Roberta June Hartshorn, 72 died Thursday June 28, 2012 at Satanta District Hospital in Satanta, KS. She was born Oct. 7, 1939 Campo, CO. the daughter of Cecil J. and Alma Alice (Eden) Jenkins. She graduated in 1958 from Campo High School Campo, CO. She had been a resident of Liberal since 1969. She was a homemaker and a Avon Representative. On Feb. 15, 1969 she married Donald Dean Hartshorn in ...

Paul Wilson Light, age 94, died Saturday, June 30, 2012 at Morton County Hospital, Elkhart, Kansas. He was born December 28, 1917 at his family homestead in Stevens County, Kansas, the son of William Clarence and Zula (Tarter) Light. Paul graduated from Rolla High School in 1936. He attended Fort Hays State University and served in the Army during WWII. Paul spent his life farming. He was a ...

Nyla J. Jacobs, age 79, died Friday morning, June 29, 2012, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. She was born, November 20, 1932, at Oakley, Kansas, the daughter of Joseph and Walburga (Robbin) Baalman. As a young girl she attended the Winfield school system, graduating from Dodge City High School in 1951. On May 5, 1954, she married Casper J. “Cap” Jacobs at Dodge City. Af...

Wallace J. Martens, 96, of Turpin, Oklahoma passed away June 29, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, Kansas. Wallace John Martens was born April 19, 1916 at a home in Fairview, Oklahoma, the son of John M. and Anna M. Wichert Martens. This is where he attended school and grew up. He came to live with his uncle, Jake Wichert in Adams, Oklahoma. He slept in the elevator and work for a t...

Edmund E. Brumfield, age 90, died Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas. He was born May 13, 1921, at Jetmore, Kansas, the son of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louise (Gaede) Brumfield. He was a veteran of World War II serving with the United States Army Airborne in the Pacific Theater of Operation from 1942-1945. A resident of Meade for over 80 years he was an e...

Ray Edgar “Bubby” Boothby 96 passed away, June 23, 2012 Saturday at Emeritus Liberal Springs in Liberal, KS. He was born June 5, 1916 in a dugout near Texhoma, OK the son of Dan C. and Susie (Sweet) Boothby. He has been a longtime resident of Texhoma, OK, moving to Liberal, KS eight and half years ago. He graduated from Texhoma High School, Texhoma, OK in 1934. As a young married man he moved...

Lynne C. Goodman, age 75, died on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at her daughter’s residence in Aurora, IL. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced by Brenneman Funeral Home of Liberal, KS. ...

Edward G. “Ed” Amerin, age 71, died early Friday morning, June 22, 2012, at the Minneola District Hospital, Minneola, Kansas. He was born November 16, 1940, in rural Plains, Kansas, the son of Enos J. Amerin, Jr. and Lillian B. (Laurer) Amerin. As a young boy he attended the Plains school system, graduating from Plains High School in 1959. Upon his graduation, he joined the United States...

Melba Fern Garey, age 81, of Johnson, Kansas died Friday, June 22, 2012 at Memorial Living Center, Johnson, KS. She was born July 3, 1930 in Medford, Oklahoma the daughter of Claude W. and Vera Gladys (Hodges) Collins. Melba graduated from Johnson High School. She was a farmwife and bookkeeper for COOP and Collingwood Grain in Big Bow, Kansas. She was a member of the First United Methodist Chu...

Louis Arnold Juel, age 87, of Johnson, KS died Saturday, June 23, 2012 at the Stanton County Long Term Care Unit, Johnson, KS. He was born November 26, 1924 at Valentine, Nebraska the son of Lester and Lillian (Saurewein) Juel. Loius grew up in Mission South Dakota and moved with his parents to Missouri. As a young man he traveled to Eastern Colorado to work in the harvest fields and met Maggie W...