Obituaries
Timothy Elmer Garrett
Mar 5, 2026
Timothy Garrett “Tim”, age 67, was born during a blizzard on February 3, 1959 to Charles and Mary Lou (Wilson) Garrett. He passed away at Stormont Vail Hospital on March 5, 2026.
He and Katherine (Barger) Garrett were married on August 15, 1987 in Council Grove, Kansas.
Tim never met a stranger and loved to “shoot the breeze” with anyone and everyone,...
Phyllis Irene Waugh
Mar 5, 2026
Phyllis Irene Waugh of White City, KS passed way surrounded by family on March 5th, 2026, at the Good Shepherd Hospice House in Manhattan. She was born on August 19, 1943, on the family farm North of Eldon, Iowa to Rudolph Herman Osing and Della Marie Dalbey Osing. She was the 3rd of 4 sisters, Norma Jean Davisson, Margaret Louise...
Delma Boyer
Mar 5, 2026
Delma Jean Boyer joined her Savior peacefully on March 5, 2026, in Council Grove, Kansas. She was born Delma Jean Comp on Christmas Day in 1925 southwest of White City, KS, in the Red Top community. She grew up on the farm of her parents, J. Howard and Marie Henry Comp, along with her two sisters, Doreen and Myra. She...
Mary Ann Wendel
Mar 1, 2026
Mary Ann Wendel’s life began as Camden County Missouri’s first birth of the year on January 1, 1946. She was born to Don and Wilda Hill. She spent the first two years of her life in Illinois until being adopted by her mother’s parents, Arthur and Cordia Huber who from then on became “Momma and Daddy”. Mary Ann grew up...
Lea Paige Walker
Feb 16, 2026
Lea’s life began on June 9, 1942, in Wichita. She was the daughter Ralph and Marjorie (Huffman) Walker. Her father passed away and her mother later married her stepfather, Lloyd Weeks. Lea had worked for several nursing homes including West Haven and Osage nursing homes. She worked at the Council Grove Senior Center for many years and enjoyed decorating the...
Alice Clare Allen
Jan 28, 2026
Alice Allen of Council Grove passed away at the age of 99 on January 28, 2026.
Alice was born on January 15,1927 to the parents of Grover and Nelle McCrabb. She married Dean Allen on February 14,1947. Alice and Dean had a long and happy life together for 72 years before Dean passed away in 2019. They had 2 children, Gary...
Dennis A. Wainwright
Jan 25, 2026
Dennis Allen Wainwright, 70, passed away January 25th, 2026, at AdventHealth Hospital in Shawnee Mission, KS. He was born February 13th, 1955, in Council Grove, KS to Edgar and Mary Lou (Ziegler) Wainwright. He attended Alta Vista Grade School and graduated from Council Grove High School in 1973. While in high school, he enjoyed being a part of the Braves...
Larry Joseph Carmody
Jan 18, 2026
Larry J. Carmody died peacefully on Sunday, January 18, 2026, in Council Grove, KS. Services with full military honors will be held at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, Colorado on Thursday, 1/29/26 at 11:30 a.m. Arrive at 11:15 a.m. Staging Area White.
Larry Joseph Carmody was born on July 17, 1946, in Carrington, ND. He was the seventh son of James...
Kathryn B'Hymer
Jan 12, 2026
Kathy (Kathryn) Maxine B’Hymer
Kathy B’Hymer, 77, passed away on January 12, 2026, in Council Grove, Kansas.
She enjoyed camping, bingo halls, casinos, traveling, scrapbooking, Pickard “cousin” reunions, jigsaw puzzles, Phase 10, and crocheting. Notably, she did not enjoy cooking—at all.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Wayne and Maxine Howell; her sister, Connie Robinson; and her husband, Jack.
She is survived...
Ralph Edward Hedgespeth
Jan 8, 2026
DUE TO THE WEATHER, THE GRAVESIDE SERVICE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A MEMORIAL SERVICE LOCATED AT THE DUNLAP GYMNASIUM, 601 5TH STREET, COUNCIL GROVE, KS. 66846.
Ralph Hedgespeth, born on August 12, 1946, was a devoted husband, father, and community servant whose life was rooted in hard work, service, and family. On September 24, 1965, Ralph married the love of his...
Robert Allen Smith
Jan 5, 2026
Robert Allen Smith was born in Wilsey, Kansas on September 29, 1939. He was proceeded in death by his grandparents Ralph and Flossie Stover, Orville Smith (father), Juanita Stover Smith (mother), James Smith (brother) and Angela Prince (niece). He is survived by Larry Smith (brother) and Barbara Smith (wife), Lawrence Strouts (uncle), nieces, nephews and many cousins.
Bob worked for the...
Sylvia Rose Woodruff
Jan 4, 2026
Sylvia Rose Woodruff-Brown
Born February 25, 1949 of Ohio, passed away at home, January 4, 2026 in Council Grove, Kansas under the love and care of her loved ones, husband (married in October 2020): Bill Brown, daughter: Bridget Soucy and all her fur babies (5 rotten dogs and 2 rotten cats, all spoiled).
Sylvia was one for adventures. She came out to...
Hazel Zimmerman
Dec 31, 2025
Hazel Zimmerman, 94, passed away December 31, 2025, at her home, rural Alta Vista. She was born September 14, 1931 to John E. Olson and Jessie Shaw Olson in rural Morris County.
She graduated from Alta Vista High School in the spring of 1949, and married Everett Otto Zimmerman on October 2, 1949. They celebrated 60 years of marriage on the...
Omer Glen Pitts
Dec 8, 2025
Omer Glen Pitts, 81, of Council Grove, Kansas, passed away December 8th at his home following a brief illness.
He was born January 27, 1944, in Council Grove, the son of Omer and Emily Pitts, and was raised there. Glen lived in Colorado for many years before moving to South Carolina, where he married Clara Kieffer on November 2, 1996. After...
Victor Lee Zimmerman
Dec 3, 2025
A well-known retired farmer/stockman in the Alta Vista community, Victor Lee Zimmerman (99) died December 3, 2025. Vic was born October 24, 1926, on a farm in the Templin Community, northeast of Alta Vista. He was the first child and only son of Arnold and Elsie Brabb Zimmerman, both of whom have preceded him in death.
His early childhood education was...
Jimmy D. Hawthorne
Nov 29, 2025
Jimmy Dean Hawthorne, 70, died Friday, November 28, 2025, at his home in Allen, Kansas.
Jimmy was born in Council Grove, Kansas on August 3, 1955, the son of Hubert and Lillian (Johnson) Hawthorne. He married Cathy Bennett on May 8, 1987, in Council Grove.
A 1972 graduate of Northern Heights High School, Jim initially pursued architecture studies at Kansas State University...
Jesse Robert Young
Nov 27, 2025
Jesse Robert Young, 40, of Neosho, Missouri, passed away on November 27, 2025. He was born on May 11, 1985, in Council Grove, Kansas. Jesse was a former firefighter, a role he took great pride in and carried with him throughout his life. At the time of his passing, he was working as a heavy equipment operator for BJ Ford...
Jon Comp
Nov 21, 2025
Jon Dennis Comp passed away peacefully November 21, 2025, at Diversicare of Council Grove. He was born on March 2, 1938. Jon was born in the family house on the farm to Everett and Reba (Worley) Comp. Jon was the third-generation dairy farmer, he worked along the side of his father learning the traits of the dairy farm growing up...
Lorna May McNeal
Nov 21, 2025
Lorna May McNeal, 77, passed away peacefully and surrounded by family on November 21 after a nine-and-a-half-year battle with metastatic kidney cancer. Born on September 14, 1948, to Lauren and Edwinna Ramsey – she spent her childhood growing up in White City, Kansas as one of the five Ramsey girls before moving to Council Grove to start her freshman year...
