Obituaries

Timothy Wayne Hughes, 47, born on May 7, 1977, in Chanute, Kansas, to Jerry Hughes and Sandra Boone-Hughes-Patton, passed away unexpectedly on March 11, 2025, at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center.

Lucille McDaniel, age 89 passed away March 12, 2025 at Kenwood Plaza, St. John. She was born on August 8, 1935 at Greenwood, Delaware the daughter Ami Melvin and Joy (Unger) Hamstead. She was a 1953 Graduate of Greenwood High School and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, VA in 1992 at the age of 57. Lucille was an organist and played for several churches in Virginia and Kansas.

Mark Allen Carroll, age 67, of Pratt, Kansas, passed away March 11, 2025, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. Mark was born February 8, 1958, in Pittsburg, Kansas, to William Carroll and Margaret "Peg" (Diskin) Beech.

Sheila Kay Houchin, 72, passed away in the evening, March 12, 2025 at her home in Severy, Kansas surrounded by her loving family.

Marylin Ann Anderson, 76, passed away March 11, 2025, at Azria Health in Great Bend, Kansas. She was born November 22, 1948, in El Paso, Texas to Earl and Lorena “Ruth” (Gilmore) Paxton.

Clara Louise Goodrich, 92, passed away March 12, 2025 at Country Living Memory Care of Larned, Larned, Kansas.

On March 13, 2025, Carole Ann Shultz (Brown), of Hutchinson, “a child of the dirty thirties”, joined hands with Delbert and went home to the Lord.

Stephanie Anne McLeod, 53, died March 13, 2025.

Robert “Bob” William Gordon, 74, passed away March 13, 2025, in Great Bend, Kansas. He was born November 28, 1950, at Great Bend to David & Rose (Mengucci) Gordon.

Dixie Lee Bergmeier, 87, died March 7, 2025, at Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler. She was born January 14, 1938, in Wakefield, the daughter of Mert and Louise (Blesh) Sherbert. Her parents died when she was young and she was taken in and raised by William “Bill” and Lela Auld of Wakefield.

Larry Lyman Stevenson, age 81, of Allen County, Kansas, passed away on March 11, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri.

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