Liberty High School Alumni Obituaries

Kathryn Anne Schlimgen Padden was born and raised in Seattle WA and graduated from Holy Rosary High School. She attended Seattle University before marrying John Stinson Padden in 1961 and had three daughters before moving to Guemes Island. She attended Skagit Valley College before transferring and l...

Bennie Olsson Baeza, 85, died peacefully in Weimar, Texas on April 27, 2021. He was born on August 26, 1935, in Colorado County, Texas to Bennie and Annie Lou Baeza and graduated from Abilene High School in 1953. He was preceded in death by his parents, his son, Mike, and his siblings, Tony, Lynn, a...

Lieutenant Colonel Retired Arthur Lee Sewell 84 was the first of eight children born to Little Turner L.T. and Esternola Green Sewell on September 6 1941 in Liberty County Texas. Arthur Lee fought a courageous 18month battle against renal cancer. Arthur Lee transitioned to eternal rest at home with ...

Larry was born October 13 1941 in Liberty South Carolina to Bill and Imogene Brown Sentell. After graduating high school in 1958 he served in the United States Navy. Larry was a millionmile accidentfree truck driver. He retired from Werner Enterprises. He enjoyed spending time with family and was kn...

Services are Saturday Jan. 24 2026 Turkey Creek Baptist Church 1600 Wallisville Rd. Liberty TX. Visitation will begin at 9AM until Funeral at 10AM. Interment will be in Acie Cemetery Dayton TX. On April 3 1934 in Westlake Louisiana God blessed Ernest Brew Edwards and Virginia Brown Edwards with a be...

Janet Y. Pitchford 89, of Pt. Pleasant passed away Thursday October 30, 2025 at Pleasant Valley Health Care Center. She was a graduate of Dunbar High School and attended Salem Baptist Church. She was a lifelong homemaker and loved quilting.Born May 29, 1936 in Putnam County she was the daughter of t...

Tammy Kay Houck 68 formerly of Ozawkie KS passed away January 6 2026 at Villa St. Francis in Olathe. She was born December 26 1957 the daughter of Harold Eugene Weaver and Glenda Kay French Weaver Webb William Buzz Webb. Tammy was a 1975 graduate of Grandview High School. She attended Joe Herndon Te...

Otho Lee Stevens was born October 3 1935 at home in Rulo NE the youngest of 12 children born to John and Clara Brooks Stevens of Rulo. He grew up at Rulo where he went to school thru 8th grade upon which time they closed the Rulo high school. He went freshman year at Sacred Heart in Falls City befor...

Don Alan Jenks 69 passed away on Wednesday December 17 2025 at his home surrounded by his family. Don was born December 25 1955 in Iowa City Iowa the son of Donald and Donna Vogel Jenks. He graduated from West Liberty High School in 1975. On March 26 1977 he was united in marriage to Helen Hines in ...

Carla T. Dunnahoo 85 went to meet the Lord on December 16 2025 at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Visitation will be held Saturday December 20 2025 at the Wilton Baptist Church from 1000 to 1100 A.M. with funeral services immediately following at 1100 A.M. Burial will be i...

The funeral services for Jerry will be livestreamed via Bethany Lutheran Church Facebook page and can be accessed using the link below. Stream will begin a few minutes before the 1030 Service Time. Jerry Lee Dodds 90 passed away Wednesday December 17 2025 at the Lone Tree Health Care Center in Lone ...

Audrey Jean Toyne Johnson 88 passed peacefully on December 8th 2025 at Sienna Meadows Memory Care in DeForest WI. A Visitation will be held at at HendersonBarker Funeral Home in West Liberty IA from 1100 a.m to 100 p.m. Friday December 12th with funeral services immediately following. Internement wi...

John "Jack" Gitch, 78, of rural Sumner, died Sunday, November 2, 2025, at the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics in Iowa City.Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM, Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fredericksburg with Rev. Ronnie Koch officiating. Interment wi...

Larry Thomas Courter 88 of Florence IN passed away on Saturday January 24th 2026 at St. Elizabeth Edgewood Hospice. Larry was born on February 7 1937 a son of the late Hazel Eva Robinson Ryan and Lucian Thomas Courter. Larry entered this world in the the top of a 2 story garage in Lawrenceburg IN du...

Pat A. Douglas 88 of Ft. Branch passed away Wednesday February 4 2026 at Deaconess Gateway Hospital in Newburgh. She was born March 5 1937 in Cynthiana to Havard and Lula Gertrude Carter Martin. Pat had lived in rural Ft. Branch since 2000 moving there from Princeton. She was a 1955 graduate of Cynt...

Bob Dillender a lifelong resident of Martinsville passed away on Saturday January 17 2026. His wife brother children grandchildren nieces and nephew visited him daily at Otterbein of Franklin SeniorLife Community over the past month and beautifully walked him home to be with Jesus. Bobs family kept ...

Christina M. Christy Kirk 46 of Eminence passed away at 550 a.m. at Redcrest Hospice House in Bloomington. She was born on Wednesday July 25 1979 in Charleston South Carolina to Douglas E. Doug and Tammy L. Neff Kirk. Christy was a 1998 graduate of Martinsville High School. She was an assistant mana...

She was the salutatorian of the class of 1954 at Walker High School in Liberty Maine where she enjoyed playing on the basketball and softball teams followed by attending Gorham State Teachers College. On February 11 1955 she married Burton W. Smith. They lived in Orono Ashland Edgecomb Auburn Searsm...

Lucille B. NelsonLewistonLucille B. Nelson of Lewiston passed away July 28 2021 in Lewiston. Lucille was born August 31 1939 a daughter of James and Elsie Barker Bremner. She was a graduate of Edward Little High School. Lucille retired from Liberty Mutual. She married Ken Edwards Sr. He predeceased ...

Beverly Ann Adams DerocherSabattusBeverly Ann Adams Derocher of Sabattus died Friday April 21 2017 at her home in Sabattus with her family at her side. Beverly was born on May 12 1954 in Lewiston the daughter of Byron C. Adams Jr. and Yvette Allen Adams. She attended St. Patricks School and Lewiston...

Barbara Alice Byron Allen went with the Angels on October 23. 3 days prior to her 77th birthday. She was the daughter of Earl Byron and Inez Porter of Peru Maine. She was married to Finley F. Allen for 57 years and raised 5 children. She worked as a supervisor at Liberty Mutual for about 20 years. I...

Sabattus Linda M. Gagnon 53 passed away peacefully surrounded by family and friends at Mercy Hospital on Friday February 22 2019. She was born in Lewiston on January 25 1966 a daughter of Chanel Michaud and Lucienne Beaulieu. Linda was educated in Sabattus schools and graduated from Oak Hill High S...

MANCHESTER ME. Mavis J. Longfellow 90 died Nov. 20 2020 at home surrounded by her children and with the best medical care. Though sad to leave her family and all she loved about life she died as she had lived with courage determination and acceptance of that which she could not change. Mavis Anita ...

On Sunday June 7 2015 Bunny left us to be in the comfort of his lord.He was born in Lewiston Maine on February 27 1922 to Yvonne and Adelard Gousse. He is predeceased by his brother Roland Gousse and his sister Florence Webber.He leaves his wife Shirley of Freeport after 67 years of marriage as well...

BARBARA J. WEBSTER OF ROME PASSED PEACEFULLY ON NOVEMBER 20 2021 AT NORTHERN LIGHT CONTINUING CARE LAKEWOOD IN WATERVILLE FOLLOWING A BRIEF ILLNESS. HER DAUGHTERS WERE AT HER SIDE. BORN IN NEW JERSEY ON MARCH 9 1934 BARBARA WAS THE ONLY CHILD OF GERTRUDE AND THOMAS WINTERS. TIME SPENT WITH HER GRAND...

She was born March 18 1928 in Haverhill MA to Olive Worthen. She graduated from Edward Little High School in 1945. In June of 1948 she married Leo "Bunny" Gousse of Danville ME where they raised their three daughters. Shirley enjoyed music and dancing. She was an avid seamstress including making eac...

NEW GLOUCESTER Linda Ledger career teacher and volunteer EMT passed away on Tuesday July 9 at the Hospice House in Auburn Maine surrounded in her last weeks and days by a host of loving and caring family members and friends. A 65 graduate of Presque Isle High School Linda continued her education at ...

LEWISTON Richard S. Austin 85 of Lisbon passed away peacefully on July 3rd 2025 at Marshwood Center in Lewiston. He was born in Rumford on October 1 1939 a son of William B. and Shirley Gill Austin. He spent his childhood in West Peru ME and graduated from Stephens High School in 1957. After high s...

Dorothy H. Morrow Davis Dottie Dot age 76 of Bath Maine passed peacefully on Thursday April 10 2025. Dot was born February 2 1949 in the town of Attleboro Massachusetts to Irving and Helen F. Michel Morrow. Dot was raised in Massachusetts. There she attended East Boston High School and Boston Colleg...

BRUNSWICK Paul James Lewis McCourt passed away on August 21 2024 at the age of 89 in Brunswick after a struggle with Parkinsons Disease. He was born in Island Falls Maine on May 29 1935. Paul was the second son of Andrew and Theresa McCourt and younger brother to Nelson. The family relocated to Old...