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Donald Frederick Smith
Nov 28, 2012
Donald Frederick Smith, 53, of Durham, NC, died of a sudden illness on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at Minneapolis, MN.He was born November 13, 1959, at Liberal, KS, to Jack E. and Mary Lois (Fulton) Smith.He attended Southlawn Elementary, South Junior High, and Liberal High School, graduating in 1978. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Southwestern College at...
Ruth Feese
Nov 25, 2012
Ruth FeeseCleo Ruth Feese, 90, died Sunday, November 25, 2012 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, KS.She was born February 11, 1922 in Kechi, KS, the daughter of Clyde Lester and Della Mae (Reeves) Bigger. She attended schools at Langdon and Sylvia, Kansas. Ruth graduated from Sylvia High School in 1940.She has been a longtime Liberal resident. Ruth worked at the...
Doris May Curry
Nov 22, 2012
Doris May Curry, age 87, died November 22, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born January 2, 1925 in Woodward, OK, the daughter of Carney and Jewell (Jackson) Curry. She graduated from Freedom High School, Freedom, OK, on May 20, 1943. She graduated from Northwestern State College, Alva, OK in 1970, with a Masters Degree in...
Maurine Mae Evans
Nov 21, 2012
Maurine Mae Evans 99, died Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at Liberal Good Samaritan Society in Liberal, KSShe was born March 13, 1913 in rural Liberal, the daughter of Luther Franklin and Lola Pearl (Browning) Cox.She graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1931 of Turpin High School.She was a homemaker and helped her husband farm. She was a longtime...
Mary Pauline Weaver
Nov 5, 2012
Mary Pauline Weaver 98, died Monday, November 5, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born November 9, 1913 in Cleveland, OK the daughter of Frank Moulder. She had been a resident of the Liberal area for many years. She was employed by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline becoming the first female supervisor. She was a member of...
E. Juanita Hershey
Nov 5, 2012
E. Juanita (Mangels) Hershey, 96, died Monday, November 5, 2012, at Southwest Medical Center, in Liberal.She was born June 20, 1916, at Plevna, Kansas, to Chester and Mary (Nusser) Mangels.She graduated from Rolla High School in 1934. She was a teacher at country schools in Morton and Stevens County. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Elkhart, where...
Jean Logsdon
Nov 3, 2012
Jean Logsdon, 86, died Nov. 3, 2012 while receiving hospice care at Meadowlake Estates, in Oklahoma City. She was born Sept. 8, 1926 in Borger, TX, the daughter of Lex and Ethel (Cowan) Phillips. In 1945, she married Rex Joe Logsdon of Guymon, OK. He died Feb. 15, 1965. They made their home in Liberal and raised two daughters, Karen...
Anna (Vom Hofe) Bryan
Oct 21, 2012
Anna (Vom Hofe) Bryan, 89, died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at Beaver Co. Nursing Home in Beaver, OK.She was born Sept. 27, 1923 at Kassel, Germany to Karl Martin and Anna Christina (Grigat) Vom Hofe.She graduated from high school in Germany in 1937 and then took courses in shorthand and typing.In 1945, she married Edward W. Bryan at Munich, Germany....
Mary Anna Dunn
Oct 12, 2012
Mary Anna Dunn, 80, died Friday, October 12, 2012 at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City, KS.She was born March 27, 1932 in Blencoe, Iowa to William and Edith (Peterson) Erlandson. She graduated high school at Blencoe, Iowa and then studied at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE.On May 19, 1956, she married Howard A. Dunn in Onawa, Iowa. He...
Nancy Carol Pittman
Oct 5, 2012
Nancy Carol Pittman, age 70, died October 5, 2012 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. She was born January 25, 1942 in Liberal, KS, the daughter of Harland and Mae (Fuller) Neese. She attended Liberal High School. She was a life time resident of Liberal, moving to Wichita, KS in 2008.On December 11, 1970,she married Richard Pittman in...
Barbara Ruth Poarch
Oct 4, 2012
Barbara Ruth Poarch 85, died Thurs., October 4, 2012 at Belvedere Commons in Franklin, TN. She was born Sept. 15, 1927 in Watonga, Oklahoma the daughter of Warren B. and Grace (Burgin) Scott. She had been a resident of Liberal since 1953. She had worked in the medical offices of Dr. Campion, Dr. Rathburn and Dr. Allen. She retired in...
Donald D. King,
Oct 4, 2012
Donald Dean King, Sr., 80, died Thurs., October 4, 2012, at VA Hospital, Dallas, TX.He was born December 13, 1931, in Liberal, KS, the son of John R. and Nora E. (Lawder) King. He was a 1950 graduate of Turpin High School. He received a BS Degree from Oklahoma A&M (OSU), and a MS Degree from Kansas State Univ. He...
Ross Alan Graham
Sep 30, 2012
Ross Alan Graham, age 58, died September 30, 2012 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS. He was born September 9, 1954 in Liberal, KS the son of Bobby Ross and Katherine Muriel (Light) Graham.He graduated from Liberal High School in 1972. He was a life time resident of Liberal.He was employed as a carpenter and worked for the Seward...
Shirley "S.G." Gene Hinz
Sep 25, 2012
Shirley Gene “S. G.” Hinz, 85, died Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at his residence in Liberal, KS.He was born May 1, 1927 at Corn, OK to Alvin H. and Elizabeth (Franzen) Hinz.He was a Korean War veteran serving in the U. S. Army from Oct. 17, 1950 – Oct. 22, 1952.He was a farmer and truck driver. He lived in...
Jean Marie Weeast
Sep 24, 2012
Jean Marie Weeast, 88, died Monday, September 24, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS.She was born October 23, 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio the daughter of John Harold and Grace Elizabeth (Nichols) Keefe. She graduated from Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey in 1942.She had been a resident of Liberal for the past 20 years. She...
Duane Reed Hitchcock
Sep 24, 2012
Duane Reed Hitchcock, 56, died Monday, September 24, 2012 at Kansas Medical Center in Andover, KS.He was born on November 10, 1955 at Pratt, KS to Ralph L. and Mary (Reed) Hitchcock.He had worked for several local oilfield companies as a roughneck.He is survived by hisSon – Stacey Hitchcock of Yukon, OK;Father – Ralph L. Hitchcock of Minneola, KS;Sister –...
Jean Ray "JR" "Jabo" Willimon
Sep 20, 2012
Jean Ray “JR” “Jabo” Willimon, age 88, of Plains, died Thursday, September 20, 2012, at Minneola District Hospital, in Minneola, KS. He was born July 27, 1924 at Davidson, OK, to John Wesley and Alice Anna (Wright) Willimon. He attended school at Davidson.He served in the United States Army, during World War II, from 1943 to 1945.He married Imogene B....
Skip Patheal
Sep 16, 2012
Skip Patheal, 90, died Sunday, September 16, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KSShe was born January 28, 1922 in Decatur, IL, the daughter of William Sr. and Edith (Young) Schlosser. She has been a resident of Liberal for the past six years, also living in Hugoton, KS for 13 years and Denver, CO for 14 years. She was...
Marsha Suzanne Moore
Sep 15, 2012
Marsha Suzanne Moore, age 59, died September 15, 2012 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS, after a brief illness with cancer. She was born January 1, 1953 in Liberal, KS, the daughter of William Maxwell and Juanita Lois (Brewer) Moore. She graduated from Liberal High School in 1972. She was a life time resident of Liberal.She worked as a...
Juan "John" Manuel Vasquez
Sep 14, 2012
Juan Manuel “John” Vasquez, age 41, died Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 at Richardson Methodist Medical Center in Richardson, TX.He was born May 27, 1971 at Rosario, Dgo, Mexico, to Felix and Estela (Holguin) Vasquez.He was a 1990 graduate of Rolla High School, Rolla, KS and then attended Seward County Community College in Liberal, KS.He had lived in Dallas for the...
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