Roger G. Freeland
Dec 13, 2010
Roger Freeland, 60, died Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. He was born July 27, 1950, at Topeka, the son of Glenn and Mildred Green Freeland. He was a 1968 graduate of Geneseo High School and a 1974 graduate of Ft. Hays State University, a U.S. Navy veteran serving during the Vietnam War, a retired USD #309 Nickerson-South Hutchinson teacher and was...
Velma M. Peoples
Dec 13, 2010
Velma M. Peoples, 90, died Dec. 13, 2010, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 6, 1920, at Pretty Prairie. She was a homemaker and former manager of Commerce Gardens Apartments. In 1940, she married Charles W. Peoples at Partridge. He died Jan. 6, 1980. Survivors include: daughters, Nancy Peoples, Haven, and Sylvia Peoples, Lubbock, Texas. She was...
Helen E. Watson
Dec 13, 2010
Helen Watson, 89, passed away Dec. 13, 2010, at Kansas City Hospice House. She was born Feb. 16, 1921, at Winfield. She was raised in Mulvane and lived in Hutchinson for more than 50 years before moving to Overland Park in 2005. She was a 1939 graduate of Mulvane High School and a 1943 graduate of Kansas State University, taught...
Caroline Knerr
Dec 13, 2010
Caroline E. Knerr, 85, of Hutchinson died Dec. 13, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 21, 1924, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Emmett A. and Grace Lay Eagan. She was a retired Registered Nurse, who had worked at the Medical Center for 32 years in pediatrics. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1942...
Alfred F. Wasinger
Dec 12, 2010
Alfred F. "Al" Wasinger, 81, of Hutchinson, died Dec. 12, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born May 19, 1929, in Ellis, the son of Andrew J. and Dorothy Boos Wasinger. He graduated from Thomas More Prep in Hays and attended both Mississippi State University and Purdue University, completing programs related to labor management issues. He was a...
Louise R. Basore Sherwood
Dec 11, 2010
Louise R. Basore Sherwood, 74, of Hutchinson, died Dec. 11, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born July 15, 1936, in Aurora, Neb., the daughter of Russell and Mildred Christenson Holloway. She attended school in Aurora and graduated from Aurora High School in 1953. She attended the United Methodist Church in Aurora. She owned and managed a furniture...
Gladys Eining
Dec 9, 2010
Gladys Eining, 89, died Dec. 9, 2010, at Elm Grove Estates. She was born Jan. 18, 1921, in Spearville, the daughter of Bernard "Ben" and Martha Marx Schuette. She was a longtime Spearville resident, moving to Dodge City in 1975 and then to Hutchinson in 2003. She was a cook with the Spearville Public Schools and then worked at Gibson's...
Howard Giles
Dec 9, 2010
Howard Giles, Sept. 10, 1934 - Dec. 9, 2010. Father of three children, five stepchildren and Grandpa to several grandchildren. Howard was the 2nd child to a family of 10 brothers and 6 sisters. He is survived by wife Delores, of the home, of 37 years of marriage. He was owner and operator of Howard's Trucking until retirement. After retirement...
Dorothy Ann Elliott
Dec 9, 2010
Dorothy Ann Elliott, 83, died Dec. 9, 2010, at Atria Hearth Stone, Topeka. She was born May 18, 1927, in Hutchinson to Jacob F. and Susie Rempel Richert. She graduated in 1945, from Hutchinson High School and in 1947, she graduated from Hutchinson Junior College. A former resident of Hutchinson, she was employed at Gano Grain before becoming a full...
Alice Maxine Anderson
Dec 6, 2010
Alice Maxine Anderson, 76, died Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, at Dillon Living Center. She was born May 6, 1934, in Raymond, and was raised by her Aunt Edith and Uncle Ray White. She attended school in Raymond and was of Baptist faith. She was a floral designer for many mortuaries and department stores in Fort Worth, Texas and Denver, Colo....
Lois Jeanette Beard
Dec 6, 2010
Lois Jeanette Beard, 89, died Dec. 6, 2010, at Wesley Towers, Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 8, 1921, in Minneola, the daughter of William Wallace and Iva Jane Lathan Beard. She graduated from Fowler High School, Sterling College in 1944 and in 1956 she received her Master's Degree from Northern University of Colorado, Greeley, Colo. A resident...
Arlis L. Crenshaw
Dec 6, 2010
Arlis L. "Joe" Crenshaw, 65, died Dec. 6, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 29, 1945, in Wild Cherry, Ark., the son of Claude Hanford and Elsie Z. Anderson Crenshaw. A resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired truck driver. He was a member of The Father's House and Lakeside Recreation and Boat Club of...
Charles E. Fesler
Dec 6, 2010
Charles E. Fesler, 85, died Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 6, 1925, at Plevna, the son of Warren and Ruby Rush Fesler. He was a 1944 graduate of Plevna Rural High School. He was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, District #310 Fairfield School Board member, Westminister Township Trustee, a...
Robert A. Duren
Dec 5, 2010
Robert A. Duren, 88, died Dec. 5, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 10, 1922, in Hutchinson, the son of Elie and Martha Irene Davies Duren. Robert was the headway master for the Kansas State grain department. He was a member of Crosspoint Baptist Church, formerly known as Westbrook. On June 2, 1946, he married Rayma Mae...
Dorothy Lea Dirksen
Dec 4, 2010
Dorothy Lea Dirksen, 94, of Hutchinson, died Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. She was born June 30, 1916, in Walker, Minn., the daughter of John and Rosa Frances Emberton Harrison. She attended school in Harrison and Springdale, Ark. She was a homemaker and housekeeper. She belonged to the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Hutchinson. On...
Linda Sue Parsons
Dec 3, 2010
Linda Sue Parsons, 64, of Hutchinson, was called to her Heavenly home on Dec. 3, 2010. She was born Aug. 21, 1946, in Coffeyville, Kan., to K.Y. and Evelyn Irene Crum Cole. She attended school in Lenapaa, Okla. and moved to Hutchinson with her family in 1957. She was a homemaker. She was a member of the First Church of...
Jesus Velasquez Vieyra
Dec 3, 2010
WICHITA - Jesus Velasquez "Chickey" Vieyra, 88, of Wichita, died Dec. 3, 2010, at Via Christi Hospital-St. Francis in Wichita. He was born Jan. 23, 1922, in Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico, to Louis Chavando and Bibiana Velasquez Vieyra. He was a lifetime resident of Hutchinson; moving to Watsonville, Calif. Following his retirement from the Santa Fe Railroad; until 2008 when he...
Stephen "Steve" Eugene Thompson
Dec 2, 2010
Stephen "Steve" Eugene Thompson, 74, passed away December 2, 2010, at Hospice House. He was born March 1, 1936 at Cumberland, Maryland, the son of Randal Oliver and Pearl McDonald Thompson. He graduated in 1955, from Fort Hill High School, Cumberland, Maryland, arrived in Hutchinson in 1959 while serving in the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at the Naval...
Maxine Leonora Brooks
Dec 1, 2010
Maxine Leonora (Harris) Brooks died December 1, 2010. She was born April 26, 1928, at Eureka, the daughter of Delbert M. and Florence McCaffree Harris. She was in the first grade when her family moved to Cheney, Kansas. She graduated from Cheney High School in 1946 and from Friends University, Wichita in 1950. She was a home economics teacher. She...
Arlene Harney
Dec 1, 2010
Arlene Harney, 98, died Dec. 1, 2010, at the Wheaton House, Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born March 26, 1912, in St. John, Kan., the daughter of Ray E. and Pearl Ward Cotton. Arlene graduated from St. John High School and Salt City Business College. She retired from Crossroads Bookstore after 18 years. Arlene was a member of First...
