Mary Jo Muir, 72, Liberal, KS, died Friday, July 29, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. She was born June 14, 1939 in Meade, KS, the daughter of Charles R. & Minnie L. Collins Woltje. She attended Liberal Schools and was a sales clerk for several retail stores, later worked at Southwest Medical Center for seven years. On December 3, 1957, she married Bill Muir at Cla...

Gerald Elwood Kane, age 87, died Monday afternoon, July 25, 2011, at the Meade District Hospital , Meade, Kansas . He was born July 22, 1924, in Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvania , the son of Merl and Faye (Gearhart) Kane. As a young boy, he attended school at the Mount Hope rural county school in Newton Hamilton, Pennsylvania. In 1946, he moved to Meade County, Kansas . On August 7,...

Isaias Salais, age 77, of Johnson, Kansas died Thursday, July 28, 2011 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. He was born April 21, 1934 in Cuauhtémoc, Durango Mexico, the son of Encarnacion and Elisa (Garcia) Salais. Isaias has lived in the Johnson and Ulysses area for the last 20 years. He worked in the feed mill at Grant County Feeders. Isaias enjoyed walking and was a me...

Abe Z. Friesen, age 96, died Thursday afternoon, July 27, 2011, at the Meade District Hospital , Meade, Kansas . He was born September 7, 1914, in rural Meade County, Kansas , the son of Jacob R. and Susie R. Friesen. As a young boy he attended school in rural Meade County . A lifetime resident of Meade County , he was a farmer and a windmill repairman. He was a member of the Emmanu...

Helen M. Stubby, 66, Amarillo, TX , a former Liberal resident died Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at BSA Hospice, Amarillo, TX. She was born March 2, 1944 at Salina, KS , the daughter of Marchy G. & Leonora Newlin Cook. Moving to Liberal, she was a cook and waitress at Sally Ann's and the Haymow Club for many years. She married Willis D. Stubby December 12, 1964 at Abilene, KS , he di...

Evelyn Smith, age 81, of Ulysses, Kansas died Wednesday, July 27, 2011 at Bethel Home in Montezuma, Kansas. She was born April 08, 1930 in Winton, California, the daughter of Abraham T. and Mary (Koehn) Koehn. Evelyn attended grade school in Winton, California and high school in Livingston, California. Having a father as a minister, Evelyn and her sisters had the opportunity to travel and visi...

Vance Turley Young, age 74, of Garden City, Kansas died July 22, 2011 at Homestead Health and Rehabilitation in Garden City, Kansas. He was born October 31, 1936 in Council Grove, Kansas, to Orval Amos and Manilla Mae (Turley) Young. Vance started school in Council Grove, Kansas and graduated from Emporia High School. In 7th grade, the family moved to Emporia where he worked as a sales clerk a...

David Alvarado-Zamora, age 12 days, passed away Wednesday afternoon, July 20, 2011, at the Wesley Medical Center , Wichita, Kansas . He was born July 8, 2011, at Dodge City, Kansas , the son of Lidio Alvarado and Josefina Zamora-Ayala. He is survived by: His parents, Lidio and Josefina of Plains, Kansas A brother, ...

J.W. Vanderpool was born May 13, 1942 in Beaver, Oklahoma . He went to the open range heaven on July 19, 2011, after a five year battle against colon, lung, and liver caner. He was born to the late Ella Vanderpool Heinson and Richard Barry Vanderpool. He was raised by B. J. Heinson, his stepfather. J.W. was preceded in death by his father Richard Barry Vanderpool in December,...

Raul Nieto , age 63, died Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at his residence in Liberal, Kansas . He was born May 5, 1948 in LaRegina, Julimez , Chihuahua , Mexico , the son of Alejandro and Maria del Soccoro (Lopez) Nieto. He had been a Liberal resident for 29 years. He had worked at Midwestern Oil Service and at Patrick Well Service now known as Best Well Service. He was ...