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...
Kenneth "Ken" D. Koop
Mar 6, 2011
Kenneth D. "Ken" Koop, 64, of Hutchinson, died March 6, 2011, at his residence. He was born Oct. 29, 1946, in Hutchinson, the son of Herman H. and Frances L. Gould Koop. He was a 1963 graduate of Haven High School and was a U.S. Navy veteran, having served during the Vietnam War. He later graduated from Hutchinson Community College....
Glenda M. Wisby
Mar 6, 2011
Glenda M. Wisby, 89, died March 6, 2011, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 27, 1921, in Turon, the daughter of Glenn and Ruby Hollingshead Smith. She was a retired employee of both Dillon's and Calhoun's, and operated several Hutchinson area restaurants. She belonged to the 10th Avenue United Methodist Church. On June 5, 1940, she...
Hilda Wiens
Mar 6, 2011
Hilda Wiens, 94 died March 6, 2011, at Hester Care, Wesley Towers. She was born July 13, 1916, in Inman, the daughter of Martin and Agnes Vogt Wiens. She was a member of First Mennonite Church, Hutchinson, a 1935 graduate of Inman High School and a 1968 graduate of Sterling College. She taught school at South Inman, a two-room schoolhouse...
Richard Scott Hockett
Mar 6, 2011
Richard Scott Hockett, 81, of Hutchinson, died March 6, 2011, at Mennonite Friendship Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born in Bronson, Kan., the son of Ray and Jessie Hockett. He was retired from Ray Shepherd Motors in Fort Scott, Kan. He was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII, serving in the Military Police. He married Grace Miller on June 4,...
Mildred Jean Wynn
Mar 5, 2011
Mildred Jean Gogel Wynn, died March 5, 2011, at Good Samaritan Village, Hutchinson. Born on July 16, 1924, in Toledo, Ohio, she was the daughter of William F. and Helen Gogel. Mildred received a B.S. degree from the University of Toledo in 1946. Majoring in Math and Physics, she was the graduating class president and member of Mortar Board. She...
Della M. Bates
Mar 3, 2011
Della M. Bates, 96, of Hutchinson, died March 3, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. She was born March 21, 1914, at Mooreland, Oklahoma, the daughter of John Jacob and Bessie Vandeventer Hoover. She moved to Hutchinson from Burrton in 1996, having previously lived in El Dorado, Douglass and Atlanta, Kansas. She was a 1932 graduate of Mooreland...
Kathy Sue "Kat" Pratt
Mar 3, 2011
Kathy Sue "Kat" Pratt, 54, passed on Thursday, March 3, 2011, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born January 3, 1957, at Hoisington. She was a homemaker. On April 12, 1979, she married Darrell W. Pratt in Hoisington. He survives. She is also survived by: her children, Becky and her husband Matt Jinright, York, Nebraska, Jay and his wife...
William E. "Bill" Doxon
Mar 3, 2011
William E. "Bill" Doxon, 79, of Hutchinson, died March 3, 2011, at his home. He was born Nov. 20, 1931, at his family home near Lovewell, Kan., to Everette E. and Golda M. Briles Doxon. He was a graduate of Formoso, Kan., High School, attended Fort Hays State and graduated from Pittsburg State University. He retired in 1994 from Cessna/Eaton...
