the Crematory in Salina, Kansas. Ajay was born at Bharti Rana Hospital in Bardoli, Gujarat, India on September 6, 1974. He graduated from Scranton High School in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1992 and continued on completing 3...

Thomas F. Grover Thomas Franklin Grover, 79, of Belleville, passed away on March 14, 2019 in Wichita, Kansas. Tom was born in Rowley, Iowa to C.A. and Mildred (Basquin) Grover on August 27, 1939. He went to school and graduated from Clutier High School in 1956 in Clutier, Iowa. He married Joan L. Taylor on April 15, 1961 at Olivet Baptist Church in West Des Moines, Iowa. Tom was a hardware man, working and owning various stores for 44 years. His first store, Grover Hardware, was in Clutier,...

Obituary of Nadine M. Stutzman Nadine May Stutzman, daughter of Ival J. Stutzman and Vera R. (Baldwin) Stutzman was born December 25, 1929 in Belleville, KS and passed away on March 13, 2019 at Republic County Hospital, Belleville, KS at the age of 89 years, 2 months and 18 days. Her family moved to Chester, Nebraska where she started school and graduated from Chester High School in 1948. She completed two years at Fairbury Jr College and also took some classes at the University of...

Ruth Marion Russell Ruth Marion Russell was born on February 19, 1923, in Pittsburg, Kansas. She passed away on March 4, 2019, at the Heritage Care Center in Fairbury, NE, at the age of 96 years and 13 days. Ruth was the third of four children of Richard and Lillian (Smith) Rivers. In 1928, Ruth's father was killed in a dynamite explosion near Muscotah, Kansas, and her mother made the difficult decision to place her children in the Lutheran orphanage in Winfield, Kansas. When Ruth was 7,...

Obituary of Shirley A. Sandell Shirley Ann Sandell, the daughter of Willard "Bill" Kent Boyles and Harriet Lorene (Hatcher) Boyles, was born October 25, 1952 in Concordia, KS and passed away on March 1, 2019 at the Jefferson Community Health and Life, Fairbury, NE at the age of 66 years, 4 months, and 6 days. Shirley grew up in Courtland, KS, attending the local public schools, graduating from Courtland High School in 1970. She then attended Beauty School in Salina, KS. Shirley later worked...

Obituary of Micheal Carl Love Micheal Carl Love, the son of Timothy Louis Love and Cherie Lynn Veteto Love, was born December 14, 1987 in Belleville, KS and passed away on February 26, 2019 at Bryan LGH West, Lincoln, NE at the age of 31 years. Micheal grew up in Belleville, KS, attending the local public schools, graduating from Belleville High School. He then attended Sterling College, Sterling, KS, receiving a B.S. Degree in Theatre Education. After his schooling, he worked for Hastings...