Robert Shoemaker, 90, Big Bow, Kansas, died Thursday, December 31, 2015, at his residence. The son of Howard & Esther Cora (Richardson) Shoemaker, he was born February 10, 1925, Liberal, Kansas. He and Betty Butler were married on December 22, 1946, Liberal, Kansas. He served in the US Navy from 1942-1946. He was a member of the M...

Ray Lynn Orth 62, died December 25, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center. He was born January 1, 1953 in Dodge City, Kansas to William Lee Orth and Ednamae Allen Orth. He graduated from Sublette High School in 1971. He then attended Liberal Area VO Tech and graduated in 1973. Ray worked for General Shale Bricking as a brick layer and brick salesmen. He also worked for Prairie Fire Coffee as a sale...

Edward Hanlon, 88 of Turpin, Oklahoma died Thursday December 31, 2015. He was born April 28, 1927 in Apache, Oklahoma. He married Mildred (Sue) Patten on July 1, 1951. She survives. He served the U.S. Army in Germany and France in WWII. He was a retired local business owner (Ed’s Diesel Service). He is also survived by 3 Children: David and Donna Hanlon of Magnolia, Texas; Richard and Tim ...

Robert E. “Bob” Hood, age 96, died Thursday, December 31, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. Robert Ellsworth Hood was born May 5, 1919 at the farm in Texas County, Oklahoma, the son of L. O. and Myrtle (Claggett) Hood. He was a 1936 high school graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute. He was a veteran serving in the U. S. Army from 1944 - 46 during WWII. He was stationed...

Cora Belle Bunyard, 94, passed away December 27, 2015 in Meade Kansas. She was born on the Big Springs Ranch, Meade County, Kansas on February 12, 1921. She was the third of four children of Alvia Marsh and Iva Belle (McNinch) Bunyard. She lived in Meade most of her childhood, moving with her parents to Coats Kansas in the 1930s after her father lost all of his crops and livestock to the dus...

Gwendolyn Berdell Jackson, 86, of Baker, Oklahoma passed away January 2, 2016 at Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. Gwendolyn was born December 9, 1932 in Baker, Oklahoma, the daughter of Ernest Homer and Avice Zelma Southern Armstrong. She attended elementary school in Baker then the family moved for three years to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, one year in Pueblo, Colorado then to Denver and graduated...

Elizabeth M. “Bessie” Fetsch, age 93, died December 29, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born March 3, 1922 in Red Cloud, NE, the daughter of Vencil and Marie (Kafka) Maruska. She attended school in Red cloud, NE. She was a resident of Liberal for 57 years. On March 7, 1943, she married Thaddeus T. Sperry at Superior, NE. He died April 17, 1972. On December 9, 197...

Douglas Wayne Sheldon, 57, of Tyrone passed away December 25, 2015 at his home. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Tyrone Baptist Church with Rev. Gary Stone officiating. Condolences may be left at www.robertsbrothersfuneralhome.com...

Janet Lois Imler, 81, of Tyrone, Oklahoma passed at her home in Tyrone December 25, 2015. Memorial services will be at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Tyrone Baptist Church with Rev. Gary Stone officiating. Condolences may be left at www.robertsbrothersfuneralhome.com...

Beverly L. Bennett, age 65, died Sunday morning, December 27, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas. She was born April 15, 1950, at Yuma, Colorado, the daughter of Arthur and Lorraine (Peter) Warren. As a young girl she attended the Brush, Colorado, school system, graduating from Brush High School. A resident of Colorado for several years, moving to Meade in 1984, she was a home...