Tony Collins, 59, passed away Saturday, December 15, 2018 at The Denver Hospice in Denver, Colorado. He was born November 3, 1959 in Elkhart, Kansas the son of LeRoy K. and Bronislawa Kulpanis Collins. Tony graduated from Hugoton High School with the Class of 1978. He attended Pratt Community College. He worked as a forklift mechanic with the Safeway Distribution Center in Denver for 29 years. ...

Carol Sterling, age 78, of Ulysses, Kansas, passed away Sunday, December 16, 2018, at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas.  She was born January 26, 1940, in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Lester Lee and Myrtle (James) Kennedy. She lived in Ulysses the majority of her life with a brief time in Hutchinson, Kansas.   Carol was a member of the Ulysses First Baptis...

Jamie Lynn Fischer-Arbogast, age 51, of Welling, Oklahoma, died December 13, 2018. She was born December 28, 1966 in Boulder, Colorado the daughter of Steven and Carole (Steele) Fischer. Jamie moved to Ulysses with her family in 1977. She played sports and graduated from Ulysses High School in 1985. In 2009 she moved to Welling, Oklahoma. She worked at the family business and operated heavy eq...

– Ronald John (Radar) Beckerman, age 65, passed away late Friday evening, December 14, 2018, at the Western Plains Medical Complex, Dodge City, Kansas.   He was born November 15, 1953, at Fowler, Kansas, the son of John and Evelyn (Heinz) Beckerman (both deceased). As a young boy he attended the St. Anthony’s Parochial School and later graduated from Fowler High School in 1971.  H...

Marjorie Elliott, 96, passed away on Sunday, December 9, 2018 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City. She was born on March 25, 1922 in Seward County, Kansas to Ralph and Margaret Rinehart. Marjorie attended public school in Kismet and graduated in 1940. She married Eugene Fletcher in Meade, Kansas on July 27, 1940. He passed away on January 10, 1961. She married Dorsey Elliott in Sublette, Kans...

Sherry Yourdan, 56, of Liberal, passed away on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at St. Francis Medical Center in Wichita, KS.. She was born on October 18, 1962 to Marvin and Mary (Pemberton) Cornelson at Woodward, OK. On June 5, 1982 she married Dave Yourdan at the First Baptist Church of Shattuck, OK; he survives. Sherry grew up in Shattuck, OK and was a graduate of Shattuck High School, clas...

Peggy Sue Quinones, 55, died Tuesday, December 11, 2018, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal.  She was born on March 27, 1963, the daughter of William Chestnut and Beverly Barber.   She graduated from Mead High School in 1981.   She enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren.   Peggy worked as a department manager at Wal Mart.  ...

Dwight Leatherman, loving husband, father, grandfather, uncle, and friend entered the Gates of Heaven peacefully at his home in Ponca City, Oklahoma December 10th, 2018 surrounded by his family following a courageous thirty-month battle with lung cancer. Dwight was born February 2, 1945 in Wichita, Kansas to Floyd and Lula Mae Johnson Leatherman, the baby of six children. He was raised and attende...

William (Bill) Francis Kemp, age 94, died December 7, 2018 at his home in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born August 8, 1924 in Leonard, Missouri the son of Tom and Pearl (Johnston) Kemp. Bill served in the United States Navy during WW II. He married Jean Horton on November 17, 1948 at Clayton, New Mexico. He was a Phillips Petroleum jobber, owned and operated a service station and farmed for 20 years...

Dorton Dean Ives, 87, of Satanta, Kansas, died December 7, 2018, at Pioneer Manor Memory Care Center in Hugoton, Kansas.  He was born December 2, 1931, in Satanta to Gertrude and Dorton Cliff Ives.   He was preceded in death by his parents, Dorton and Gertrude, and a baby sister.  Dean is survived by his wife, Marilou; three children and their spouses, Randy and Angie Ives (Satanta), ...