Obituaries

Jesse England passed away peacefully at the Gene & Irene Wockner Hospice Center in Kirkland, WA on May 10, 2021 after a long struggle with peripheral nerve sheath cancer. He was born on September 2, 1983 in Emporia, KS to Ken and Debbie England of Council Grove, KS.

Jonelle (Kinsey) Pearce, 74, Dodge City, died October 4, 2020 in Olathe, Kansas.

Loren I. Holm, 99, passed away May 2, 2021, at the Morris County Hospital. He was born June 17, 1921 near Dwight, Kansas, the son of Ivar E. and Birttie E. Harris Holm. He grew up in the Dwight area, attending grade school at Swartz School and he graduated from Dwight Rural High School in 1939. He attended Kansas State Agriculture College for 2 years. He married Mildred Rinabarger at the home of her parents in Alta Vista, Kansas on April 2 , 1943 and they celebrated 76 years of marriage before Mildred died in May of 2019. They have three daughters, Connie, Barbara, and Dorothy. Loren and Mildred lived in the rural Dwight area 73 years before moving to the Council Grove Assisted Living in 2016.