Mary Frances Young, 74, of Canton, Oklahoma, died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 at Okeene Hospital in Okeene, Okla. Mary was born July 12, 1940 in Rutland, Vermont, the daughter of William Stewart and Martha (King) Stewart. She married Jack E. Young on March 14, 1980 in Guymon, Okla. He preceded her in death in 2006. Survivors include daughter, Cheryl Prouty, Canton, Okla.; son, Doug LaFreniere an...

Carol L. Wyrick, age 90, died Monday, February 9, 2015, at the Lone Tree Retirement Center, Meade, Kansas. She was born August 4, 1924, at Valley Falls, Kansas, the daughter of Dwight and Hattie (Ratz) McCoy. As a young girl, she attended school in Valley Falls and Oskaloosa, Kansas. She later attended the University of Kansas School of Nursing, graduating in 1946 with her degree in...

Margaret Moore, 95, died February 7, 2015 in Liberal, KS. Margaret was born on March 9, 1919 in Liberal and was the daughter of Ralph and Kathryn “Kitty” (Jordan) Colvin, long-time residents of Liberal. Margaret and her sister, Kathryn “Kay” Colvin, grew up in Liberal, attending Garfield Elementary School a...

Mary M. Hubbard, 61, died Friday, February 6, 2015 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Center in Wichita, KS. She was born January 12, 1954 at Liberal, KS, the daughter of Gilbert and Mary (Harding) Schupman. Mary was a class of 1972 graduate from Southwestern Heights High School. She had worked at Wal-Mart for 27 years before retiring in 2013. Mary loved gardening and her grand kids. She was a me...

Johnny B. Boaldin, age 82, of Elkhart, Kansas died February 6, 2015 at Morton County Special Care Unit in Elkhart, Kansas. He was born August 15, 1932 in Keyes, Oklahoma, the son of James T. Boaldin and Martha (Zinn) Boaldin. Johnny grew up in Texas County, Oklahoma near the Kansas-Oklahoma state line west of Elkhart. He graduated from Elkhart High School. Johnny was a farmer, rancher and the ...

Timothy Lee “Tim” Becker, age 64, died Monday, February 2, 2015 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, KS. He was born January 20, 1951 at Exeter, KS, the son of Gerald Thomas and Margaret Mary (O’Connor) Becker. He was a 1969 graduate of Exeter High School and then earned a Bachelor degree in education at P...

Betty Jane Baskin, age 88, died Sunday, February 1, 2015, at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born September 15, 1926 in Meade, KS, the daughter of Allan and Rhoda (Basinger) Seger. She attended school in Plains, KS. She had resided in Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado and Oklahoma. She worked for Wal-Mart, as a people greeter and for the Sands Motel and Restaurant, Gillette, WY, a...

Juan Bernice Toole, age 82, of Manter, Kansas died Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Stanton County Hospital in Johnson, Kansas. She was born August 5, 1932 at home in southwest Stanton County, Kansas, the daughter of Fred and Rhoda (Fender) Kilgore. Juan attended school in Manter. She worked part-time during high school in her father’s grocery store in Manter. During the war she helped se...

Curtis E. Beer, 71, of El Dorado, Kansas passed away on January 26, 2015 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. Curtis Ephraim Beer was born on February 11, 1943 at Hooker, OK; the son of Charlie and Minta (Dain) Beer. He was a graduate from Panhandle State and Southwest Oklahoma State University with a Master’s Degree in Education. Curt was an administrator and middle school principal in ...

Ho Van Phan, 75, died Tuesday, January 27, 2015 at Southwest Medical Center. He was born December 4, 1939 in Vietnam, the son of Gieng Phan and Nep Le. He married Nga Thi thuy Nguyen on January 2, 1965 in Vietnam. She survives. He and his family moved to California from Vietnam in 1992 then moved to Liberal the same year. He was a Processor with National Beef Packing from 1993 until he ...