Lawrence E. Owens, age 80, died April 16, 2017 at Wheatridge Park Care Center, KS. He was born February 17, 1937 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the son of Bessie Owens. He Graduated from ICS Newport Pacific High School, where he obtained his GED in 1998. He married Katherine Cohens on December 8, 1989 in Liberal. She survives. He worked at Stu Emmert’s in the body shop for 17 years, as...

Wilfred Eugene Schrepel, 84, died April 13, 2017, at the Brookdale Bearcreek Senior Living Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado following a brief illness. He leaves his loving wife of 61 years, Judith Karen (Hohner) Schrepel: his two sons, Douglas Schrepel and Bradley Schrepel and their wives, Laurie Clauss and Tara (Roberts) Schrepel; his sister, Lila McDermed; his brother, Milton Schrepel, Jr...

Melissa "Mel" Chaffin, 42, of Liberal, passed away on April 7, 2017 in Wichita, KS. She was born on January 1, 1975 to Frank Spencer and Rosemarie (Marchitto) Stacy in Hamilton, Bermuda. On October 7, 2004 she married Christopher Chaffin in Las Vegas, NV. He survives. She attended school at South Kitsap High School in Port Orchard, WA. Mel moved to San Angelo, TX aree where she obtained h...

Jose "Jody" Guadalupe Flores, 80, of Tyrone, OK passed away on April 11, 2017 at Coffeyville, KS. He was born on January 30, 1937 to Alfonso and Geneiva (Ulibarri) Flores at Arkalon, KS. On March 16, 1963 he married Euola Reynolds at the Clayton, NM. She survives. Jody served in the United States Army from 1955 - 1958 where he served as a Sergeant. He and his wife lived briefly in Denver,...

John “Jack” Jacobson, a resident of Point Clear, Alabama, died on Thursday, April 13, 2017. Jacobson was a pioneer in the meat packing industry and opened National Beef in Liberal in 1968. For the past four years, he has been actively working with Dr. Barry Booth at veteran’s events, especially talking with school children about World War II. To him “every day is another day to be of ser...

Ernest E. "Junior" Dettmer, 87, of Liberal, passed away Thursday April 13, 2017 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, Kansas He was born on January 30, 1930 to Ernest and Violet (Adams) Dettmer at Liberal, KS. On August 2, 1947 he married Marilyn J. VanDolah at Meade, Kansas. She preceded him in death on September 26, 1988. On August 3, 1990 he married Mary Ann Pearson in Liberal, Kansas;...

Patsy "Pat" J. Immell, 82, of Liberal, passed away on April 12, 2017 at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center, Oklahoma City. She was born on June 25, 1934 at Hooker, Oklahoma. The thirteenth child of W.E. William Ellis and Mary Elizabeth (Cox). She started school in Hooker. Later she and her mother and the younger brothers stayed in rural Lindsey, Oklahoma, with her grandmother Cox before ...

Jose "Jody" Flores, 80, of Tyrone, OK passed away Tuesday April 11, 2017. Services are pending and will be announced by Miller Mortuary....

  Freda J. Murray Tucker, age 91, of Elkhart, Kansas died Tuesday, April 11, 2017, at Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born August 21, 1925, at home near Elkhart, Kansas, the daughter of Glenn and Susie (Shrauner) Fowler. Freda grew up in Elkhart and graduated from Elkhart High School. She married John Hershal Murray on March 25, 1945, in Elkhart. John worked for Panha...

Zackary Don McBee, 26, of Tyrone, Oklahoma passed away April 8, 2017 at his home. Zack was born July 18, 1990 in Liberal, Kansas, the son of Homer and Stephanie McBee Stull. He attended school in Tyrone and graduated from Tyrone High School with the Class of 2008. He played football and baseball and went to state in track. He helped his grandpa McBee with rental houses in the Tyrone area. Zac...