Robert E. “Bob” Hood, age 96, died Thursday, December 31, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. Robert Ellsworth Hood was born May 5, 1919 at the farm in Texas County, Oklahoma, the son of L. O. and Myrtle (Claggett) Hood. He was a 1936 high school graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute. He was a veteran serving in the U. S. Army from 1944 - 46 during WWII. He was stationed...

Cora Belle Bunyard, 94, passed away December 27, 2015 in Meade Kansas. She was born on the Big Springs Ranch, Meade County, Kansas on February 12, 1921. She was the third of four children of Alvia Marsh and Iva Belle (McNinch) Bunyard. She lived in Meade most of her childhood, moving with her parents to Coats Kansas in the 1930s after her father lost all of his crops and livestock to the dus...

Gwendolyn Berdell Jackson, 86, of Baker, Oklahoma passed away January 2, 2016 at Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. Gwendolyn was born December 9, 1932 in Baker, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ernest Homer and Avice Zelma Southern Armstrong. She attended elementary school in Baker then the family moved for three years to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, one year in Pueblo, Colorado then to Denver and graduated...

Elizabeth M. “Bessie” Fetsch, age 93, died December 29, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born March 3, 1922 in Red Cloud, NE, the daughter of Vencil and Marie (Kafka) Maruska. She attended school in Red cloud, NE. She was a resident of Liberal for 57 years. On March 7, 1943, she married Thaddeus T. Sperry at Superior, NE. He died April 17, 1972. On December 9, 197...

Douglas Wayne Sheldon, 57, of Tyrone passed away December 25, 2015 at his home. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Tyrone Baptist Church with Rev. Gary Stone officiating. Condolences may be left at www.robertsbrothersfuneralhome.com...

Janet Lois Imler, 81, of Tyrone, Oklahoma passed at her home in Tyrone December 25, 2015. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Tyrone Baptist Church with Rev. Gary Stone officiating. Condolences may be left at www.robertsbrothersfuneralhome.com...

Beverly L. Bennett, age 65, died Sunday morning, December 27, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. She was born April 15, 1950, at Yuma, Colorado, the daughter of Arthur and Lorraine (Peter) Warren. As a young girl she attended the Brush, Colorado, school system, graduating from Brush High School. A resident of Colorado for several years, moving to Meade in 1984, she was a home...

Cora Belle Bunyard, age 94 died early Sunday morning, December 27, 2015, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade....

Carl Allen Hall, age 24, of Elkhart, Kansas died December 23, 2015, in Ford County, Kansas. He was born June 23, 1991, in Olathe, Kansas, the son of Patrick Hall and Michele (Rapschutz) Golden. Carl grew up in Gardner, Kansas, spending every summer with his grandparents in Elkhart. He trained horses and previously worked at the Elkhart Co-op. In two months, Carl was to join the United States M...

Maggie Michele Hall, age 20, of Elkhart, Kansas died December 23, 2015, in Ford County, Kansas. She was born December 28, 1994, in Olathe, Kansas, the daughter of Patrick Hall and Michele (Rapschutz) Golden. Maggie was currently a student at Panhandle State University working on her Business Administration degree. She was also a cheerleader. In high school, she was on the football, volleyball,...