Owen Dale Strait, 87, of Liberal, Kansas passed away February 15, 2020 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas. Dale was born December 1932 on the Strait Homestead southeast of Hooker, the son of Leo and Rena Frazee Strait. He attended school at Adams, Oklahoma, graduating from Adams High School with the Class of 1950. He then entered the U.S. Air Force in 1952 and received his honorable ...

Maria Refugio Soto Nunez, age 73, died Saturday, February 22, 2020, at her home just outside Liberal, Kansas. She was born May 13, 1946 in Mexico. The daughter of Manuel Soto and Belen Nunez of Mexico. She moved to the United States in February of 1999, where she raised 8 children. She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother and sister. She was a member of St Anthony of Padua Cathol...

Eva “Joyce” Rairdon, age 88, died Friday, February 21, 2020, in Satanta, Kansas. She was born February 20, 1932 in Gueda Springs, Kansas the daughter of Abraham and Ann (Bower) Shurtz She graduated from High School in Arkansas City, Kansas in 1948 Joyce married C. L. Rairdon December 14, 1948 in Arkansas City, Kansas they were married for 61 years until his death in 2009. She worked ...

Sheila Gail Bryan, 50, of Tyrone, OK passed away on February 20, 2020 in Wichita, KS. She was born on November 12, 1969 to John Mundt Sr. and Sue Peterson in Denver City, TX. She was a graduate of Liberal High School; class of 1988 and Seward County Community College, where she obtained her Associate Degree in Nursing. Sheila worked as an Admissions Coordinator at Southwest Medical Center in...

Marilyn LewElla (Hall) Harris, 76, passed away February 17, 2020, Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas.             She was the daughter of Code Henry and LewElla Dean (Anderson) Hall, Marilyn was born December 3, 1943, Taft, California.             She and Larry Harris were married and had four children; Janell Rae, Janean Louise, Jarrod Keith, and Jeffery Dean. Larry pr...

Daisy Bernice (Mills) Norton, 87, passed away February 17, 2020 at the Pioneer Manor, Hugoton, Kansas. She was born January 24, 1933 to Howard and Stella Mae (Cameron) Mills. She and Lenard Norton were married May 8, 1951, Latimer County, Oklahoma. To this union were five children, Lynne, Larry, Vicki, John, and Linda. Lenard preceded her in death, October 13, 2013. She ...

Natalie Alice Perkins, 90, peacefully met her Lord and Savior face-to-face on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at Stevens County Hospital in Hugoton, Kansas. Pioneer Manor had been her residence just over 3 months. She was born in Carrollton, Georgia December 20, 1929, daughter of Albert and Flora (Gillihan) Lowman. She married Clyde Thomas Perkins September 13, 1947 at Lenexa, Kansas just 4 mont...

Ruben Castillo Pichardo, age 49, of Ulysses, Kansas, died Monday, February 17, 2020, at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was born November 27, 1970, in San Marcos, Durango, Mexico, the son of Emilio and Celia (Pichardo Diaz) Castillo. Ruben grew up in Mexico and moved to the United States in 1986. He married Lucy Quiñonez on April 16, 2016, in Ulysses. Ruben wa...

Effie Mardell Taylor, 88, of Liberal, died on Sunday, February 16th, 2020 at Southwest Medical Center. She was born June 6th, 1931, in Liberal, KS to Irwin and Mildred White. On April 29th, 1949 Mardell was united in marriage with William R. “Dick” Taylor in Clayton, New Mexico; he preceded her in death. Mardell attended grade school at Blue Bell School House in rural Seward County an...

Eva Hays, 88, of Liberal Kansas, passed away on February 16, 2020, after a long illness. Eva was born in Cold Springs, Oklahoma, on February 12, 1932, to Carroll and Lona Jackson. After graduating Consolidated 8 High School in 1950, she went on to study Elementary Education at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. After graduation, she landed her first teaching job in Topeka, Kansas. While ...