All Obituaries

********Please Note, All Service Times are Central Time*********** Colby, Kansas resident Lindsey Kay Shanks, 32, lost her battle with cancer on Thursday, October 31, 2019 at Topside Manor in Goodland, KS. Lindsey was born on September 10, 1987 to David and Kay (Heil) Rogers in Denver, CO.  She was one of two children.  Lindsey spent part of her younger years in Denver and in St. Francis, KS.  She attended school in St. Francis for her Junior High years.  She eventually...

Tribune, Kansas resident Bernard (Bernie) Nemechek, 90, passed away on October 29, 2019 at the Greeley County Long Term Care in Tribune, KS. He was born on November 3, 1928 in Ellis, KS to parents Frank and Regina Nemecek who have preceded him in death. He married Joyce L. Smith on May 22, 1948 in Sharon Springs, KS. He is survived by his children Trudy and John Thorburn, Buffalo, WY, Brent and Beth Nemechek, Tribune, KS, and Blake and Carmelle Nemechek, Colorado Springs, CO, seven...

Brighton, Colorado resident and former Delta, Colorado resident William Arthur Mock, 88, passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at his home in Brighton, CO. Bill was born on July 16, 1931 in a small camp on a beach close to Watsonville, California (or so the story goes). He grew up on a farm outside Hotchkiss, Colorado, the child of James Raymond Mock and Emily Ester (Monroe) Mock. He was the fifth of five children; Jimmy, Alice, Donnie, and Rita. His father died of a...

Larry Leroy Roulier passed away at Brighton Place, Topeka Kansas on October 17th, 2019 at the age of 81. Larry was born in Goodland, Kansas on September 9th, 1938. He graduated from Brewster High School in 1956. He worked as farmer and a truck driver.  On August 8, 1959, Larry married Diane Daniels in Goodland, KS.  To this union, two children Marc and Brad were born. Larry enjoyed driving his pickup around the country side and looking at crops, visiting with friends, and telling...

Longtime Goodland, KS resident Georgia E. Weis, 91, passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at the Prairie Senior Living Complex in Colby, KS. Georgia Evelyn (Markley) Weis was born on Friday January 13, 1928 to Herbert and Nellie Markley in Scranton, Kansas.  She attended grade school and middle school in schools in that area and then the family moved to Northwest Kansas and she graduated from Brewster High School. She married Glenn J Weis and to this marriage one child was born....

Goodland, KS resident, Randy J. Coleman, 77, passed away on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at Topside Manor in Goodland. Randy was born on September 22, 1942 in Fort Worth, Texas to Robert E. and Paula Mae (Walker) Coleman.  He was one of three children.  Randy grew up and attended school in San Angelo, TX, and graduated from San Angelo Central High School in 1960.  He then went on and attended school at Texas A & M, the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA and then to...

J Richard Caldwell, 89, lifetime resident of Goodland, KS, passed away October 6th, 2019 at Cheyenne County Hospital in St. Francis, Kansas. Richard was born to Irma (Nye) Caldwell and Jim Caldwell on November 30, 1929.  He was the third born of four children.  He attended Sherman Community High School and graduated in 1947.  After High School he attended Kansas University for one year.  He enjoyed driving around in his 1947 Ford Sportsman convertible with his friends,...

Longtime Goodland, KS resident Henry “Hank” Donald Elliott, 91, passed away suddenly on Thursday, October 3, 2019 at the Goodland Regional Medical Center in Goodland. Hank was born on September 18, 1928 in Rural Sherman County, Kansas to Bert and Nettie (Smalley) Elliott.  He was one of 10 children.  Growing up around Edson, Hank attended school in Edson and graduated from Edson High School in 1946.  Hank served in the United Stated Army as a paratrooper from...

William Michael Wininger, “Mike” to friends and family, was born October 3, 1946 in Fowler, California to William Minor and Evelyn (Foreman) Wininger.  He has one sister, Sandra Lynn Doty. Mike graduated from Amos Alonzo Stagg High School in Stockton, California in 1965.  While still in high school, he studied college architecture and had a house built.  Less than a year after graduation, Mike was drafted.  Rather than going where the Army wanted him to go,...

Goodland, Kansas resident James Lynn Fisher passed away peacefully in his sleep, on Monday, September 23, 2019 at the Topside Manor in Goodland.  He was 63 years old. James was born on September 2, 1956 in Utah. He was the third born child of Ramon LeDell and Thelma Mae (Summers) Fisher.  He was one of eight children. As a young adult, with a wife and children, he received his GED from Colby Community College and then went on to get a license in Carpentry.  He worked as a...