Calvin P. Hall
May 31, 2011
Calvin P. Hall, 75, of Hutchinson, died May 31, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born April 12, 1936, at Eureka, the son of Emmett L. and Masil I. McDaniel Hall. He attended schools in Langdon and had worked at Cessna Hydraulics and later Eaton Corporation for 40 years. He married Barbara Kay Vance on June 15, 1963,...
Geneva R. Sitton
May 30, 2011
Geneva R. Sitton, 95, of Hutchinson, formerly of Arlington, died May 30, 2011, at her home. She was born Aug. 25, 1915, at Abbyville, the daughter of Chester E. and Rosa E. Wingo Feese. She attended school at Abbyville and was a member of the Arlington Un ited Methodist Church. Geneva was a longtime resident of Arlington, moving to Hutchinson...
Wayne L. Huntsman, Jr.
May 29, 2011
Wayne L. Huntsman Jr., 74, died May 29, 2011, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 20, 1936, in Hutchinson, the son of Wayne L. Huntsman Sr. and Opal Louise McMullen Huntsman. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1954, and attended Kansas State University. Wayne started his career at Cessna and then worked for Woodworking Manufacturing. In...
Mary Elizabeth Bruegger
May 29, 2011
Mary Elizabeth Bruegger, 87, died Sunday, May 29, 2011, at Olathe. She was born Feb. 28, 1924, at Whiting, Ind., the daughter of Lester and Viola Beck Chansler. A longtime Hutchinson resident moving to the Kansas City area in 2010, she had worked for Beech Aircraft and was quality controller operator for Consolidated Rebuilders retiring in 1986. Mary was a...
Donald L. Berger
May 27, 2011
Donald L. Berger, 73, died May 27, 2011, at Mennonite Friendship Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 2, 1937, in Conway Springs, Kansas, to Guy and Edith (Small) Berger. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1956. Donald was a retired Battalion Chief of Hutchinson Fire Department and founder and President of Ace Fire Extinguisher Company. He was a...
Evelyn Irene Lininger
May 26, 2011
Evelyn I. Lininger, 86, died May 26, 2011, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born March 14, 1925, in Pratt, Ks, the daughter of Ferman L. and Hulga M. Baker Young. Evelyn attended grade school in Byers, KS, then high school in Elk Falls, KS. She graduated from Lyons High School in 1943. She worked for Hutchinson...
Wallace Schlumbohm
May 24, 2011
Wallace Schlumbohm, 82, died May 24, 2011, at his home, Burrton. He was born July 8, 1928, in Alvord, Iowa, the son of Herman F. and Marie C. Moeller Schlumbohm. Wallace was a longtime resident of Cullison, living in Hutchinson for a period before moving to Burrton 10 years ago. He was a retired farmer and driver for Wittig Trucking....
Charlie "Gene" Mitzner
May 24, 2011
STERLING - Charlie E. "Gene" Mitzner, 75, died Tuesday, May 24, 2011, in Wichita. He was born Dec. 8, 1935, at Abbyville, the son of Charlie L. and Edith Detter Mitzner. He was a 1953 graduate of Abbyville High School, a member of Fairview United Methodist Church, Nickerson, an Army Veteran serving mainly in Germany, a lifetime area farmer, and...
Rubie Evelyn Stofer
May 23, 2011
Rubie Evelyn Hatfield Stofer, 86, went to be with our Lord Monday, May 23, 2011, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson, Kan. She was born March 15, 1925, in Kinsley, Kan., the daughter of Charlie Daniel and Glenna Almeda Eslinger Hatfield. She was a 1943 graduate of Kinsley High School and attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan. receiving an...
Laverna M. Winchester Fuller
May 22, 2011
LITHONIA, Ga. - LaVerna M. Winchester Fuller was born in Kinsley, June 17, 1913, the daughter of John Walter and Lenora Walker Winchester. She was a graduate of Kinsley High School and was a teacher's aide at Lincoln Elementary School. LaVerna married Maurice Fuller and was married for 30 years until his death in 1977. She was a member of...
Maxine L. Mcmurray
May 20, 2011
Maxine L. McMurray, 92, died May 20, 2011, at her home. She was born Nov. 30, 1918, in Windom, Kan., the daughter of Daniel P. and Alma L. Swalander Smyres. She was a Hutchinson resident since 1935, formerly of Dodge City, Minneola and Canton. She worked for F.W. Woolworth's for several years where she met and married her husband, Gerald...
Donald E. Hall
May 20, 2011
Donald E. Hall, 68, of Hutchinson, died May 20, 2011, as a result of an automobile accident on U.S. 50 Highway, southeast of Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 3, 1943, in Pittsburgh, PA., the son of Everette and Nora Arff Hall. His family moved to Milbank, South Dakota, where he grew up and attended school. He entered the United States...
Jason R. Whalen
May 19, 2011
Jason R. Whalen, 32, died May 19, 2011, here in Hutchinson. He was born June 9, 1978, in Hutchinson, to Pat and Carolyn R. Polson Whalen. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. He was a chef at the Rusty Needle restaurant. Survivors include: his parents, Pat and Carolyn Whalen of Hutchinson; brother, Matthew of Hutchinson; sister, Carolyn Prell and husband...
William L. Tolliver
May 17, 2011
William Leonard Tolliver, 85, died Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born March 28, 1926, at Stratford, Okla., the son of William and Ethel Cushman Tolliver. He graduated from East Central Oklahoma State University, Pittsburg State University and Wichita State University. William was a Navy veteran of World War II serving in the Pacific...
Camryn Andrew Haney
May 16, 2011
Camryn Andrew Haney, baby boy of Caleb Haney and Sasha Mederos of Hutchinson, was stillborn at Promise Regional Medical Center on May 16, 2011. Survivors are: his parents; grandparents, John and Penny Haney, and Heather Mehl, all of Hutchinson, and Steve Mederos Sr. of Ponca City, Okla.; great-grandparents, Carl and Georgia Green and Donna Gamblin, all of Hutchinson, and James...
Ralph Leroy Lough
May 16, 2011
Ralph Leroy Lough, 76, of Hutchinson, died May 16, 2011, at The Cedars, McPherson. He was born Aug. 12, 1934, to Ralph Milton Lough and Minerva Mable Bryant Lough Ketterman. On April 6, 1953, he married Betty Louise Hill in Columbus, Kan. She survives. Other survivors include: sons, Rick and Robert; daughters, Janet Flanary and Sheryl Cunningham; brothers, Jim and...
Betty J. Rueb
May 15, 2011
Betty J. Rueb, 83, died Sunday, May 15, 2011. She was born May 12, 1928, in Winfield, the daughter of Walter Sr. and Anna Mayo Fuqua. She was a longtime Kingman resident moving from St. Francis, belonged to Order of Eastern Star, St. Francis, a homemaker and beautician. On May 3, 1969, she married Lewis R. Rueb in Garden City....
Gene Franz
May 14, 2011
Gene Franz, 78, died May 14, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born on April 11, 1933, to Cornelius and Kathryn Doerksen Franz in McPherson. He was a graduate from Inman High School in 1952 and worked for Leech Product Inc. Gene was an avid member of the local YMCA for 23 years. On Feb. 27, 1959,...
Harold Ray Showalter
May 14, 2011
Ray Showalter, 89, of Hutchinson, died May 14, 2011, at Russell Regional Hospital, Russell. He was born July 2, 1921, in Larned, the son of Calvin and Florence Rice Showalter. He was a graduate of Partridge High School in 1937, and moved to Hutchinson, when he worked for the Barton Salt Co. He later moved to Lyons and worked for...
Evelyn I. Young
May 14, 2011
Evelyn I. Baumann Young, 86, died May 14, 2011 at Halstead Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born September 7, 1924, in Halstead, the daughter of B.H. (Sam) and Irene Keller Baumann. A lifelong Halstead resident, Evelyn was a registered nurse and a member of the First United Methodist Church. She is survived by a daughter, Judy K. Stanley of...
