Johnnie Lee Birdsell, son of Dale Ellsworth and Geneva Knight Birdsell, was born January 14th, 1950 in Beloit, Kansas. He departed this life on December 5th, 2020 at his home near Mansfield, Missouri at the age of seventy years, ten months and twenty-one days. John married his high school sweetheart, Carolyn Jo Huff on May 31st, 1969 and together they had four children. John was preceded in death by his parents. John is survived by his wife of fifty-one years, Carolyn; their children,...

Barbara B. King, formerly of Mankato, KS, passed away on August 2, 2020 in Richardson, TX. She was born in Topeka, Kansas on April 26, 1930. Barbara attended Kansas State University in Manhattan Kansas. After moving to El Paso, Texas in 1961, she developed a love for playing bridge and achieved the rank of Life Master. She was a talented artist, painting in oil, pastel, and watercolor media’s. Many of her pieces were exhibited in galleries. After returning to Kansas in 1994, she...

Robert Royal Cook of Manhattan, Kansas passed away on October 3, 2020 at Ascension Via Christi, Manhattan.  Robert (Bob) was born midwinter, December 29, 1928 in Jewell County, KS on the farm his grandfather homesteaded, to parents Albert Elmer Cook and Lula Inscho Cook. The second youngest of nine children, he arrived in a world heading into global depression and war. Bob’s father died during the depression and the family would lose the farm before the country could climb...

Marjorie June (Nelsen) Hulbert of Mankato Kansas, died August 3, 2020 at the Mitchell Country Hospital. She was born on July25, 1936 to Hans Andrew and Mildred Ethel (Fringer) Nelsen. She was born in Burr Oak, Kansas. Marjorie graduated from Bur Oak High School, Class of 1954. Marjorie married Myron Eugene Hulbert on July 18, 1953 in Nelson, Nebraska. She loved to crochet, reading and camping. She was a housewife and mother of 3 children before starting to work. She worked at the Jewell...

Karen F. Thompson McIntyre was born February 6, 1939 in Lakin, KS to Leonard and Kathryn Davis Thompson.  She went home to her Heavenly Father on May 19, 2020. Karen grew up on the family farm at Ulysses, KS and also lived in Ulysses when the family moved off the farm.  After high school, she went to college for one year and then joined the Army.  After returning to Ulysses, she worked for the Ulysses News and later as an abstractor in a local office. Karen met Steven...

Frank A. Diemart Jr was born April 27th, 1945 in Newton, KS. He passed away February 3rd, 2020 at the Mitchell County Hospital in Beloit, KS under the loving care of his Doctors and Nurses. He resided in Ionia, KS. He was preceded in death by his parents; Frank A. Diemart Sr. and Hazel (Ledbetter) Diemart, Brothers Rick, Jim, and Ed, as well as Sister Kathryn. Frank grew up on a farm north of Towanda, KS and attended all of his school years there with his siblings.Frank worked for Cessna...

Brian Lloyd Williams passed away on April 10, 2020, at the age of 47 at his dream home in Jewell, Kansas. He was born June 2, 1972, in Beloit, KS to Eldon “Bub” and Pamela “Pam” (Holdren) Williams. Brian was a lifetime resident of Jewell County, growing up in Jewell and graduating from Jewell High School with the Class of 1990. After high school, he attended Colby Community College and then transferred closer to home to attend Cloud County Community...

Ronald Eugene Menhusen, Jewell, KS was born August 28, 1936 near Jewell, KS to Benard and Mildred (Hitz) Menhusen.  He died March 24, 2020 in Salina, KS.  Ron is survived by his wife Linda, of the home, his daughter, Jennifer Haddon of  Mitchell, South Dakota, two grandsons Joseph Haddon and Malachi Haddon also of South Dakota and two brothers, Albert Menhusen of Wamego, KS and Merlyn Menhusen of Beloit, KS and many nieces and nephews.  He was preceded in death by his...

Dorothy Mae (Henningsen) Borger, the third child of Emit and Elva Henningsen, was born in rural Limestone Township on her family’s farm November 16, 1922. She released the world and accepted Jesus’ invitation to her heavenly graduation shortly after midnight on March 3, 2020, at the age of ninety-seven years, three months, and sixteen days.  After many years of near blindness from macular degeneration, she can now truly see and celebrate alongside her husband Jennings, her...

Miola Louise Griffeth passed away February 15, 2020 at the age of 93 at Hilltop Lodge, Beloit, Kansas. She was born September 2, 1926 to Albert Daniel and Irene May (Wise) Shane on a farm north of Cawker City, Ks. Miola attended 1st through 8th grade at country schools north and east of Cawker City, Ks, then 9th through 11th grades at Cawker City High School, and due to courses not available at Cawker City, she finished high school at Beloit High School. Ottawa University was her college of...