Obituaries
Robert Lewis "Sonny" Fox
Oct 29, 2020
Robert “Sonny” Lewis Fox, age 73, passed away October 29, 2020 in Stonewall, LA. He was born to Robert B. and Florence L. (Elledge) Fox on August 11, 1947 in Liberal, Kansas. He was raised in southwest Kansas, spending his early years in Plains, KS before moving to Hugoton, KS in 1955. He was a farmer, mechanic, car salesman and...
Elmer W Schmidt
Oct 21, 2020
Dateline- Ulysses, KS Elmer W. Schmidt, 91, passed away on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 at High Plains Retirement Village, Willow River Memory Unit in Lakin, Kansas. He was born to Bernhard and Lena (Wedel) on October 11, 1929, in Newton, Kansas. Elmer was four when they moved to rural Grant County, Kansas. Elmer and Shirley Ann Friesen were married on...
Joyce Lea Robinson (Kirk)
Oct 13, 2020
Joyce Lea (Kirk) Robinson, 85, passed away Tuesday, October 13, 2020, at her residence, Elkhart, Kansas. She was the daughter of Benjamin David and Beatrice Angeline (Bledsoe) Kirk. She was born July 15, 1935, in Guymon, Oklahoma. Joyce and Alfred J. Robinson were married April 29, 1953, in Clayton, New Mexico. He preceded her in death on May 19, 2001....
Maria "Susie" Ortiz (Barrera)
Oct 12, 2020
Maria Ortiz, 75, passed away Monday, October 12, 2020, Westminster, Colorado. She was the daughter of Guadalupe and Galistra (Pena) Barrera on May 20, 1945 in O’Donnell, Texas. Maria was an active member of the Church of Christ in Ulysses, Kansas. She loved her church family and being a part of the church. She enjoyed sewing, reading, flowers, and trees....
Rick Bhowan Kanhai
Oct 10, 2020
Rick Bhowan Kanhai, 57, passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2020 at Morton County Hospital, Elkhart, Kansas. Rick was the son of Gewan Kandhai and Nandranie (Khemraj) Kandhai. He was born on May 4, 1963 in Georgetown, Guyana. He was owner and operator of Rick’s Video in Elkhart. Rick enjoyed being busy and he loved being an entrepreneur of his...
James Roll "Jim" Olinger
Oct 10, 2020
DATELINE-HUGOTON, KS James Roll (Jim) Olinger, 67, passed away on Thursday, October 8, 2020 at Stevens County Hospital, Hugoton, KS. The son of Charles F. Olinger and Edna Dorothy (Palmer) Olinger. He was born December 17, 1952 at Lamar, Colorado. He graduated from Hugoton High School and went to college at Colby Community College, Dodge City Community College and Ft....
Sabas Cerecero
Oct 5, 2020
Sabas V. Cerecero, a long-time resident of Hugoton, Kansas was born on January 28, 1935 in Saltillo, Mexico. He passed in death on October 5, 2020 at 85 years old. At 13 years old, he decided to head to the USA for a better life and eventually became a resident of Colorado. This is where he met and married Elizabeth...
Charles Melvin Creamer Jr.
Oct 2, 2020
DATELINE-HUGOTON, KS Charles (Butch) Melvin Creamer JR., 76, passed away on Friday, October 2, 2020 at Renaissance Nursing Home, Stillwater, Oklahoma. Butch was born on January 8, 1944, to Charles Melvin Creamer Sr. and Pauline Margaret (Ives) Creamer in Liberal, KS. Butch and Sallie Earlene Littlefield were married June 11, 1970, in Arizona. They enjoyed spending time together in Colorado...
Saul Reza
Sep 28, 2020
Saul Reza, 38, beloved Husband and Father, was called to his eternal resting place on Monday, September 28, 2020, in rural Stevens County, Kansas. He entered this world on July 18, 1982, in Hugoton, KS, born to Enrique and Adela (Maravilla) Reza. He married his high school sweetheart on July 27, 2002. To this union are five precious children; Vanessa,...
Antonio Torres Ornelas
Sep 22, 2020
DATELINE-MOSCOW, KS Antonio Torres Ornelas, 68, passed away on Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at Stevens County Hospital, Hugoton, Kansas. He was born to Juan Torres and Efijenia Ornelas on September 3, 1952 in San Luis Potasi, Mexico. Survivors include wife, Rosa Leva Cantu, Mexico; three sons, Juan Antonio Torres and wife Veronica, Moscow, KS., Jorge Torres and wife Josie Pena,...
Melvin Dwain Towner
Aug 29, 2020
Melvin Dwain Towner On Saturday, August 29, 2020, Melvin "Dwain" Towner, loving husband and father of two children, passed away at age 94. Dwain was born on April 4, 1926 near Hooker, OK to Floyd and Thelma Towner. He served honorably in the US Army during WWII in the Philippines and returned to pursue an engineering degree at the University...
Carolina Sanchez Moreno
Aug 27, 2020
Carolina Sanchez Moreno, 18, passed away Sunday, August 27, 2020, at Southwest Medical Center, Liberal, Kansas. She was born to Bernardo and Marta (Moreno) Sanchez on September 20, 2001 in Chalchihuites, Zac, Mexico. Carolina loved and adored her fiancé, Fernando Fransisco Orozco. She and Fransisco were getting married this month and moving to Colorado. They loved spending time with one...
Wilma Kay Bartel
Aug 20, 2020
Wilma Kay Bartel Wilma Kay Bartel,64, passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2020 at Stevens County Hospital, Hugoton, Kansas. Wilma was the daughter of Martin R. and Helen R. (Reimer) Bartel. She was born on July 16, 1956 in Fowler, Kansas. She was raised in Meade, Kansas and she spent most of her adult life in Colorado. She was attending...
Bettie Sue Baldwin (Stewart)
Aug 10, 2020
Bettie Sue Baldwin Bettie Sue Baldwin (Stewart) went home to be with her Savior and her husband on August 10, 2020. She was born to Chet and Itis Stewart in Clayton, New Mexico on August 3, 1937. The family later moved to Guymon, Oklahoma. After graduating from Guymon High School, she married her high school sweetheart James Baldwin. Shortly thereafter...
Shirley E. Rome (Whitcomb)
Aug 4, 2020
DATELINE-HUGOTON, KS Shirley E. Rome, 97, passed away on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, at Pioneer Manor Nursing Home, Hugoton, Kansas. She was born to Walter L. and Marguerite (Ryan) Whitcomb on October 16, 1922, Berwyn, Illinois. Shirley married Leonard Bryan in the summer of 1947. Later she married Dave Rome, and he preceded her in death. She served in the...
Dale Cole
Aug 2, 2020
Dateline-Ulysses, KS Marvin “Dale” Cole, age 85, of Ulysses, Kansas, passed away on August 2, 2020, surrounded by his family, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Dale was born on January 13, 1935, in Lindsay, Oklahoma to Doc and Lillie (Griffin) Cole. His stories of playing basketball, working broom corn, frailing pecans and growing up in a large family...
Hazel Myrtle Allen (Basler)
Jul 30, 2020
Dateline-Hugoton, KS Hazel Myrtle Allen, 92, passed to her reward July 30, 2020, at her home in Hugoton, KS. Hazel was born September 29, 1927 in a tar paper home in Grant County, Kansas to her parents Stanley and Geraldine Wolf Basler. Hazel attended a country school in Ulysses. Hazel married her husband of 58 years, James Leland Allen in...
Nora Irene Anderson (Bozone)
Jul 22, 2020
Nora Irene (Bozone) Wright Anderson came into this world December 8, 1924 and left us July 22, 2020. She was born to Willard Samuel and Minnie Lee (Buxton) Bozone in Florence, Kansas. She was next to the youngest in a family of eight brothers and one sister. She graduated from Florence high School in 1943. After graduation she and some...
Margaret Gertrude "Tiny" Burrows
Jul 21, 2020
Margaret “Tiny” Gertrude Burrows passed away on Tuesday, July 21, 2020, at the Stevens County Hospital in Hugoton, Kansas. Tiny, as she was known to her friends and family, lived an astonishing 102 years of life filled with memories that her family and friends now share. Tiny was born June 6, 1918, at her family farmhouse in Texas County, Oklahoma,...
Douglas Wayne "Doug" Ackley
Jul 19, 2020
Dateline-Ulysses, KS DOUGLAS WAYNE ACKLEY Douglas Wayne Ackley, 69, passed away on Sunday, July 19, 2020 at Morton County Health Care, Elkhart, KS. He was born to Hubert Thomas Ackley and Lenora Abercrombie on June 2, 1951, Watsonville, CA. Patricia Taylor and Douglas Ackley were married on June 1, 1985, in Moscow, KS. Douglas loved his family and enjoying spending...