Gary Lee Koehn 73, died Saturday, September 5, 2015 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born July 31, 1942 in Liberal, KS the son of Milford D. & Mae A. (Graber) Koehn. He was a lifelong resident of Liberal graduating in 1960 from Liberal High School. He had graduated from OPSU in 1965 and received his Master Degree in Education from Kansas State University in 1977. He retired from USD 48...

Gene Jarvis Schwein passed away Sunday, September 6, 2015 in Manhattan, Kansas. He was 71. Gene was born in Garden City, Kansas on June 12, 1944 to Keith Schwein and Gwendolyn (Jarvis) Schwein. Gene was raised on the family farmstead south of Ulysses. He graduated from Grant County Rural High School in 1962, having also attended Wentworth Military Academy for a year. While in college at W...

Rose Marie Ramirez 58, died Wednesday Sept. 2, 2015 at Northwest Texas Healthcare System in Amarillo, TX. She was born May 3, 1957 in Walsenburg, CO. the daughter of Filimon and Carmen (Duran) Lucero. She graduated in 1974 from East High School in Pueblo, Co. She attended and graduated from Seward County Community College. She was a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. She had been ...

Dustin William Vargas , 34, died on August 30, 2015 at his residence in Sterling, CO. He was born July 22, 1981 at Liberal, KS, the son of Lois Ann Elliott and William D. Vargas. He attended Liberal High School, graduating in 2000. Dustin graduated in 2010 from Morgan Community College in Ft. Morgan, CO with an Associates degree in...

Lawrence James Smith, 84, died September 5, 2015 at Wheatridge Park Care Center, Liberal, KS. He was born October 7, 1930 at Montezuma, KS, the son of John H. and Katie (Jantz) Smith. He was a 1948 graduate of Montezuma High School and attended one year of college ant Kansas State University. He served in the U. S. Army from 1956-5...

N. Dean Eckhoff, age 77, died early Thursday morning, September 3, 2015, at the Glen Carr House, Derby, Kansas. He was born April 10, 1938, at Meade, Kansas, the son of Martin and Nora (Feldman) Eckhoff. As a young boy he attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School. He later attended Pratt Junior College and then Kansas State University, receiving his masters ...

Harris F. Davis, age 68, died Thursday morning, September 3, 2015, at his Meade residence. He was born March 29, 1947, at Peoria, Illinois the son of Harold and Lois (Stavenhagen) Davis. As a young boy he attended school in Milan, Illinois and later high school in Rock Island, Illinois, graduating in 1965. He later attended Black Hawk Junior College in Moline, the Peoria School ...

Debra (Debbie) Dawn Fletcher-Rempel, age 60, passed away on Monday, August 31st in Wichita, Ks. She was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on October 4th, 1954 to Bill and Barbara (Bronner) Fletcher. After her father completed his military service, the family returned to western Kansas where she grew up. She was involved with 4H and started the women’s high school basketball program in ...

Frances L. Russell, 81, died Sunday, August 9, 2015 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, KS. Frances Louise Russell was born on February 21, 1934 in Garden City KS, the daughter of Marion Lynn and Hazel Russell. She was a graduate of Garden City High School and Kansas State University. She spent the majority of her life as a farmer and retail business owner. In 1978, she opened her first business in Ga...

Evelyn Wares, age 74, passed away on August 29, 2015 at the Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born September 23, 1940 in Leach, Oklahoma, the daughter of Roy and Emma (Powers) Lawrence. Evelyn started school in Leach along with her cousins. The family moved to the Oklahoma Panhandle where she attended Yarbrough School and then Elkhart schools. She met Darrell Wares ...