Richard Lee "Dick" Sterling
Jun 22, 2010
Richard Lee "Dick" Sterling, 75, died June 22, 2010. He was born June 19, 1935. Survivors include: brothers, Donald and Earnest (Shirley); sisters, Joyce Elliott and Jan Jensen (Rick); aunt, Annabell Chestnut; and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Mitchell United Methodist Chapel, Hutchinson. Visitation 1 to 9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to...
Dennis Dale Smith-Thomas
Jun 21, 2010
Dennis D. Smith-Thomas, 69, died June 19, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 20, 1941, in Hutchinson to Marten Dale and Wilma Faye Hester Smith. Dennis was in the wholesale/retail record business. He served in the United States Navy from 1963-67. Survivors include: son, Darin Rodriquez Thomas, Wichita; daughter, Marla Thomas, Topeka; six grandchildren, Jordan Thomas, Andria...
Harold E. Tissue
Jun 21, 2010
Harold E. Tissue, 70, died June 21, 2010, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 10, 1939, in Hutchinson to William R. and Edna-Mae Harris Tissue. He was a longtime Hutchinson resident who had previously lived in Sterling and Partridge. He graduated from Sterling High School in 1957. He was a retired foreman with Gruver Construction Co. He...
Lawrence G. "Larry" Mcclure
Jun 20, 2010
Lawrence G. "Larry" McClure, 84, died June 20, 2010, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born July 13, 1925, in Marion County, Kansas to Benjamin Harrison and Maggie Julian Larsen McClure. He served in the United States Army during World War II, stationed in Korea and the Philippines. He was a lifetime member of American Legion Post #440 and...
Lawrence Alton Lambert, Sr.
Jun 16, 2010
HUTCHINSON – Lawrence Alton Lambert, Sr, 91, died June 16, 2010 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born August 1, 1918 in Pretty Prairie to Oscar and Lulu Miller Lambert. He graduated from Pretty Prairie High School in 1935. Lawrence was a member of Forest Park Presbyterian Church, Hutchinson and was an Elder for many years at the Leoti Presbyterian...
Ruthail Sharp Hunt
Jun 14, 2010
Ruthail Sharp Hunt, 88, died June 14, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 18, 1921, in Hutchinson, to Clyde Walker and Jessie Foster Sharp. She was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1941. She was a homemaker and worked at Hutchinson Bag Company and the former Bond Bakery. She attended the South...
Betty Jo "Bj" Luman Schmickle
Jun 14, 2010
Betty Jo "BJ" Luman Schmickle, 60, died June 14, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 20, 1949, in Hutchinson, to Robert Eugene Luman and Clara Cathrine Nusser-Luman. She was a lifetime resident of Hutchinson. She graduated from Nickerson High School in 1967 and Hutchinson Community College in 1991. She retired from Hutchinson Hospital as a...
Betty Ann Moss
Jun 14, 2010
Betty Moss died June 14, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born April 8, 1933, in Russell, the daughter of Henry and Theresa Ehrlich Bender. She moved to Hutchinson to attend nurses' training and worked as a nurse's aide. She worked many years at Doskocil as food service manager. On July 7, 1952, she married George Moss...
Larry "Kansaskid" Eugene Schwiethale
Jun 13, 2010
Larry "Kansaskid" E. Schwiethale, 69, died June 13, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. He was born July 4, 1940, in Stafford, the son of Lawrence and Elsie Marie Hofen Schwiethale. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1958. He began working for Betts Baking Company and later was a businessman and restaurant owner and operator in Swift...
Delila M. "Dee" Freer
Jun 13, 2010
Delila M. "Dee" Freer, 67, died June 13, 2010, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born June 19, 1942, in Pratt, the daughter of Herman B. and Dorotha Mae Donner McDowell. She attended high school in Hutchinson and Great Bend, attended Hutchison Community College and received her nursing degree from McPherson College. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a nurse...
Carole J. Unruh
Jun 13, 2010
PLEVNA - Carole J. Unruh, 70, died Sunday, June 13, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 31, 1940, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Paul Wilber and Thelma Edna Baughman Rankin. She was retired from Horizons Mental Health Center, Kingman, with 25 years of service as part of the clerical staff, a 1958 graduate of Plevna...
Marie "Billie" Barron
Jun 13, 2010
Marie "Billie" Barron, 89, passed away Sunday, June 13, 2010, at Heartland Haven Home Plus, Inman. She was born February 1, 1921, in Sylvan Grove. She married Rex E. Barron on December 31, 1945. He passed away August 27, 1975. She retired from Hutchinson Hospital as a registered nurse in 1987. She was a former member of Trinity United Methodist...
Ernest M. Reimer
Jun 12, 2010
Ernest M. Reimer was born on October 26, 1917, in Inman. He was the third of eleven children born to Heinrich (Henry) F. and Katie (Baergen) Reimer. He attended Big Lake School and graduated from Inman High School in 1937. He then attended Bethel College in Newton. In February of 1943 he was inducted in the Army, where he served...
Maxine Vanek
Jun 12, 2010
Maxine Vanek, 94, of Kansas City, Kan., formerly of Hutchinson, died June 12, 2010, in Maumelle, Ark. She was born April 15, 1916, in Nickerson, the daughter of Ralph and Lillian Hook Lamberth. A longtime Reno County resident, she was a member of First Christian Church, the Iris Club, and the Silver Leaf Chapter #464 Order of Eastern Star, all...
Harlond D. Bruce
Jun 11, 2010
Harlond D. Bruce, 93, died June 11, 2010, at his home in South Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 25, 1917, in Herndon, the son of George William and Roxy F. Morris Bruce. He had lived in the Hutchinson area for 35 years, moving here from Atwood. He farmed in Rawlins County until he moved, and then owned and operated Bruce's...
Kenneth A. Thornhill
Jun 9, 2010
Kenneth A. Thornhill, 96, died June 9, 2010, at Hospice House. He was born Feb. 23, 1914, in Halstead to Samuel Ellis and Alice Jane Harshfield Thornhill. He retired as owner/operator of Careyville Grocery. Kenneth was a member of the Hutchinson-Reno Masonic Lodge #124 A.F. & A.M. He served in the Civil Conservation Corps in 1934, stationed in Minnesota. He...
Betty Jane Elliott
Jun 8, 2010
Betty J. Elliott, 77, died June 8, 2010 at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born November 27, 1932 in Oklahoma City, OK to William S. and Opal Mae Davis Jones. Betty graduated from William Chrisman High School in Independence, MO in 1951 and from the Research Hospital School of Nursing in Kansas City, MO in 1953. She was a...
Grace Irene Huna
Jun 7, 2010
Grace Irene Huna, 86, died June 7, 2010, at Hutchinson Clinic, Hutchinson. She was born March 9, 1924, in Hutchinson, the daughter of William Lee and Elizabeth Caroline "Carrie" Cain Van Zandt. She was a 1943 graduate of Partridge High School. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a retired C.K.C.U. teller and former co-owner of Partridge Grocery. She was a...
Sandra M. Pitts
Jun 5, 2010
Sandra M. Pitts, 71, of Hutchinson, died June 5, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 30, 1938, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Merle and Barbara Gensch Guinn. She attended Hutchinson schools and was a lifelong Hutchinson resident. She was an avid gardener, a former member of the Loyal Order of Moose #82 and the Hutchinson Community...
Frank Edwin Brown
Jun 5, 2010
Frank Edwin Brown, 94, died June 5, 2010, at Hutchinson Care Center. He was born March 29, 1916, in San Antonio, Texas. Frank worked in the testing lab at Cessna then he was a flour miller for the Archer Daniel Mill Company. He was a member of Temple Baptist Church. On March 15, 1936, he married Ethel L. McQueen in...
