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A4 TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006 Great Plains SALINA JOURNAL Deaths Funerals Mrs. Brown Bobbie Lantelme Bothwell PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. Bobbie Lantelme Bothwell, 88, Palm Beach Gardens, died May 24, 2006. Mr. Bothwell was born March 23,1918, in Blue Rapids, Kan.

He was a retired vice president of Mann Theater Corp. Survivors include his wife, Betty Dantz; a daughter, Raelee McLeran; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A memorial service was May 31 in Palm Beach Gardens. The body was cremated. Neptune Society 513 E.

Oakland Park, Oakland Park, FL 33334, handled arrangements. Lura Alwiida Brown CASTLE ROCK, Colo. Lura Alwiida Brown, 84, Castle Rock, formerly of Pine Bluffs, died June 12, 2006. Mrs. Brown was born Lura Alwiida Lippitt on May 22, 1922, in Fleming, the daughter of Irvil and Frieda (Ard) Lippitt.

She graduated from Fleming High School in 1940 and attended Beth El Nursing School in Colorado Springs. She married Walter Sheirl Brown Jr. on Dec. 14, 1942, in Fleming. They were farmers and ranchers in Pine Bluffs for more than 50 years.

She was employed at Laramie County Extension Service, Laramie County Weed and Pest Service, Pine Bluffs Library and the Soil Conservation Service. She was a member of Pine Bluffs United Methodist Church and First United Methodist Church, Salina, Kan. She was a 50-year member of the Order of thi'e Eastern Star, Burns Chapter 47 and Pine Bluffs Chapter 29, where she was Worthy Matron. She was a member of the Pastime Club and a founding parent for the Lone Pine 4-H clubs. She was an active leader In the Lone Pine Whip and Stitch 4-H Club.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Sheirl. Survivors include six children, Walter "Wally" Sheirl Brown III of Kenal, Alaska, Leola White and husband Terry Ferguson of Capitola, Billie Jean Lundberg of Cheyenne, twins Sheila Vella and husband Nick of Castle Rock, and Sheir- lie Prophet and husband Del of Independence, and Helen and husband Gary of Scottsbluff, a sister, Dorothy Caughill of Buckley, a brother, Robert Lippitt of Byers; six grandchildren, Kevin White and wife Jen of Gilroy, Traci White of Denver, Russel Prophet and wife Kristin Prophet of Salina, Tally Morris and husband Matt of Springfield, Sheirlie Ann LaMantia and husband Doug of Muncie, and Gary McDuffie Jr. of Great Falls, and seven great-grandchildren, Starr, Nick, Holly and Andy White of Gilroy, Avery Morris of Springfield, Nolan LaMantia of Muncie and Chris McDuffie of Great Falls. A memorial service will be at a later date in Pine Bluffs. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Association, 919 N.

Michigan, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL 60611-1676, or your local Alzheimer's chapter. Olinger-Andrews-Caldwell- Gibson Funeral Home, 407 Jerry, Castle Rock, CO 80104, handled arrangements. Today's oblfuaries Lena E. Cyr NEWTON Lena E. Cyr, 95, Newton, formerly of Topeka, died Saturday, June 17, 2006.

Mrs. Cyr was born Lena E. Biery on Jan. 17,1911, in Ames. She and her husband operated a grocery store in Como and the Cowboy Inn in Clay Center.

She also was a custodial supervisor for the State of Kansas, retiring in 1973. KANSAS BELLEVILLE: William "Ross" Wineinger CAWKER CnrY: Warren R. Suter CHAPMAN: Joyce Ann Meyer COLBY: Robert J. Gordon ELLSWORTH: Ernest E. Doubrava HAYS: Hilda Wolf LINDSBORG: Dorwin C.

Ramsey LINN: Zita N. Plieffer NEWTON: Lena E. Cyr TOPEKA: William Meyer OUT OF STATE Bobbie Lantelme Bothwell, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Lura Alwiida Brown, Castle Rock, Colo. Marjorie A.

"Marge" Greene, Houston Enoch B. Harris, Hemet, Calif. The Journal publishes basic obituary intormatlon (or free. Other information and photos can be included (or a (ee. Iniormallon (or obituaries is accepted only (rom funeral homes.

For Inlormation, see your (unerai home or call the Journal at (785) 823-6363. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence, in 1974; a son, Everett, in 1976; a great-granddaughter; and a great-great-grandson. Survivors include three sons, Clarence L. of Waverly, Gayle R. of Topeka and Carl E.

of McPherson; a daughter, Janfe Liby of Topeka; a sister, Phyllis Anderson of Wellington; nine grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Name Catholic Church, Topeka. A graveside service will be at 3:30 p.m. in St.

Joseph Cemetery, south of Clyde. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Kansas or the church in care of Brennan- Mathena Funeral Home, 800 W. Sixth, Topeka 66603. Ernest E. Doubrava ELLSWORTH Ernest E.

Doubrava, 68, Ellsworth, died Sunday, June 18, 2006. Mr. Doubrava was born May 24,1938, in Ellsworth, He was retired from the Ellsworth Coop, Survivors include a son, Matthew of Salina; a daughter, Rabecka Eakins of Bentonville. two stepdaughters, Peggy Rusch and Leslie Hernandez, both of Salina; four grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; and a step- great-grandchild. The funeral will be at 10 a.m.

Wednesday at Parsons Funeral Home, 307 N. Lincoln, Ellsworth 67439. Burial will be in Ellsworth Memorial Cemetery Memorials may be made to American Legion Post 174, Ellsworth. Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. today and 8 a.m.

to service time Wednesday at the funeral home. Robert J. Gordon COLBY Robert J. Gordon, 83, Colby died Saturday, June 17, 2006. Mr.

Gordon was born April 18,1923, in Braddock, Pa. He was a retired Realtor. Survivors include his wife, Roena, of Colby; a son, Greg of Colby; two daughters, Amelia Grinstead of Walla Walla, and Deborah Bender of Tonganoxie; a brother, James of Norton; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. today at Trinity Lutheran Church, Colby Burial will be in Beulah Cemetery, Colby Memorials may be made to Alzheimer's Foundation, in care of any Colby bank or Harrison Chapel, Box 634,190 S.

Franklin, Colby 67701. Marjorie A. "IWarge" Greene HOUSTON Marjorie A. "Marge" Greene, 73, Houston, died Sunday Juno 18,2006. Miss Greene was born in 1932 and graduated from Jewell High School, Jewell, in 1950.

She attended Marymount College School of Nursing, Salina, receiving a diploma in 1953 and a BSN degree in 1959. She also received an MA degree in nursing service administration from the University of Iowa in 1969. She worked in several hospitals and medical offices and joined the U.S. Public Health Service as a commissioned officer in 1960. She retired from the PHS as director of nursing at the USPHS Hospital in New Orleans.

She also worked in medical auditing in Houston. She was active in the Texas Society of Nursing Service Administrators, Texas Medical Auditors Associations and American Association of Medical Audit Specialists. She also was a member and leader in Zonta International clubs in New Orleans and Houston and was a volunteer at Ten Thousand Villages and The Women's Home. She was honored by the Federation of Houston Professional Women in 1988 for her community service roles. She enjoyed needlepoint, gardening, gourmet cooking and traveling.

Survivors include a friend, Carolyn Phillips; two brothers, Norman Greene and wife Doris of Jewell and Gerald Greene and wife Phyllis of Garden City; six nieces and nephews; and 11 great-nieces and great-nephews. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Jewell Christian Church. Memorials may be made to Christus VNA Hospice, 601 Sawyer, Suite 750, Houston, TX 77007, or Marjorie Greene Intern Scholarship at Ten Thousand Villages, 2424-A Rice, Houston, TX 77005. Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m.

Wednesday at Kleppinger Funeral Home, 409 Broadway Jewell. Nutter Mortuary 116 E. Sixth, Concordia, KS 66901, is handling arrangements. Enocli B. Harris HEMET, Calif.

Enoch B. Harris, 100, Hemet, formerly of Salina, died Monday June 19, 2006. Ryan Mortuary Salina, is handling arrangements. Joyce Ann Meyer CHAPMAN Joyce Ann Meyer, 76, Chapman, died Sunday June 18, 2006. Londeen Funeral Home, Chapman, is handling arrangements, William H.

"Bill" IVIeyer TOPEKA William H. "Bill" Meyer, 73, Topeka, formerly of Ludell, died Friday June 16,2006. Mr. Meyer was born April 13,1933, in Ludell. He worked in production for various oil companies and property developments.

Survivors include his wife, Sylvia, of Topeka; and a sister, Sophie Hill of Holton. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Atwood. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery Ludell. Memorials may be made to The Lutheran Hour or be a blood donor at a location of the donor's choice.

Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Williams Funeral Home, 109 N. Second, Atwood 67730. Zita N. Pfieffer LINN Zita N.

Pfieffer, 94, Linn, died Monday, June 19, 2006. Ward Funeral Home, Washington, is handling arrangements. Dorwin C. Ramsey LINDSBORG Dorwin C. Ramsey 84, Lindsborg, died Monday June 19, 2006.

Mr Ramsey was born May 4,1922, in Sugar City Mo. He was a retired maintenance technician at Kanopolis State Park. Survivors include his wife, Rosa of Lindsborg; four daughters, Kristy Sprague of Valley Center, Lois Tatro of Wichita, Nancy Burgess of Hutchinson and Jane Anderson of Lindsborg; and five grandchildren. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Marquette United Methodist Church.

Burial will be in Langley Cemetery, rural Marquette. Memorials may be made to the church. Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to service time Thursday at the church. Christians Funeral Home, 103 N.

Washington, Box 386, Lindsborg 67456, is handling arrangements. Warren R. Suter CAWKER CITY Warren R. Suter, 79, Cawker City died Sunday June 18, 2006. Mr.

Suter was born June 8, 1927, in rural Cawker City He was retired from the U.S. Navy Survivors include his wife. Opal, of the home; a son, William Miller of Wasilla, Alaska; a brother, Milton of Cawker City; a sister, Helen VonDemfunge of Topeka; seven grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Cawker City Baptist Church.

Burial will be in Prairie Grove Cemetery Cawker City, with military honors. Memorials may be made to the church or charity of the donor's choice. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Waconda Funeral Home, 815 W. First, Cawker City 67430.

Condolences may be sent to www.mcdonaldrobertsfuneral service.com. William "Ross" Wineinger BELLEVILLE William "Ross" Wineinger, 82, Belleville, died Saturday June 17, 2006. Mr. Wineinger was born Dec. 12,1923, in Concordia.

He was a retired farmer. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Angela Jean. Survivors include his wife, Alice, of Belleville; two sons, Michael A. of DeSoto and Patrick S. of Great Bend; a brother, Carl L.

of Washington; two sisters, Wilma Woodcock of Washington and Geneva Blashill of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; four grandchildren; and six grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Bachelor- Faulkner-Dart-Surber Chapel, 1322 19th, Belleville 66935. The body was cremated. There will be a private family inurnment in Hawks Cemetery rural Cuba.

Memorials may be made to Presbyterian Church, Cuba, Republic County Hospital or Grandview Apartments. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at the funeral home. Hilda Wolf HAYS Wolf, 83, Hays, formerly of Grainfield, died Saturday June 17,2006.

Mrs. Wolf was born Hilda Schmidtberger on Dec. 19, 1922, in Pfeifer She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Mary Wolf. Survivors include her husband, Bernard of Hays; two sons, Randall J.

of Hays and Bernard L. of Grainfield; four daughters, Ronda Kaiser of Quinter, Charlene Williams of Tulsa, Donna Albers of Oakley and Judy Ziegler of Ellis; a brother, Victor Schmidtberger of Grainfield; two sisters, Marcella Heier of Park and Irene Ziegler of Grainfield; 19 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Agnes Catholic Church, Grainfield.

Burial will be in Grainfield Cemetery A vigil will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. Agnes Education Center, Grainfield. Memorials may be made to Hays Good Samaritan Center or Alzheimer's Association of the Great Plains, in care of Schmitt Funeral Home, 901 S. Main, Quinter 67752.

Visitation will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. today at the education center. More than half of state's wheat has been cut But harvest has just begun in northwest part of the state By The Associated Press WICHITA Plagued by a drought that caused crops to mature faster and left fewer acres and bushels to cut, the 2006 Kansas wheat harvest has passed the halfway mark. About 53 percent of the wheat has been harvested, Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service said Monday compared to 9 percent that was cut at this time last year The unusually quick harvest easily surpasses the five-year average of 15 percent. In its weekly crop report, the agency said 86 percent of the wheat is now ripe, compared to 59 percent at this time a year ago.

The Department of Commerce is closing several harvest offices in the southern part of the state where harvest is nearly complete. Northwest Kansas where higher elevations traditionally make it the last area of the state to cut wheat was about 7 percent finished with wheat harvest, KASS reported. In the northeast, 12 percent of the crops had been cut as of Sunday. South-central Kansas, where harvest began, was 83 percent finished, and central Kansas was at the 73 percent mark, the agency reported. Southwest Kansas was 63 percent finished with harvest.

North- central Kansas hit the halfway mark, and the southeast parts of the state were doing a bit better with 55 percent of the crop now in the bin. Meanwhile, the condition of wheat still in the field remained grim. In its latest update, KASS rated about 46 percent of the wheat in poor to very poor condition. Another 32 percent was rated as fair, 20 percent was good, and just 2 percent was excellent. Among those cutting were farmers around Garden City, where the weather was clear, hot and dry Test weights have been running between 55 and 61 pounds per bushel, with yields ranging from 15 to 35 bushels per acre.

In Great Bend, test weights reported by its harvest office range from 59 to 61 pounds per bushel. Other crops fare better The poor condition of the wheat crop was in sharp contrast to the brighter outlook for the state's spring-planted crops: Corn was rated as 5 percent poor, 30 percent fair, 56 percent good and 9 percent excellent. Soybean condition was rated 4 percent poor, 26 percent fair, 64 percent good and 6 percent excellent. Sorghum was graded as 6 percent poor, 31 percent fair, 61 percent good and 2 percent excellent. Harvest Rain makes difference FROM PAGE A1 Western Kansas was hit -again with dry conditions and disease, which aided in driving up the price.

"You want to be that farmer located where we get some moisture, that person in the right spot and everybody else isn't," Garten said. "If you're that one, you're going to be able to pay your bills," And there is a "pocket in here that looks vei-y good," he said, noting a farmer in southern Dickinson County near Navarre, who posted a 60- bushel average yield. Quality was good, too, with test weights well above the industry standard of 60 pounds a bushel. A few key rains Redden traveled through southwest Kansas on June 8 and witnessed the beginning of a depressing harvest. "A lot of that wheat wasn't over 8 inches high.

They were scraping the ground with their combine platforms to get it," he said. The harvest depended on a "few key rains," Garten said. "If people got those, it made a big difference. Just ask the boys out west." North-central Kansas fared better than western Kansas, and even south-central, said Aaron Borcherding, sales leader at Cargill Ag Horizons, a terminal grain elevator off Halstead Road, two miles west of Salina. "It was better than anticipated," he said.

"Overall, it's probably going to be somewhere close to an average crop for this particular area." A 10-day period with cool and damp conditions in May was possibly the silent crop savior, said Larry Straub, chief executive officer of Straub International, a Case- IH dealer, 3637 S. Ninth. It came on the heels of blistering temperatures that caused the crop to begin turning from green to golden, but there was enough life left in the plants to finish developing the valuable wheat kernels. "That's where the surprise might have come this year. That's my perception anyway" he said, The crop was decent aroimd all of Straub's six stores, although the good returns were "a little spotty" in the Great Bend and Larned areas.

The firm also operates in Marion, Hutchinson and Wichita. "1 heard that Saline and Dickinson counties have had a pretty decent harvest," Straub said. "We might have been the garden spot this year." Looking for more sales Added to the good yields was a less expensive harvest for repairs. Straub said the sales of parts were moderate. That may in part be thanks to the wheat plants being shorter this year "They're harvesting a pretty good crop and they don't have as much straw they're pushing through their machines," Straub said.

"There wasn't quite as much wear and tear on their combines." With fewer breakdowns, he said, there may be more profit left over to update machinery "1 think there's a pretty good chance that we'll see an uptick in business over the next few months," Straub said. The cash price at Cargill's Salina terminal was $4.51 Monday down 1 'A cents a bushel, but still higher than a year ago. Farmer Redden isn't selling his wheat right away He's banking on a higher price once the effect of the nationwide and worldwide wheat harvest is felt. "It's just a guess and a gamble. Ten years ago wheat was six dollars or better," he said.

"It's been a good year. I'll have to say that," Redden said. "We need a few of those years." LjQ)X)XjEjg)t Winning Powerball ticket sold at Oklahoma QuikTrip By The Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY A QuikTrip convenience store in Broken Arrow sold the winning Powerball ticket worth $101.8 million in Saturday night's drawing, the Oklahoma Lottery Commission confirmed Monday "We have verified that the ticket was in fact sold there," Lottery Commission spokeswoman Beverly Hughes said. "Of course, there are still several security tests that will have to be conducted once the winner comes forward." Hughes said no additional information will be made available until the player comes forward to claim the prize. This is the first time a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket has been purchased in Oklahoma since the multi- state game started in the state in January She said it's not unusual for big winners to delay claiming their prize until after talking to an attorney or financial adviser.

"In most cases, people don't come forward right away" she Lottery winners have 180 days from the date of sale to come forward with their ticket, Hughes said. The lottery winner can take the prize in 30 installments over a 29-year period or as a lump sum payment of more than $46.2 million before taxes. Federal taxes on lottery- winnings over $600 are 25 percent, and state taxes arc 4 percent, Hughes said. MOWDAY'S DRAWIWGS DAILY PICK 3 2-8-7 2 BY 2 Red: 6-8 White: 3-9 SUPER CASH 2-16-21-24-27 Super Cashball 17 Estimated jackpot: $130,000 Today's Scripture The blessing of the Lord brings wealtli, and he adds no trouble toil. Proverbs 10:22 (NIV).