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...

Robert L. (Bob) Arheart, age 91, of Elkhart, Kansas died November 11, 2015, at Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born November 27, 1923, in Ottawa County, Kansas at the farm house of his parents, Robert Spencer and Sylvia Grace (Jaquier) Arheart. Bob went to work for International Harvester Company in August 1942. He was drafted into the United States Army in December 1942. ...

Mildred Alice Geist, 97, of Baker, Oklahoma passed away November 10, 2015 at Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. Mildred was born June 16, 1918, the daughter of James and May Wilburn Howell, in the granary at the family homestead near Tyrone, Oklahoma. She attended school in Tyrone Public School and graduated as the valedictorian for the Class of 1936. On August 22, 1937 at the home place, Mildr...