Cleo Allene Benson, recently of Salina from Fredricksburg, TX. died December 11, 2018. She was born Jan 23, 1926, in Marinette, WI, the daughter of Earl and Mabel (Ryan) Williams. Cleo grew up in Rackard, IL. She married Gilbert Benson in Denver, CO on Nov. 5, 1943 and later moved to Chicago and then Racine, WI. She worked in a girl Friday office for R.K. News Agency, Kenocha, WI. On retirement in...

Former Phillipsburg resident, Clarissa A. Bretton, passed away December 12, 2018 at the McPherson Health & Rehab in McPherson, KS at the age of 67. She was born April 7, 1951 in Concordia, KS, the daughter of Whitey & Clara (Staley) Benge. Survivors include 2 sons; Brian Shrader of Phillipsburg and Wayne Shrader of New Castle, WY, 2 daughters; April & Angela Bretton of Smith Center,...

Charles Keith Chartier, age 83, passed away peacefully on, Saturday, December 15, 2018 at the Harry Hynes Hospice Unit in the Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Charles was born March 29, 1935 on a family homestead near Concordia, Kansas to Elmer and Blanche (Cooper) Chartier. Charles was a 1953 graduate of Concordia High School. He married Mary Sorell on June 19, 1954 in St. Joseph Ca...

Sister Margaret Jilka died December 12, 2018, at Mt. Joseph Senior Village in Concordia, KS. She was 88 years old and a Sister of St. Joseph for 69 years. She was born in Salina, Kansas on February 17, 1930 to Jerry and Agnes Wearing Jilka, the fifth of five children, and was baptized Margaret Mary. She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph, Concordia, Kansas on September 8, 1948. On March 19, 1949, M...

Robert Leroy Jones, 88, died Dec. 12, 2018 at the Bethany Home, Lindsborg. Robert was born Dec. 16, 2018 in Wichita, Ks. the son of Jason and Florence (Belk) Jones. He was a pressman for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and had been a janitorial worker at Lindsborg elementary school and Messiah Lutheran Church. He is survived by his cousins; Fred (Peggy) Belk, Salina, Patricia (Robert) McCormic...

Sylvester Bernard “Bernie” Mason, Jr., 76, died December 13, 2018. Bernie was born April 8, 1942 in Salina, the son of Sylvester and Lois (Founeal) Mason. He worked for the Salina Fire Dept. after High School graduation until volunteering for the Marine Corps in 1963. He served 3 tours in Vietnam before being discharged in 1966. He returned to the Fire Dept and went back to school to earn a de...

Bobby Jean Scott, 85, of Lindsborg, passed away Wednesday Dec 12, 2018. She was born July 27, 1933 in Borger, TX, the daughter of Robert and Patria (Lusby) Cole. Bobby was a graduate of Liberal High School. After moving to Salina, she worked as a seamstress for several interior decorators. She specialized in making drapes and custom clothing. Bobby enjoyed baking, gardening, and quilting. ...

William Richard Thompson, 69, of Salina, Kansas, passed away Wednesday, December 5th, 2018. William was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on April 23, 1949, a son of the late Lyda (Strickland) Bower and Lonnie Lee Thompson. He served in the United States Army for a number of years. Survivors include his daughter, Corrina Chard and husband Todd; son, Aaron Thompson, both of Salina, Kansas; and ...

Opal Fernne Walle, 95, of Salina, peacefully went to be with her Lord and Savior Dec. 12, 2018, at Presbyterian Manor, Salina. She was born June 6, 1923, in Humansville, Mo. to Ernest Hull and Anne Ellen (Morgan) Tallman. The family moved to Culver, Kan., shortly thereafter. Sadly, when Fernne was 13 her father passed away at the height of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. This difficult time...

Reneau “Johnny” D. Johnston, age 91, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, November 11, 2018 at Cloud County Health Center in Concordia. He was born Feb. 15, 1927 in Chandler, Texas to Talmadge D. and Jimmie V. (Holley) Johnston. He served in the United States Navy from Aug. 1944 to July 1946 then served in the United States Army from Dec. 1949 to Sept. 1952 during WW II. He was honorably disc...