All Obituaries

Alford Paul Corcoran was born in Wheeler County, Texas, on July 15, 1939, to Paul Phillip Corcoran and Verna Corcoran. Alford grew up on the family farm, near Mobeetie, Texas, with his two brothers: Dale and Rayburn, and three sisters: Agnes, Francis, and Pauline. Alford graduated from Mobeetie High School in 1957.  In his senior yearbook, Alford was deemed “May be an Academy Award  winner”.  He loved to act in the local school plays and participate...

Wayne Lee Lloyd was born on October 29, 1943 in Woodward, Oklahoma to Harold Leo Lloyd and Lela Irene (Bentley) Lloyd. He passed on June 11, 2018 at the Integris Grove Hospital in Grove, Oklahoma. He served his county in the United States Airforce. He retired as electrician in Grove, Oklahoma. There are no memorial services at this time.

Robert was born May 3, 1929 in Russell, Kansas to Emil and Alvena Ehrlich.  In 1932, his sister, Marion, was born completing the family.  At age 17, his family moved to the homestead north of Shattuck, Oklahoma to farm.  He spent his senior year at Shattuck High School where he even drove the school bus. He served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict with a number of duties including a short stint as a printer and also a flight attendant on the...

Melba Lorene Swanson passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 2, 2018 at the age of 83 years 8 months and 8 days. She was born in rural Comanche County (west of Protection) Kansas on September 15, 1934. She was welcomed into the family of Harold and Helen (Eubank) Edmonston and older brother Donald Dean Edmonston. Later, Harold Myron, was born into the family. She attended a rural one room school until she started high school in Protection as freshman where she then...

       Phillis was born on March 23, 1935 in Holdenville Oklahoma. Her parents, Kenneth and Edna Gibbs, adopted her and moved back to Shattuck, Oklahoma in 1939 to help on the family farm. Phillis graduated 8th grade from the Shattuck Adventist Academy and went to school the following years at Southwestern Junior College in Keene Texas. She graduated from high school in Keene and continued for two years of college. She completed her college degree...

Alfred Rudolph Wiederstein was born on November 19, 1923 in Hillsboro, KS to Leo and Martha Wiederstein. He passed from this life on Friday, May 18, 2018 surrounded by his family. He was baptized December 30, 1923 and confirmed on May 15, 1938 at Zion Lutheran Church in Hillsboro, KS. Alfred joined the Army in December 1942 as part of the 528th Engineer Combat Battalion and made the trip to Europe aboard the Queen Mary.  He fought in all 5 European...

Emma Mae (Heppel) McIntosh was born August 5, 1924 to James Edward and Margaret Ellen (Puckett) Heppel at Fairfax, Oklahoma. Emma attended school at Fairfax, graduating with the class of 1942. That fall, she attended Oklahoma A & M College, now known as Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. It was there she met Robert William McIntosh (Bob) from Shattuck, Oklahoma. "This is where the East met the West!" Her roommate, Miriam Bockelman Colbert introduced Emma to...

 Please note Interment is 11:AM Central Time 10:00 Mountain Time.    Henrietta Marie Weigel Herl, 86, of Ashland, Kansas, formerly of Tribune, Kansas, died comfortably and peacefully surrounded by all of her children, on May 2, 2018, at Via Christi-St. Frances Hospital in Wichita, Kansas. Born February 16, 1932 in Ellis County, Kansas, she is predeceased by her parents, her siblings, and her late husband, Gerald Dean Herl of Tribune,...

Rudolph (Rudy) G. Wilhite of Beaver, Oklahoma passed April 26,2018. Rudy was born at Cole, Oklahoma on March 24, 1929. Rudy was a born-again Christian, and a member of Meade, Kansas, Church of the Nazarene. He survived by his wife, Eva Wilhite of Beaver, Oklahoma. Rudy has 4 surviving children: Gail, Larry, Mardale, and Michele.

    Betty ( Schaefer) Higginbotham was born May 27, 1929 in St. Joseph, Michigan to Phillip and Victoria Schaefer. Moved to Shattuck with her family and lived and worked on their wheat farm. After high school she attended colleges in Keene and Alva Texas. Then she met James Higginbotham who was working in the area and they soon got married. Their wedding was the first wedding in the Ebenezer Baptist church on February 11, 1950. Over the next few years they...