Floyd Eugene Tedford, age 78, died April 19, 2015 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born on June 17, 1936 in Medicine Lodge, KS, the son of Carl Jasper and Lilly Marie (Crellin) Tedford. He graduated from Liberal High School in 1954. He graduated from Emporia State University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He resided in Liberal during his childhood and early ...

Lester H. “Les” Salyer, age 84, died early Sunday morning, May 10, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. He was born January 3, 1931, at Grand Pass, Missouri, the son of Ervin and Rovilla (Brewe) Salyer. As a young boy he attended the Grand Pass school system, graduating from Grand Pass High School. After his graduation, he joined the United States Mari...

Benny Mac Hubbard, 74, died April 2, 2015, at his home in Harper, Kansas. He was born June 16, 1940, in Beaver, Oklahoma the son of Robert “Clyde” and Roberta (Bolling) Hubbard. Benny attended grade school in Liberal, Kansas and is a 1958 graduate of Liberal High School. Benny serviced 4 years in the U.S. Navy and 2 years as a U.S. Navy reservist. ...

Ida Ruth Kinser, 83, died Friday, May 8, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born April 27, 1932 in Stevens County Kansas, the daughter of Floyd and Grace Gregg Bevan. Ida’s family moved to Center, CO when she was six because of the dust bowl. She graduated from Center High School on May 28, 1950. On t...

Glen C. “Curtie” Bridenstine , 88, died May 7, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born April 29, 1927 at Hobart, OK, the son of Vernis and Ida (Wilhoit) Bridenstine. He graduated from high school in Albuquerque, NM. He was a life long farmer in the Oklahoma panhandle’s Beaver and Tex...

Arthur L. Bayha, age 90, died Friday, May 1, 2015, at Via Christi St. Francis, Wichita, Kansas. Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade, Kansas. ...

Faye M. Richardson (79) of Plains, Kansas, passed away at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas, following a long illness on April 30, 2015. She was born August 9, 1935, in Liberal, Kansas to the late Melvin L. Reiss and Pauline Smith Reiss. She graduated from Kismet High School in 1953. Following high school, she graduated from the Women’s Business College in Denver...

Dr. Virgil E. “Mac” McWilliams, Jr. 84, died April 30, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS He was born April 9, 1931 in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, the son of Virgil E. and Viola (Shorter) McWilliams. He graduated from Fairfax Oklahoma High School in 1944, he then went to Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater, OK and graduated in 1954 with a ...

Ronald Dale Ediger , 72, died Tuesday April 28, 2015 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born October 5, 1942 in Beaver, OK, the son of Paul and Sara (Dick) Ediger. He graduated in 1960 from Turpin High School, Turpin, OK and then attended Bethel College, North Newton, KS. He joined 1W Alternative Service in Eva...

Oscar Junior Olson, 84, of Liberal, passed away on April 26, 2015 at the Medicalodge of Goddard at Goddard, KS. He was born on April 19, 1931 to Oscar and Violet (Jackson) Olson at Liberal, KS. On October 19, 1952 he married Dorothy L. Glover at Turpin, OK. She preceded him in death on November 9, 2012. Junior worked as a Grocery Selector for Nash Finch for 25 years before retiring in the earl...