Obituaries

Willis R. Christian

Willis R. Christian

Jan 31, 2012

Willis R. Christian, 82, passed away on January 31, 2012, at Wheatridge Park Care Center, in Liberal, Kansas. He was born August 21, 1929, to Will and Nora (Blake) Christian, in Grant County, on a ranch south of Ulysses, on the Cimarron River. He went to school in Ulysses 10 ½ years, then transferred to Moscow, where he graduated in...

Teresa Marie Martinez

Teresa Marie Martinez

Jan 30, 2012

Teresa Marie Martinez, 48, of Kismet, KS, died Monday, January 30, 2012, at Southwest Medical Center, in Liberal, KS. She was born January 25, 1964, at Rocky Ford, CO, the daughter of Jose and Rosa (Casias) Torres.She was employed by U.S.D. 483, and was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, in Plains. On April 1, 1982, she married Damian...

Barbara Ellen

Barbara Ellen

Jan 23, 2012

Barbara E. (Towns) Cox 83, died Monday, January 23, 2012 at Christian Health & Rehab in Lebanon, MO.She was born March 3, 1928 in Morrisville, MO the daughter of William and Helen (Painter) Ryan.She had worked as a waitress for many years.She loved to watch the Atlanta Braves Baseball team and did not want to be disturbed while watching. In...

Robert Dee Faulkner

Robert Dee Faulkner

Jan 17, 2012

Robert D. “Bob” Faulkner, age 83, died Tues., January 17, 2012 at his home in Liberal, KS, He was born January 17, 1929, at Geneseo, KS, to Carcel and Opal (Cronkite) Faulkner.He was married to Mary Lou Robbins.On Dec. 4, 1964, he married Beverly Doreen Taber at Clayton, NM. She preceded him in death on May 8, 1995.He served in...

Brian Leigh Pomeroy

Brian Leigh Pomeroy

Jan 14, 2012

Brian Pomeroy died January 14, 2012 in his home at Garden City KansasBrian was born October 10, 1956, in Seward County, Kansas and was the son of Dale and Ruth (Rinehart) Pomeroy.Brian was a long time resident of Garden City, living at Mosaic. He was loved by his many friends, care givers and guardian, Hollie Lyons and her husband Jeff...

Robert Dean Carlile

Robert Dean Carlile

Jan 6, 2012

Robert Dean “Bob” Carlile, age 74, died January 6, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS.He was born March 10, 1937 at Liberal, KS to Jack and Myrtle (Black) Carlile.Bob was a 1955 graduate of Liberal High School.He was the owner of J & R Sand Company, Inc. since 1959 and was currently Chairman of the Board.He was a member...

Cynthia Lynn Graham Sallaska

Cynthia Lynn Graham Sallaska

Jan 5, 2012

Cynthia Lynn Graham Sallaska 56, died Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS She was born July 8, 1955 in Liberal, KS the daughter of Richard Leon and Connie (Parr) Graham.She has been a lifetime resident of Liberal, graduating from Sublette High School 1973 and attended Seward County Community College. She had been employed by The...

Myrtle A. Pettijohn

Myrtle A. Pettijohn

Jan 3, 2012

Myrtle Alyene Pettijohn, 92, died January 3, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS.She was born November 10, 1919 to George Roy and Mary Anna (Hensley) Headrick at the farm home of Ed and Mary Fisher east of Adams in Texas County, Oklahoma. She graduated in 1937 from Adams High School as Valedictorian of her class. Myrtle married Rex...

Kinsley Campbell Sumner

Kinsley Campbell Sumner

Jan 2, 2012

Kinsley Campbell Sumner, newborn, died January 2, 2012 at Poudre Valley Hospital in Ft. Collins, CO.She was born January 2, 2012 at Ft. Collins, the daughter of Chad and Cara (Zamora) Sumner.She is survived by her parents of LiberalGrandparents: Dean and Debbie Sumner, Liberal Rocky and Karen Zamora, Ft. Collins, COGreat-Grandparents: Maxine McLaughlin, Howardwick, TX Steve and Toni Zamora, Ft....

Sophia B. Herrera

Sophia B. Herrera

Dec 29, 2011

Sophia B. Herrera 101, died Thursday Dec. 29, 2011 at Liberal Good Samaritan Center in Liberal, KS. She was born May 23, 1910 in San Louis, Colorado the daughter of Jose Louis and Fedelina (Mondragon) Valdez. She had been a longtime resident of the Boone, CO area moving to Liberal, KS to be with family.She was a member of the...

William "Bill" Helm

William "Bill" Helm

Dec 21, 2011

William “Bill” Helm 85, died December 21, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS He was born Oct. 1, 1926 in Childress, TX the son of John N. and LaVada (Monroe) Helm.He is a 1944 graduate of Estelline High School in Estelline, TX. He moved to Liberal In 1946. He was employed by Centel from 1946 and retired in...

Lisha Gayle Banning

Lisha Gayle Banning

Dec 19, 2011

Lisha Gayle Banning, age 50, died Dec. 19, 2011 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, KS.She was born June 17, 1961 at Guymon, OK, the daughter of Larry and Lora (Long) Kirk.She was a 1979 graduate of Tyrone High School.Lisha, who fought a long hard battle with cancer, first being diagnosed in 2002, contracted pneumonia before passing away. She had worked...

Karen Sue Collins

Karen Sue Collins

Dec 7, 2011

Karen Sue Collins, age 60 died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, at the Kansas Medical Center, in Andover, KS. She was born on March 11, 1951, in Denver, CO, the daughter of Sanford and Ellen Elizabeth (Villers) Caughman. She was a 1970 graduate of Liberal High School, attended Seward County Community College, and completed her education at Emporia State University.She was...

Thelma J. "Jo" Daugherty

Thelma J. "Jo" Daugherty

Dec 6, 2011

Thelma J. “Jo” Daugherty, age 73, died Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born on March 29, 1938 in Cordell, OK, the daughter of Lloyd and Hattie (Hibbons) Hickman.She attended school in Cordell, OK. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Liberal Chapter #104.She was self employed and owned her...

Brandee Elise Kurth

Brandee Elise Kurth

Dec 6, 2011

Brandee Elise Kurth died Tuesday morning, December 6th, 2011, at Andover, Kansas in skilled nursing and rehabilitation from grave illness onsetting in the spring of 2011. On August 13th, 2011, she was airlifted to Via Christi-St. Francis and was discharged from initial emergency hospitalization on August 23, 2011; however, a second emergency hospitalization at St. Francis was required on September...

Noel Dean Peterson

Noel Dean Peterson

Nov 25, 2011

Noel Dean Peterson 72 died Friday, November 25, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS.He was born December 25, 1938 at Liberal, Kansas the son of William Smith-Peterson and Ruth (Farmer) Peterson. He had been a lifetime resident of Hugoton, Kansas and graduated from Hugoton High School. For the past two months he was a resident of Wheatridge Park...

Frank J. Thomas

Frank J. Thomas

Nov 23, 2011

Frank J. Thomas, 88, died Nov. 23, 2011 at Satanta Longterm Care Center in Satanta, KS. He was born July 12, 1923 in Hamilton Co. KS, the son of Frank & Mary (Boughton) Thomas. He lived in Hamilton Co. and Grand Valley, Colo. before moving to Stevens Co, rural Hugoton, KS in 1940 where he was a lifetime farmer and...

Andrew Rodgman

Andrew Rodgman

Nov 16, 2011

Born October 30th, 1985, one day before his father’s birthday of October 31st in Ottawa, Ontario, from the get go Andrew was always doing his own thing. He was 26 years old. The son of Dr. Graeme and Dr. Susan Rodgman (Mowat) and brother of Dr. Christopher Rodgman of New Orleans, LA, he is survived by his immediate family as...

Judy Curry

Judy Curry

Nov 1, 2011

Judith Louise (Sillin) Curry Judy went home to be with the Lord on November 1, 2011. She was born to Lloyd Wayne and Dorothy Ann (Dimick) Sillin in Liberal, on January 22, 1947. She was a lifetime resident of Liberal. Upon graduation from Liberal High School in 1965, Judy began studying for a Kansas real estate license. Passing the exam...

Willard Dean Palmgren

Willard Dean Palmgren

Oct 20, 2011

Willard Dean Palmgren, age 78, died October 20, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born August 4, 1933 in Levant, KS, the son of Willard Orin and Hallie Marie (Close) Palmgren. He graduated in 1951 from Levant High School, Levant, KS. He was self employed as an auto mechanic. He was member of the Masonic Lodge...

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