Obituaries

Roosevelt "Lucky" Livingston

Roosevelt "Lucky" Livingston

Dec 13, 2016

Roosevelt “Lucky” Livingston, 73, died Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was a resident of Liberal for 57 years. He was born on May 8, 1943 to Leroy and Gertie (Lewis) Livingston in Pickens, Arkansas. He attended Liberal High School. He served in the United States Navy from 1963-1969.On January 6, 1966 he married Gertrude...

Helen Nadine Gray

Helen Nadine Gray

Dec 7, 2016

LIBERAL, KSHelen Nadine “Dumpy” Gray, age 86, died December 7, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born June 5, 1930 in Parsons, KS, the daughter of J. D. and Gertie Marie (Winters) Walker.She had been a resident of Liberal for 40 years.She was married to Bill Wesley, Sr. They divorced in 1969.On July 5, 1974 she...

Margaret Pearle Engler

Margaret Pearle Engler

Dec 7, 2016

Margaret Pearle Engler 94 died, Thursday December 7, 2016 at Brookdale/ Liberal Springs Senior Living Center. She was born May 9, 1922, and at birth became the daughter of Willard and Lillian (Frey) Moody. She was made available for them to adopt at birth, and at the age of 66, she discovered her biological family. She has been a resident...

Janice Fern Francis

Janice Fern Francis

Dec 3, 2016

Janice Fern Francis, age 71, died December 3, 2016 at Nichol Home in Glasco, KS. She was born December 3, 1945 in Sioux City, IA, the daughter of Harry L. and Esther (Schell) Baker. She attended Plains Elementary School. In September 1973, she married Donald Francis in Liberal, KS. He preceded her in death.She was a home maker. She enjoyed...

Sara Jean Herd

Sara Jean Herd

Dec 1, 2016

Liberal, KS Sara Jean Herd (Chappell), 32, died Thursday, December 1, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal. She was born on December 20, 1983 to Sammy and Leslie Annette (Durbin) Chappell in Liberal, KS. She attended Southwestern Heights High School, and later went on to get her GED. She worked as a Home Aid for Home Heath for several...

Kathryn E. Wood

Kathryn E. Wood

Nov 24, 2016

Kathryn E. “Katy” Wood, 103, died Thursday, November 24, 2016 at her residence in Liberal, KS. She was born October 13, 1913 in Guymon, Oklahoma, the daughter of O. J. and Jennie (Burch) Wilkins. Kathryn began school in Liberal and later moved with her family to Dalhart where she continued school starting in the third grade. After two years in...

Carmelitia Joann McAdams

Carmelitia Joann McAdams

Nov 23, 2016

Carmelitea Joann (Manion) McAdams, 79, died Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center.She was born on September 22, 1937 to Albert and Theresa (Robertson) Manion in Arkansans City, Kansas. She married Wallace “Bud” McAdams on August 1, 1954 in Clovis, New Mexico. He passed away in 1988.Joann worked for Mosaic in Liberal. She was a CNA, a HHA and...

Irene Rose Mitchell

Irene Rose Mitchell

Nov 20, 2016

Brenneman Funeral Home 1212 W. 2nd Liberal, KS 67901 Photo NoLiberal, KS Irene Rose Mitchell 91, died Sunday Nov. 20, 2016 at the Kansas Medical Center in Andover, KS.She was born May 16, 1925 in Meade County, Kansas the daughter of Charles Wilbur and Lydia (Cordes) Smith. She has been a longtime resident of Liberal, KS. She was employed at...

David L. Stanton

David L. Stanton

Nov 18, 2016

David L. Stanton, 88, of Plains KS, died November 18, 2016 at the Meade District Hospital. He was born October 24, 1928 in rural Plains, KS, to Vernon and Julia Bond Stanton. David graduated from Plains High School, Friends University and received his masters at Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, KY.David was a farmer, crop duster, school teacher and as a...

Evleyn Marqurite Miller

Evleyn Marqurite Miller

Nov 18, 2016

Evelyn Marguerite Miller, age 85, died November 18, 2016 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born May 25, 1931 at Floris, OK, the daughter of Benjamin Clayton and Florence Eloise (Dunlap) Baker. She graduated from Liberal High School in 1949. She has resided in the Liberal area for the majority of her life.Survivors include1 Daughter Terrie...

Paula Ann Tournade

Paula Ann Tournade

Nov 16, 2016

Paula Ann Tournade 87, of Liberal died Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at Wheatridge Park Care Center, Liberal. She was born April 10, 1929 to George Washington Chaffin and Ida Bessie Packer Chaffin in Liberal, KS.Paula graduated from Liberal High School in 1948. On June 7, 1949 she married Albert Galen Tournade. He died April 1, 1992.Paula was a lifelong home...

Jon Robert Creps

Jon Robert Creps

Nov 14, 2016

Jon Robert Creps, 48, died at Southwest Medical Center on Monday, November 14, 2016.He was born on July 23, 1968, to Robert Leon and Carol Ann (Ross) Creps in Winfield, Kansas. Jon was a long time resident of Mosaic in Liberal. He considered the Mosaic residents and staff his family, as they were very dear to him. A memorial service...

Karla  Holder Moore

Karla Holder Moore

Nov 6, 2016

Karla Diann Holder Moore, 60, died Sunday, Nov. 6, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born Dec. 17, 1955 in Liberal, KS, the daughter of Kenneth and Ann (Grider) Johnson. She was a lifelong resident of Liberal, KS where she graduated from Liberal High School in 1974. She attended Garden City Community College in Garden City,...

Gary Max Mendenhall

Gary Max Mendenhall

Nov 4, 2016

Gary Max Mendenhall, 80, died Friday, November 4, 2016 at his home in Edmond, OK. Max was born on January 6, 1936 to Carl and Dolores (Thurman) Mendenhall on a farm south of Baker, Oklahoma. He attended school in Baker and graduated from Eureka High School with class of 1954.On July 21, 1956 was united in marriage to Lois Jean...

Charles "Chuck" Millsap

Charles "Chuck" Millsap

Nov 1, 2016

Charles (Chuck) Millsap, Jr., 89, died on Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on June 17, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan, to Beula and Charles F. Millsap Sr. The Millsap family moved to Liberal when Charles was a child and he spent the rest of his life except for the years he...

Barbara Ellen Smith

Barbara Ellen Smith

Oct 30, 2016

Barbara Ellen “Barb” Smith, age 75, died October 30, 2016 at her residence in Liberal, KS. She was born May 6, 1941, in Santa Monica, CA the daughter of Vernon Dale Berry and Ellen Fern Claar. She graduated from Winona High School, Winona, KS in 1959. She graduated from St. Anthony School of Nursing in Hays, KS in 1963, with...

Marie Shrum

Marie Shrum

Oct 29, 2016

Marie Shrum, 68, died on October 29, 2016, at her residence in Forgan, Oklahoma. She was born August 24, 1948, in Beaver, OK, to Bud and Pauline (Williams) Schollenbarger . She graduated from Beaver High School in 1966.On August 5, 1966, she married Tom Shrum in Beaver. He survives. She was a homemaker in her own home, where she raised...

Zaiden Ray Spencer

Zaiden Ray Spencer

Oct 26, 2016

Zaiden Ray Spencer died Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born on September 23, 2016 to Zedrick Ray Spencer and Sydney Richelle Willmes. Survivors include his Parents; Grandparents; Shana Staiger, Howard Ray Spencer, Mary McElwain and Randy Willmes; Great-Grandparents, Gary and Linda Staiger, and Keary WillmesFuneral Service will be 10:00 am Tuesday, November...

Paul Tran

Paul Tran

Oct 22, 2016

Hoang Van “Paul” Tran, 67, died at his home in Liberal, KS on Saturday October 22, 2016.He was born in Saigon Vietnam to Tam Van Tran and Ba Thi Truong November, 24, 1948.He graduated High School in 1966. He served in the South Vietnamese Navy from 1966 to 1975.Paul married Cuc Thi Diep September 19, 1969 in Saigon, Viet Nam....

Janet Katherine Lewis

Janet Katherine Lewis

Oct 21, 2016

Janet Katherine Lewis, 58, died Friday, Oct. 21, 2016 at her home in Goddard, KS. She was born on January 31, 1958 in Hardtner, KS, to Victor and Monica (Landwehr) Ricke. She lived in Sharon, KS, Attica, KS, Canadian, TX, Hugoton, KS, Liberal, KS, Corpus Christi, TX, Midland TX, and Goodard, KS. Janet previously worked for Anadarko Petroleum, and Seward...