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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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