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Dave L. Kuhns

Dave L. Kuhns

Apr 2, 2011

Dave L. Kuhns, 60, died April 2, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 11, 1950, in Kingman, to Richard Lee and Mary Dona Dimitt Kuhns. He graduated from Fairfield High School in 1968. He was a carpenter and foreman for Martin K. Eby Construction Company, Wichita. On March 5, 1976, he married Judy L. Blanton,...

Mildred June Baughman

Mildred June Baughman

Apr 1, 2011

Mildred June Baughman, 82, died April 1, 2011, at Hospice House. She was born Nov. 18, 1928, in Heavener, Oklahoma, the daughter of Elvin M. and Altha Angle Parker. Mildred graduated from Glendale Union High School, Glendale, Arizona, in 1946. She attended the University of Arizona at Tempe, and Salt City Business College. She married John Baughman in 1948. He...

Paul "Frank" Blea

Paul "Frank" Blea

Mar 31, 2011

Paul F. "Frank" Blea, 66, died March 31, 2011, at Oklahoma State University Medical Center, Tulsa, Okla. He was born Jan. 29, 1945, in Hutchinson, the son of Paul Hector and Mary Antonia Aleman Blea. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1964 and attended Hutchinson Community College. A former resident of Hutchinson, he was retired, and had formerly been...

Alfonzo "Al" Cauley

Alfonzo "Al" Cauley

Mar 31, 2011

Alfonzo L. "Al" Cauley, 73, died Thursday, March 31, 2011, at Good Samaritan Center. He was born Oct. 23, 1937, in Wichita, the son of Amos and Cecil Thomas Cauley, Sr. Al was a longtime Hutchinson resident, a Buhler and Hutchinson Community College graduate, a member of Macedonia Baptist Church, former member of NAACP, an Army veteran and Army Reserve,...

Luella "Dickie" Fitzgerald

Luella "Dickie" Fitzgerald

Mar 30, 2011

Luella "Dickie" Fitzgerald, 81, died March 30, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 31, 1930, in Wright, to Julius H. and Gladys G. Schmidt Mueller. She graduated from St. Teresa High School in 1948. She and her family have been the owner/operators of the Pic-Quik Stores. She was a member of Church of the Holy Cross, Soroptomist...

Mary Ellen Culbert

Mary Ellen Culbert

Mar 29, 2011

Mary Ellen Culbert, 91, of Hutchinson, died March 29, 2011, at her home. She was born in Hutchinson, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Borntrager Headings. She was a member of Victorious Life Church. Mary Ellen is survived by three children, Daryl Gene Stewart and wife Karen of Laguna Beach, Calif., daughter, Donna Rogan and husband Mike of Helena, Mont....

Mark Allan Christmann, Sr.

Mark Allan Christmann, Sr.

Mar 29, 2011

Mark Allan Christmann Sr., 55, died March 29, 2011, at Hospice House in Hutchinson after a four-year battle with cancer. He was born on June 6, 1955, in Pratt, Kan., raised in Wichita and graduated from Hawaii Pacific University with honors and a degree in Computer Science. Mark was a system software engineer and worked in this field for more...

Elaine Margaret Lockwood

Elaine Margaret Lockwood

Mar 28, 2011

Elaine Margaret Fossey Lockwood, 67, died Monday, March 28, 2011. She was born June 25, 1943, in Great Bend, the daughter of Charles and Blanche Reed Fossey. Her adoptive parents were Francis and Helen Reed. She had been a Hutchinson resident since 1965, moving from McPherson. Elaine was a 1961 graduate of Little River High School, a 1979 graduate of...

Lorene Eleanor Jenkins

Lorene Eleanor Jenkins

Mar 27, 2011

Lorene E. Jenkins, 98, died at Wesley Towers Retirement Community on Sunday March 27, 2011. Lorene was born in St. Louis, Mo., on October 25, 1912, the daughter of Grover and Jennie Hodge Shinall. She grew up in Danville, Ill., where she met and married Al Jenkins. They lived in several states as he served in management with the JCPenney...

Doris V. Osborn

Doris V. Osborn

Mar 26, 2011

NICKERSON - Doris V. Osborn, 90, of Nickerson, died March 26, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 10, 1920, at Nickerson, the daughter of Virgil T. and Lola Dixon Slifer. She was a life-long Reno County resident and was a 1938 graduate of Nickerson High School. She was a homemaker and during World War II...

Patricia Ruth (Pudden) Potucek

Patricia Ruth (Pudden) Potucek

Mar 26, 2011

Working on a painting even the week before her death, vivacious Kansas artist Patricia Ruth (Pudden) Potucek, Hutchinson, 86, died Saturday, March 26, 2011, at Promise Medical Center from complications from cardiac arrest. Pat was born in rural Cowley County, Kansas, on February 13, 1925, the daughter of Leo and Ruth (Clark) Pudden. She graduated from Arkansas City High School...

Virginia L. Livengood

Virginia L. Livengood

Mar 21, 2011

Virginia L. Livengood, 83, Wichita, formerly of Hutchinson, died March 21, 2011, at Sandpiper Bay Health Care Center, Wichita. She was born Dec. 31, 1927, in Diggins, Mo., the daughter of Harry Caldwell and Lenora Jane Cotton Rea. She was a homemaker and worked many years with the Reno County Election Board and was a former cook at Union Valley...

Josephine "Jo" E. Jobes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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