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Josephine "Jo" E. Jobes
Mar 21, 2011
Josephine E. "Jo" Jobes, 97, died March 21, 2011, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born July 14, 1913, in Arlington, Kansas, the daughter of Walter and Ella Burnett Stull. Jo graduated from Arlington High School and was a homemaker. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. On Nov. 27, 1944, she married Charles Jobes in Hutchinson....
Martha Marie Gaskill
Mar 20, 2011
Martha Marie Gaskill, 87 died Sunday, March 20, 2011, at Mercy Hospital, Moundridge. She was born March 4, 1924, in Aberdeen, S.D., the daughter of Harve and Henrietta Hauder. Martha attended school in Frazee, Minn., but graduation was halted due to World War II. She moved to the Hutchinson area in 1947 and was a member of the First Christian...
Kathryn Lorene Barnes
Mar 20, 2011
Kathryn L. Barnes, 75, of Hutchinson, died March 20, 2011, at Dillon Living Center. She was born July 6, 1935, at Atlanta, Kan., the daughter of Esley H. and Inez A. Satterlee Barnes. She graduated from Bushton High School in 1953 and business college in Colorado Springs, Colo. in 1958. She was a United States Air Force veteran and was...
Max J. Heter
Mar 19, 2011
Max J. Heter, 74, died March 19, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, ER, Hutchinson. He was born June 24, 1936, in Hutchinson, the son of Leonard L. and Viola B. Allen Heter. A graduate of Hutchinson High School in 1955, he was a rancher, horseman and a television director. Max was a member of the Pretty Prairie Saddle Club...
Bill Bartlett
Mar 19, 2011
Bill Bartlett, 62, died March 19, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 24, 1948, in Hutchinson, the son of Wesley C. and Edith Ellen Heaney Bartlett. He was a 1966 graduate of Hutchinson High School. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired journeyman electrician. He attended First United Methodist Church. Bill belonged to American Legion...
Esther D. Barkman
Mar 19, 2011
Esther D. Barkman, 91, died March 19, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 9, 1919, in Alva, Okla., to Harvey and Lillian Carey Jenkins. She was a Hutchinson resident since 1929, moving here from Oklahoma. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Park Place Christian Church, Women of the Moose Hutchinson Chapter #1371 and Order...
Billie G. "Bill" Castle
Mar 19, 2011
Billie G. "Bill" Castle, 78, died March 19, 2011, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers. He was born April 23, 1932, in Hutchinson, the son of George W. and Mabel A. Davis Castle. He graduated from Nickerson High School in 1950 and attended Hutchinson JUCO. Bill was a barber and former owner of the Larkland Barber Shop. He was also...
Morene Potter
Mar 17, 2011
Morene Potter, 81, of Hutchinson, died March 17, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. She was born in Coldwater, the daughter of Lewis Michael and Agnes Belle Baldwin Seyfrit. She was a 1947 graduate of Hutchinson High School and a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church. She was a homemaker, school bus driver, commercial truck driver - all...
Nelson Hobart, Jr.
Mar 16, 2011
LAWRENCE - Nelson Hobart, 83, of Lawrence, Kan., died March 16, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born June 19, 1927, in Kansas City, Mo., to Harold Nelson Hobart Sr. and Vera Gano Hobart. He and his wife Joyce lived in Hutchinson from 1952 until 1989, then moved to Lawrence, Kan. He was a 1947 graduate of Lawrenceville Prep...
Nadine Pearl Johnson
Mar 16, 2011
Nadine Pearl Johnson, 73, died March 16, 2011 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 1, 1937, at Francis, Okla., the daughter of Charley and Lettie Parks Harrel. She was a Baptist and homemaker. On Jan. 30, 1953, she married Sammie Johnson in Texas. He died May 26, 2005. She is survived by a son and his wife, Van...
Grace Addison Mann
Mar 15, 2011
Grace Addison Mann was stillborn Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, the daughter of John and Stacy Graham Mann. Other survivors include: two sisters, Victoria and Sarah; grandparents, Bob and Kathy Mann of Boulder, Colo., and Randy and Patty Graham of Colwich; great-grandparents, Shirley Mann of Hutchinson, Norman and Mary Ann Stofer of Hutchinson, and Eddie...
Eloise Gail Burson
Mar 13, 2011
Eloise Gail Burson, 96 years old, graduated to glory March 13, 2011, at 11:06 Sunday night at Mt. Hope Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 25, 1915, in Atchison, the daughter of Ralph Leslie and Ethel Davis Townsend. She graduated from Atchison High School in 1933 and from Mount St. Scholastica College in 1937. After teaching high school a few...
R. Ann Koehn Tegarden
Mar 12, 2011
R. Ann Koehn Tegarden, 87, died Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 23, 1924, in Turon, the daughter of Lloyd and Nellie Hanselman Boles. Ann was a 1942 graduate of Cimarron High School and a 1946 graduate of Emporia State University with a degree in Commerce and Education. She taught business at...
William "Bill" Landon Proctor
Mar 12, 2011
William Landon "Bill" Proctor died Saturday, March 12, 2011. He was born Oct. 23, 1921, in Oklahoma City, Okla., the son of Harry T. and Edith P. Proctor. He was preceded in death by his wife Alice Elizabethand stepson Steven Yadon. He is survived by wife, Lorna, Hutchinson; daughter, Elizabeth Dirks, Wichita; son, Edward Proctor, Oklahoma City, Okla.; daughter, Theresa...
Valetta Faye Williams
Mar 12, 2011
Valetta Faye Williams, 54, of Hutchinson died March 12, 2011, at Hutchinson Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 14, 1957, in Ava, Missouri, the daughter of Bill and Lorene J. Volkland Headings. She attended school in Ava, and later Hutchinson. She attended the First Church of the Nazarene in Hutchinson, and she was a devoted Christian and had a...
Manuela "Nellie" Maldonado
Mar 11, 2011
Manuela "Nellie" Maldonado, 90, of Hutchinson, died March 11, 2011, at her home in Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 23, 1920, in Monterey, Mexico, the daughter of Melliso Vallejo and Guadalupe Espinoza. She was raised from the age of 1 year by her mother and her dad, Joe P. Garcia. She attended Hutchinson schools and was a member of Our...
Carl Robert "Bob" Strand
Mar 11, 2011
Carl Robert "Bob" Strand, 86, passed away on March 11, 2011, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. He was born July 1, 1924, in Hutchinson, to Carl Fred and Lula May (Lee) Strand. Bob was a renowned musician, and after graduating from high school he followed his passion, playing saxophone and clarinet in prominent swing bands in the United States....
Glennis E. Goldsmith
Mar 11, 2011
Glennis E. Goldsmith, 90, died March 11, 2011, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers. She was born Nov. 5, 1920, in Iola, to Lloyd and Bertha Brannum Ayers. She graduated from Iola High School in 1938 and Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia in 1942. A Hutchinson resident since 1954, she and her husband retired to Sun City, Ariz., in...
Marjorie Eileen Snell
Mar 10, 2011
Marjorie Eileen Snell, 90, died Thursday, March 10, 2011, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 12, 1921, in Dodge City, the daughter of Gordon Ray and Bessie Bethel Peirce Vance. Marjorie graduated from Dodge City High School in 1938 and Dodge City Business College in 1939, was a member of Johnson United Methodist Church and affiliated member...
Rebecca "Becky" L. Wiebe
Mar 7, 2011
Rebecca L. "Becky" Wiebe died March 7, 2011, after a lengthy illness, at Odyssey Harbor House, Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born March 8, 1958, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Theodore A. and Patricia A. Schibi Wiebe. She graduated from Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson Community College, Fort Hays State University and received her master's in educational psychology from Wichita State...
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