Wilma June Ramsey
Jan 18, 2013
Wilma June Ramsey, 89, died Friday, January 18, 2013. She was born at Plevna, August 25, 1923, the daughter of George and Margie McRevey Gagnebin. She was a lifetime resident of Reno County moving from Abbyville to Hutchinson in 1993. June was a 1941, graduate of Abbyville High School, a graduate of Salt City Business College in 1942, a former...
Gary L. Anderson
Jan 17, 2013
Gary L. Anderson, 69, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 17, 2013, at Hospice House. He was born March 8, 1943, in Hutchinson, the son of Myrl D. and Mildred B. Bergen Anderson. Gary was a 1961 graduate of Buhler High School and attended Hutchinson Junior College. He retired as a production manager at Eaton Corp. (formerly Cessna Fluid Power), after working...
Fay E. Green
Jan 17, 2013
Fay E. Green, 90, died Jan. 17, 2013, at Hospice House. He was born Nov. 13, 1922, in Sylvia to Roy Camden and Ida Emily (Roseberry) Green. Fay served in the United States Army from 1943-1945. He married Marjory Louise Davis on Jan. 21, 1954, in Hutchinson. She died June 21, 2007. Fay was a member of the Teamsters Union...
Mary J. Stringer
Jan 16, 2013
Mary J. Stringer, 100, died Jan. 16, 2013, at the Pleasant View Home, Inman, Kan. She was born Oct. 14, 1912, in Wellsville, Ohio, the daughter of William and Myrtle Culp Lowry. A 1930 graduate of Wellsville High School, she married John T. Stringer Oct. 31, 1935, in New Cumberland, W.Va. She was a homemaker and following her husband's death,...
Barton "Bart" Ray Pennick
Jan 15, 2013
Barton Ray "Bart" Pennick, 81, died Jan. 15, 2013, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 12, 1931, in Ralston, Okla., to Jay W. and Mildred M. (Trimm) Pennick. Bart graduated in 1949 from Fairfax High School, Fairfax, Okla. A United States Navy veteran, he was one of the few atomic veterans who served in the Korean War. He...
Ruth Irene Leeper
Jan 15, 2013
Ruth Irene Leeper, 91, died Jan. 15, 2013, Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She was born May 20, 1921, to Fred Leonard and Adelia Lovicia Holland Brown in Garnett, Kan. She was a 1939 graduate of Hutchinson High School. On April 27, 1956, she married Erwin Edward Leeper in McPherson, Kan. He survives. She worked at Bond Bakers, Risley's IGA, and...
Dean E. George
Jan 15, 2013
Dean E. George, 85, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 15, 2013, at his home. Dean was born Sept. 30, 1927, at Wakita, Okla., the son of Alton L. and Hilda S. Nelson George. He graduated from Manchester High School in 1945 and from Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Okla. He later earned his master's degree from Northwestern State. Dean was...
Louise Caroline Henderson
Jan 14, 2013
Louise C. Henderson, 89, died Jan. 14, 2013, at Dillon Living Center. She was born Feb. 24, 1923, in Hutchinson, to Cleo and Nora Lindahl Danford. Louise was a member of Double Circle Class and First United Methodist Church. She retired from Cessna Hydraulic Division after 20 years of service and was a member of the Daughters of the American...
Ralph Eugene Casey
Jan 13, 2013
BUHLER - Ralph Eugene Casey, 83, died Jan. 13, 2013, at Pleasant View Home in Inman. He was born Aug. 16, 1929, in Hutchinson, the son of Everett C. and Leora H. (Finnell) Casey. A WWII veteran, Ralph served in the Army Air Corps from 1946-47. He retired from Rainbow Bakery and was an Evangelist Minister for the Pentecostal House...
Raymond L. Furstenberg
Jan 12, 2013
CASTLETON - Raymond L. Furstenberg, 81, died Jan. 12, 2013, at Meadowlark Adult Care Home. He was born Feb. 18, 1931, in Castleton on the family farm, to Benjamin C. and Myrtle A. (Evert) Furstenberg. Raymond was a retired farmer and implement dealer. He is survived by: sister, Dorothy Trimmell of Castleton and several nieces and nephews. Raymond was preceded...
Goldie Grace Childs
Jan 11, 2013
Goldie Grace Childs, 94, died Friday, January 11, 2013. She was born in rural Buhler, Kansas, June 24, 1918, the daughter of Willis O. and Goldie C. Hegarty Hopper. She was a graduate of Hutchinson High School, Sterling College and Fort Hays State University, belonged to Plevna Community Bible Church, a Plevna 4-H Leader, the clerk for the City of...
Donna P. Nickels
Jan 11, 2013
Donna P. Nickels, 84, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 11, 2013, at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Inman. Donna was born June 15, 1928, at Langdon, the daughter of Wilford & Pearl Davis Pratt. A lifelong Reno County resident, she graduated from Langdon High School in 1944, and attended Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. She taught elementary school for a...
Rosalie M. Tucker
Jan 11, 2013
Rosalie M. Tucker, 85, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2013. She was born in Herington April 7, 1927, the daughter of Ewaldt and Lizzie Schlesener Kickhaefer. She was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, a church youth sponsor for their work projects and an avid bowler belonging to several different leagues. Rosalie had been an Avon lady and owned and...
Ricky Alan Vollnogel, Sr.
Jan 11, 2013
McPHERSON - Ricky Alan Vollnogel Sr., 52, died January 11, 2013, at his home in McPherson. He was born December 18, 1960, in Oceanside, CA, to Allen Ansel and Patsy Jane (Mitchell) Vollnogel. Ricky was an Account Executive at Portfolio Recovery Associates in Hutchinson. He is survived by: his fiancée, Tracy LaGreca, of the home; four children, Ricky Vollnogel Jr....
Mark R. Poulain
Jan 10, 2013
Mark R. Poulain, 90, died Jan. 10, 2013, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was born Oct. 26, 1922, in Washington Township, Crawford County, Kan., to Mark G. and Augusta Marie Claire (Michiels) Poulain. He was a member of Legacy Bible Church and Minneola Masonic Lodge #431 A.F. & A.M. Mark retired as an engineer from Natural Gas Pipeline Company...
Estella E. Lewis
Jan 10, 2013
Estella E. Lewis, 108, died January 10, 2013, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She was born October 21, 1904, in rural Sterling, to Joseph and Fannie Ehresman Schrock. She attended Union 5 School, Hutchinson High School and Bresee Business College. Estella was a member of First Church of the Nazarene. While working at KP&L, she met Phillip E. Lewis. They...
Harold "Ole" G. Oelkers
Jan 9, 2013
Harold G. "Ole" Oelkers, 86, loving husband and father, of South Hutchinson, died Jan. 9, 2013, at Wheaton House at Mennonite Friendship Communities. Ole was born Aug. 2, 1926, at Clyde, Kan., the son of Francis D. and Irene A. Boling Oelkers. He graduated in 1944 from Neal High School and later attended Salt City Business College. He was a...
Harold "Hal" W. Marshall
Jan 6, 2013
Harold Wesley "Hal" Marshall, 85, died January 6, 2013, at Hospice House. He was born May 4, 1927, on a farm near Sylvia, KS to Gilbert and Ethel Tuttle Marshall. He was a 1945 graduate of Sylvia High School. Harold served in the United States Navy serving in WWII and the Korean Conflict. In 1950 he married Imogene Walker in...
Lanaiyah Rae-Lynn Denise Gardner
Jan 5, 2013
Lanaiyah Rae-Lynn Denise Gardner, daughter of La-Nair and Dizarary Gardner was stillborn Saturday at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She is also survived by; two brothers, Tahjay Harrison and Tayshaun Gardner, two sisters, Jaidan Gardner and Kaliya Stoecklein; grandparents, Michele Gardner, Jonathan Bradshaw and Hope Snow; one great grandmother; Crysta Rodriguez and several aunts, uncles and cousins. Memorial service will be...
Gerald Wiens
Jan 3, 2013
Retired Nickerson Fire Chief Gerald Wiens received his final call Jan. 3, 2013. Our Heavenly Father called him home. Gerald Lee Wiens was born in Hutchinson to Bert and Emma Wiens on April 9, 1937. His mother passed away when he was young and Bert later married Hilda Wiens who helped raise Gerald. From a young age, Gerald had a...
