Frances Geneva Crum
Jan 31, 2011
Frances Geneva Crum, 94, died Jan. 31, 2011. She was born July 4, 1916, the daughter of William A. and Antionette Sterling Brewer. On May 4, 1941, she married Elmo Milton Crum in Arapaho, Okla. He died Dec. 25, 1992. Survivors include: daughters, Marie Short, Hutchinson, and Mary Hanes, Sterling; brother, Floyd Brewer, Hutchinson; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and eight...
Evelyn E. Winkler
Jan 31, 2011
Evelyn E. Winkler, 85, died Jan. 31, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born May 3, 1925, the daughter of John LeRoy and Sylvia Lucinda Cripe Strohm. A graduate of Little River High School in 1941, she was a homemaker. Evelyn was a member of Eastwood Church of Christ and the EHU. On Sept. 11, 1945, she...
John R. Rimmer
Jan 29, 2011
John Robbins Rimmer, retired Chairman of Hutchinson Bag Company, 93, died on Jan. 29, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. John was born Feb. 2, 1917, in Camden, Mississippi, the eldest son of John Shelby and Nellie Robbins Rimmer. John was a graduate of Millsaps College of Jackson, Mississippi. After college he remained in Jackson for two years working for the...
Cara Jean Nelson Bredfeldt Mark
Jan 29, 2011
Cara Jean Nelson Bredfeldt Mark passed away Jan. 29, 2011. She was born Oct. 7, 1932, the daughter of Vernon Leon and Rose Mary Magyar Nelson. She graduated from Hutchinson High School and Hutchinson Community College. After raising a family and ending a marriage, she started life over and worked at Dillons Northgate store for the next 30 years. She...
Margaret Raya Vieyra
Jan 28, 2011
Margaret Raya Vieyra, 87, died Jan. 28, 2011, at Buhler Sunshine Home, Buhler. She was born Feb. 22, 1923, in Hutchinson, to Delfino and Patrocinia Juarez Raya. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, South Hutchinson, and the Ladies Altar Society. On Dec. 26, 1943, she married Pete V. Vieyra in Hutchinson....
Lyla M. Mccoy
Jan 28, 2011
Lyla M. McCoy, 88, of South Hutchinson, died Jan. 28, 2011, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 12, 1922, in Castleton, the daughter of William H. and Mary Rose Spillman Pitts. She attended school at Castleton and graduated in 1940 from Castleton High School. A lifelong Reno Co. resident, she worked side by side with her...
Ina L. Terry
Jan 28, 2011
Ina Louise Terry, 92, died January 28, 2011. She was born February 8, 1918, at Danville, the daughter of Harry and Louise Hallman Ayres. She attended Danville schools and was a homemaker, a member of Riverside Baptist Church, Kansas Anthropological Society and owner/operator of The Shoppe antique store. On April 17, 1938, she married Kenneth F. Terry at Wellington. He...
David S. Martinez
Jan 27, 2011
David Steven Martinez, 62, went to rest peacefully with our Lord Jan. 27, 2011, at Harry Hynes Hospice at Via Christi Hospital on the St. Francis Campus, Wichita. He was born Aug. 3, 1948, in Hutchinson, to Jim P. and Santos B. Martinez. He graduated in 1966 from Hutchinson High School. He was the owner and operator of Custom Metal...
Edwin E. Miller
Jan 27, 2011
Edwin E. Miller, 88, died Jan. 27, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 24, 1922, the son of Glen and Mary Humphrey. He was adopted and raised by his grandmother, Mary Kathrine Miller. Edwin graduated from Sterling High School and attended Hutchinson JUCO. He was a WWII veteran serving with the Army as a Private 1st Class...
Ronald R. Tolleson
Jan 26, 2011
Ronald R. Tolleson, 52, died January 26, 2011 at his home in Hutchinson He was born December 13, 1958, the son of Cleve and Atha Lucus Tolleson Private service will be held. Elliott Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Kenneth H. Schmidt
Jan 25, 2011
Kenneth H. Schmidt, 78, of South Hutchinson, Kan. died Jan. 25, 2011, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born March 25, 1932, in Greensburg, Kan., the son of Harvey Fred and Beatrice Marguerite Smith Schmidt. He was a 1950 graduate of Greensburg High School, and a graduate of Hesston College, Hesston, and Bethel College, Newton. He resided in Greensburg,...
Edward "Ed" Darin Filbert
Jan 24, 2011
Edward D. "Ed" Filbert, 79, of Hutchinson, died Jan. 24, 2011, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born April 30, 1931, near Brownell, Kan. in Ness County, to Alexander and Katharine Gross Filbert. He was a Hutchinson resident since 1969, moving here from Dighton, where he had coached and taught school. He had previously taught and coached at Bazine High...
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...
