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...

Don Krug, 71 and Joan Krug, 67 both of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away May 24, 2011 from injuries sustained in a tornado on I-40 near Calumet, Oklahoma . Joan Dianne Lynch was born July 18, 1943 in Denver, Colorado , the daughter of Lewis and Bobbi Lynch. She was adopted and raised in Woodland Park, Colorado . This is where she attended school and graduated from Woodland Park High Scho...

Maynard Greeson, 67, Kismet, KS, died Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center , Liberal, KS , of injuries sustained in a home explosion. He was born January 7, 1944 at Friona, TX , the son of Carl & Lorene Shirley Greeson. He graduated from Frioma High School in Friona, TX, and received his degree in Animal Science from West Texas State University, Can...

Richard Lee Glasscock, age 81, of Johnson, Kansas died Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. He was born September 15, 1929 in Sulpher Springs, Arkansas, the son of Virgil and Florence (Huff) Glasscock. After serving in the United States Army from 1951 – 1953 in Korea, Richard moved to Johnson. He married Doris Nichols on January 23, 1954 in Clayton, N...

Leon H. Bortz , age 88, died late Monday evening, May 23, 2011, at the Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City, Kansas . Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary , Meade, Kansas . ...

John Adam Graves , age 47, died Monday, May 23, 2011at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born Dec. 10, 1963 in Wichita, KS , the son of Donald Leroy and Helen Jo (Loyton) Graves. He has been a longtime Liberal resident and attended Liberal Schools. He had worked at Best Western, Seward County Road & Bridge and currently as a truck d...

Thelma Katrina Morgan, age 94, died Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Via Christi Regional Medical Center – St. Francis Campus in Wichita, Kansas. She was born November 17, 1916 at Copeland, Kansas the daughter of William and Marie (Lewis) Nusser. Thelma married Ray A. Morgan on May 28, 1943. She later married Earl Shandy who preceded her in death and then married Frank Davidson. She was a gr...

Robert Carl “Bob” Anderson , 89, died Sunday May 22, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal. He was born November 24 , 1921 at Hibbing, Minnesota , the son of Carl and Aina Anderson. He had lived in Hibbing, MN for 18 years, graduating from Hibbing High School in 1938. He had also lived in Denham, MN for 5 yrs, Abe...

Romana C. Manzano, age 101, of Ulysses, Kansas died Saturday, May 21, 2011 at The Legacy at Park View in Ulysses, Kansas. She was born August 27, 1909 in Sain Del Alto Zacatecas Mexico, the daughter of Nolberto and Juana (Herrera) Calderon. Romana married Nazario Manzano in 1928. She lived in Lamar, Colorado from 1979 until 2000; at that time she moved to Ulysses, Kansas. Romana enjoyed crochet...