Fermin Montiel Ortiz
Aug 27, 2010
Fermin Montiel Ortiz, 63, died Aug. 27, 2010, Wichita. He was born July 7, 1947, in Mexico, to Javier and Alicia Ortiz Montiel. He was a laborer. He married Maria Veronica Reyes March 20, 1998, Mexico. She survives along with a son, Angel Daniel Montiel; and a stepdaughter, Alma Delia Reyes Sandoval, all of Hutchinson. Cremation will take place. No...
Robert C. "Bob" Black
Aug 26, 2010
Robert "Bob" Cleland Black, 84, died August 26, 2010, at Dillon Living Center. He was born January 5, 1926, in Lewis, to Harold Frank and Syvilla Anna Strawn Black. On July 5, 1951, he married Junivee Leota Unruh in Pretty Prairie. She died June 17, 2008. Bob served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as corporal from 1944 to 1947....
Reta Fern Grandon
Aug 23, 2010
BURRTON - Reta Fern Grandon, 76, died Aug. 23, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 8, 1933, in Burrton, to Melvin L. and Ida Faye Cavin Edwards. She graduated in 1951, from Burrton High School. She had been a night clerk at Halstead Hospital for 20 years. She belonged to Burrton United Methodist Church, was...
Albert Dwayne "Butch Pike
Aug 23, 2010
Albert Dwayne "Butch" Pike, 51, died Monday, August 23, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 14, 1959, in Kingman, the son of Fred and Myrna Wynn Pike. He fought an almost two year battle with cancer; stubbornly striving to overcome it. On May 13th, he married Loretta "Lori" Hall in Hutchinson. She survives. Other survivors...
Patricia F. Fischer
Aug 23, 2010
Patricia F. Fischer, 70, of Hutchinson, died Aug. 23, 2010, at Good Samaritan Center in Hutchinson. She was born January 1, 1940, Kingman, the daughter of John Francis & Cynthia Faye Spradlin Hodges. She attended school in Kingman and graduated from Kingman High School in 1958. She was a caretaker at T.E.C.H. She married Russell Fischer in Hutchinson. He survives....
Dorothy O. Ballard
Aug 22, 2010
Dorothy Owsley Ballard, 93, of Hutchinson, Kan., died Aug. 22, 2010, at Hester Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 25, 1916, in North Kansas City, Mo., the daughter of Charles Thistlethwaite and Carolyn Thompson Owsley. She married V. Bryce Ballard, M.D., Feb. 3, 1940, in North Kansas City, Mo. He died March 4, 1998. Raised in Kansas City, Dorothy...
Milburn "Mel" J. Chestnut
Aug 20, 2010
Milburn "Mel" J. Chestnut, 87, died August 20, 2010 at Hospice House. He was born September 5, 1922 in Billings, Okla to James T. and Cora Mable Lucas Chestnut. A resident of Hutchinson since 1950, coming from Stafford, Mel was in the maintenance department at J & J Drainage. He retired in 1986. Mel was a member of the Antique...
Betty L. Crane
Aug 20, 2010
Betty L. Crane, 75, died Aug. 20, 2010, at Elm Grove Estates, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 25, 1935, in Little River, the daughter of Ernest and Mable L. Corwin. Betty graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1953. She was a longtime Hutchinson resident and a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church and Altar Society. On Aug. 1, 1953, she...
Harold R. Kelley, Jr.
Aug 19, 2010
Harold Ray Kelley Jr., 77, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 30, 1932, in Iola, the son of Harold Ray Sr. and Mary Ellen Burns Kelley. He was a 1951 graduate of Iola High School, attended Iola Junior College and was a 1955 graduate of Pittsburg State University. Harold was a...
Clarence Thomas "C.T." Thayer, Jr.
Aug 19, 2010
Clarence Thomas "C.T." Thayer Jr., 80, South Hutchinson, died Aug. 19, 2010, at Mennonite Manor in South Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 21, 1929, in Hutchinson, the son of Clarence T., Sr. and Helen Marie Breidenstein Thayer. He grew up in Arlington and graduated from Arlington High School in 1947. He was a self-employed plumbing, air-conditioning and heating technician and...
Velma P. Davidson
Aug 17, 2010
PLEVNA - Velma P. Davidson, 88, died Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 22, 1921, at Plevna, the daughter of William and Addie Towse Baughman. She was a graduate of Plevna High School, a member of Plevna Community Bible Church, very active in their women's fellowship, served on numerous committees and was...
Earl Leon Bontrager
Aug 16, 2010
Earl Leon Bontrager, 81, died Aug. 16, 2010, at Hospice House. He was born Jan. 25, 1929, in Yoder, to William Edward and Polly Suzanne Yoder Bontrager. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1952-1954. He was a member of the American Legion Lysle Rishel Post #68 and VFW Bob Campbell Post #1361, both o f Hutchinson. Earl...
Linda Diane Toms
Aug 16, 2010
Linda Diane Toms, 63, died Aug.16, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born April 16, 1947, in Stafford, the daughter of Curtis D. and Ruby Jean Munden O'Dell. She had been a school teacher, counselor and retired United Methodist Minister. She was a 1965 graduate of St. John High School, Ft. Hays State University, Oklahoma University and St. Paul...
Alvin Lee Schneider
Aug 14, 2010
Alvin Lee Schneider, 88, died Aug. 14, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born June 19, 1922, at the family farm in rural Rice County, the son of George H. and Bertha Schneider. He attended schools in Nickerson, graduating from high school in 1940. In Nov. of 1942, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy receiving basic training, followed by...
Richard Wayne Walden
Aug 14, 2010
HUTCHINSON - Richard Wayne Walden, 56, died Aug. 14, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Jan.7, 1954, at Hutchinson, to Donald David and Amy Marie McQuiston Walden. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend. He was a former welding inspector at Mega Manufacturing. He married Georgia Kay Smith on Jan. 28, 1972. She survives....
Joaquin Guerrero "John" Santos
Aug 13, 2010
Joaquin G. Santos (John), 93, died Aug. 13, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 17, 1917, in Agana, Guam, the son of Francisco and Rosa Santos. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1939 and retired from active duty in 1958, at which time he transferred to the Fleet Reserve. He served on a number of ships during...
Evelyn Francis Harmon
Aug 13, 2010
Evelyn Francis Harmon, 93, died Aug. 13, 2010, at Hospice House. She was born April 13, 1917, in Wichita, the fourth daughter of Jess R. and Leona Richardson. She attended school in Wichita and graduated from Wichita East High School in 1935. After two years at Wichita University, she worked for the Wichita Beacon Newspaper. She married Vern B. Minor...
Dr. Ross T. Shook
Aug 10, 2010
Dr. Ross T. Shook, 90, died Aug. 10, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born March 14, 1920, in Sterling, the son of Dr. Ross O. and Lota E. Martin Shook. He was a graduate of Sterling High School in 1938 and attended Sterling College for 1 year prior to transferring to and graduating from Kansas State University...
Barbara L. Herl
Aug 9, 2010
Barbara Louise Herl, 63, died Aug. 9, 2010, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, N.Y., after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. She was born June 30, 1947, at Brooklyn, N.Y., to Lloyd W. Taylor and Margaret G. Nolan. She was an office assistant for Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics. She belonged to New Life Church of the Nazarene. She...
Henry Lawrence "Larry" Tidwell
Aug 7, 2010
Henry Lawrence "Larry" Tidwell, 82, died Aug. 7, 2010, at Thorne Care Center. He was born Dec. 29, 1927, in Cherokee, Okla., the son of Harry Minor and Helen Veatch Tidwell. He graduated from Burlington (Okla) High School as Valedictorian in 1945. Larry served as Corporal in the United States Army Air Corps from 1946-1947. Larry was a machinist at...
