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...

Shirley Ann Griffith, 65, died November 12, 2015 at Via Christi St. Frances Hospital in Wichita, KS. She was born August 26, 1950 at Greenwood, AR, the daughter of Boyd H. and Ola Marie (King) Holifield. She graduated from Liberal High School in 1968 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at St. Mary’s of the Plains College in Dodge City, KS. She was a registered nurse for Southwest Medic...

Alan Jay Carlile 57, died Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born July 9, 1958 in Satanta, KS the son of George and Yvonne (Campbell) Carlile. He has been a longtime resident of Liberal graduating from Liberal High School in 1977. He had been employed at National Beef, Baker Service Tool and most recently was a Measurement Tech for Northern National Gas/...

Duane Alexander, 75, Ulysses Kansas, died Monday, November 9, 2015, at his residence. The son of Arthur & Suzie (Dean) Alexander, he was born on July 10, 1940, Satanta, Kansas. He attended Warrendale School, then on to Ulysses High School and transferred to Garden City High School where he graduated in 1958. He went to Denver after high school and worked for a moving company. Sho...

Robert L. (Bob) Arheart, age 91, of Elkhart, Kansas died November 11, 2015, at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born November 27, 1923, in Ottawa County, Kansas at the farm house of his parents, Robert Spencer and Sylvia Grace (Jaquier) Arheart. Bob went to work for International Harvester Company in August 1942. He was drafted into the United States Army in December 1942. ...

Mildred Alice Geist, 97, of Baker, Oklahoma passed away November 10, 2015 at Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. Mildred was born June 16, 1918, the daughter of James and May Wilburn Howell, in the granary at the family homestead near Tyrone, Oklahoma. She attended school in Tyrone Public School and graduated as the valedictorian for the Class of 1936. On August 22, 1937 at the home place, Mildr...

Rhonda Sue Cook Thomas, age 54, passed away Sunday morning, November 8, 2015, at her rural Dodge City, Kansas, residence. She was born March 1, 1961, at Meade, Kansas, the daughter of Oland and Marian (Blagrave) Cook. As a young girl she attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School in 1979. She later attended Seward County Community, graduating in 2007. She later furthe...

Pauline Munkres, age 78, died Thursday, November 5, 2015, at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Texas. She was born July 20, 1937 in Holdrege, Nebraska, the daughter of Earl and Leona (Rhoads) Ashley. Pauline, a longtime resident of Liberal, worked as a bookkeeper at Liberal Office Machines. She married Charles J. Waters. He preceded her in death. She married Robert Munkres on December 15,...

Lucille Louise (Lucy) Goos, 93, of Liberal, KS, died Sunday, November 8, 2015, at the Wheatridge Park Care Center, Liberal, KS. She was born, January 20, 1922 in Hooker, OK, to Henry Ehrhardt and Mabel Spady Ehrhardt. She graduated Hooker High School in 1940. On November 7, 1942 she married Cecil Goos in Liberal, KS. She worked at Epworth Hospital and South West Medical Center as a Licensed...