Joan Long Ringer, age 85, died Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal Kansas. She was born February 22, 1930 the daughter of George Maxwell and Rose Aloyse (Stricklin) Long. She was a proud life long resident of Liberal, KS She graduated from Liberal High School in 1947. On February 23, 1947 she married Charles Edward Ringer at her mother’s home in Liberal, K...

Patricia A. Allsbury 64 of Gentry passed away November 30, 2015 in Rogers. She was born October 7, 1951 in Wellington, Texas the daughter of Emmett and Laura Jean Trout King. Patricia retired as an Executive Director for the Homeless Shelter in Liberal, Kansas. She received the High Plains Hero award in 2009 and in 2012, she was selected as a Woman of Distinction by the Liberal Chamber of Commerce...

James A. “Jim” Robison, age 77, died early Monday morning, November 30, 2015, at the Minneola Long Term Care Center, Minneola, Kansas. He was born June 4, 1938, at Copan, Oklahoma, the son of Allen and Helyn (Miller) Robison. As a young boy he attended the Cherryvale school system, graduating from Cherryvale High School. After his graduation, he joined the United States Air Force, serving ...

Roy L. Whiteley, 86, died November 23, 2015 at Good Samaritan Center, Liberal, KS. He was born March 27, 1929 at Summers, Arkansas, the son of Floyd and Laura (Hale) Whiteley. He was a retired truck driver with Yellow Freight. He had driven truck since he was 14 years old, first driving for Graves Truck Line and later for Nash Finch and Rock Island Railroad. Roy was an entrepreneur but very frug...

Alberta Carr, 81, died Saturday, November 21, 2015 at Liberal Good Samaritan Center. She was born November 29, 1933 at Cave City, KY, the daughter of Harry and Ethel (Martin) Watterson. Alberta was a graduate of the Barren County-Cave City High School. She received Christ at Owen's Chapel Baptist Church in Kentucky and was also a member of Bibleway Church of God in Christ in Liberal, KS. She mov...

Josephine U. Bentley Mackey, age 97, of Johnson, Kansas, died Saturday, November 21, 2015, at Stanton County Long Term Care Unit in Johnson, Kansas. She was born December 22, 1917, in Byers, Kansas, the daughter of William and Viola (Wade) Blackford. Josephine married Earl E. Bentley on December 22, 1934. She worked along side her husband on their ranch in southeast Colorado and raised their fa...

Ruby Louise Smallwood, age 92, died Friday, November 20, 2015 at the Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born November 19, 1923 in Newlin, TX, the daughter John Nelson and LaVeda (Monroe) Helm. She was a resident of Liberal for 68 years. She was a homemaker and had worked at the Ben Franklin and Woolworth Stores in Liberal. On February 17, 1946, she married Clyde Allen Smallwood ...

Jack Foltz, 92, of Hugoton, Kansas passed away November 22, 2015 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, Kansas. Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at Manchester Cemetery in Manchester, Oklahoma with Lee Rottman of the Hugoton Church of Christ officiating. After graveside services the family will greet friends and provide a luncheon at the Manchester Activity Center. Mem...

Jack R. Shelton, 71, died Monday, November 16, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. He was born October 31, 1944, at Elk City, Oklahoma, the son of Buster and Cora (Maddox) Shelton. He was a retired Electric Superintendent of the City of Meade for forty-four years. He enjoyed fishing and hunting. In 1967, he married Cheryle Baker at Fowler, Kansas. She survives. Other sur...

Vashti Seybert, age 94 passed away Sunday morning, November 15, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade. Vashti Seybert was the youngest of eight children of John and Grace Painter. She lived the first five years of her life in a sod house, later she and her brother Tom rode horseback three miles across pastures to their one-room school house. After graduating from Meade High School, she a...