John A. Hairford, 75, of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away March 3, 2011 at on his farm near Hooker. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 7, 2011 at the United Methodist Church in Hooker with Rev. Les Bussell officiating. Interment will be in the Hooker Cemetery directed by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home in Hooker, Oklahoma. Condolences may be left at robertsbrothersfuneralhome.co...

Visitation: 2:00 PM until 8:00 PM, Sunday, March 06, 2011 at Garnand Funeral Home in Ulysses, Kansas. Funeral Service: 10:00 AM, Monday, March 07, 2011 at the Shelton Memorial Christian Church in Ulysses with Reverend Bill Harrold officiating. Interment: Ulysses Cemetery in Ulysses, Kansas wit...

Etta Mae Cole, 80, Liberal, KS , died Sunday, February 27 , 2011 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. She was born April 12, 1930 at Belin, OK, the daughter of Estal & Margueret E. Metschler Lyda. She graduated Liberal High School and was secretary at J & R Sand Co. for fifteen years, retired in 1994. She was a member of the Central Christian Church , Liberal, KS. ...

Wilmer Jess Perry, age 94, died Friday, February 25, 2011 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, Kansas. He was born November 26, 1916 in Stevens County, Kansas, the son of Jesse Norton and Birtha Ann (Gore) Perry. Wilmer, a farmer, was a lifelong resident of Stevens County. He graduated 8th grade from Evergreen School in Stevens County. On September 8, 1940, Wilmer married Isabel Mae Higgins in Guymo...

Clarence C. Quint 88 died, Saturday, February 26, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born August 9, 1922 in Victoria , KS the son of Peter A. and Elizabeth (Vonlintel) Quint. He was a 1939 graduate of Victoria High School . He had been a resident of Liberal for the past 58 years. He served in the U.S. Army from December 1942 to January 1946. He was an Antiaircra...

Carl V. Dougherty, age 92, died Sunday, February 20, 2011 at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born February 1, 1919 in Marion, Illinois the son of John Carsel and Nellie Bryson (Midgett) Dougherty. Carl moved to Cimarron County, Oklahoma from Illinois at a very young age. He graduated from Plainview High School at Griggs Community, Oklahoma. Carl was a farmer and rancher ...

Nora (Anderson) Swafford, age 91, died Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born October 24, 1919 in Stevens County, Kansas, the daughter of Frank and Jessie (Sillin) Anderson. Nora graduated from Preston High School in Preston, Kansas. Nora married Milton L. Swafford in 1942 in Ashland, Kansas. She was a longtime Hugoton resident; and worked...

Pastor Robert W. (Bob) Warner, age 58, of Johnson, Kansas died Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the Stanton County Hospital in Johnson, Kansas. He was born August 12, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Willard Edmond and Evelyn Dorothy (Gillard) Warner. Pastor Warner grew up and graduated high school in Chicago. He accepted Christ at the age of 21 at First Baptist Church in Burbank Illinois, a...

Marilyn J. (Mary Jo) Smith, age 78, of Ulysses, Kansas died Sunday, February 20, 2011 at her home in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born July 29, 1932 in Elwood, Indiana, the daughter of Rellis O. and Anna L. (Heaton) York. Mary Jo moved to Middletown, Ohio for a while then to Syracuse, Kansas. Where her father farmed and her mother worked in a grocery store. Mary Jo attended school in Syracuse, a...

Defina S. Muñoz , 71, died Saturday, Feb 19, 2011 at her residence in rural Liberal, KS. She was born Dec. 24, 1939 at Durango , Mexico , the daughter of Adrian and Maria De La Luz ( Holguin ) Sierra. She was a homemaker and had lived with her family on Green Hill Rd in Seward County , KS for the past 14 years. She was a member of Iglesia De Jesucristo Marana...