Verda Elizabeth Hoffman, 95, died Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born April 11, 1921, at Raymore, MO, the daughter of William Henry and Mabel Mae (Bagshaw) Turpin. She has been a resident of Liberal since the age of 5. She had attended Liberal High School in Liberal, KS. She was a member of the First Christian Church Disciples of Christ, charter m...

Refugio Rodriguez, 80 of Liberal died Saturday October 15, 2016 at Via St. Christy Hospital St. Francis, Wichita, KS. He was born January 20, 1936 to Refugio Rodriguez Fierro and Maria Chavez in CD Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico. On June 18, 1960 he married Micaela Medrano Moreno in Rosales, Chihuahua, Mexico. They lived in Liberal for 30 years. He worked at National Beef, Liberal. He is surviv...

Jeffrey T. Frederick, age 53, went to be with his father and older brother to that big elevator in the sky on October 15, 2016.   He was born July 11 1963, at Liberal, Kansas, the son of Elvit and Mae A. (Rader) Frederick.  As a young boy he attended the Plains school system, graduating from Southwestern Heights High School.  He later attended the Liberal Area Vo-Tech studying welding.  Aft...

  Gladys Nadine Blasi died on Sunday, October 2, 2016, at Glendale Adventist Hospital in Glendale, California after a brief illness. She was 93. She was born Gladys Lambert on July 22, 1923 in Guymon, Oklahoma, the youngest of the five children of John and Alma Lambert. Her father was both a farmer and an ordained and practicing minister of the gospel. Her family lived on farms in the hear...

Royce Van Angell 80, died Thursday, October 13, 2016, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. He was born June 9, 1936 in Liberal, the son of Charlie Francis and Thelma Adele (Edwards) Angell. He graduated in 1954 from Plains High School, and 1967 from Kansas University. He married Judith Diane Black on May 3, 1959. She survives. They lived in Colorado Springs, CO for 44 years, before mov...

Howard G. Frantz, 76, of Balko, Oklahoma passed away October 16, 2016 at Ochiltree General Hospital in Perryton, Texas. Howard was born January 12, 1940 at the family home near Balko, Oklahoma, the son of R. B. and Louise Neufeld Frantz. He attended grade school to the eighth grade at Bethany, then one year at Balko and finished high school at Corn Bible Academy in Corn, Oklahoma. After graduat...

Martin E. “Bud” Banning 88, died Friday, Oct. 15, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS He was born Nov. 28, 1927 in Chautauqua County, KS, the son of Lonzo A. and Veora A. (Jackson) Banning. He was a longtime resident of the Tyrone Area. He was employed in Pipeline Construction for the Oil and Gas industry. On September 2, 1947 he married Patricia McCabe in Wichita, Kansas. She di...

Eldo Wiens, age 89, passed away early Wednesday morning, October 12, 2016, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas.  Graveside services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, October 14, 2016, at the Graceland Cemetery, Meade.  Memorial services will follow at 4:00 p.m. Friday at the Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Meade.  Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday and from 9:00 ...

  Elvie May Quint, age 86, died October 8, 2016 at Homestead Estates Home Plus in Liberal, KS. She was born June 14, 1930 in Grant County, KS, the daughter of Stanley Ed and Thelma (Grant) Brollier. She graduated from Sublette High School, Sublette, KS in 1948. She had been a resident of Liberal for the past 63 years. She a homemaker and co-owner and operator of the Holiday Laundry, ...

  Floyd Orville Coen died Sunday, October 9, 2016 at Morton County Senior Living Community in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born March 11, 1925, just a few minutes before his twin brother Lloyd, a fact that he often shared with folks. They were born on the Coen homestead near Rolla in Morton County, Kansas. Floyd spent his early years along with his six brothers, and one sister acquiring a l...