FOWLER – Oscar E. Penka, age 80, passed away Friday morning, June 7, 2019, at the Minneola District Hospital, Minneola, Kansas. He was born July 30, 1938, at rural Ensign, Kansas, the son of Edward Douglas and Ethel Salome (Johnson) Penka. As a young boy he attended school in Fowler, graduating from Fowler High School in 1956. After his graduation, he began his career in farming, ranch...

Rosa Elizabeth Sitz (Betty) went to her heavenly home on June , 2019 at Morton County Senior Living nursin home. Funeral service will be Wednesday, June 12, 2019 at 10:00 am at Christ Lutheran Church in Elkhart Kansas, with Reverend Ervin A Daugherty, Jr. officiating. Garnand Funeral Home in Elkhart is handeling the arrangements....

Miller Mortuary is in charge of the final arrangements for Jean Unruh Towle. Funeral services will be at 2:00 pm Wednesday, June 5th at the Kismet United Mthodist Church with Paster Teery Mayhew officiating....

Graveside service will be Thuesday June 6th for Sharon Davis of Ulysses Kansas at Ulysses Cemetary in Ulysses with Paster James Berry Officiating. Garnand Funeral Home is handeling the arrangments....

Tad Nathanial Keply Died Wdnesday January 6th in Santa Fe New Mexico. Memorial service will be 1:30 Saturday June 8th at First Methodist Church Wesley Hall in Ulysses. Garnand Funeral Home are handeling the arrangements....

MEADE – Joseph (Joe) Mertens, age 92, passed away early Sunday morning, June 2, 2019, at the Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, Kansas. He was born May 18, 1927, at rural Fowler, Kansas, the son of Theodore W. and Christina (Hageman) Mertens. As a young boy he attended school in Meade. After his schooling, he joined the United States Army, serving from 1955-1957. Upon his discharge, ...

Sharon Davis, age 69, of Ulysses, Kansas, died Saturday, June 1, 2019, at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born February 11, 1950, in Leoti, Kansas, the daughter of Eugene and Doris (Brack) Molby. Sharon lived most of her adult life in many southwest Kansas communities; among them were Ulysses, Hugoton, Elkhart, and Copeland. She retired from Grant County Senior Center c...

Jean Unruh Towle, 98, of Kismet, passed away on Friday May 31, 2019 at the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice at St. Francis in Wichita, KS. She was born on December 3, 1920 to Daniel and Ida (Deckert) Jantzen at Liberal, KS. Jean was a graduate of Kismet High School; class of 1939. On April 20, 1940 she married Ervin Unruh near Kismet, KS. Jean and Ervin farmed northwest of Kismet. In 1968 the...

Dorothy L. (Dotty) Alvarado, age 89, passed away early Tuesday morning, May 28, 2019, at her Fowler, Kansas, residence. She was born February 19, 1930, at Fowler, Kansas, the daughter of Frederick P. and Delcie (Hudsbeth) Wells. As a young girl, she attended school in Fowler, graduating from Fowler High School. She later attended beauty school in Dodge City, Kansas. A longtime resident of...

Carmen Ramierez Meneses, age 84, died Thursday, May 30, 2019, at her home in Liberal, surrounded by all her loving family and friends. She was born June 16, 1934 in Chihuahua, Mexico the daughter of Encarnacion Ramirez and Ernestina Meneses. She married Casimiro Mercado Rubio and they were happily married for 65 years. He preceded her in death in 1995. She was a homemaker and a member of St. Ant...