Gail D. McIntire, 61, Turpin, OK, died Thursday, May 19, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center , Liberal, KS . She was born June 6, 1949 at Hamilton, OH, the daughter of Jerry E. & Delores Shepherd. Gail worked for Beaver County Hospital , Liberal Good Samaritan Center for five years, and ten years in the OB Department of the Southwest Medical Center. On May 20, 1995, she married...

Angie Abbott, 82, Liberal, KS, died Wednesday, May 18, 2011, peacefully at her home. She was born July 8, 1928 at Logan, OK, the daughter of James P. & Augusta P. Getz Sanger. She graduated Beaver High School. Moving to Liberal, she worked at Black’s Drug, worked in home care for many years and later retired from the accounting department of Nash Finch after twenty years. She wa...

Mary Jane Hoskinson, 87, of Versailles , MO died Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, at Good Shepherd Care Center in Versailles , MO. She was born, Oct. 14, 1923, near Ulysses, Kan. , the daughter of Wilford and Gladys (Fuller) Hoskinson. She was raised on the family farm near Ulysses. After graduating from high school, she worked at Liberal Air Force base from 1943 to 1946. She re...

Patricia Dale Talbert “Trish”, age 50, of Topeka, Kansas passed away at her home May 11, 2011. She was born June 30, 1960 at Elkhart, KS to Jesse and Gladys (Riley) Talbert. Growing up, Trish attended Yarbrough and Elkhart schools and Graduated from Elkhart High School in 1979. She married Mike Line in 1979 and had two boys, Trevor and Trenton. In 1988 they moved to Madison Ks. In 19...

Rodney Bruce Vandervort, age 60, died May 13, 2011. The oldest child of Charles and Joyce (Runkle) Vandervort, he was born on November 16, 1950. He graduated from Elkhart High School with the class of 1969. Bruce’s Father died when he was only 11 years old. He married Patricia Jean Dougherty on November 18, 1972. He is survived by his wife, Pat of Elkhart, Ks; three daughters Shala...

Ted Shoemaker, age 49, of Ulysses, Kansas died Thursday, May 12, 2011 in Finney County, Kansas. He was born November 30, 1961 in Liberal, Kansas, the son of Ted and Kay (Rader) Shoemaker. Ted grew up in Ulysses. He worked in the oil field and also did construction work. He enjoyed spending time with his grandkids. He is survived by one son, Scott Shoemaker of Ulysses, Kansas; two daughte...

Lorraine Marie (Pat) Deister, age 86, of Ulysses, Kansas died Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at The Legacy at Park View in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born September 4, 1924 in Temple, Texas, the daughter of James and Marie (Stepan) Lancaster. Pat graduated from Temple High School, attended Temple Junior College, and Draughons Business College in Austin, Texas. During World War II she was a payroll cler...

Glen R. Wallace, 67, Liberal, KS , died Monday, May 9, 2011, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. He was born April 6, 1944 in Liberal, KS, the son of Glen B. & Evelyn G. Chaffin Wallace. Glen graduated Liberal High School. He served his country in the U S Navy. He worked for Tradewinds Industries in steel fabrication department on the brake machine, for the past thirty ...

Betty D. Mayhew, age 85, died late Friday, May 6, 2011, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas. She was born January 15, 1926, at Lemmon, South Dakota, the daughter of Henry Isaac and Olga Marie (Olson) Barone. As a young girl she attended school in South Dakota, she later attended nursing school. On January 4, 1948, she married Hobart Eugene “Gene” Mayhew at Arapaho, Ne...

Joe G. Woodruff, age 89, died Thursday afternoon, at the Kansas Soldiers Home, Halsey Hall , Ft. Dodge, Kansas. He was born November 26 , 1921, at Meade, Kansas , the son of Hurley H. and Jennie L. (Stalder) Woodruff. As a young boy he attended the Woodruff School in rural Meade County . He later attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School in 1940. After his ...