Obituaries

J.W. Bill Fitzgerald

J.W. Bill Fitzgerald

Dec 26, 2012

J.W. (Bill) Fitzgerald, 87, died Dec. 26th, 2012 on the family farm where he was born on May 23, 1925. He was the son of Ed and Frances Fitzgerald. Bill married JoAnne Boles in 1946. He was a well-known and respected farmer/stockman in the area. He was a pioneer member of the Liberty School Community. As boys, he and brother,...

Robert "Bobby" Doll

Robert "Bobby" Doll

Dec 23, 2012

Robert “Bobby” Doll, 75, died Sunday, December 23, 2012 at his residence. He was born September 3, 1937 in Liberal, KS, the son of Cecil L. and Beulah “Billie” (Kunze) Doll. He was a lifetime Liberal resident, graduating from Liberal High School in 1955 and received a Bachelors of Business degree from Wichita State University. He had worked as a...

Betty Jean Cobb

Betty Jean Cobb

Dec 18, 2012

Betty Jean Cobb, 79, died December 18, 2012 at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado.She was born February 29, 1933 at Stigler, Oklahoma the daughter of Arthur and Jewel (Pennington) Hendrick. She had been a longtime Liberal area resident. She graduated from Turpin High School in Turpin, OK and attended Northwest Texas Hospital School of Nursing graduating in 1955 with...

Eula Ann Bishop

Eula Ann Bishop

Dec 11, 2012

Eula Ann Bishop 71, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS.She was born May 19, 1941 in Liberal, KS the daughter of Howard William and Lillian Earlene (Ellis) Massie. She was raised in Liberal and graduated from Liberal High School. She was a longtime Liberal resident moving to Tyrone, OK several years ago. She...

Norman Jack Bishop

Norman Jack Bishop

Dec 11, 2012

Norman Jack Bishop 84, died Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at his residence in Tyrone, OK.He was born July 6, 1929 in Grand Rapids, Michigan the son of John & Dorothy (Ludlow) Bishop. He has been a longtime Tyrone resident. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan area and graduated from High School. He attended college and received a degree in...

Lorena 'Lori' Lee Wilson Groover

Lorena 'Lori' Lee Wilson Groover

Dec 10, 2012

Lorena Lee “Lori” Wilson Groover, 59, died Monday, December 10, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born October 2, 1953 in Groom, TX, the daughter of E. W. and Lois (Allen) Wilson.She was raised and attended grade school in Fritch, TX. She graduated high school in Dallas, TX. She has been a longtime Liberal area resident...

Maria De Lourdes Tarango De Ortiz

Maria De Lourdes Tarango De Ortiz

Dec 7, 2012

Maria De Lourdes “Luly” (Tarango) De Ortiz, age 57, died December 7, 2012, at her Daughter’s residence in rural Turpin, OK. She was born December 21, 1954 in Chihuahua, Mexico, the daughter of Eustaquio and Paula (Anchondo) Tarango.On May 15, 1979, she married Jaime Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico. He survives. She was a resident of Adams for 23 years.She was...

Rosa Amalia Palacios

Rosa Amalia Palacios

Dec 6, 2012

Rosa Amalia Palacios, age 62, died December 6, 2012, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born May 20, 1950 in Olanchito Yoro, Honduras, the daughter of Cesar Palacios.Her companion in Honduras was Manuel Fonseca. He died in 1989. She married Jose Magana in Oklahoma. He Survives. She was a resident of Turpin for 11 years.She was had...

Wayne Denton King

Wayne Denton King

Dec 6, 2012

Wayne Denton King, 84, died Thursday, December 6, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born Dec. 13, 1927 in Casper, Wyoming, the son of George D. and Hazel A. (Brawner) King. He was raised in Phillipsburg, Kansas and graduated for Phillipsburg High School in 1945 and served as the senior class president. He and his wife...

Felix Louis Huebner

Felix Louis Huebner

Dec 5, 2012

Felix Louis Huebner, 79, died Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at home in rural Texas County, OK.He was born January 13, 1933, to Earnest and Gussie (Wald) Huebner, at Turpin, OK.He graduated from Turpin High School, then attended Panhandle State University, at Goodwell, OK, and Central State University, at Edmond, OK. He was a farmer and lifetime resident of Turpin. He...

Donald Frederick Smith

Donald Frederick Smith

Nov 28, 2012

Donald Frederick Smith, 53, of Durham, NC, died of a sudden illness on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at Minneapolis, MN.He was born November 13, 1959, at Liberal, KS, to Jack E. and Mary Lois (Fulton) Smith.He attended Southlawn Elementary, South Junior High, and Liberal High School, graduating in 1978. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Southwestern College at...

Ruth Feese

Ruth Feese

Nov 25, 2012

Ruth FeeseCleo Ruth Feese, 90, died Sunday, November 25, 2012 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, KS.She was born February 11, 1922 in Kechi, KS, the daughter of Clyde Lester and Della Mae (Reeves) Bigger. She attended schools at Langdon and Sylvia, Kansas. Ruth graduated from Sylvia High School in 1940.She has been a longtime Liberal resident. Ruth worked at the...

Doris May Curry

Doris May Curry

Nov 22, 2012

Doris May Curry, age 87, died November 22, 2012 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born January 2, 1925 in Woodward, OK, the daughter of Carney and Jewell (Jackson) Curry. She graduated from Freedom High School, Freedom, OK, on May 20, 1943. She graduated from Northwestern State College, Alva, OK in 1970, with a Masters Degree in...

Maurine Mae Evans

Maurine Mae Evans

Nov 21, 2012

Maurine Mae Evans 99, died Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at Liberal Good Samaritan Society in Liberal, KSShe was born March 13, 1913 in rural Liberal, the daughter of Luther Franklin and Lola Pearl (Browning) Cox.She graduated as the valedictorian of the class of 1931 of Turpin High School.She was a homemaker and helped her husband farm. She was a longtime...

Mary Pauline Weaver

Mary Pauline Weaver

Nov 5, 2012

Mary Pauline Weaver 98, died Monday, November 5, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born November 9, 1913 in Cleveland, OK the daughter of Frank Moulder. She had been a resident of the Liberal area for many years. She was employed by Panhandle Eastern Pipeline becoming the first female supervisor. She was a member of...

E. Juanita Hershey

E. Juanita Hershey

Nov 5, 2012

E. Juanita (Mangels) Hershey, 96, died Monday, November 5, 2012, at Southwest Medical Center, in Liberal.She was born June 20, 1916, at Plevna, Kansas, to Chester and Mary (Nusser) Mangels.She graduated from Rolla High School in 1934. She was a teacher at country schools in Morton and Stevens County. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Elkhart, where...

Jean Logsdon

Jean Logsdon

Nov 3, 2012

Jean Logsdon, 86, died Nov. 3, 2012 while receiving hospice care at Meadowlake Estates, in Oklahoma City. She was born Sept. 8, 1926 in Borger, TX, the daughter of Lex and Ethel (Cowan) Phillips. In 1945, she married Rex Joe Logsdon of Guymon, OK. He died Feb. 15, 1965. They made their home in Liberal and raised two daughters, Karen...

Anna (Vom Hofe) Bryan

Anna (Vom Hofe) Bryan

Oct 21, 2012

Anna (Vom Hofe) Bryan, 89, died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at Beaver Co. Nursing Home in Beaver, OK.She was born Sept. 27, 1923 at Kassel, Germany to Karl Martin and Anna Christina (Grigat) Vom Hofe.She graduated from high school in Germany in 1937 and then took courses in shorthand and typing.In 1945, she married Edward W. Bryan at Munich, Germany....

Mary Anna Dunn

Mary Anna Dunn

Oct 12, 2012

Mary Anna Dunn, 80, died Friday, October 12, 2012 at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City, KS.She was born March 27, 1932 in Blencoe, Iowa to William and Edith (Peterson) Erlandson. She graduated high school at Blencoe, Iowa and then studied at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE.On May 19, 1956, she married Howard A. Dunn in Onawa, Iowa. He...

Nancy Carol Pittman

Nancy Carol Pittman

Oct 5, 2012

Nancy Carol Pittman, age 70, died October 5, 2012 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. She was born January 25, 1942 in Liberal, KS, the daughter of Harland and Mae (Fuller) Neese. She attended Liberal High School. She was a life time resident of Liberal, moving to Wichita, KS in 2008.On December 11, 1970,she married Richard Pittman in...

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