LEONA ELOISE KILLINGSWORTH (EHRHARDT) 79, DIED FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2022 IN HER HOME IN LIBERAL, KANSAS. SHE WAS BORN JUNE 28, 1943 TO LEO AND THELMA EHRHARDT IN TYRONE, OKLAHOMA. SHE GRADUATED FROM LIBERAL HIGH SCHOOL IN MAY OF 1961 WHERE SHE MET AND THEN MARRIED ROBERT (BOB) KILLINGSWORTH IN 1962. HE SURVIVES. SHE ENJOYED BEING A HOMEMAKER, SEAMSTRESS, AND SPENDING TIME WITH HER FAMILY. SH...

Candice Dawn Kline, age 43, passed peacefully in her sleep on December 14, 2022 in Parachute, Colorado. She was born on May 12, 1979 in Liberal, Kansas to David Kline and Christy Kline. She was a twin, second born to her sister Echo Michelle. She graduated from Liberal High School in 1997. She then attended the Cosmetology program at Garden City Community College receiving her nail tech certifi...

Larry G. Black, 75, died Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at the Liberal Good Samaritan Society. He was born May 2, 1947 in Amarillo, Texas, the son of Gene and Mary Frances (Embrey) Black. Larry attended the Roswell Military Institute and Liberal High School. After graduation, he attended Ft. Hays State for several years. Larry married Bertha Maria “Tita” Campuzano on September 1,...

Clinton Eugene Haskell was born July 8, 1927 to Claud and Minnie Haskell on a farm on Clear Creek in Beaver County, Oklahoma. His parents homesteaded on a farm eleven miles southwest of Beaver where he grew up. Clinton was the fifth child of six children, three sisters and two brothers. He attended first grade at the Elmwood School for one year. He and his brother rode horseback eight miles round ...

Evelyn A. Hart-Austin of Liberal, Kansas passed away on December 13, 2022. She was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Graveside services will be at 2:00 pm. Saturday, December 17, 2022 at Elmhurst Cemetery in Guymon, Oklahoma conducted by the Lawrence Wimmer American Legion Post 80 of Liberal, Kansas with Chaplain Jim Garcia officiating. To honor Evelyn, please wear K State Purple. Memorials are su...

Joseph T. Brooks Jr., 95, passed away Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Satanta Long Term Care Unit in Satanta, Kansas. The son of Joseph and Blanche (Greenwood) Brooks, he was born on July 15, 1927, in Tabler, Oklahoma. Joe and Virginia Helen Brooks were married on September 3, 1948, in Canon City, Colorado. Joe worked for the State of Kansas Department of Transportation as a heavy equipment...

Glenn E. Woodruff, age 88, passed away early Sunday morning, December 11, 2022, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. He was born September 19, 1934, at rural Meade, Kansas, the son of Horace Dale and Clarice Leone (Cook) Woodruff. As a young boy he attended school in Fowler, Kansas, graduating from Fowler High School in 1952. After his graduation, he joined the United States A...

Thomas V. Ford, 71, passed peacefully in his Galveston, TX home, on November 29, 2022. Tom was born in 1951 to James & Evelyn Ford, in Hugoton, KS. Tom married Diana Carlile in 1978. He later married Yvonne Gruber in 2001.  Tom graduated from Hugoton High School in 1969.  During his 35-year career, he successfully managed three Southwest Kansas electric power plants, and he earned a Bachelor...

Kenten "Ken" Merle Pavlicek, 68, of Liberal, passed away on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at Southwest Medical Center. He was born on July 10, 1954 to Merle and Newatlene (Kiger) Pavlicek in McCook, NE. Ken was a graduate of Decatur County High School in Oberlin, KS with the class of 1972. On March 16, 1973, he married his sweetheart, Trudi Clark, in Atwood, KS. In 1974, he and Trudi moved to ...

Roscoe Richard Hoddy, age 82, of liberal, Kansas, died on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal. Roscoe was born on Friday May 3, 1940, in Eureka, Kansas, the son of Roscoe Richard Hoddy Sr. and Evelyn Florence (Thomas) Hoddy. Roscoe worked on the family farm growing up, and then as mechanic on an oil rig. For many years, he was an over the road truck driver, an...