Elva W. Wiles
Aug 27, 2012
Elva Winifred Wiles, 87, passed away August 27, 2012 in Las Vegas, NV after an extended illness. She was born on March 10, 1925 in Seward, KS to Charles Emil and Julia Connor Dralle. She graduated high school in 1942 from Radium High School and attended Fort Hays State for one year. She married Chester Wiles on October 19, 1946....
Betty Lou Killingsworth
Aug 26, 2012
Betty Lou Killingsworth, 77, passed away August 26, 2012, at her home after a courageous battle with a short illness. She was born on Aug. 19, 1935, in Independence , Kan., the daughter of Paul LeRoy and Bertha Spaulding (Dillon) Holmes. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1953. Betty had worked for IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union, East Moline,...
Reverend Thomas B. Mendenhall
Aug 26, 2012
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. Let us remember with thanksgiving what God has done through His servant, Reverend Thomas Mendenhall, who God called home to heaven on August 26, 2012. Thomas Burl Mendenhall was born to Burl and Marjorie Mendenhall on December 24, 1946 in Wichita, Kansas and...
Paulena "Fern" Gilbert
Aug 25, 2012
Paulena "Fern" Gilbert passed away in Hutchinson on Aug. 25, 2012. She was born at Great Bend, the youngest of three children, on June 3, 1918, to Arthur and Nora Depew Suedekum. They moved to Stafford when she was two years old. She attended Stafford schools and graduated from Stafford High School with the class of 1936. On July 14,...
Deloris Mae Schreiber
Aug 25, 2012
NICKERSON - Deloris Mae Schreiber, 90, died Saturday, August 25, 2012. She was born in Little River, March 13, 1922, the daughter of Herbert and Lula Crider Briscoe. She was a 1939 graduate of Ness City High School, a member of Nickerson United Methodist Church and was a retired certified Elementary and High School paraprofessional for the USD 308 and...
Verna Arliene Rickett
Aug 25, 2012
Verna Arliene Rickett, 76, of Hutchinson, died August 25, 2012, at Hospice House. Verna was born May 30, 1936, at Arlington, the daughter of James Vern and Geneva R. Feese Sitton. She was a 1954 graduate of Arlington High School and later graduated from the Kansas City Business School of Commerce in 1956. She worked for a short time as...
Donald Dwayne Hoffman
Aug 22, 2012
Donald Dwayne Hoffman, 55, died Aug. 22, 2012, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was born July 28, 1957, in Moundridge, Kan., the son of Warren Dean and Patricia Elaine (Page) Hoffman. He worked for Showalter Fireworks. On May 11, 1985, he married Mary LaVonne Sisler in Hutchinson. She survives. Other survivors include: three children, John Wayne Hoffman, Yvonne Suzette...
Dorothy M. Brooks Nevius
Aug 21, 2012
Dorothy M. Brooks Nevius, 87, died Aug. 21, 2012, in Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 19, 1924, in Jefferson, Mo. She worked for Meschke's North Clothing Store, Three Sister's Store, and Dr. Don Miller until she retired at age 75. Dorothy's first husband, Raymond Brooks, preceded her in death. She married Marvin Nevius on April 30, 1985, in Hutchinson. He...
Elsie Marie Halpain
Aug 21, 2012
Elsie Marie Halpain, 75, passed away August 21, 2012 at Hospice House. She was born April 14, 1937 in Winfield. Elsie graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1955. She then earned her Bachelors Degree from Wichita State University in 1974, graduating with honors. On October 23, 1955, she married Charles Duane Halpain in Hutchinson. A member of Countryside Baptist Church,...
John Sallabedra
Aug 21, 2012
John Sallabedra, 89, died Aug. 21, 2012, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 9, 1922, in Plevna, Kan., the son of Valentin and Valentina (Reyes) Sallabedra. He was a 1941 graduate of Sylvia High School and later graduated from Salt City Business College. John was a WWII Army Air Force veteran, serving as Tech Sgt. from 1943-1945....
Morris "Joe" Joseph Shelley
Aug 20, 2012
Morris "Joe" Shelley, 81, died August 20, 2012, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was born March 30, 1931, to Doctor Decater and Alice Conelia West Shelley in Randolph, TX. He graduated from Randolph Texas High School in 1949 and went into the Army, where he retired in 1976. Later he went to work at Cargill Salt Company. He married...
Leah Lou Ella Hogan Jones
Aug 20, 2012
TURON - Leah Lou Ella Hogan Jones, 79, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at Southwind Hospice, Pratt. She was born in Carmen, Okla., Aug. 10, 1933, the daughter of Charles A. and Leah Vashti Phinney Hogan. She was a 1950 graduate of Ringwood High School, Ringwood, Okla., a 1954 graduate of Friends University, Wichita, a member of First United Methodist...
Clora Marie Hartnell
Aug 19, 2012
Clora Marie Hartnell, 83, of Hutchinson died Aug. 19, 2012, at Hospice House. Clora was born Nov. 24, 1928, at Kingman, the daughter of Walter F. and Meredith C. Browning Yarberry. She was a 1946 graduate of Kingman High School and graduated from nursing school at Eufaula, Ala. in 1978. She retired as an L.P.N. from Hutchinson Hospital in 1990....
Lawrence S. Sliker
Aug 18, 2012
Lawrence S. Sliker, 74, died August 18, 2012, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born September 25, 1937, in Rochester, New York, the son of Harold Garland and Marion (Caps) Sliker. He graduated in 1955, from Monroe High School, Rochester, NY, attended Clarkson University, Plattsburgh, NY, and received his Bachelor of Science from State University of New York. He was a...
Sharon R. "Shar' Odle
Aug 18, 2012
PLEVNA - Sharon R. "Shar" Odle, 61, of Plevna, died Aug. 18, 2012, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Shar was born Aug. 30, 1950, in Ft. Worth, Texas, the daughter of Benjamin and LaVerne Smith Odle. She attended schools in Denver, Colo. and moved to Hutchinson in 1969. She was a restaurant manager and bookkeeper at Holiday Inn. She is...
Wilma June Bachus
Aug 18, 2012
Wilma June Bachus, 89, died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012. She was born at Sterling, Jan. 29, 1923, the daughter of Simon and Sybil Josephson Schmucker. She was a graduate of Abbyville High School, Sterling College and Emporia State University. June was an educator, teaching in Abbyville, Sylvia and Graber Elementary, then was principal at McCandless and Winans, a member of...
John I. Brewer
Aug 15, 2012
WINDSOR, Va. - John Ingram Brewer, 82, of Windsor, Va., passed away Aug. 15, 2012. He was born May 26, 1930, in Norton, Kan., the son of the late Maurine Sands Brewer and John Willard Brewer. He was predeceased by his first wife, Beverly Brewer. John was a veteran having served in the National Guard during the Korean War. He...
Lawrence Matthew Forney
Aug 14, 2012
Lawrence Matthew Forney, 100, died Aug. 14, 2012, at Mennonite Friendship Communities. He was born Aug. 4, 1912, in Mitchell County, Kan., to Henry Harrison and Bessie Blossom Rounkles Forney. He married Letha Delores Leaf in 1934. She died March 21, 2004. He later married Amy Anne Corns on Dec. 31, 1942. She died July 20, 1975. Then he married...
Bert L. Stockton
Aug 14, 2012
Bert L. Stockton, 82, of Hutchinson, died August 14, 2012, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. Bert was born Nov. 5, 1929, at Prague, Okla., the son of Lewis and Ola Foster Stockton. He graduated from Prague High School. He was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie No. 2550, both of Hutchinson....
Lowell D. Showalter, Sr.
Aug 13, 2012
Lowell D. Showalter Sr., 87, died Aug. 13, 2012, at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was born Oct. 2, 1924, in Larned, to Calvin and Florence Rice Showalter. Lowell graduated from Hutchinson High School, was a member of the Sand Hills Saddle Club and Teamsters Union. On Oct. 17, 1955, he married Betty L. Lewis in New Mexico. She died...
