Obituaries

Delano Wayne Honaker

Delano Wayne Honaker

Jun 4, 2015

Delano Wayne Honaker, 48, of Hugoton, KS, died Thursday, June 4, 2015, at the Satanta District Hospital, Satanta, KS. He was born October 3, 1966, at Tulsa, OK, to Henry Liburn and Betty Jean (David) Honaker. He graduated from Hugoton High School in 1985, and from Salina Area Technical College, in 1987. He was a self-employed caregiver, and a lifetime...

James "Bush" A. Bushaw

James "Bush" A. Bushaw

May 26, 2015

James A. “Bush” Bushaw, age 64, died Tuesday, May 26, 2015 at the Robert Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita, KS.James Allen Bushaw was born May 25, 1951 at Manchester, IA, the son of Floyd and Berniece (Keppler) Bushaw.He was served in the United States Army during Vietnam War as a paratrooper. He was inducted Sept. 9, 1970 and honorably...

Carole Anne Kennedy Naylor

Carole Anne Kennedy Naylor

May 25, 2015

Carole Anne (Kennedy) Naylor, 68, died May 25, 2015, at Homestead Health & Rehabilitation, in Garden City, KS. She was born June 19, 1946, in Liberal, KS, to Robert Lott and Irene (Hiebert) Kennedy. She was a lifetime resident of Liberal, moving to Garden City in 2006.She graduated from Liberal High School, and in 1974, graduated from Liberal Area Vocational...

Catherine Amerin

Catherine Amerin

May 25, 2015

Catherine Marie Nelson Amerin , 89, died Monday, May 25, 2015 at her residence in Liberal, KS. She was born Oct. 25, 1925 in Plains, KS the daughter of Vincent and Hester (Dickerson) Nelson. She is a graduate from Liberal High School and has been a longtime resident of Liberal.She was employed in Naval Ship Yard in California and also...

Avanell Sherrill Mitchell

Avanell Sherrill Mitchell

May 24, 2015

Avanell Sherrill Mitchell, 90, died, Sunday, May 24, 2015 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born June 25, 1924 on a farm at Boyd, Oklahoma in Beaver County, the daughter of Henry and Oma (Myers) Law. Her first eight years of school were in a one room school house, then 3 years at Bethany High School,...

Violette "Letta" Mae Balloun

Violette "Letta" Mae Balloun

May 24, 2015

Violette Mae “Letta” (Eichman) Balloun, age 90, died Sunday, May 24, 2015 at Good Samaritan Society, Liberal, KS.She was born February 2, 1925 at Russell, KS, the daughter of Ruben and Ella Nora (Reinhardt) Eichman. She was a graduate of Russell High School where she was active on the Debate team and won numerous awards at the state level. She...

Mary Ellen Maschmeier

Mary Ellen Maschmeier

May 21, 2015

Mary Ellen (Jennings) MaschmeierOn a cold winter’s day, December 27, 1925, Mary Ellen Jennings made her appearance to parents Ray and Emma Wood Jennings near Hickok, Kansas. The second of five children, Mary Ellen attended school in Satanta and Wichita, Kansas, and graduated high school at the age of 16 in Perryton, Texas. She returned to Perryton after attending business...

Merwyn Lee Massa

Merwyn Lee Massa

May 17, 2015

Merwyn Lee Massa 68, died May 17, 2015 at Select Specialty Hospital in Wichita, KS. He was born June 25, 1946 in Liberal, KS the son of Joseph Bethel and Lovetta Rose (Hocket) Massa. Merwyn was a lifelong resident of Liberal, Ks and graduated from Liberal High School in 1964. He worked with his father and brother at Massa Painting...

Duane H. Burt

Duane H. Burt

May 15, 2015

Duane H. Burt, 83, died Friday, May 15, 2015 at Good Samaritan Society in Liberal, KS. He was born November 1, 1931 near May Day in Washington County, KS, the son of Lloyd and Ola (Rose) Burt. Duane was a veteran having served from 1951 - 53 in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean Conflict. On October 20,...

Ida Ruth Kinser

Ida Ruth Kinser

May 8, 2015

Hugoton, KS Ida Ruth Kinser, 83, died Friday, May 8, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS.She was born April 27, 1932 in Stevens County Kansas, the daughter of Floyd and Grace Gregg Bevan.Ida’s family moved to Center, CO when she was six because of the dust bowl. She graduated from Center High School on May 28, 1950. On...

Glen C."Curtie" Bridenstine

Glen C."Curtie" Bridenstine

May 7, 2015

Glen C. “Curtie” Bridenstine, 88, died May 7, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS.He was born April 29, 1927 at Hobart, OK, the son of Vernis and Ida (Wilhoit) Bridenstine. He graduated from high school in Albuquerque, NM.He was a life long farmer in the Oklahoma panhandle’s Beaver and Texas counties. He was a member of Trinity Faith...

Virgil E. "Mac" McWilliams

Virgil E. "Mac" McWilliams

Apr 30, 2015

Hooker, OKDr. Virgil E. “Mac” McWilliams, Jr. 84, died April 30, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS He was born April 9, 1931 in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, the son of Virgil E. and Viola (Shorter) McWilliams.He graduated from Fairfax Oklahoma High School in 1944, he then went to Oklahoma A&M in Stillwater, OK and graduated in 1954 with a...

Ronald Dale Ediger

Ronald Dale Ediger

Apr 28, 2015

Ronald Dale Ediger, 72, died Tuesday April 28, 2015 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born October 5, 1942 in Beaver, OK, the son of Paul and Sara (Dick) Ediger. He graduated in 1960 from Turpin High School, Turpin, OK and then attended Bethel College, North Newton, KS. He joined 1W Alternative Service in Evanston, IL where he...

Floyd Eugene Tedford

Floyd Eugene Tedford

Apr 19, 2015

LIBERAL, KSFloyd Eugene Tedford, age 78, died April 19, 2015 at his residence in Liberal, KS. He was born on June 17, 1936 in Medicine Lodge, KS, the son of Carl Jasper and Lilly Marie (Crellin) Tedford.He graduated from Liberal High School in 1954. He graduated from Emporia State University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He...

Gary Leon Heger

Gary Leon Heger

Apr 16, 2015

HUGOTON, KS  Gary Leon Heger Gary Leon Heger, 77, passed from this earth surrounded by his family on April 16, 2015 at the Kansas Medical Center in Andover, KS. He was born in his home, July 18, 1937 to Otto and Versia Heger of Hugoton, KS. He attended Fairview Grade School and graduated from Hugoton High School in 1955. On...

Morris Lynn Kapp

Morris Lynn Kapp

Apr 10, 2015

Morris Lynn Kapp, 82, was born December 10, 1932 in Moscow, KS and passed from this life on April 10, 2015 at Integris Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City, OK. Morris resided in Oklahoma City, OK in the 1950’s with his wife Marilyn Ann Kapp and three of their children before moving his family to Liberal, KS and having two...

Irene Pepper

Irene Pepper

Apr 6, 2015

Irene L. Pepper, age 73, died Monday, April 6, 2015 at her residence in Liberal, KS. She was born July 25, 1941 in Liberal, KS, the daughter of Adam Jake and Caroline Mary (Dreitz) Roth. She was a lifelong resident of Liberal, KS, and attended Liberal schools and graduated from Liberal High School in 1959. She began her working career...

Maxine Mary Hanson

Maxine Mary Hanson

Apr 3, 2015

Maxine Mary Hanson 94, died, Friday, April 3, 2015 at her residence in Tyrone, OK. She was born July 27, 1920 in North Platte, NE the daughter of Lawrence and Lillian (Eckland) Rauch. She attended the North Platte High School in North Platte, NE and after her junior year she enlisted in the Women Army Air Corp.She has been a...

Rebecca I. "Beckie" Helm

Rebecca I. "Beckie" Helm

Mar 28, 2015

Rebecca “Beckie” I. Helm, age 60, died March 28, 2015 at her residence in Liberal, Ks. She was born June 28, 1954 in Kansas City, MO, the daughter of Charles W. and Vivian I. (Gregory) Miller. She graduated from St. Elmo High School at St. Elmo, IL, in 1972. She graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, IN, in 1976....

Wayne Edward Haverfield

Wayne Edward Haverfield

Mar 25, 2015

Liberal, KSWayne Edward Haverfield, II, 48, died Wednesday, March 25, 2015 in Baker County, California.He was born on April 26, 1966 in Meade, Kansas. The son of Wayne and Vicki (Phillips) Haverfield, they survive.He graduated from Liberal High School in 1984. He resided in Las Vegas, Nevada for the past 23 years. He was employed as an over-the-road Truck Driver...

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