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Andres Osbaldo Ortiz Jr.
Sep 13, 2021
Andres Osbaldo Ortiz Jr., age 38, died Monday, September 13, 2021, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on September 5, 1983, the son of Andres Osbaldo Ortiz Sr. and Maria Angeles Andrade in Spearman, Texas. Andres married Sarai Marroquin on June 26, 2006, in Kent Washington. He was the father of Orlando Andres Ortiz and Sienna...
Horst Gunther Wilson
Sep 11, 2021
Horst Gunther Wilson, 79, of Liberal peacefully passed away at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas, on Saturday, September 11, 2021, with the love of his life by his side. He was born on September 3, 1942, to Elisabeth (Kraus-Staudinger) and Howard R. Wilson in Lemberg, Poland. At the age of 9, he and his family traveled by boat...
Juan Dominguez Garcia
Sep 6, 2021
Juan Dominguez Garcia, age 72, died Monday, September 6, 2021 at his home in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on January 11, 1949, the son of Ascencion Dominguez and Margarita Garcia in Delicias, Chihuahua. Juan was born and raised in Mexico, and moved to Liberal, Kansas where he lived for 30 years. On September 28, 1983, he married Lucila in...
Donald Edwin Seibel
Sep 3, 2021
Dr. Donald Edwin Seibel, age 89, died Friday, September 3, 2021 at Banner Ocotillo Medical Center in Chandler, Arizona. He was born on August 10, 1932, the son of Edwin Seibel and Ana Gashler Seibel. Don graduated from Ellis High School in 1950 in Ellis, Kansas. He attended Fort Hays State University for 2 years, then transferring to Kansas State...
Leona Evelyn Loepp
Aug 27, 2021
Leona Evelyn Loepp, age 107, died peacefully Friday, August 27, 2021, at Brookdale Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on March 2, 1914, the daughter of Tobias T. Dirks and Katie Zielke Dirks in Beaver County, Oklahoma. Leona graduated Greenough High School and attended Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College (PAMC) in Goodwell, Oklahoma. She received a provisional teaching...
Melvin Lewis Tatum Sr.
Aug 27, 2021
“God’s Miracle Man” Elder Melvin Lewis Tatum Sr., 73, was born on July 26, 1948, to Melvin and Peggy (Thomas) Tatum in Mexia, TX, and received his “Eternal Reward” on August 28, 2021. Melvin attended school in Odessa and Tulia, TX. He was an OUTSTANDING math student and received numerous AWARDS for his ACHIEVEMENTS! Because of his personality, character, and...
Harley Dean Kruse
Aug 23, 2021
On Monday, August 23, 2021, Harley Dean Kruse, loving husband and father of 5 children, passed away at the age of 86 at Wheatridge Care Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on August 20th, 1935 to Chester Arthur Kruse and Martha Caroline Scheib in Ellsworth, Kansas. Harley graduated high school from Geneseo, Kansas. Harley and family moved to Liberal...
Billy Duane Smith
Aug 14, 2021
Billy Duane Smith, age 78, died Saturday, August 14, 2021, at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on March 7, 1943, the son of William Elliot Smith and Versia Jewell Likens in Liberal, Kansas. Billy married Shirley Palmer on February 22, 1973, in Hooker, Oklahoma. Together they had one son, Roger. Billy served in the US...
Dorothy Althea Hamlin
Aug 14, 2021
Dorothy Althea Hamlin, 99, died Saturday, August 14, 2021 at her residence in Liberal, Kansas. She was born July 30, 1922 in Hooker, Oklahoma, the daughter of Eva and Guy Daniels. She was raised on her family farm outside Hooker, OK. Althea grew up in an era when not all children had the opportunity to attend high school. She always...
Franka Joy Post
Aug 9, 2021
Franka Joy Post, age 41, died August 9, 2021, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on November 4, 1979, the daughter of Frank and Veda Joy (Young) King. Franka graduated from Turpin High School in 1998 and from University of Central Oklahoma in 2002. She married Dustin Floyd Post on June 6, 2015, in Trinchera Ranch,...
Luther Garcia
Aug 8, 2021
Luther Garcia, age 87, died Sunday, August 8, 2021, at his home in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on December 15, 1933, the son of Balomere Garcia and Adela Ramos in Coolidge, Kansas. Luther served in the Marines from March 1952 – July 1955 and served in the Korean War. He worked as a grain elevator operator for the Coop...
Noel Adrian Gardea-Hernandez
Jul 31, 2021
Noel Adrian Gardea-Hernandez, age 26, died Saturday, July 31, 2021, in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He was born on April 8, 1995, son of Ernesto Gardea and Mauricia Hernandez in Liberal, Kansas. Noel completed the 11th grade in Liberal, Kansas. On October 4, 2014, he married Iris Guadalupe Vallejo-Lopez. They had two sons, Adrian Elias and Thiago Emiliano. Noel worked as...
Gene Hugh Sharp
Jul 27, 2021
Gene Sharp, age 92, died Tuesday, July 27, 2021, at his residence of 60 years in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on January 20, 1929, East St. Louis, Illinois the son of Olin Arthur Sharp and Lois (Dorman). Gene’s father was a traveling salesman working for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. from 1924-1935. In 1935 when his father lost his...
Joyce Elaine Hines
Jul 27, 2021
Joyce Elaine (Cole) Hines, passed away at home in Liberal, Kansas on July 27, 2021. She was born o March 30, 1938, to George William and Mildred Louise (McHenry) Cole in Iola, Kansas, she was the third child of five born to her parents and made her entrance within minutes after the birth of her fraternal twin Jerry Elwin. Iola...
Lonnie E. Pittser
Jul 25, 2021
Lonnie E. Pittser, age 82, died on Sunday, July 25, 2021, at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on July 11, 1939, the son of Earl Eston Pittser and Bridget Marie Zorn in Barton County Kansas. Lonnie married Mary Ann Sallee on October 14, 1961, in Liberal, Kansas. Together they raised one son, Buddy and two...
Roger Moffett
Jul 25, 2021
Roger Moffett, age 80, died Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Brenham, Texas after a brief illness. He was born on November 4, 1940, the son of Fred Vivian and Betty Evelyn Moffett in Concordia, Kansas. Roger was an only child. Roger grew up in Phillipsburg, Kansas and graduated from Phillipsburg High School and Fort Hays State University. He served in...
Cristina Romero
Jul 25, 2021
Cristina Romero, age 78, died Sunday, July 25, 2021, at her home in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on July 24, 1943, the daughter of Ricardo Estrada and Natividad Carrasco in San Francisco del Oro Chihuahua, Mexico. Cristina was married to Edmundo Romero and together they had five sons, Javier, Ricardo, Ruben, Rogelio, and Hector and one daughter, Marisela. She...
Lorene Reever
Jul 23, 2021
Lorene Reever, age 75, died Friday, July 23, 2021, in Hobbs, New Mexico. She was born June 27, 1946, the daughter of Forest Trahern and Leona Isaccs Trahern in Liberal, Kansas. Lorene graduated Liberal High School in Liberal, Kansas in 1964. She was very hard working starting her first job at Dairy Queen while she was in high school. She...
Nancy Jane Bowman
Jul 19, 2021
Nancy Jane Bowman, age 81, died July 19, 2021, at her home in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on April 30, 1940, daughter of Henry Ray Bergdall and Maggie Swartz Bergdall in Winfield, Kansas. Nancy grew up in Winfield graduating high school from there in 1958 and finishing college from Southwestern College of Winfield in 1963 with a Home Economics...
Norma Jean Isaacs
Jul 15, 2021
Norma Jean Isaacs, age 91. Died July 15, 2021, at Brookdale Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on August 22, 1929, the daughter of Carl Wettstein and Hazel Massoni Wettstein in Stevens County, Kansas. Norma graduated from Liberal High School in 1947. She married Elmer Isaacs on June 29, 1949. Elmer preceded her in death on May 26,...
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