Phennie Marie Brown, 79, of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away July 6, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. Phennie was born August 28, 1936 in Hooker, Oklahoma, the daughter of Archie and Clara Packebush Smothermon. She attended school in Hooker, graduating from Hooker High School with the Class of 1954. On August 6, 1955 she was united in marriage to Walter J. Brown, Jr. in Clayt...

Rena Faye Hershey passed from this life on July 4, 2016 at the age of 82. She was born April 24, 1934 in Hugoton, Kansas the daughter of William and Effie (Gooch) McGehee. She married Paul Hershey April 22, 1950 and moved to the farm south of Rolla where they lived and worked 66 years. She was always hard working and helped dad on the farm as well as raising six children, sewing, crocheting, kn...

Relis Carl Eastman III, age 44, died Thursday, June 30, 2016 at John Muir Trauma Center in Walnut Creek, CA. He was born June 27, 1972 to Carl and Virginia (Radzun) Eastman in Liberal, KS. He graduated from Southwestern Heights High School in 1990 and he then served 4 years in the U.S. Army. He worked for AT & T as a lineman technician for many years. He was member of the First United Me...

Jean Easterday , 98, passed away July 1, 2016, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas. She was born January 3, 1918, in rural Fowler, to Dave and Elizabeth Brownlee of Fowler.  On June 3, 1935, she married Rusty Easterday and they lived on a farm outside of Meade.  After his death in 1966 she moved her house to Meade, where she resided most of her remaining years. She is survive...

Milton O. “Milt / Mr. Real Estate” Seigrist, 85, died Monday, July 4, 2016 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal. He was born March 19, 1931 to Curtle Orville and Eleanor Wroena (Vaughn) Seigrist in Vian, Okla. He married Lucy Viola Kreizenbeck Dec. 1950 in Clinton, Okla. Lucy now resides in Paola. He married Connie (Ditch) Wentworth on May 21, 1986, in Liberal. She survives. He w...

Mary Imogene Gerhardt, 85, of Liberal, passed away on July 3, 2016 at her home in Liberal, KS. She was born on July 24, 1930 to Tom and Geneva (Howell) Johnson at Stuart, OK. On August 14, 1947 she married Albert William (AW) Wilson at Stuart OK; then later marrying Anton (Tony) Gerhardt at Liberal, KS in 1977. Jean attended school at Stuart, Oklahoma, later moving to Dalhart, TX & Am...

Sebastian Francisco 68, died Thursday, June 23, 2016 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS. He wa born January 7, 1948 in Guatemala. He has been a long time Liberal resident. He had worked in the area of agriculture. At the time of his death he was working at National Beef Packing Plant. He married Magdalena Francisco Micolas in Guatemala and she preceded him in death. He is survived by a ...

Francis Earl Shinogle, 85, was born September 21, 1930 in rural Plains, Kansas, to August (Gus) and Elizabeth Shinogle. He entered his heavenly kingdom on June 20, 2016, where he joined his loving wife of 53 years, Eleanor Clare Shinogle. Earl grew up on the family homestead, south of Plains and attended Glendale Rural School and Plains High School. He was a longtime farmer in Meade County, tak...

Donald L. Romine, 70, of Liberal, passed away on  June 16, 2016 at the Leisure Homestead Nursing Home in St. John, KS. He was born on June 27, 1945 to Eldon  and Billie  (Brooks) Romine at San Diego, CA. On April 23, 2003 he married Katherine Simmons-(Powell) at Las Vegas, Nevada.  She Survives. Donald worked as a self employed truck driver. Donald is survived by Two Sons, Brooks R...

Pauline Eldena Barnes, 91, died Monday, May 16th, 2016, at Beaver County Memorial Hospital in Beaver, OK. She was born on April 30th, 1925, in Logan, KS. She was the daughter of Rudolph Lang and Bertha (Weiss) Lang. Pauline graduated from Chapman High School in Chapman, KS. She attended college at Bethel College. She worked for a year in Washington, DC at the Washington Naval Yard, before re...