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Mary L. Bell
Apr 18, 2011
Mary L. Bell, 61, died April 18, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 22, 1949, in Hutchinson, to Robert E. and Doris Raye Barkman Osborn. She was a homemaker. She attended the Riverside Baptist Church. She married Charles L. Bell on Dec. 6, 1969, in Hutchinson. He survives. Other survivors include: sons, Troy, Brian and...
Carl Rank, Jr.
Apr 17, 2011
Carl Rank Jr., 87, died Sunday, April 17, 2011. He was born Feb. 17, 1924, at Abbyville, the son of Carl and Josephine Horton Rank. He was a 1942 graduate of Abbyville High School, a World War II Navy veteran, a member of Crosspoint Baptist Church, Westbrook Campus, and was a machinist for Eaton Corp. for 35 years, retiring in...
Ross Glenn Musselman
Apr 17, 2011
Ross Glenn Musselman, 68, died April 17, 2011, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 19, 1942, in Ransom, Kansas, the son of Charles Abraham and Vera White Musselman. He graduated from Ransom High School in 1959, York College in 1961, and received his bachelors from Fort Hays State University in 1964. Ross was a hospital and nursing...
Howard A. Thompson
Apr 17, 2011
Howard A. Thompson, 86, of Hutchinson, died April 17, 2011, at Hospice House. He was born Dec. 16, 1924, in Coudersport, Pa., the son of Herbert and Mary Bertran Thompson. He graduated from Coudersport High School, Roberts Jr. College and Clarion University. He later received his master's degree from Penn State University. He was a retired superintendent of schools in...
Corbin Dean Edmisson
Apr 16, 2011
STILLWATER, Okla. - Corbin Dean Edmisson, 22, died April 16, 2011, in Stillwater, Okla. He was born in Hutchinson, Kan., April 23, 1988, to Robert Dean Edmisson and Gina Jo Gagnebin Edmisson. He is survived by his sister, Cierra Jo Edmisson of Stillwater, Okla.; grandparents, Russell and Shirley Gagnebin of Abbyville, Kan., Dean and Sherra Brigman of Hutchinson, Kan., and...
Marjorie Sjoberg
Apr 15, 2011
Marjorie I. Sjoberg, 98, died April 15, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born July 5, 1912, in Artesia, New Mexico, the daughter of Royal Edward and Charlotte Evelyn Spooner Dunham. Marjorie graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1930, and Salt City Business College in 1932. On Oct. 10, 1937, Marjorie married John K. Sjoberg in Hutchinson....
Darrin G. Crowe
Apr 13, 2011
Darrin G. Crowe, 49, was born June 10, 1961. He was the third of five siblings born to Ronald Crowe and Judith Snyder Sabus. Growing up, he was loved by his large family of aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins. His family was very important to him. Darrin married his wife, Brenda, on Sept. 13, 1977. They shared 33 years together....
Tonya Michelle Zwickl
Apr 12, 2011
Tonya Michelle Zwickl, 39, of Hutchinson, died April 12, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. She was born May 14, 1971, at Neodesha, the daughter of Gary and Carol Maixner Waldron. She moved with her family to Hutchinson when she was 5 years old from Neodesha. She attended Hutchinson schools and was a member of the First United...
Bob R Adams
Apr 11, 2011
Bob Reed Adams, 93, passed away April 11, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson, Kan. He was born in Sun City, Barber County, Kan., the third son of Myrtle (Moad) Adams and Ora Adams, on Aug. 25, 1917. He was a graduate of Sun City Rural High School, attended the Wichita Business College and the University of Louisville Southern Police Academy,...
Vera Mae Berry
Apr 10, 2011
Vera Mae Berry, 75, died April 10, 2011. She was born Nov. 16, 1935, to Floyd and Thelma Phipps Millard. She married Charles Berry Oct. 9, 1954. He died in 2003. Survivors include: sons, Chuck of Attica and Tim of Hutchinson; daughters, Joyce Newell of Hutchinson and Susan Rhodes of Brighton, Colo.; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Memorial service 11...
Steve Boese
Apr 9, 2011
Steve Boese, 63, died April 9, 2011, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born June 3, 1947, in Halstead, the son of Walter and Amanda Schmidt Boese. He graduated from McPherson High School, Hutchinson JUCO and McPherson College. Steve was a self-employed medical transcriptionist. He was a member of First Church Of God. On Feb. 14, 1976, he married...
Dillard O. Hamby
Apr 8, 2011
Dillard O. Hamby, 86, died Friday, April 8, 2011. He was born Oct. 29, 1924, in Laverne, Okla., the son of Otis Hamby and Sylva Cochran Hamby Johnson. He was a longtime Nickerson resident, a member of First Southern Baptist Church, Hutchinson, and a U.S. Navy Veteran serving in the Pacific Theater. Dillard was a Conoco service station owner and...
Jean Stiles
Apr 8, 2011
Jean Stiles, 86, of South Hutchinson, died April 8, 2011, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. She was born July 2, 1924, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Harvey H. and Ritta Ann Vetter Alumbaugh. A life-long South Hutchinson resident, she attended school at Nickerson. Jean was a homemaker and elevator operator at the Wolcott Building for over 30 years. She...
Wilma B. French
Apr 7, 2011
Wilma B. French, 92, of Partridge, died April 7, 2011, at Dillon Living Center in Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 22, 1919, in Poteau, Okla., the daughter of Harvey T. and Bernice Hopkins Coggins. She moved with her family to Hutchinson in 1934. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1935 and attended Hutchinson Junior College from 1935 through 1937....
June Maxine Smith Burns
Apr 7, 2011
June Maxine Smith Burns, 84, of Hutchinson, Kansas, died on April 7, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, Kansas, surrounded by her family. She was the wife of the late Nile "Layton" Burns, whom she married on May 6, 1946, in South Hutchinson. They were longtime residents of Hutchinson, and were the owners of Smith's Market from 1965 until...
Judy Ann Ward
Apr 6, 2011
Judy Ann Ward, 67, of Hutchinson, died April 6, 2011, at Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis in Wichita. She was born Dec. 26, 1943, at Oshkosh, Neb. the daughter of Hardy and Olene Whatley Stockman. She was a graduate of Stafford Kansas High School in 1961, and was a member of First Church of the Nazarene in Hutchinson. She...
Lila Kay Hodges
Apr 6, 2011
NEWTON - Lila Kay Hodges, 64, died April 6, 2011, at Kansas Heart Hospital, Wichita, from complications from a stroke. She was born July 24, 1946, the daughter of Dan Gadberry and Eva B. Darrah. A resident of Newton, she had formerly lived in Haven, Lyons and Sterling. Lila was a homemaker and a member of the Crosspoint Church. On...
Berneice Marie Kimminau
Apr 5, 2011
Berneice Marie Kimminau, 90, died April 5, 2011, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 5, 1920, in Mt. Clare, Neb., the daughter of Henry H. and Lena Ilg Rempe. She was a member of Holy Cross Catholic Church, Hutchinson. Berneice was a farmwife, had worked at Cessna, and had her own housekeeping business. On Jan. 19, 1943,...
Loren E. Smith
Apr 4, 2011
Loren E. "Smitty" Smith, 97, died Monday, April 4, 2011. He was born March 4, 1914, at Selden, the son of Arthur and Zelma Mae Houghton Smith. He had been a crane operator and welder at Hutchinson Foundry and Steel for about 39 years, retiring in 1977. On June 30, 1937, he married Ennis E. Meyers at Hoxie. She died...
Millicent Charlotte Mcleavy
Apr 4, 2011
Millicent Charlotte McLeavy died April 4, 2011, at the Hester Care Center of Wesley Towers Retirement Community at the age of 102. She was one of twin daughters born to Francis L. and Sophia G. Tilberg Aspelin on Sept. 15, 1908, on a farm near Dwight, Kan., in Morris County. She graduated from Dwight Rural High School in 1927, and...
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