Barbara Kathryn (Reissig) Cook, 91, died on Thursday, September 28, 2017 at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home, Hugoton, Kansas.
She was the daughter of Benjamin and Olive (Wood) Reissig. She was born on January 10, 1926 in Ft. Scott, Kansas.
She married Wallace Cook on July 1, 1944 in Walnut, Kansas. They moved to Hugoton in 1948 from Walnut, Kansas.
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Michael Serrato, age 58, of Elkhart, Kansas, died Sunday, October 1, 2017, at Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born July 27, 1959, in Liberal, Kansas, the son of John and Victoria (Martinez) Serrato.
Mike, a lifetime area resident, graduated from Yarborough High School in 1977. While in high school, he played football and was on the debate team. Since the age of 18, Mike worke...
Don Ray Tillotson died October 1, 2017, in Ulysses, Kansas, after an extended illness. Don was born in 1932 in Frankfort, Kansas, the son of Raymond and Amy (Jones) Tillotson.
Don grew up on the family farm near Shields, Kansas, with siblings, Paul, Betty, and Peggy. Don graduated from Dighton High School in 1950, and then attended Kansas State College graduating in 1954 with a degree in Animal...
Betty Lorraine (Sorg) Whitesell died Thursday, September 28, 2017 at Homestead Estates in Liberal.
She was born on November 16, 1926 in Hiawatha, Kansas. She was the daughter of Winnie Gertrude (Standish) and Lawrence Christopher Sorg. This made her a many great-granddaughter of Captain Myles Standish who arrived in America on the Mayflower. The family were members of the Christian Church.
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Wanda Lou Roberts Gantt, 84, of Tulsa, Oklahoma passed away September 28, 2017 at Grace Living Center in Buffalo, Oklahoma.
Mom was born on farm 5 miles north of Hooker, OK on December the 26th 1932, she was the fourth of five children born to Norman Lee and Francis Louisa (Randolph) Roberts. She always said she was born on the most anti-climactic day of the year, the day after Christmas. The R...
D'Lois Joan “Jo Nana” Velasquez, 71, died on Saturday, September 30, 2017 at the Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, TX.
She was born September 7, 1946 in Russell, Ks to Ernest William and Agnes Joy (Matheson) Miller.
She graduated from Turpin High School, Turpin, Ok in 1964.
She worked for Dillion's Food Stores as a Pharmacy Clerk for many years until her retirement.
Jo enjoyed cooking...
Leonard Leon Hill 81, retired farmer and school teacher, passed from this life on September 24, 2017 in Wichita KS.
Leonard was born August 7, 1936, in Turpin OK where he graduated from high school; he attended college at Panhandle State and then Southwestern State earning a Master’s in Education. Leonard taught school for 38 years until his retirement in 2000. He also spent a majority of his...
Alfred Laverne Harper, age 85, died Thursday, September 21, 2017, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal. He was born March 18, 1932 in Stevens County, Kansas, the son of Thomas Alfred and Linnie Letha (Hawk) Harper.
Alfred graduated from Hugoton High School in 1950. On November 12, 1952, he married Dorothy Mozelle Rawlins in Hugoton, Kansas.
Alfred was born in the Woods community, where he ...
William C. “Bill” Bolan, age 90, passed away Thursday morning, September 21, 2017, at the Fowler Residential Care Center, Fowler, Kansas.
Arrangements are pending and will be announced by Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade...
Shirley Dean Hendrix (Pedersen) died on Tuesday September 19, 2017 in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the age of 86.
She was born to L. M. (Pete) and Vivian Pedersen on September 28, 1930 in Amarillo, Texas. Shirley was a 1949 graduate of Liberal High School and retired from Wal Mart in 2002. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. Shirley loved ball room dancing, playing the piano and music.
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