Tribune—Walter James Waldren, age 54, passed away on Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Wichita County, Kansas. He was born on October 28, 1970, in Leoti, Kansas, the son of Walter Donald and Carolyn Lea Lemmer Waldren. He was a farmer.
James married Mary Jane Kelley on April 22, 1994, in Scott City, Kansas.
To this union, Ashley Nicohl was born on July 12, 1995.
James graduated from WaKeeney High School in the spring of 1989. He then attended Northwest Kansas Technical College in Goodland, Kansas for welding and graduated in the spring of 1991.
He liked working with his dad, Donald. He was a master craftsman like his father, making furniture and cutting different designs with a plasma cutter. He would help anyone and he didn’t mind telling you what he thought. James loved his old pickup and his everyday companion, his dog, Sloan. James also loved playing with his grandkids, Landen & Jaxton; he was papa to them. Survivors include his daughter, Ashley Nicohl Waldren & Jordan Nemechek of Tribune, Kansas; his mother, Carolyn Lea Waldren of Leoti, Kansas; three sisters, Karolyn & Elias Moreno of Dallas, Texas, Katrina & Eric Hoffman of Horace, Kansas, Karla & Rick Dilling of California, Kentucky; two grandsons, Landen & Jaxton Nemechek of Tribune, Kansas; and many friends, relatives, aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his father, Walter Donald Waldren.
Graveside Memorial Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. (Mountain Time) Monday, March 24, 2025, at the Greeley County Cemetery in Tribune, Kansas, with Steve Payne presiding.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the James Waldren Memorial Fund in care of Price and Sons Funeral Home, Tribune, Kansas.
Interment will be in the Scott County Cemetery.
There will be no calling times.
