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Ina L. Terry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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