Frances A. Simmons, 88, Hugoton, KS , died Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Stevens County Hospital, Hugoton, KS. She was born May 5, 1923 in Seward County, KS, the daughter of James D. & Jessie E. Lamberson. She attended school at Superior, Antelope and the Hitch Ranch School. Frances had a love for cooking and baking, cooking for different local cafes for many years and at the First Chr...

Dick L. Reynolds, 77, Liberal, KS , died Thursday, June 2, 2011, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. He was born August 21, 1933 in Liberal, KS, the son of Homer I. & Edith V. Thornburg Reynolds. Dick worked for the Rock Island Railroad in Liberal as brakeman for eighteen years and later was an officer of the Liberal Police Department and then as the City of Libera...

Victoria "Jo" Love, 82, Liberal, KS , died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. She was born March 13, 1929 at Dumas, AR , the daughter of John Arthur & Serleaner Huff Norah. She moved to Liberal in 1959, working at Sally Ann cafe, and the home of Dr. & Mrs. I. Ross Grimes. She retired from the Southwest Medical Center. She was a member of...

Merlin D. Petty, 82, died Saturday, June 4, 2011, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, KS. He was born Jan. 21, 1929, to Ivon T. and Grace K. (Dubbs) Petty in Buckeye, AZ. While a baby, his family returned to Ransom, KS. to assist his grandparents, who operated a telephone office in Arnold, KS. His freshman year of high school his family moved to Utica, KS. where he played basketball. His team, t...

Lula Belle (Reese) Sobba, passed away Sunday, June 5, 2011, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas . She was born December 3, 1923, in rural Ford County, Fowler, Kansas, daughter of William and Belle (Johnson) Reese. She attended school and gradated from Fowler High School in 1943. She married Robert L. Sobba on July 12, 1942, and after the war they started farming north of Fowler,...

Sally Beth Malone, age 76, of Ulysses, Kansas died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born September 15, 1934 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Cleve and Marian (Temple) Stoskopf. Sally moved to Ulysses with her family when she was in the 6th grade. Sally was a graduate of Ulysses High School. She attended Panhandle State University where...

Danny Wayne Brown 58 died May 29, 2011 at his residence in Midwest City, OK. He was born September 16, 1952 in Perryton, TX the son of DeWayne and Rheta Mae (Penn) Brown. He has been a Midwest City Resident for 3½ years. He graduated from Hardesty High School, Hardesty, OK . He was a Service Supervisor for Weatherford International retiring in 2006 due to is illness. On Sept 9, 1...

Zula Lee Matthes 86, died Monday May 30, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born April 6, 1925 at Sapulpa, OK the daughter of Benjamin and Alice (Perkins) Kemp. She has been a resident of Liberal since 1949 moving from Coffeeville, KS. She graduated in 1942 from Sapulpa High School in Sapulpa, OK. She has work for many years as a Secretary and Bookkeeper for Trad...

Earl Willard, age 92, died Friday afternoon, May 13, 2011 at his home near Durango, Colorado . Earl was born on August 20, 1918 to Dennis and Haley Willard in Preston, Kansas. He served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946 and was stationed in the Philippines during World War II . Until recent months he lived in Meade, Kansas after coming to settle there in 1946. On Janu...

Jessie Dale Horton 83 died May 26, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS . He was born April 27, 1928 in Hugoton, KS the son of John Alanson and Roxie Viola Burrows. He has been a long time Liberal Resident. He graduated from Hugoton High School and received his bachelor’s degree from Wichita State University . He was a mud engineer and owned Horton Mud...