Dustin William Vargas , 34, died on August 30, 2015 at his residence in Sterling, CO. He was born July 22, 1981 at Liberal, KS, the son of Lois Ann Elliott and William D. Vargas. He attended Liberal High School, graduating in 2000. Dustin graduated in 2010 from Morgan Community College in Ft. Morgan, CO with an Associates degree in...

Lawrence James Smith, 84, died September 5, 2015 at Wheatridge Park Care Center, Liberal, KS. He was born October 7, 1930 at Montezuma, KS, the son of John H. and Katie (Jantz) Smith. He was a 1948 graduate of Montezuma High School and attended one year of college ant Kansas State University. He served in the U. S. Army from 1956-5...

N. Dean Eckhoff, age 77, died early Thursday morning, September 3, 2015, at the Glen Carr House, Derby, Kansas. He was born April 10, 1938, at Meade, Kansas, the son of Martin and Nora (Feldman) Eckhoff. As a young boy he attended the Meade school system, graduating from Meade High School. He later attended Pratt Junior College and then Kansas State University, receiving his masters ...

Harris F. Davis, age 68, died Thursday morning, September 3, 2015, at his Meade residence. He was born March 29, 1947, at Peoria, Illinois the son of Harold and Lois (Stavenhagen) Davis. As a young boy he attended school in Milan, Illinois and later high school in Rock Island, Illinois, graduating in 1965. He later attended Black Hawk Junior College in Moline, the Peoria School ...

Debra (Debbie) Dawn Fletcher-Rempel, age 60, passed away on Monday, August 31st in Wichita, Ks. She was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina on October 4th, 1954 to Bill and Barbara (Bronner) Fletcher. After her father completed his military service, the family returned to western Kansas where she grew up. She was involved with 4H and started the women’s high school basketball program in ...

Frances L. Russell, 81, died Sunday, August 9, 2015 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, KS. Frances Louise Russell was born on February 21, 1934 in Garden City KS, the daughter of Marion Lynn and Hazel Russell. She was a graduate of Garden City High School and Kansas State University. She spent the majority of her life as a farmer and retail business owner. In 1978, she opened her first business in Ga...

Evelyn Wares, age 74, passed away on August 29, 2015 at the Morton County Care Center in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born September 23, 1940 in Leach, Oklahoma, the daughter of Roy and Emma (Powers) Lawrence. Evelyn started school in Leach along with her cousins. The family moved to the Oklahoma Panhandle where she attended Yarbrough School and then Elkhart schools. She met Darrell Wares ...

Louis A. Milburn, 83, longtime resident of Stanton County, Kansas and Sunsites, Arizona, passed away in Tullahoma, Tennessee on August 27, 2015. Mr. Milburn was born in Morton County, Kansas in 1931. Later, he and his family moved to Holly, Colorado where he graduated from Holly High School in 1949. After high school, he went through the Army ROTC program at Colorado State University and receiv...

Reiko Hodtwalker, 78, died on Saturday, August 22, 2015, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. The daughter of Hideo & Miyuki Nakamura, she was born March 23, 1937, Fukuoka, Japan. She lived her childhood years in Japan and then she and James Hodtwalker were married 1964 in Fukuoka, Japan, then later divorced. She and Frosty Sherwood Church were companions for ...

Thelma Wynonna Taylor, age 100, died Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. She was born on October 22, 1914, in Knox County, TX, the daughter of Charlie C. and Battie (Moore) Coleman. She had resided in Archer City, TX for 25 years and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Archer City, TX. She married Lorenzo Robertson. He later died. She married W.A. �...