All Obituaries

Viewing on Wednesday - Friday at the Ashland Funeral Home. Please view at the funeral home, if at all possible.   William (Bill) Broadie passed from his earthly life to his eternal heavenly home on January 21, 2021, after a six-week battle against COVID-19.  Bill was born February 26, 1948, in Ashland, KS, to Elmer (Raymond) and Leta (Luke) Broadie. Bill graduated from Ashland High School in 1966. He was a life-long resident of Ashland, KS, a fourth-generation cattleman, and a...

Alma Josephine “Jodi” (Winters) Devore, 74, died on January 20, 2021 at Shattuck Nursing Center in Shattuck, Oklahoma.                 Jodi was born on August 9, 1946 in Mutual, OK to Robert Franklin and Alice Mae (Hipp) Winters. She attended the first 6 years of school in Vici, OK before the family moved to Fort Supply. She graduated Fort Supply Public School, class of 1964, and was active in basketball...

     Mabel Corinne Davis Robertson was born July 8, 1930, to Hazel Kughn Davis near Agra, OK.  She was delivered by traveling Doctor William Baxter Davis, whose daughter, Aileen, 18 years later became her mother-in-law.  Corinne lived her early years on the Kughn family farm with her mother; her older sister, Dorothy; and her mother’s brother, “Uncle Bill”.  Corinne, her mother and her sister later moved to Morrison and then to Stillwater,...

Leroy Gene Waugh, the son of George Thomas and Edith Lucy (Vanderpool) Waugh, was born on November 6, 1944 in Shattuck, Oklahoma. Leroy left his earthly home and entered into the kingdom of heaven on Sunday January 17, 2021 surrounded by his wife Kathie, his daughters, Tiffany and Tisha and other family members. Leroy had been fighting complications from COVID-19 and passed away at Creighton Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. His life will be celebrated with a service at the First Baptist Church...

   

James Alvin Hamblin, known to everyone as Al, died January 7, 2020, at home in Spring Texas with his daughter Kristi by his side. He was 88. Al was born April 25, 1932, on a windswept farm on the plains of Kansas near Jetmore during the Dirty Thirties. He lived there with his father, mother and 4 siblings until they lost the farm and moved to Hugoton, Kansas. There he attended elementary school, junior high and high school before leaving secondary education behind and going to work. At...

Terry Edward Brown (Buffalo, Okla.) was born on April 21, 1951, and he passed away on January 7, 2021, at the age of 69.    His service will be Thursday, January 14, 2021, at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Buffalo with interment immediately following at Highpoint Cemetery.   Terry was a hard-working man who lived a full life during those 69 years. Born to Harry Edward Brown and Betty (Buss) Brown in Shattuck, Okla., the family lived in Buffalo until Terry was going...

    Nancy Christine “Chris” (Hayden) Blue was born October 6, 1929 in Saltville, Virginia to William Allen and Gracie Elizabeth (Bise) Hayden. After high school in 1947, she attended business school, she worked at her father’s garage & Chrysler dealership. She married Gerald Warren Blue, a handsome Navy man from Oklahoma on her birthday in 1951 and made their home in Nardin, Oklahoma. To this union two children were born, Cathy Delores (1952) and Jay Warren...

Forrest was born April 19, 1959.  He joined his wife, Virginia Rush, in heaven on December 21, 2020. Forrest was raised by his amazing Grandma Jenny and spent his childhood on the farm.  There he spent time with a lot of family and friends.  He always spoke so fondly of his favorite Aunt Stella, he loved that she looked so much like his grandma.  He told stories of many different animals and adventures he had. He had a pet cow that he loved walking the fields...

The earth lost a shining presence on December 20, 2020 when. Dr. David Stanley McElhiney, loving husband, adoring father of four daughters, WWII veteran, talented vocalist, esteemed educator and farmer from North America’s greatest generation, died at age 94. “Pap,” as he was affectionately known by his surviving four girls, his ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, was born on August 3, 1926 in Ashland, Kansas to Percy and Grace (Curl) McElhiney.  Throughout...