Rita Ann Ridings, 62 died Sunday, May 21, 2017 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal. She was born on May 14, 1955 in Elkhart, KS, the daughter of Anthony Irsik and Alice Mae Ferrell. She graduated from Elkhart High School in 1973. She married Ozzie Ridings on September 16, 2006 in Liberal. He survives. Rita worked at Liberal Gasket, where she started in 1999. She spend the last 7 years as ...

Jesus R. "Chuy" Medrano Jr., 28, of Liberal, passed away Thursday May 18, 2017 at St. Francis Via Christi Hospital in Wichita, KS. He was born on April 1, 1989 to Jesus and Isabell (Licon) Medrano at Liberal, KS. Chuy was a graduate of Liberal High School, Class of 2008. He worked along side his brother Juan at Tatro Plumbing. Chuy had a passion for art and began drawing when he was a small ...

Ronald D. Crosley, age 82, of Elkhart, Kansas, died Thursday, May 18, 2017, at Morton County Senior Living Community in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born June 27, 1934 in St. Joseph, Missouri the son of Laurel and Alice (Wilson) Crosley. Ron grew up in Liberal and Elkhart. He was a graduate of Elkhart High School. He served in the US Army in Germany. Ron attended and graduated from Southern Nazarene U...

Clarabelle Palmer, age 94, died May 19, 2017 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born January 20, 1923 in Stevens County, KS, the daughter of Charlie and Ova (Lawson) Massa. She had been a resident of Liberal for over 80 years. She attended Superior School in Stevens County, Kansas. On May 6, 1944 she married George William Palmer in Liberal, KS. He died April 4, 2009. ...

William Edward Burdge, 92, of Laverne, Oklahoma passed away May 19, 2017 at the Grace Living Center in Buffalo, Oklahoma. Edward was born June 16, 1924 in Hooker, Oklahoma, the son of A.J. “Shorty” and Lettia Lassitar Burdge. He attended Hooker schools graduating from Hooker High School with the Class of 1942. After graduation, he worked at the Burdge Grocery until 1943 when he entered the U...

Sandra Ann (Huckins) O’Dell, 48, died Thursday, May 4th, 2017 at her residence in Liberal, Kansas. She was born on October 1, 1968, the daughter of Donald Huckins and Cindi Wilson in North Hampton, Massachusetts. She married Michael O’Dell Sr. on February 3, 1989 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He survives. Sandra was member of New Apostolic Church. She liked to draw, and she loved being a m...

Berlinda Green, age 71, died May 13, 2017, at her daughter’s residence in Wichita, KS. She was born February 15, 1946 in Pickens, AR, the daughter of Luvell and Jennie Mae (Collins) Ricks, Sr. She attended Dumas High School in Dumas, AR. On March 1, 2000 she married Charles Green in Little Rock, AR.  He survives. She worked in housekeeping at the Warren Hotel; she worked as a welder at...

Jo Klotz (Josie Bell Klotz), 100, died May 11, 2017, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center in Meade, KS.    She was born August 11, 1916, in Cartersville, OK, to John  and Martha Byrd.  Jo had five brothers and one sister and three half-brothers and two half-sisters.   Her mother died when she was six and at the age of eight, she and her younger sister, Bessie (Kruckenberg) went to live wit...

Arnella J. Carmichael, age 58, passed away early Monday morning, May 15,2017, at her rural Meade, Kansas, residence.   She was born January 12, 1959, at Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Warren Leroy and Lila J. Koehn.  As a young girl she attended the Copeland school system, graduating from Copeland High School in 1977.  She later attended Garden City Community College receiving her CNA ...

  MYRNA CRAIG passed away unexpectedly yet peacefully on May 10, 2017. She was born on January 15, 1940 in Beaver, Oklahoma during a massive snow storm - she told of her father frantically riding a horse through the storm to get the town doctor. Her family moved to Kansas where she graduated from Meade High School in 1958. There she met the love of her life, Orval Byron (Bud) Craig. They married...