Lois Meddock, 92 died, Sunday August 19, 2012 at Lone Tree Retirement Center in Meade Kansas. She was born Sept. 13, 1919 at Uniontown, KS the daughter of Fay and Ruth (Bobbitt) Keith She graduated from Uniontown High School and attended Ft. Scott, Junior College. She was a homemaker and has worked in the courthouse in Fort Scott then taught school in a one room schoolhouse outside of Uniontown...

Raymond R. Wiens, 87, passed away on August 20, 2012, at Bridge Haven Memory Care Center, in Lawrence, Kansas. Raymond was born on May 9, 1925 in Hutchinson, Kansas the son of Abraham and Margaret (Hiebert) Wiens. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He fought on Iwo Jima and served in Nagasaki, Japan. Following his return from the war, he graduated from Meade High Sc...

Leona Schroeder, 90, of Liberal, Kansas passed away Sunday, August 19, 2012 at Liberal Springs in Liberal, Kansas. Leona Katherine Schroeder was born November 14, 1921 in Burton, Kansas, the daughter of Herman and Maria Jantzen Friesen. As a young child her family moved from Burton, Kansas to a farm east of Hooker then they moved to the Adams Community. She attended school at Adams and gra...

E. Lavonna McBee, age 79, died Sunday morning, August 19, 2012, at the Fowler Residential Care Center, Fowler, Kansas. She was born March 4, 1933, at Hopewell, Kansas the daughter of Walter and Ora (Beighle) Unzicker. As a young girl she attended the Fowler school system, graduating from Fowler High School in 1951. On November 12, 1953, she married Donald Lee McBee at Liberal, Kansas. A...

Helen LaVon Swagerty, age 84, of Elkhart, Kansas died Sunday, August 19, 2012 at Morton County Hospital in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born November 1, 1927 in Hutchinson, Kansas the daughter of Earl Frederick and Elva Fay (McCowen) White. Helen attended first grade in Pretty Prairie, Kansas, grade school and high school in Manter, Kansas and graduated from Elkhart High School. She married Ralph S...

LeRoy Osborn, 65, Tyrone OK, passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his family and loved ones. He was born December 15, 1946 at Hamburg, IA, the son of Gabriel W. & Helen M. Root Osborn. LeRoy was a proficient mechanic and was owner and operator of Osborn Repair since 1980. He was a family man that loved to hunt, cars and ra...

Evan Perry Branch, age 71, of Ulysses, Kansas died Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at his home in Ulysses, Kansas. He was born February 17, 1941 in Atchison, Kansas, the son of Perry Howard and Neva (Michael) Branch and step-mother, Minnie Grace (Owen) Branch. Evan’s family moved to Walsenburg, Colorado when he was nine years old. After graduating from Walsenburg High School he served in the U.S. ...

Gerald D. (Jerry), (Slim) Anderson, age 62, of Ulysses, Kansas died Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. He was born September 9, 1949 in Ulysses, Kansas , the son of James Harold and Libby Marie ( Thornton ) Anderson. Jerry was a graduate of Ulysses High School and attended Hutchinson Junior College . He returned home to ...

Vernon Theodore Behrendt, age 85, of Liberal, passed away at 5:15 p.m., August 13, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center, in Liberal. A native of Keyes, Oklahoma, he was born April 18, 1927, in Elkhart, Kansas, son of Elmer James and Fern Irene (Lowery) Behrendt. He attended Keyes High School and went to college at Panhandle State and Oklahoma State University, where he studied Geology. While at Pa...

Clayton “Ross” Shirley, age 84, died Sunday, August 12, 2012 at Wheatridge Park Care Center in Liberal, KS. He was born September 10, 1927 in Bogard, Missouri to Orval John and Edith (Greenwood) Shirley. In 1930, his family moved to Hugoton, KS. He graduated from Hugoton High School in 1945 where he was on the football team. After graduating, he spent 2 years in the U. S. Army being stationed...