Isabel Rangel Martinez, 92, of Liberal, passed away on Monday, January 30, 2023 at the Baptist St. Anthony Hospital in Amarillo, TX. She was born on September 12, 1930 to Cosme and Maria (Correa) Rangel at Lyons, KS. On July 12, 1948 she married Leo T Martinez at Las Vegas, NM. Isabel attended schools in Garden City, KS. She enjoyed crocheting, reading mystery novels, playing bingo...

Monica Ray Cox, age 46, of Plains, Kansas, passed away late Monday evening, January 30, 2023, at the Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas. She was born December 12, 1976, at Guymon, Oklahoma, the daughter of Jimmy and Donna (Johnson) Ketcherside. Monica spent part of her childhood in Guymon, Oklahoma. At the age of eleven, she and her family moved to Kismet, Kansas, where she attended Ki...

Jim Houtz, age 84, died Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at his home in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born August 15, 1938, in Wapalo, Iowa, the son of Maurice Charles and Lelia Belle (Cohenour) Houtz. Jim grew up in Iowa until his senior year in 1956 when the family moved to Liberal, Kansas. He married Reida Hale on September 20, 1957, in Perryton, Texas. They celebrated just shy of 63 years of marriage...

Granville Ray Crow, 77, of Liberal, passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2023 at the Liberal Good Samaritan Center. He was born on March 2, 1945 to Robert Moreland and Lillie Pearl (Robison) Crow at Golden, OK. On December 3, 1967 he married Murl Hall at the Mountain View Baptist Church of Elmwood, OK. To this union two children were born, Sandra Rae and Kevin Lynn. He attended school a...

Patsy Guinn passed away January 28, 2023 at Porta Caeli House in Tulsa, OK after a brief fight with cancer. Patsy was born March 9, 1955 to Garland and Ruth Lees in Liberal, Kansas. She attended her elementary and jr. high years at Hooker, OK. She started her freshman year at Perryton, Texas graduating with the class of 1973. Patsy attended Texas Tech University and was a member of the T...

Eileen Ruth Rice, 88, of Liberal, passed from this life and went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, January 28, 2023. She was born on September 10, 1934 to Elmer and Ida (Gilbreath) Parks in Plainview, TX.. Eileen married Milton Leroy Rice on December 22, 1951 in Garden Grove, CA. She had lived in Texas, California, and Kansas; moving to Liberal in 1969. She worked for a short time ...

Wayland Craig Clanton, 65, of Liberal, Kansas passed away on Sunday, January 29, 2023 at his home in Liberal, Kansas. He was born to Wayland Gerald and Marie (Wiles) Clanton on October 6, 1957 in Shattuck, Oklahoma. He was a lifetime resident of Liberal, Kansas and attended Liberal schools. Following high school graduation he married Marcia Wesley on April 28, 1979 in Liberal. KS. Marcia...

After an amazing and full life, Joseph Merrill "Joe" Brown, age 96, died Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at Spanish Peaks Veterans Community Living Center in Walsenburg, Colorado. He was born on September 6, 1926, in Hooker, Oklahoma to Mary Cox Brown and William Ellis Brown, one of 13 children. Joe was raised in Hooker until he joined the Navy in January 1945, where he spent most of his service tim...

Theo Gooch Crane passed from this life into the Glory of her Lord on January 25th, 2023, at Northshore Care and Rehab in Loveland, Colorado. Theo Alma Gooch was born on November 19, 1931, to Theodore Roosevelt and Olive Virginia Cash Gooch in Osawatomie, Kansas. She graduated from Hugoton High School and attended Panhandle State University in Goodwell, Oklahoma. She married Charles Eug...

Dennis L. Tregellas, age 79, son of Richard and Irene Tregellas, husband of Genevieve “Jan” (Llewellyn) Tregellas, and father of Steve Tregellas and Tammie Boykin (Talley), passed away on January 26, 2023. Dennis was a hard-working family man who provided well for his family. He worked 30+ years for Panhandle Eastern and was a carpenter in his spare time, repairing and roofing houses in...