Mary Louise (Fellers) Pennington, 97, a longtime resident of Graham County, passed away November 24, 2024, in Broomfield, Colo.

Mary Lou was born on August 9, 1927, in Hays, the fifth of six children to Harvey Webster Fellers and Mary A. (Dague) Fellers.

Mary Lou graduated from Hays High School in May 1945, four months before the end of World War II. She enrolled that fall at Fort Hays State College where she developed her lifelong passion for English literature and grammar.

Ruby Ellen McAdoo Smith Coleman, age 77, of Norman, Okla., passed away on November 19, 2024.

She was born August 8, 1947, in Stockton to Stewart Leslie McAdoo and Josie Edna McAdoo (Vanhoutan). She is the seventh of 11 children.

Ruby went to school in Russell her whole life. She went to Fossil Creek School and graduated from Russell High School in 1966. She met Keith Smith in 1965 and married in 1966. They had four daughters. They later divorced. She met and married Donald Coleman and had one daughter in the marriage. They later divorced.

Edna M. (Dibble) Taylor-McCall, formerly of Woodston, passed away on November 22, 2024, at HaysMed in Hays at the age of 99.

She was born on September 24, 1925, to Arthur Neil and Euphamie (Brittain) Dibble in a stone house west of Alton on the 1871 homestead of her grandparents, George Riley and Amanda Melvina (Arnold) Dibble. She was the last surviving child and number ten of eleven children born to Arthur and Euphamie.