Doyle Eugene Symonds
Jan 24, 2013
Doyle Eugene Symonds, 54, died Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. He was born Dec. 16, 1958, in Hutchinson, the son of Jimmie and Jackie Symonds. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident, graduating from Hutchinson High School. Doyle was a self-employed painter. He is survived by: his children, Shannon, Tyler and Jimmie; his parents; a sister, Dorthea and her husband Eddie Wooten;...
Opal Leah Kerwood
Jan 24, 2013
Opal Leah Kerwood, 87, died January 24, 2013, at her home in Moundridge, Kan. She was born January 17, 1926, in Miami, Oklahoma to James Albert and Willie May (Swepston) Tadlock. She graduated from Herington High School in 1944, attended LPN training and two years at JUCO. Opal was an LPN and a bus attendant. She was a member of...
Maxine Mildred Jenkins
Jan 24, 2013
Maxine Mildred Jenkins, 82, died January 24, 2013, in Nickerson. She was born May 28, 1930, in Hutchinson to John and Hazel Sparks Socha. She was a 1948, graduate of Hutchinson High School. On June 4, 1949, she married Charles "Buck" Lawrence Jenkins in Hutchinson. He died January 19, 2007. Other survivors include: son, Charles Jenkins and wife Jane, Nickerson;...
Marian Joyce Heaton
Jan 23, 2013
Marian J. Heaton, 92, died Jan. 23, 2013, at Golden Plains Health Care Center. She was born May 10, 1920, to Alpha Wallace and Iva Althea Sample Stephenson. She married Orville Keith Heaton. He died June 5, 1990. She was a homemaker. There will be a private graveside service at Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson. Friends may sign the memorial...
Gerald "Gee" F. Raymond
Jan 23, 2013
Gerald F. "Gee" Raymond, 89, died Jan. 23, 2013, at Hospice House. He was born Feb. 6, 1923, in Haven, to Gabriel F. and Minnie (Stade) Raymond. Gerald was an insurance agent, real-estate broker, and retired as a correctional officer for KSIR. He was a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus and American Legion. He was a...
Ralph R. Goering
Jan 23, 2013
Ralph R. Goering, 87, died Jan. 23, 2013, at Wesley Towers, Hester Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 2, 1925, in Seattle, Wash., the son of Elmer P. and Elma (Sherwood) Goering. He graduated from Hutchinson High School and was a World War II Army veteran receiving the bronze star and purple heart. Ralph was a retired Reno County...
Mary L. Conboy
Jan 22, 2013
Mary L. Conboy, 60, died on Jan. 22, 2013, at her home in Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 20, 1952, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Alvin Orral Beery and Joan Corrine (Dole) Cully. Mary graduated from St. Teresa's Catholic High School and Hutchinson Community College. Survivors include: three children, Krista Smalley and husband Raymond of Wichita, Michelle Bonilla and fiance...
Lena A. Barker
Jan 21, 2013
Lena A. Barker, 88, died Jan. 21, 2013, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born May 2, 1924, in Hutchinson, to Rolley L. and Mable J. (Houghton) Dale. Lena graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1942. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and was a seamstress for Wiley's for 19 years. She married Joseph B. Barker...
Viola May Oakley
Jan 21, 2013
Viola May Oakley, 88, died Jan. 21, 2013, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She was born May 7, 1924, in Newton to Leonard and Anna (Block) Danner. Viola was a member of Grace Episcopal Church, American Legion Auxiliary, and volunteered at the Cosmosphere. She married Donald R. Oakley on August 6, 1950, in Wichita. Survivors include: husband, Donald Oakley of...
Joyce R Hobart
Jan 21, 2013
Joyce R. Hobart, 83, died Jan. 21, 2013, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 20, 1929, in Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of William Lawrence Rock and Harriet McGregor Rock. Joyce was a graduate of the University of Kansas and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority while at KU. She married Harold Nelson Hobart Jr. on Aug....
Robert "Bob" R. Ross, Sr.
Jan 18, 2013
Robert R. Ross, Sr., (Bob), 87, died peacefully Friday morning, January 18, 2013, surrounded by his family. He was born in Plymouth, Ohio, to the late Willard and Eva Ross. Robert celebrated 66 years of marriage to his bride Doneta. He was a graduate of Heidelburg College, served in World War II, and was a veteran of the US Navy...
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...
