Sharon Kay Hicks Dodge City - Mary Lou Doris born August 15, 1933 on the farm Kansas to Edward and Elizabeth (Unruh) Frank. She died December Mary attended East Banner School in Haskell County for elementary school at Montezuma High School, and college at Garden City She continued her education at Emporia State where she earned Education.
Dodge City - Mary Lou Doris born August 15, 1933 on the farm in Haskell County, Kansas to Edward and Elizabeth (Unruh) Frank. She died December 24, 2022 in Aurora Colorado. Mary attended East Banner School in Haskell County for elementary school, high school at Montezuma High School, and college at Garden City Community College. She continued her education at Emporia State where she earned her Masters in Education. While attending college in Garden City she met her husband, Dennis Doris. They married on August 24, 1957. Also in 1957, Mary began her teaching career in Lane County where she taught there for the next 20 years. After she and Dennis moved to Dodge City, Mary continued to teach for another 20 years. She spent her retirement traveling the world with her husband Dennis. Together they traveled to all 50 states, 73 different countries and 7 continents. Mary is survived by her sister, Jenny Wiswell and her husband Darrell; brother-inlaw, Lawrence Withers; sister-in-law, Virginia Frank; and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her husband, Dennis Doris; her parents, Edward and Elizabeth Frank; her sisters, Sadie Frank, Florence Yost, and Esther Withers; and her brothers, Floyd Frank and Paul Frank. Funeral service will be held at Swaim Funeral Chapel, Dodge City on Friday, December 30, 2022 at 10:30 AM. Burial will be at 3:00 PM at the Lane County Cemetery, Dighton. Visitation will be at Swaim Funeral Chapel on Thursday, December 29, 2022 from noon to 8:00 PM. Memorials are suggested to the Kansas Teachers’ Hall of Fame in care of the funeral home. Thoughts and memories may be shared in the online guest book at
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“Ruralpreneurs” in business, tourism, technology and agriculture along with community volunteers are among those to be honored by K-State’s Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development as Leaders of the Year for 2022. This year’s award categories and winners are: • Entrepreneurship -- Cassidy Cage and Halle Schindler, C&H Designs, Manhattan/Paola.
The operator of a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of heavy crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek said Friday that it has permission from U.S. government regulators to reopen the repaired segment where the rupture occurred.
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or making important decisions from the beginning of the day until 5:45 a.m. EST today (2:45 a.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves from Pisces into Aries. ARIES (March 21-April 19) AAAA It’s a lovely day! The Moon is in Aries, lined up with Jupiter in your sign. (It doesn’t get much better than this.) In addition, the Moon is also dancing beautifully with your ruler Mars. Naturally, you feel jubilant, confident and energetic! You rock! Tonight: Exercise.
Dear Amy: For over 15 years, we have lived next door to our wonderful neighbors. We’re great friends with the parents and have been blessed to watch their three kids grow up.
On Tuesday morning, 11-year-old Landon Hunt stood with his mom, Katrina Smith, in a long line for the Southwest Airlines counter at the Kansas City Airport. “Yesterday we were here and the line was all the way down to the first gate,” Hunt said.
Education deans at public universities in Kansas working on solutions to a K-12 teacher shortage want to dramatically expand over three years state financial aid for college students in education programs and to implement a partnership to uniformly compensate student teachers. The task force appointed by the Kansas Board of Regents has also been working to refine an agreement among community colleges and universities allowing education students to automatically transfer 60 credit hours of courses.
As cows begin calving K-State experts advise moving the pregnant cows to new pastures every few weeks to reduce disease spread among the newborns The old saying that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is one that commonly refers to the importance of reducing the risk for disease spread. And in the case of beef cattle scours, where cows calve has a lot to do with how well the newborns can stay healthy in the first few weeks of life, say the experts at Kansas State University’s Beef Cattle Institute.