Alvin C. Yoder
Jan 23, 2011
PARTRIDGE - Alvin C. Yoder, 90, died Jan. 23, 2011. He was born March 2, 1920, to Noah and Ada Hershberger Yoder. On Nov. 25, 1948, he married Barbara Nisly. She survives. Other survivors include their children and spouses, Lois Yoder, Oren and Joanna Yoder, Ernest and Mary Yoder, Rachel Yoder, Marietta Yoder and Frieda Yoder; 13 grandchildren; and three...
Mark Gault
Jan 23, 2011
NICKERSON - Mark Gault, 56, died Jan. 23, 2011. He was born Dec. 29, 1954, the son of William A. and Margaret C. Skelton Gault. Mark worked for Hedrick Exotic Animal Farm in Nickerson. He is survived by his mother, Margaret C. Mitchell of Plevna; brothers, Lonnie Gault of Plevna and James Gault of Midland, Texas; and sister, Donna Jensen...
Cletta B. Saylor
Jan 22, 2011
Cletta B. Saylor, 74, departed this life and entered her heavenly home Jan. 22, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. The loss we feel here on earth is truly heaven's gain. She was born Feb. 16, 1936, in Coldiron, Kentucky, the daughter of Grant and Josie Howard Saylor. A beautician, she was the owner and operator of Cletta's Hairstyling. She was...
Mary Jane Yaeger
Jan 19, 2011
Mary Jane Yaeger, 77, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 19, 2011, at Via Christi Hospital, St. Francis in Wichita. She was born Nov. 15, 1933, on a farm near Elmdale, Kan., the daughter of Winfred and Grace Harder Britain. After finishing high school at Elmdale, she attended Emporia State for two years to obtain a 60-hour certificate to teach. Her first...
Elizabeth F. Eikleberry
Jan 19, 2011
Elizabeth F. Eikleberry, 92, died Jan. 19, 2011. She was born Nov. 22, 1918, at Cabool, Mo., the daughter of Clarence and Dolly Johnson Parmenter. She had been a co-owner of A-1 Camper Sales, Wichita, member of Valley Center Christian Church and has been a resident of Hutchinson since 1985. On Oct. 10, 1937, she married Leon Eikleberry in Wichita....
Charles Fredrick Wehmeyer
Jan 19, 2011
Charles Fredrick Wehmeyer, 85, died Jan. 19, 2011, at Promise Regional Hospital, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 5, 1925, in Kansas City, Kan., to Edmond H. and Vivian G. Young Wehmeyer. He was a 1943 graduate of Chanute High School. He married Marjorie Ann Brack and later married Nellie V. Taylor. He retired after 23 years from the Navy, serving...
Harvey L. Reed
Jan 18, 2011
Harvey L. Reed, 91, died Jan. 18, 2011, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 15, 1919, in rural Nickerson, the son of Harry and Tina Downs Reed. He was a 1939 graduate of Partridge High School, a lifetime Reno County resident, a farmer, a Merchant Marine and Army veteran of World War II serving in the Pacific...
Elden M. Dutschmann
Jan 17, 2011
Elden M. Dutschmann, 85, died Jan. 17, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born May 20, 1925, the son of Paul C. and Dora Ida Schultz Dutschmann. A WWII veteran, he was a staff sergeant with the United States Air Force where he received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was a member of Our...
Yolanda Delapaz Castañeda Vasquez
Jan 17, 2011
Yolanda DeLaPaz Castañeda Vasquez, 37, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 17, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 24, 1973, in Tecuala, Nayarit, Mexico, to Ines and Martha Zepeda Castañeda. She was a homemaker and a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. She married Guillermo Vasquez in Dec. of 2005. He survives. Other survivors include:...
William Joseph Montgomery
Jan 17, 2011
William Joseph Montgomery, 90, died Jan. 17, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 16, 1920, in Topeka, Kan., the son of George Gilbert and Emma Evelyn Orr Montgomery. He graduated from Albia High School, Albia, Iowa, in 1939 and Sterling College, Sterling, Kan., in 1946. He served four years in the Army Air Corp during...
Alfred "Al" Martin Bauer
Jan 17, 2011
Alfred "Al" Martin Bauer, 84, of Geneseo, formerly of Hutchinson, died Jan. 17, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 16, 1926, in Wichita, to Cornelius Leo and Mary Gross Kane Bauer. He was a 1944 graduate of Cathedral High School and he attended trade mechanics school in New York. He was a repairman for 35 years for...
Joel Douglass Brown
Jan 16, 2011
Joel Douglass Brown, 49 died January 16, 2011, at Via Christi St. Francis Campus, Wichita. He was born November 12, 1961, in Houston, TX, the son of Connie and Elaine Brown. In 1980 he graduated form Pretty Prairie High School, and then graduated from Oklahoma State Tech with a degree of Technology in Diesel and Heavy Equipment Mechanics in 1983...
Ivan E. "I.E." Brunk
Jan 14, 2011
Ivan E. "I. E." Brunk, 97, of South Hutchinson, died Jan. 14, 2011, at the Graber House in South Hutchinson at Mennonite Manor. He was born June 20, 1913, in Windom, the son of Jesse Robert and Sue Yoder Brunk. He graduated from Windom High School in 1932. He was an active member of South Hutchinson Mennonite Church. He was...
Gene Harlan Loeppke
Jan 14, 2011
Gene passed away peacefully in his sleep, Jan 14, 2011. He spent the last week attended by family and friends. In late 2010, he moved to Newport Beach, CA to be closer to his family. Born in Langdon, KS to John and Dorothy Loeppke, Gene spent his childhood on the family farm in Penalosa, Kansas, where he worked in the...
Donald V. Matthews
Jan 13, 2011
Donald V. Matthews, 87, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 28, 1923, in Boston, Mass., the son of Robert and Ivalene Gubian Matthews. Donald was a 1941 graduate of Jamacia Plain High School, Boston, Mass., a life-long member of the Episcopal Church, belonging to Grace Episcopal Church, Hutchinson, an enlisted World War II...
Elvin Victor Lane
Jan 12, 2011
Elvin Victor Lane, 79, died Jan. 12, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 29, 1931, in Bucklin, Kan., the son of James Thomas and Barbara Louise Eskew Lane. Elvin graduated from Bucklin High School in 1948. He then served in the U.S. Navy. He was a longtime Hutchinson resident, the owner of Fires Out Inc., and Lectro...
William "Bill" Y. Chalfant
Jan 7, 2011
William Y. "Bill" Chalfant, 82, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 7, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 3, 1928, in Hutchinson, Kan., to Claude Edward and Junia Maurine Young Chalfant. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1946, the University of Kansas in 1950, and the University of Michigan Law School in...
Theda Arlene Lee
Jan 7, 2011
Theda Arlene Lee, 87, died Jan. 7, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 1, 1923, in rural Little River, the daughter of Percy Alvin and Hilda Hubenett Lee. She graduated from Hutchinson High School, Hutch JUCO, and Adela Hale. She worked for civil services living in Japan for 2 1/2 years. Later in life she...
Eva Jane Williams
Jan 6, 2011
Eva Jane Williams, 82, of Hutchinson died Jan. 6, 2011, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 3, 1928, in Bradford, Pa., the daughter of Harry A. and Sara K. Reed Wenrich. She attended school in Pennsylvania, and later lived for many years in California, where she was a beautician and manicurist. She was a manicurist for...
George "Eddie" Edward O'Neal
Jan 4, 2011
George Edward "Eddie" O'Neal, 77, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 4, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 24, 1933, in Wichita, Kan., to George D. and Maggie L. Barnes O'Neal. He was a lifetime resident of Hutchinson. He served in the Army during the Korean War. He was a maintenance operator for the City of Hutchinson Waste Water...
