Cheryl Esther Bickerstaff, age 63, went home on Sunday, July 10, 2022, in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on October 3, 1958, to Kenneth and Loretta (Cashero) Sallee in Liberal, Kansas. Cheryl graduated Beaver High School in 1976 from Beaver, Oklahoma. She married Clifton Brian Bickerstaff on January 6, 1979. Clifton preceded her in death. Survived by Her son, James Riley, three grandsons,...

Ronald Lee Freed, 83, of Austin, Texas, died Tuesday, February 2, 2021, from COVID 19. He was born November 7, 1938, in Ulysses, Kansas, son of Vernon and Mary Maurine Porter Freed. Ronald graduated from Ulysses High School in 1957, where he played on an undefeated Ulysses football team. He and his teammates made the U as you come into Ulysses from the East. After high school he went to Fort Ha...

Lucinda Alcala, age 80, died Sunday, July 10, 2022, at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born July 30, 1941, in Winters, Texas, the daughter of Aureliano and Concepcion (Cerda) Esquivel. Lucinda was born and raised in Texas. She married Isidro Alcala on July 7, 1956, in Munday, Texas. Together they relocated to Ulysses in 1972 where they raised their four children. Luc...

Jay D. Bloesser, age 82, died July 3, 2022, at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital, Ulysses, Kansas. He was born March 1, 1940, in Kingman, Kansas, the son of Lawrence and Sylvia (Brown) Bloesser. Jay grew up at Tribune, KS and graduated from Greeley County High School, he then attended Salt City Business School in Hutchinson, KS. A longtime Ulysses, KS resident, he spent many years working in an aut...

Shannon R. Conway, age 68 passed away Monday morning, July 4, 2022, at Locust Grove Villages, LaCrosse, Kansas. She was born on December 4, 1953 in Meade, Kansas, the daughter of Ted and Earline Turney. As a young girl attended school in Meade. Shannon was a homemaker for awhile before she worked at the Meade District hospital, drug store, Sears and then retired from CMS Electric. ...

Margaret D. Bartel, age 85, passed away Wednesday evening, at the Minneola District Hospital Long Term Care. She was born February 23, 1937, at Meade, Kansas, the daughter of John B. and Margaret P. (Doerksen) Bartel. As a young girl, she attended school in Meade. She later attended the Grace Hospital School of Nursing in Hutchinson. After her graduation from nursing school, she worked ...

Leota Pearl Lybarger of Elkhart, Kansas, passed away at 5:10 am July 5, 2022, at the Winfield Senior Living Community in Winfield, Kansas. She was born June 16, 1926, in Elk City, Kansas, the daughter of William and LuVerna (Davidson) Warner. Leota married Robert Lee Lybarger on November 18, 1944, in Elk City, Kansas. She was the pianist at Bible Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of El...

Leonila B. “Nellie” Lopez, 86, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, July 1, 2022 at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. She was born May 12, 1936 in Malakoff, Texas to Leandro and Lydia (Barrientos) Bravo. She attended the Technical High School of Ft. Worth, Texas, where she graduated. On April 12, 1959, she married Juan Lorenzo-Lopez in Ft. Worth. Juan passed on June ...

Junior Willis McSpadden, 97, of Midlothin, TX, passed away June 29, 2022 at his sons home. Junior was born August 7, 1924 in Van Buren, MO, the son of Frank and Mattie Allison McSpadden. Junior grew up on a small farm in the hills near Fremont, MO. Following his 11th grade year of high school, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard. During WWII he served on the William M Black ship, in the European Campa...

Duane Smith, 93, of Moundridge, Kansas, passed away Monday, June 27, 2022 at Pine Village in Moundridge. He was born December 14, 1928 in Greensburg, Kansas, the son of Alfred A. and Nettie (Koehn) Smith. Duane was a sales manager at several auto dealerships in the Wichita, Newton and Hutchinson areas. He was united in marriage to Geneva Smith on September 12, 1948 in Fairview, Oklahoma. S...