Russell Dean Malcom, 62, of Liberal, passed away on  Saturday August 16, 2025 at Southwest Medical Center. He was born on June 16, 1963 to Wallace and Audrey (Naegele) Malcom in Liberal, KS. On January 6, 2022 he married Donna (Smith) Adkins in Liberal. Over the years Russell had worked at various local fast food restaurants. He was a laid back, easy going guy who enjoyed bird watching a...

Warren Kost, a beloved father, stepfather, and grandfather, passed away on Saturday, August 16, 2025, at the age of 97 in Liberal, Kansas. He lived a full life, marked by hard work, and commitment to his family. Warren was born on May 28, 1928, to Glen and Mary Irene (Barker) Kost in Clayton, New Mexico. They moved to Arkansas in 1939. Warren graduated from high school in Cane Hill, Arkansas in...

Ivan Mercado Schreiner, age 2, of Dallas, TX passed away on August 12, 2025 at Medical City Hospital in Dallas. He was born on May 4, 2023 to Gerardo Marcado Loya and Ashlyn Nicole Schreiner at Kansas City, MO. Ivan was an always happy, joyful, and loving boy who loved playing with his sister and kicking his little feet in the air. His eyes would light up for life's little joys, es...

 Rex K. Palmer, age 91, passed away Wednesday evening, August 13, 2025, at his Meade, Kansas, residence. He was born July 21, 1934, at Paris, Texas, the son of Leon and Onita (Hignight) Palmer.  As a young boy he attended school in Shamrock, Texas, graduating from Shamrock High School. On November 2, 1963, he married Diane Malone at Copeland, Kansas.  After their marriage, they both wor...

Flora Vargas Pérez , a beloved artist and cherished matriarch, passed away peacefully on August 13, 2025, in Liberal, Kansas, at the age of 82. She was born on May 26, 1943, in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, México to Enrique Vargas Islas and Isabel Perez Pasten. Flora married Oscar M. Bustillos P. on March 24, 1966 in Mexico City; he preceded her in death on April 22, 2021. She poured her h...

Lewis G. Collins, 70, of Perryton, Texas passed away Friday, August 8, 2025 at home in Perryton , Texas. A memorial service for friends and family will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 7, 2025 at the Museum of the Plains in Perryton, Texas.  Cremation arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. of Perryton, Texas. Lewis was born on August 14, 1954 in Liberal, Kansas to Lor...

Services for Loren Gene Ogletree, 77, of Ada are 3:00 p.m. Sunday, August 17, 2025, at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel in Ada, Oklahoma; Rev. Richard Hood will officiate.  Burial will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday at Liberal Cemetery in Liberal, Kansas with Pastor Dawn Epp presiding. Mr. Ogletree passed away Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at his home.  He was born on November 21, 1947, in Liber...

Josephine M. Taul, age 93, died Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at Western Prairie Senior Living Memory Care in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born on February 28, 1932, in Wright, Kansas, the daughter of Salvador DeLa Rosa and Juanita Dee (Santiago) Sosa.  Josephine attended school in Wright and Johnson, where she graduated. On July 5, 1958, she married Joseph Robert Taul in Johnson. Throughout their ...

Gary L. Pennington, age 72, passed away on Thursday evening, August 7, 2025, at HCA HealthONE Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, following injuries sustained in a farm accident on July 11th. Born on November 29, 1952, in Meade, Kansas, Gary was the son of Robert and Wilma (Kobs) Pennington. He grew up in Meade, where he attended local schools and graduated as valedictorian of Meade H...

Ronald “Ron” or “Ronny” Lee Sipes passed from this earth peacefully on August 8, 2025. The grim reaper must have snuck up on him because there was too much fight in him otherwise. All who knew him knew he could be ornery or puckish, depending on how the wind was blowing. He was a voracious reader and scholar, as would be expected from the child of two schoolteachers, and as a young boy...