Marilyn J. Pritchard, 72, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Hutchison Hospital.

She was born Dec. 30, 1934, in Sterling, the daughter of Roy Albert and Ruby May Strait Lyon. She was a homemaker.

On May 2, 1954, she married Robert I. Pritchard in Hutchinson. He survives.

Other survivors include: a son, David W., Salina; three daughters, Barbara J. Fallis, Buhler, Vickie E. White, Hutchinson, and Brenda K. Johnson, Great Bend; two brothers, Milton Lyon, Topeka, and Alvin Lyon, Hutchinson; a sister, Nancy Erwin, Wewoka, Okla.; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Penwell-Gabel Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Hutchinson, with the Rev. Robert B. Brooks presiding. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday, and from 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday at Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson.

Memorials may be sent to the donor's choice, in care of the funeral home.