Just a few short months after her 91st birthday my sweet Grandma, Marilyn Hampton, was called home. She passed away November 1, 2019, in the same small town and on the same land she grew up on. Marilyn was born in Blue Mound, Kansas, to parents, Harold and Erma (Smith) Green on September 9, 1928, just before the Great Depression. She was one of twenty-three kids in the Blue Mound High School Cl...

Carlyle Edward Kiehne, 91, passed away on Monday, October 28, 2019 at his home in Satanta, KS. The son of Carl F. and Edna M. (Olsen) Kiehne born on July 27, 1928 at Alexandria, MN. Carlyle and Maurine (Foster) Kiehne were married on March 26, 1953 at United Methodist Church in Satanta, KS. She preceded him in death on October 18, 2016. For several years Carlyle and Maurine moved around while ...

Levi I. Classen, 87, died Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born to Peter L. and Katherine Isaac Classen on March 11, l932 in Meade County, Kansas. He graduated from Meade Bible Academy in l950 and attended Grace Bible Institute in Omaha, Nebraska for one year. He married Lorena Hamm on June 12, l954. She survives. He worked for Earl William...

Billy Ray Henson, age 72, of Newton, Kansas, died Tuesday, October 29, 2019, at Newton Medical Center in Newton, Kansas. He was born April 1, 1947, in Seymour, Missouri, the son of Hiram and Alta (Henry) Henson. Billy moved to Ulysses, Kansas, with his family at a young age. He attended Ulysses schools until he entered US Naval training in Great Lakes, Illinois. He was honorably discharged f...

Kevin Jay Coyle, 57, of Turpin, OK died October 26, 2019 near Ulysses, KS. He was born February 5, 1962 in Kingfisher, OK to Gerald and Wilma Coyle. He graduated from Laverne High School in Lavern, OK. He then achieved his Associates Degree from Oklahoma Panhandle State University. He worked for his father at WAC (Wilma Ann Coyle) Contract Pumping, a Gas and Oil Exploration Company, ...

Gerald “Jerry” Lee Coyle, 81, of Turpin, OK died October 26, 2019 near Ulysses, KS. He was born October 19, 1938 in Taloga, OK. to Andrew and Arzella Kolby Coyle. He went to Fairview High School and later earned his GED which he was very proud of. On June 10, 1967 Jerry married Wilma Ann Houska in Fairview, OK. She died May 12, 2009. Jerry formed WAC (Wilma Ann Coyle) pumping, a G...

Robert Allen Steele, 65, passed away Thursday, October 17, 2019 at his home in Elkhart, KS. The son of T.M. “Butch” Steele and Deenie Steele on October 7, 1954. Bob was a truck driver for much of his life. Bob is preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his step-mother Karen Steele Rodriguez, sister Roxanna Chana & brother -in-law Richard Chana of Puerto Penasco, Mexico and si...

Carol Garnet (Thresher) Nix, 95, passed away Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at Crimson Peaks Assisted Living, Mesa, AZ. Carol was born to Charles and Josephine (Tredway) Thresher on July 13, 1924 at Jetmore, KS. Harding Capper Nix and Carol were married June 4, 1949, Hillsboro, KS. To this union were Charles and Nancy. She loved her family and enjoyed spending time with them. She loved cro...

Bill Lee Myers, 83, of Liberal, died at Southwest Medical Center on Tuesday, October 22, 2019. He was born to Charles Edward Meyers and Eula Mae Day Myers on June 10, 1936 on Skylight Mountain in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. He attended school at Rolla, KS. In 1992 he married Lucille Naomi Davis. She died on February 21, 2017. Bill worked for the Kansas Department of Transportation out of ...

Ann Petty, 88, died Tuesday, October. 22, 2019 in Liberal, Kansas. She was born Dec. 22, 1930, daughter of N.B. Mahuron, who went on to be the Liberal superintendent of schools for thirty years, and Mabel (Reed) Mahuron. Ann was born at the Mahuron home at 924 N. Kansas Ave., in Liberal. She was the fourth, and final, child born to her parents. She lived most of her entire life in Liberal ...