Roy L. Whiteley, 86, died November 23, 2015 at Good Samaritan Center, Liberal, KS. He was born March 27, 1929 at Summers, Arkansas, the son of Floyd and Laura (Hale) Whiteley. He was a retired truck driver with Yellow Freight. He had driven truck since he was 14 years old, first driving for Graves Truck Line and later for Nash Finch and Rock Island Railroad. Roy was an entrepreneur but very frug...

Alberta Carr, 81, died Saturday, November 21, 2015 at Liberal Good Samaritan Center. She was born November 29, 1933 at Cave City, KY, the daughter of Harry and Ethel (Martin) Watterson. Alberta was a graduate of the Barren County-Cave City High School. She received Christ at Owen's Chapel Baptist Church in Kentucky and was also a member of Bibleway Church of God in Christ in Liberal, KS. She mov...

Josephine U. Bentley Mackey, age 97, of Johnson, Kansas, died Saturday, November 21, 2015, at Stanton County Long Term Care Unit in Johnson, Kansas. She was born December 22, 1917, in Byers, Kansas, the daughter of William and Viola (Wade) Blackford. Josephine married Earl E. Bentley on December 22, 1934. She worked along side her husband on their ranch in southeast Colorado and raised their fa...

Ruby Louise Smallwood, age 92, died Friday, November 20, 2015 at the Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born November 19, 1923 in Newlin, TX, the daughter John Nelson and LaVeda (Monroe) Helm. She was a resident of Liberal for 68 years. She was a homemaker and had worked at the Ben Franklin and Woolworth Stores in Liberal. On February 17, 1946, she married Clyde Allen Smallwood ...

Jack Foltz, 92, of Hugoton, Kansas passed away November 22, 2015 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, Kansas. Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2015 at Manchester Cemetery in Manchester, Oklahoma with Lee Rottman of the Hugoton Church of Christ officiating. After graveside services the family will greet friends and provide a luncheon at the Manchester Activity Center. Mem...

Jack R. Shelton, 71, died Monday, November 16, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. He was born October 31, 1944, at Elk City, Oklahoma, the son of Buster and Cora (Maddox) Shelton. He was a retired Electric Superintendent of the City of Meade for forty-four years. He enjoyed fishing and hunting. In 1967, he married Cheryle Baker at Fowler, Kansas. She survives. Other sur...

Vashti Seybert, age 94 passed away Sunday morning, November 15, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade. Vashti Seybert was the youngest of eight children of John and Grace Painter. She lived the first five years of her life in a sod house, later she and her brother Tom rode horseback three miles across pastures to their one-room school house. After graduating from Meade High School, she a...

Shirley Ann Griffith, 65, died November 12, 2015 at Via Christi St. Frances Hospital in Wichita, KS. She was born August 26, 1950 at Greenwood, AR, the daughter of Boyd H. and Ola Marie (King) Holifield. She graduated from Liberal High School in 1968 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at St. Mary’s of the Plains College in Dodge City, KS. She was a registered nurse for Southwest Medic...

Alan Jay Carlile 57, died Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. He was born July 9, 1958 in Satanta, KS the son of George and Yvonne (Campbell) Carlile. He has been a longtime resident of Liberal graduating from Liberal High School in 1977. He had been employed at National Beef, Baker Service Tool and most recently was a Measurement Tech for Northern National Gas/...

Duane Alexander, 75, Ulysses Kansas, died Monday, November 9, 2015, at his residence. The son of Arthur & Suzie (Dean) Alexander, he was born on July 10, 1940, Satanta, Kansas. He attended Warrendale School, then on to Ulysses High School and transferred to Garden City High School where he graduated in 1958. He went to Denver after high school and worked for a moving company. Sho...