William Duane Blasi, 85, died Tuesday, January 16, 2018, at Pathways Hospice Care in Loveland, Colorado. He was born Oct. 02, 1932 to August Blasi and Grace (Kingsbury) Blasi in Pratt, KS. He married Lila M. Sangster Nov. 4, 1955 in Pratt, KS. Survivors include one daughter Joy Lynn Blasi of Loveland, CO; one granddaughter Jadey Blasi of Loveland, CO, and one brother Bob Blasi of Denver, CO....

George Earnest Koehler, age 91, passed away Wednesday morning, January 17, 2018, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas.   He was born April 7, 1926, at Adams, Oklahoma, the son of Earnest and Martha Koehler.  As a young boy he attended school in the Hooker and Turpin, Oklahoma area.  After his schooling, he joined the United States Army Air Corps in 1946 during World War II.  Aft...

Dale L. Limper, age 91, of Green Valley, Arizona, died Tuesday, December 19, 2017, at his home. He was born March 3, 1926, in Belpre, Kansas, the son of Jesse E. and Dorothy A. (Jarvis) Limper. The family moved to Ulysses in early 1927 and farmed southeast of town until 1977. Dale married Betty A. Bennett on May 3, 1947, and they had three children. After 51 years of marriage, Betty died in Sep...

Archie Paul DeBruce, age 93, of Ulysses, Kansas, died Saturday, January 13, 2018, at Reflection Living - Minnie House in Wichita, Kansas. He was born March 2, 1924, in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Alvin and Lulu (Ashley) DeBruce. Archie grew up in Wichita and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from Wichita State University. He served in the United States Army and was honorably d...

Mona (Moni) Richerson, 94 of Liberal, died Saturday, January 6, 2018 at the Skilled Unit of South West Medical Center. Mona was born March 6, 1923 in Hardesty, OK, to Oscer Brown and Hazel Richards. She graduated Hardesty High School in 1943. On December 26th 1945 she married Clifton Willard Richerson in Clayton, New Mexico, he died February 24, 1984. She married Charles Morris Jenkins Jr. ...

Juan Jonathan “Johnny” Espino, age 22, died January 5th in a motor vehicle accident near Chickasha, OK. He was born in Winfield, KS on January 26, 1995 the son of Mirna Gonzales and Francisco Faz Ovalle. Johnny was a 2013 graduate from Turpin, OK. High School. He was serving in the U.S. Army as a PFC in Bravo Battery 2nd Battalion, 18th Field Artillery at Ft. Sill OK. He is survived by hi...

Nancy Glaspie Foss, age 77, of Ulysses, Kansas, died Monday, January 8, 2018, at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas.  She was born September 4, 1940, in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of Julian “Jelly” Elmo and Elva “Pene” (Barnhill) Glaspie. Nancy grew up in Mansfield, Louisiana, and graduated as the valedictorian in her class in 1957. She received her Bachelor’s Deg...

Shirley Ann (Kester) Reynolds, of Pampa, Texas, a loving mother, a doting grandmother and a faithful solider for Christ, passed away Sunday, January 7, 2018, at her home with a Bible in her hands. Shirley was born June 10, 1941, in Oklahoma City to Willie Andrew and Sarah Mildred Kester. She was the middle child to 18 children; and grew up in Wellington, Texas, with flaming red hair and general...

Debbie St. Clair, 67, of Amarillo, Texas passed away January 7, 2018 at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, Texas. Debbie was born July 30, 1950 in Guymon, Oklahoma, the daughter of Jack and Martha Hawkins St. Clair. Her family moved to White Deer, Texas in 1952 and lived there until 1962 when they moved to Odessa, Texas and then to Amarillo in 1966. In the summer of 1967 they moved to Hooker,...

Ruth Irene (Clifford) Ramsey, age 96, passed away early Saturday morning, January 6, 2018, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center in Meade, Kansas.   She was born August 18, 1921, at Mullinville, Kansas, third in a family of 14 siblings, the daughter of William Joseph and Elva (Summers) Clifford.  As a young girl, she attended Mullinville Grade School, graduated from Mullinville High School in 19...