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...

Toribio “Toby” Tonche, age 84, died Tuesday, June 19, 2012, at his daughter’s home in Parker, CO. He was born April 27, 1928, at Haskel , TX , to Matias Tonche and Jovita Baeza. He was a self-employed carpenter, and had retried from National Beef Packing Co. He married Guadalupe Pastrana on April 20, 1981, at Denver , CO . She survives. Other Survivors Include: 1 Son Jesus Rodriguez...

Antonia G. “Toni” Saucedo, age 75, died Wednesday evening, June 20, 2012, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. She was born July 7, 1936, at Knox City, Texas, the daughter of Nefro and Maria (Pena) Gonzales. As a young girl she attended the Knox City school system. On August 8, 1961, she married Jesse Saucedo at Benjamin, Texas. After their marriage the couple moved to Kans...

Phyllis Jean Bradley, age 81, died Tuesday afternoon, June 19, 2012, at the Trinity Manor, Dodge City, Kansas. She was born December 28, 1930, at Fowler, Kansas, the daughter of Albert and Alice (Black) Johnson. As a young girl she attended the Fowler school system, graduating from Fowler High School in 1948. On December 27, 1950, she married Joseph V. Bradley at Fowler, Kansas. After t...

Simon N. Chavez, age 80, of Garnett, Kansas died Sunday, June 17, 2012 at his home in Garnett, Kansas. He was born February 26, 1932 in San Angelo, Texas, the son of Joaquin and Virginia (Naverette) Chavez. Simon married Irene Saucedo on October 5, 1952 in Knox City, Texas. He worked at Ansel Cab for 12 years in the 1960’s, for Tarbet Construction and retired from Williams Natural Gas as an o...

Peggy Arline Isley, age 89, of Ulysses, Kansas died Sunday, June 17, 2012 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born September 9, 1922 in Elkhart, Kansas, the daughter of John and Kate (Eskew) Steen. Arline grew up in Elkhart and Ulysses, Kansas. She graduated from Grant County Rural High School in 1940 and Garden City Community College. She has lived in Ulysses since 194...

Dorothy Louise (O’Brien) Weilert, age 81, died Sunday, June 17, 2012, at her home in Kismet, KS. She was born March 8, 1931, at Valentine, NE, to Bruce Thomas and Eva F. (Farrell) O’Brien. She attended Central High School in Omaha , NE. She served with the U.S. Army as a Shipping and Departures Clerk at Ft. Lawson , WA , during the Korean Conflict. She was a homemaker, also employed as...

Cora Lee Stacey, 77, of Tyrone, Oklahoma passed away Friday, June 15, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. Cora Lee was born January 1, 1935 in Burnsville, North Carolina, the daughter of Jefferson Davis and Tisha Edwards Collis. She loved gardening, planting trees, her pets and her dogs, and old style country music. She collected stamps, coins and dolls. Preceding her in...

Mary Ann Pearson, age 76, died Friday, June 8, 2012, at her son’s home in Liberal, KS. She was born August 15, 1935, at Watonga , OK , to James C. and Effie M. (Uhrig) Long. On June 29, 1952, she married Marvin G. Pearson in Oklahoma . She had worked at Nature’s Cupboard. Survivors include: 3 Sons: Roger Pearson and wife Janice, of Liberal, KS Gene Pearson and wife Julie, of Broomfield ...