Marie Ernestine Kiser, age 84, died Tuesday evening, March 10, 2015, at the Fowler Residential Care Center, Fowler, Kansas. She was born October 24, 1930, the daughter of Herman Alexander and Mary Etta (Bales) Kiser. She is survived by a sister, Elaine Post of Meade, Kansas, and several nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents; a brother, William Kiser; and...

Mildred Nadine Stanley, 90, died Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas, where she had been a resident since May, 2008. She was born March 2, 1925, in Meade, the daughter of James A. and Martha M. (Sawyer) Howell. Nadine enjoyed her childhood growing up in Meade and graduated from Meade High School in 1943. She married Lyle L. Stanley on Ma...

Dortha Rene King, 52, died Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at St. Francis Via Christi hospital in Wichita, KS She was born August 9, 1962 at Pine Bluff, AR, the daughter of Wallace Casey and Lucinda (Montgomery) Rich. She married Arthur King Sr. in April 1986 at Liberal, KS. He survives Rene moved to Liberal with her family when she was five and was a graduate of Liberal High School. She worked in the ...

Leroy E. Huelskamp, 78, beloved husband, father and friend, passed away after post-surgical complications on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 in Pratt, KS. Leroy was born on February 15, 1937 to Martin J. and Clara Gerber Huelskamp in Fowler, Kansas. He grew up helping out on the family farm near Fowler with siblings James, Florence, Betty, and Helen. He went on to graduate from Fowler High School i...

Tricia (Patty) Norene Beavers Watson Krull, 64, of Woodland Park, Colorado, passed away on March 5, 2015 at thePikes Peak Hospice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was born on April 25, 1950 to Alvin and Winifred (Taylor) Beavers at Liberal, KS. She was a class of 1968 graduate of Liberal High School and attended Seward County Community College majoring in Accounting & Bookkeeping. In 1...

Herman L. Smith, age 80, died Friday afternoon, March 6, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. He was born December 10, 1934, in rural Meade County, Kansas, the son of Elmer O. “Smitty” and Mary Elizabeth (Boyd) Smith. As a young boy, he attended grade school in the Mertilla Township and later graduated from Meade High School in 1953. After his graduation,...

Claud Cowan Chick passed into eternal life on March 7, 2015 at the Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas after a short illness. Claud was the first born son of five children born to Dow Boyd Chick and Elsie Fern (Messer) Chick. Claud was born on the family ranch seven miles east of Campo, Colorado on August 3, 1920. He is preceded in death by his parents, Dow and Fern; sister, ...

Terry Don Carlile, 52, passed away on February 26, 2015 at Stormont Vail Hospital, Topeka, Kansas. That day we lost a son, brother, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend. Terry slipped away surrounded by family after a valiant fight with cancer. Terry was born June 11, 1962, in Liberal, Kansas, to Don and Phyllis Carlile. After graduating from Liberal High School in 1981 he went on to have a ...

Paul Warren Hoag, 67, Liberal, passed away Feb. 24 in Wichita due to complications from surgery for a brain tumor. Mr. Hoag was born May 31, 1947, in Beaver, Okla., the son of Warren Burdett Hoag and Minnie Hirn Hoag. Although the family moved frequently due to his father’s military career, he and his mother visited the Hirn Ranch and Liberal throughout his childhood. Both of his parents...

Louise A. Richardson, age 90, of Ulysses, Kansas died Sunday, March 1, 2015 at her home in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born May 29, 1924 in Grant County, Kansas, the daughter of Carl and Ida Mae (Wagner) Dimmitt. Louise, a homemaker, lived in Ulysses all of her life. There will be no service. Inurnment will be at a later date at the Ulysses Cemetery in Ulysses, Kansas. Arrangements are in ...