Betty Lou Rindels 78, died Sunday June 12, 2011 at Via Christi Regional Medical Center St Francis in Wichita, KS She was born Aug. 28, 1932 at Poweshick County, Iowa the daughter of William and Mina Bernice (Newton) Wittenburg. She graduated from Grundy Center High School, Gundy Center, Iowa in 1950. She has been a longtime resident of Hugoton, KS. She was a homemaker and worked in ...

Carmen Flores , age 67, died June 11, 2011 at her residence in Liberal. Maria del Carmen Flores was born Feb. 28, 1944 at Torreon , Coahuila , Mexico , the daughter of Lorenzo and Maximina ( Igualate ) Flores. She was a homemaker and had been a Liberal resident since 1989 moving from Juarez, Chih , Mexico . She was a member of St. Anthony C...

C. E. “Bud” Peery 89, passed away Saturday, June 11, 2011 at St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City, KS . He was born December 7, 1921 at Skedee, OK the son of Joe and Zola (Billeau) Peery. He had been a resident of Liberal, KS since 1957. He worked for Armco Steel Corporation for 32 years and was a district manager. Bud was an avid golfer, bo...

Mae D. Cotter, age 69, died Saturday, June 11, 2011 at her home in Elkhart, Kansas. She was born April 1, 1942 in Micawber, Oklahoma the daughter of Alvin M. and Evelyn (Cooper) Wilson Fischer. Mae graduated from Okemah High School in Okemah, Oklahoma, attended college in Ada, Oklahoma and went to work for Oklahoma Natural Gas. Mae later worked as a Technical Consultant and Auditor for The Corp...

Frances A. Simmons, 88, Hugoton, KS , died Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at Stevens County Hospital, Hugoton, KS. She was born May 5, 1923 in Seward County, KS, the daughter of James D. & Jessie E. Lamberson. She attended school at Superior, Antelope and the Hitch Ranch School. Frances had a love for cooking and baking, cooking for different local cafes for many years and at the First Chr...

Dick L. Reynolds, 77, Liberal, KS , died Thursday, June 2, 2011, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. He was born August 21, 1933 in Liberal, KS, the son of Homer I. & Edith V. Thornburg Reynolds. Dick worked for the Rock Island Railroad in Liberal as brakeman for eighteen years and later was an officer of the Liberal Police Department and then as the City of Libera...

Victoria "Jo" Love, 82, Liberal, KS , died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, KS. She was born March 13, 1929 at Dumas, AR , the daughter of John Arthur & Serleaner Huff Norah. She moved to Liberal in 1959, working at Sally Ann cafe, and the home of Dr. & Mrs. I. Ross Grimes. She retired from the Southwest Medical Center. She was a member of...

Merlin D. Petty, 82, died Saturday, June 4, 2011, at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, KS. He was born Jan. 21, 1929, to Ivon T. and Grace K. (Dubbs) Petty in Buckeye, AZ. While a baby, his family returned to Ransom, KS. to assist his grandparents, who operated a telephone office in Arnold, KS. His freshman year of high school his family moved to Utica, KS. where he played basketball. His team, t...

Lula Belle (Reese) Sobba, passed away Sunday, June 5, 2011, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas . She was born December 3, 1923, in rural Ford County, Fowler, Kansas, daughter of William and Belle (Johnson) Reese. She attended school and gradated from Fowler High School in 1943. She married Robert L. Sobba on July 12, 1942, and after the war they started farming north of Fowler,...

Sally Beth Malone, age 76, of Ulysses, Kansas died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kansas. She was born September 15, 1934 in Garden City, Kansas, the daughter of Cleve and Marian (Temple) Stoskopf. Sally moved to Ulysses with her family when she was in the 6th grade. Sally was a graduate of Ulysses High School. She attended Panhandle State University where...