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Obituaries
Sharon Lorene Saindon
Sharon Lorene Saindon,
65, Zurich, died Saturday,
Oct. 18, 2014, in Wichita.
She was born April 10,
1949, in
Hays to
Henry
and Pearl
(Shubert)
Beltz.
She married Melvin
Saindon on
Feb 24, 1968, in Zurich.
Survivors include her
husband, of the home; a son,
Matt Saindon, Zurich; two
daughters, Shannon Saindon, Goodland, and Melissa
Skov, WaKeeney; a sister,
Shirley Hendrex, Plainville;
and five grandchildren.
Graveside services will
be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in
St. Ann Catholic Cemetery,
Zurich.
There will be no visitation.
Memorials are suggested
to Sharon Saindon Memorial Fund in care of PlumerOverlease Funeral Home,
320 S.W. Second, Plainville,
KS 67663.
Condolences can be sent
to the family at www.plumeroverlease.com.
Kathy Logan, Spring Hill;
31 grandchildren; 11 greatgrandchildren; and 13 greatgreat-grandchildren.
Services will be at 11
a.m. Tuesday at Stinemetz
Funeral Home, Hill City;
burial in Wildhorse Township Cemetery, Bogue.
Visitation will be until 8
p.m. Monday and from 9 to
11 a.m. Tuesday, both at the
funeral home.
Memorials are suggested
to Elks Lodge No. 1995 or
Hospice of Graham County
in care of the funeral home.
Leonard Andrew
Stoecklein
Evelyn L. Fink, 89, Monument, died Wednesday, Oct.
15, 2014, at Prairie Senior
Living Complex, Colby.
Services will be at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at Buffalo Bill Cultural
Center, Oakley; burial in Monument Cemetery. Visitation will
be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday
at Kennedy-Koster Funeral
Home, Oakley.
Rose M. Phannenstiel, 91,
Benton, died Friday, Oct. 17,
death by a son, Gary L.
Stoecklein; three brothers,
Harvey, Gary and Melvin;
an infant brother; and five
sisters, Dorothy Mae, Sister
Virginia Stoecklein, LuVera
Rohr, Cleo Werth and Judy
Stoecklein.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Tuesday at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, Ness
City; burial in Sacred Heart
Cemetery.
Visitation will be until 3
p.m. Monday at Fitzgerald
Funeral Home, Ness City, or
prior to service Tuesday at
the church.
A rosary will be at 7 p.m.
Monday at the church.
Memorials are suggested
to Alzheimer’s Association
or Sacred Heart Catholic
Church in care of the funeral
home.
Additional services
2014.
Services will be at 10 a.m.
Wednesday at St. Vincent
de Paul Catholic Church,
Andover; burial in Resurrection
Cemetery. A vigil will be at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday at the church.
Glenn Deibert, 83, Hoxie,
died Friday, Oct. 17, 2014, at
Sheridan County Long Term
Care, Hoxie.
Services will be at 10:30
a.m. Tuesday at First Christian
first husband, Waldeane
Witt; a daughter, Susan
Shopmaker; two brothers;
and four sisters.
Services will be at 11 a.m.
Wednesday at Pauls Funeral
Home, Oberlin; burial in
Oberlin Cemetery.
There will be no visitation.
Condolences can be sent
to the family at www.paulsfh.
com.
Church, Hoxie; burial in Hoxie
Cemetery. Visitation will be
until 8 p.m. Monday, with family receiving friends from 6 to
7:30 p.m. at Mickey-Leopold
Funeral Home, Hoxie.
Obituary policy
The Hays Daily News will
publish an obituary free for
people with direct ties to the
area. More information can be
added for additional charges.
Visitation will be from 9
a.m. to noon Wednesday at
the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested
to Aloysius Rohr Memorial Fund in care of Schmitt
Funeral Home, 336 N. 12th,
WaKeeney, KS 67672.
Condolences can be sent
to the family at www.schmittfuneral.com.
Leonard Andrew Stoecklein, 80, Ness City, died Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014,
at Ness County
Hospital, Ness
City.
He was
from
born Oct. 28, 1933, in rural
The Festival of Faith, in
Ness County near Bazine to
its 23rd year, is sponsored by
Martin and Anna (Depperthe Ellis County Ministerial
schmidt) Stoecklein.
Iris D. Schmalzried, 86,
Alliance and the Hays Area
He married Clarice Werth
Aloysius J. Rohr, 86, LinWallace County, died Friday,
Chamber of Commerce.
on Oct. 11, 1958, in Schocoln, Neb., formerly of the
Oct. 17, 2104, at Greeley
Wellbrock, executive
enchen.
WaKeeney area, Pratt and
County Hospital, Tribune.
director of the HACC and
He was a farmer and
Hutchinson, died Wednesday,
Services will be at 10:30
a member of the Festival of
worked for Texaco as a
Oct. 15, 2014, at his home in a.m. Mountain time WednesFaith committee, said other
mechanic until retirement.
Lincoln.
day at United Methodist
committee members heard
He was a lifetime resident of
He was born Aug. 19,
Church, Sharon Springs;
Rogers speak and wanted to
Ness County and was a great
1928, in Liebenthal to Jacob burial in Sharon Springs
bring him to Hays.
husband, father and grandL. and Francis (Herman)
Cemetery.
One of the things that
father.
Rohr.
Friends can share their
impressed Wellbrock was the
He was a U.S. Army
Lawrence L. “Larry”
He married Wilma Jean
respects from 5 to 7 p.m.
fact Rogers asked to be inAdams, 88, Bogue, died Sat- veteran, serving during the
Bell on April 2, 1951. She
Mountain time Tuesday at
volved in the entire program,
urday, Oct. 18, 2014, at Korean War.
preceded him in death May
Koons Funeral Home, Shawhose theme this year was
Survivors include his wife,
his home.
7, 2012. He was a woodron Springs.
“Do Not Let Your Hearts Be
He was born of the home; a son, Kevin
worker.
Troubled.”
Stoecklein and wife, Amy,
Feb. 26, 1926,
Eileen A. (Hafner) Witt
Survivors include a son,
He didn’t disappoint.
Ness City; three daughters,
in rural GraKastens. 86, Hays, died Sun- Jerry J., Lake Ritchie, Fla.; a
Rogers, an accomplished
ham County to Mitchell and RoxAnne Erb and husband, day, Oct. 19, 2014.
daughter, Alice J. Sorensen,
Ada M. Kruse, 88, Oakley,
songwriter and pianist, sat
Eldon, Broomfield, Colo.,
Maude (Fulkerson) Adams.
She was born Nov. 20,
Lincoln; a brother, Celestine, died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014,
at the piano on stage and
He married Norma Over- Susan Swim and husband,
1927, in Herndon to AnDenver; 13 grandchildren;
at Citizens Medical Center,
led the audience in music,
Don, Chandler, Ariz.,
turf Showers on Aug. 28,
thony and Mary Hafner.
and seven great-grandchilColby.
from the first congregational 1976, in Hill City. He was an and Stephanie Stoecklein,
She was a homemaker.
dren.
Arrangements are pending
hymn at the beginning to the independent oilfield pumper. Hutchinson; three brothers,
Survivors include a son,
He was preceded in death at Kennedy-Koster Funeral
benediction at the end.
He was a U.S. Navy veteran, Jim Stoecklein, Hutchinson,
Steve Witt, Abilene; two
by his parents; an infant son, Home, Oakley.
In between, he talked
serving during World War II. Don Stoecklein, Olathe,
daughters, Nancy Chaffin
Steven A.; two sons, Mark,
about his “life of no regrets”
Survivors include his wife, and Martin Stoecklein Jr.,
and husband, Robert, Hays, G. and Allen W.; three
and encouraged the audience Bogue; eight sons, Terry
Eufaula, Okla.; four sisters,
and Shari Hertel and husbrothers, Matt, Alvin and
to pick up wristbands with
Adams, Bogue, Jerry Adams, Mary Ann Pavlu, Topeka,
band, Jeff, Victoria; a brother, Leonard; and two sisters,
Bertha S. Fogle, 87, died
the slogan “Know God, no
Sister Darlene Stoecklein, El Max Hafner and wife, Nila,
Mission, Jim Showers, EdIrene Baalman and Francie
Sunday,
Oct. 19, 2014, at
regrets” embedded in them
mond, John Showers, Paola, Paso, Texas, Betty Gassman, Oberlin; a brother-in-law,
Carlman.
Trego County-Lemke Meon their way out.
Manhattan, and Donna
Kenny Showers, Athens,
Duane Witt, Great Bend;
Services will be at 1 p.m.
morial Hospital, WaKeeney.
Rogers intermingled slide
Werth, Great Bend; 10
Texas, Steve Showers,
eight grandchildren; and 12
Wednesday at Christ the
Arrangements are pendshows of his family, from the
grandchildren; and five great- great-grandchildren.
Houghton, and Ed Showers
King Catholic Church, Waing at Hays Memorial
time he met his wife, Melissa,
grandchildren.
and Doug Showers, both
She was preceded in
Keeney; burial in the church Chapel Funeral Home, 1906
who was from northeast
He was preceded in
of Spring Hill; a daughter,
death by her parents; her
cemetery.
Pine, Hays, KS 67601.
Kansas, to his life today.
A lot of people knew beforehand the tragedy Rogers
endured.
But Rogers inspired the
audience again, telling how
from
after the tragedy he met
another woman he fell in love
paign, but no independent expendiRepublican Party has traveled to
was a cold, rainy morning, and few
The 34-year veteran of Congress
with and how they now are
tures to help him out.
Kansas.
Cruz
and
Oklahoma
Sen.
people
were
out,
but
Roberts
seemed
—
first
in
the
House,
then
Senate
—
the parents of four young
Coburn, standing to the side,
Tom Coburn were there last week;
comfortable, wandering through the
faces a stiff challenge from Indepenchildren, two boys and two
stepped
in to rescue his colleagues.
former
Govs.
Jeb
Bush
and
Sarah
parking
lot
hand-in-hand
with
his
dent
Greg
Orman,
a
businessman
girls — stressing he owed it all
“I want to answer this,” he said.
wife, Franki. He talked about the Roy- Palin have also already made the trip.
running on a message of disgust for
to God.
“It’s all based on untruth. We have
als’ amazing season, lamented Kansas Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Rand Paul
Washington and its partisanship.
Rogers said he wondered
somebody
pretending to be someare
scheduled
to
go
in
the
next
few
State
University’s
loss
to
Auburn
the
Roberts’
vulnerability
has
consewhy he was spared when his
thing that they’re not,” said Coburn,
month before (“I could’ve kicked that weeks. Then there are the Kansas
quences beyond the borders of Kanentire family died and he
referring to Orman. Plus, he added,
field goal.”), romanced a chocolate lab luminaries: Moran and former Sen.
realized God “chose to spare sas. It endangers the GOP’s hopes of
the “tough primary” meant Roberts
who quickly lost interest when hotdogs Bob Dole — even conservative Rep.
me so I might be a beacon of winning the majority, which requires
hadn’t had the funds to answer Orappeared and posed for a photograph Tim Huelskamp showed up to an
hope, a banner for families.” a net gain of six seats in November
man’s
ad barrage.
event
last
week.
with
a
man
on
stilts.
—
a
scenario
within
their
grasp.
But
He now travels the country
Speaking to reporters on his own
There’s a bit of revisionist hisOff script again, Roberts, who
Republicans would need to find a
“telling the remarkable
later, Moran explained it as a product
tory going on when surrogates try to
was voted the funniest senator three
testimony of hope and God’s seventh seat if Roberts were to fall.
explain why Roberts is in this position of the environment.
times in a row through 2008 (he fell
The GOP is pulling out the stops
grace through tragedy.” His
“The idea of somebody who is
to make sure that doesn’t happen, and to second behind Sen. Al Franken, D- where he needs their help now.
message of hope permeates
quote,
‘Independent,’ it catches on
“We
had
a
hard-fought
primary
Minn.,
in
2010),
started
to
crack
jokes.
it’s
starting
to
work.
his presentations throughout.
for a moment. People are fed up with
here in the state of Kansas,” Cruz
“You know a bookie?” asked one
Roberts has a new campaign team,
Rogers talks about the
Washington, D.C., and only when
declared at an event in Wichita.
tailgater, proposing a bet on the
handpicked by the National Repubimportance of serving oththey begin to see the facts do they realCertainly, the primary turned
spread of the game. “Don’t answer
lican Senatorial Committee, outside
ers and that religion goes
ize that what sounded good isn’t what
out to be tougher than expected for
that.”
“deeper than going to church money is pouring in to help him
Roberts, who beat self-proclaimed tea they thought it was,” he said.
“Yeah, but I know a guy,” Roberts
match Orman on the airwaves and a
on Sunday.”
The good news for Roberts is things
party candidate Milton Wolf by just
steady stream of surrogates is coming deadpanned.
Some of the donations rereally do look better. The RNC has
At an Oct. 9 meeting of the Shaw- 7 points. But calling it “hard fought”
ceived through Rogers’ Mighty out to help him.
invested $500,000 in ground game
suggests that at the time, someone
nee County Pachyderm Club, when
Under the new regime, Roberts is
in the Land foundation goes
efforts in Kansas to help Roberts,
in the Roberts camp recognized the
Roberts handed off the podium to
on a script. He carried a single sheet
toward building homes for
and outside groups have come to his
fellow Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran after necessity of putting up a fight.
orphans in other countries, as of paper with large, double-spaced
rescue to make sure he can match OrIt’s no secret Roberts’ campaign
delivering his own speech, he told
print to a podium Oct. 10 at Rewell as children’s camps, all
man ad for ad.
was unprepared for how tough his
the NRSC chairman in a voice loud
publican campaign headquarters in
named after his four children
Three of the four most recent
re-election would be. He raised little
enough for the whole room to hear,
Topeka. During an Oct. 8 debate in
who died in the flood.
public polls have him tied or narrowly
money, by all accounts put little efOverland Park, he often looked down. “Don’t worry about it. We’re gonna
Copies of Rogers’ book
ahead of Orman, after two weeks of
fort into campaigning and seemed
He sticks to two key points at these win this race.”
were available for purchase
polls where he trailed by no less than
unaware of the trouble he was in.
“Well,” he said, after a pause,
Sunday, as were copies of his events and others: Orman is a liberal
After the Aug. 6 primary, both he and 5 points.
“worry a little bit.”
Democrat, and Roberts is a guaransecond book, “7 Steps to No
Republicans, said Kansas politihis campaign team seemed to feel they
That dry humor is probably part
teed vote for a Republican majority.
Regrets.”
cal observers, are coming back home
were out of the woods. Then Chad
of the reason Roberts has a script.
It’s also pretty easy to tell when
Following the tragedy 11
Taylor, the Democratic nominee who once they get to know who Orman is.
During the primary, the senator —
Roberts goes off script. He seems
years ago, Rogers resigned
“I’m pretty excited. What I’ve
who has been dogged by reports he no raised little money and was getting
more relaxed and sure of what he’s
from his electrical engineereven less traction, dropped out of the seen in the last three or four days
ing career and answered the saying, and he gets more animated. At longer resides in the state he reprecall to ministry so he could
in particular, hearing from a lot of
sents — said during a radio interview, race to clear the way for Orman.
an event with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz,
“teach others to live lives of
conservatives as a leading conservative
Suddenly, Roberts had a one-on“Every time I get an opponent — I
Roberts went on a riff about regulano regrets.”
one race with a well-funded opponent in the state of Kansas, is folks coming
mean, every time I get a chance, I’m
tors fining small businesses, speaking
He left the audience with
home,” Huelskamp told CQ Roll Call
who was dominating the airwaves
home.”
rapidly until he cut himself off.
many messages to be pondered
after the Oct. 9 event with Cruz. “And
while the senator regrouped.
Opponents seized upon that com“I’m getting wound up here, and
and one simple, but powerful, I’m off message,” he said.
you know the polls looked tough ...
Asking why the race is still so close
ment as a Freudian slip, furthering the
final thought — “to make a
two weeks ago, but I’ve seen a lot of
elicits some uncomfortable shifting.
narrative he was out of touch.
On Oct. 11 in Pittsburg, hours
memory every single day.”
movement on the ground.”
“Do you want to answer this or
Some Kansas Republicans who
before the Pittsburg State University
“You can always make
People, he said, are frustrated, and
me?” Moran asked Roberts at a
know Roberts said they thought he
Gorillas crushed the Emporia State
more money,” he said. “You
they “don’t know who to blame. But
Topeka event.
was just making a joke.
University Hornets 45-17, Roberts
can’t always make more
The NRSC has made coordinated they’ve identified, you know, Pat RobIn the weeks before Election
donned a yellow-and-red Gorilmemories.”
erts is not the problem.”
expenditures with the Roberts camDay, a veritable who’s who of the
las cap and chatted up tailgaters. It
faith,
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Lawrence L.
‘Larry’ Adams
Aloysius J. Rohr
Iris D. Schmalzried
Eileen A. (Hafner)
Witt Kastens
Ada M. Kruse
Bertha S. Fogle
roberts,
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Obama’s decision to aid Kobani puts him squarely at odds with Turkey’s Erdogan
ISTANBUL (MCT) — In airdropping weapons and ammunition to Kurdish defenders of a Syrian town, President Barack Obama
has embroiled the United States
all the more deeply in two different confrontations — one with the
Islamic State extremists and the
other with NATO ally Turkey.
That combination complicates
Obama’s prospect for success at
Kobani, even with a coalition of
more than 60 countries behind
him.
The main clash is with the
Islamic State, which has been
pouring reinforcements into the
Kobani area and shows no sign of
letting up. The U.S. response, 135
airstrikes through Sunday, hasn’t
secured the nearly-empty town,
and indeed on Sunday, the Islamic
extremists stepped up their battle,
raining rockets and mortars on the
Kurdish defenders.
Kobani desperately needs troop
reinforcements, but because the
Islamic State controls the Syrian
territory between Iraqi Kurdistan,
which might be willing to provide
them, and Kobani, there’s almost
no way to send in additional forces
except via Turkey.
And this is where Obama’s
second confrontation comes in —
with Turkey’s president, Recep
Tayyip Erdogan. The two now are
in flat disagreement over the fate
of the enclave, which lies directly
on the Syrian-Turkish border.
Ankara is willing to let it fall, and
Washington clearly isn’t.
The rulers of Kobani, the
Democratic Union Party or PYD,
are affiliated with the separatist
Kurdistan Worker’s Party or PKK,
which has waged a 30-year guerrilla war against the Turkish state.
Turkey, the United States and the
European Union all have labeled
the PKK as a terrorist organization.
So Erdogan has strong domestic
political reasons for not coming to
Kobani’s rescue.
“As far as we are concerned the
PKK is the equivalent of ISIS.
Therefore it is wrong to consider
them separately,” Erdogan said
early this month, referring to the
Islamic State by one of its alternative names. His remarks made
clear so long as the PKK affiliate
controls Kobani, Turkey would
provide no military assistance.