Mary Kristin Clair Parks was born the youngest of four on July 28, 1958, to Ruth and Rees Clair of rural Bushton, KS. She went to her heavenly home on April 5, 2021. Mary attended Holy Name Catholic School grades 1-3 where she met her lifelong friend, Sheila Orth. Together they transferred to Bushton public schools where they became friends with many, but were especially close with Debbie and ...

Casimira “Cassie” Andrade, age 93, died April 4, 2021 at Brookdale Liberal Springs in Liberal, KS.  She was born on May 23, 1927 in El Chico, Jalisco, Mexico. She was the daughter of Michael G. and Lucadia R. Andrade.  Cassie married Lawrence G. Lara on December 28, 1984 in Dodge City, KS. Together they raised one son, Larry Lee Lara, and one daughter, Linda Lou Wettstein. She lived a...

Eartha Mae Mason, 79, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at her granddaughter’s home in Bailey, Colorado. She was born August 10, 1941 in Leflore County, Swiftown, Mississippi; the daughter of Paul Chandler and Elola (Chandler) Hughes. Eartha was a longtime resident of Liberal, Kansas and married her husband of 46-years, Richard T. Mason on October 17, 19...

Elder Terry L. Witherspoon was born December 29, 1954 at Desha county Hospital at 300 Pickens Street In Dumas, Arkansas to Richard Witherspoon Sr. And Bettie Mae Edwards-Witherspoon both of whom  preceded him in death,  he was the 11th child of 13 children born to this union 6 of whom preceded him in death. His father remarried after the passing of his mother in 1960, and he gained two more brot...

Robert Daniel Duran, age 81, of Johnson, KS, died Saturday, March 27, 2021, in Lawrence, KS.  He was born December 12, 1939, in Saunders, KS, the son of Salvador Huerta and Melba Nadean (Stringer) Duran.   Bob attended elementary and high school in Manter, KS.  He continued his education at Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia.  He was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity.�...

George Thomas Leigh, age 68, went to his heavenly reward on April 2, 2021, at St. Catherine hospital in Garden City, Kansas, after a brief illness.  George was born July 23, 1952, in Ulysses, Kansas, to William A. (Bill) Leigh and Helen M. (Robinson) Leigh.   George grew up in Ulysses and graduated from Ulysses High School in 1970.  For a few years, he went out into the world and serv...

Jerry Joe Rader, age 84, passed away Saturday morning, March 27, 2021, at Homestead Estates Home Plus in Liberal, Kansas. Jerry was born December 7, 1936 at home in Hooker, Oklahoma the son of Donald and Irene Rader. The family moved to Liberal when he was very young but old enough to remember they moved the whole house with the family to Washington Street. As a young boy Jerry attended school ...

Charles Russell McKinney, passed away unexpectedly March 30, 2021 at his home near Englewood, Kansas. Charles Russell (Chuck) McKinney was born in Ashland, Clark County, Kansas, on January 5, 1941, to George Wesley and Esther May (Bowers) McKinney.  The family lived on the Grove Ranch until 1952, when they moved to the ranch homesteaded by Chuck’s grandfather, Charles Wesley McKinney.  Ch...

Eleanor A. Hough, 76, of Liberal, KS, died Sunday, March 28, 2021 at her home. She was born June 22, 1944 in Grundy County, Missouri to John and Dorothy Hill. She married James "Red" Hough on April 6, 1962 at Las Cruces, NM. She is survived by three sons, Jeff, Jarrod, and Joseph Hough, two sisters Debbie Warren, Margaret Naylor and one brother David Hill; four grandchildren, Wyatt, Trini...

Lesta Mae (Griffith) Barr, 86, passed away peacefully Sunday, March 28, 2021 at home in Liberal, KS with family by her side. Lesta Mae was born December 21, 1934, in Topeka, KS, daughter of Lester William and Georgia May (Grim) Griffith and the younger sister of Joyce Ann (Griffith) Barr. She graduated from Highland Park High School, Topeka, KS, 1952. On November 22, 1952, she married Mauric...