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...

Danny Wayne Brown 58 died May 29, 2011 at his residence in Midwest City, OK. He was born September 16, 1952 in Perryton, TX the son of DeWayne and Rheta Mae (Penn) Brown. He has been a Midwest City Resident for 3½ years. He graduated from Hardesty High School, Hardesty, OK . He was a Service Supervisor for Weatherford International retiring in 2006 due to is illness. On Sept 9, 1...

Zula Lee Matthes 86, died Monday May 30, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS. She was born April 6, 1925 at Sapulpa, OK the daughter of Benjamin and Alice (Perkins) Kemp. She has been a resident of Liberal since 1949 moving from Coffeeville, KS. She graduated in 1942 from Sapulpa High School in Sapulpa, OK. She has work for many years as a Secretary and Bookkeeper for Trad...

Earl Willard, age 92, died Friday afternoon, May 13, 2011 at his home near Durango, Colorado . Earl was born on August 20, 1918 to Dennis and Haley Willard in Preston, Kansas. He served in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946 and was stationed in the Philippines during World War II . Until recent months he lived in Meade, Kansas after coming to settle there in 1946. On Janu...

Jessie Dale Horton 83 died May 26, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center in Liberal, KS . He was born April 27, 1928 in Hugoton, KS the son of John Alanson and Roxie Viola Burrows. He has been a long time Liberal Resident. He graduated from Hugoton High School and received his bachelor’s degree from Wichita State University . He was a mud engineer and owned Horton Mud...

Don Krug, 71 and Joan Krug, 67 both of Hooker, Oklahoma passed away May 24, 2011 from injuries sustained in a tornado on I-40 near Calumet, Oklahoma . Joan Dianne Lynch was born July 18, 1943 in Denver, Colorado , the daughter of Lewis and Bobbi Lynch. She was adopted and raised in Woodland Park, Colorado . This is where she attended school and graduated from Woodland Park High Scho...

Maynard Greeson, 67, Kismet, KS, died Saturday, May 21, 2011 at Southwest Medical Center , Liberal, KS , of injuries sustained in a home explosion. He was born January 7, 1944 at Friona, TX , the son of Carl & Lorene Shirley Greeson. He graduated from Frioma High School in Friona, TX, and received his degree in Animal Science from West Texas State University, Can...

Richard Lee Glasscock, age 81, of Johnson, Kansas died Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, Kansas. He was born September 15, 1929 in Sulpher Springs, Arkansas, the son of Virgil and Florence (Huff) Glasscock. After serving in the United States Army from 1951 – 1953 in Korea, Richard moved to Johnson. He married Doris Nichols on January 23, 1954 in Clayton, N...