Ray E. Ratzlaff
Dec 18, 2009
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Ray E. Ratzlaff, 83, died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born March 19, 1926, at Buhler, to John K. and Sarah Regier Ratzlaff. He was a 1944 graduate of Buhler High School. He served as a clerk in the U.S. Army Medical Corp, stationed in Calcutta, India. He retired as...
Preston "Dutch" Jenkins
Dec 17, 2009
Preston "Dutch" Jenkins, 96, died Dec. 17, 2009 at Hospice House. He was born May 6, 1913 in Hutchinson to Harvey and Lillian Carrey Jenkins. On Aug. 11, 1934, he married Mabel Louise Hamby in Hutchinson. She died Sept. 16, 1994. Dutch was a car dumper at the Farmers Co-Op for 20 years. He also owned and operated P.G. Jenkins...
Max E. Coleman
Dec 17, 2009
Max E. Coleman, 87 died Dec. 17, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born on March 8, 1922, in Hutchinson to William D. and Bertha Scott Coleman. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. He was a graduate of Hutchinson High School in 1940, he attended Hutchinson Junior College and graduate from Kansas State University in 1949 with a degree...
Wesley Wayne "Jack" Jacques
Dec 16, 2009
Wesley "Jack" Jacques, 98, died December 16, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born November 29, 1911, in Valley Center, the son of George Leonard and Pearl Calista Ruble Jacques. He graduated from Cunningham High School in 1931. Jack was a plant manager for Kansas Oxygen, retiring in 1976. He attended Forest Park Presbyterian Church. On September...
Eugene R. Swank
Dec 16, 2009
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KANSAS – Eugene R. Swank, 74, died Dec. 16, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, KS. He was born Oct. 29, 1935 in Hutchinson to Ray and Louise Emily Parker Swank. He was a lead man in cabin service for United Airlines. He and Doris spent the last 34 years in Washington, moving to South Hutchinson six...
Eugene Raymond Jones
Dec 15, 2009
Eugene Raymond "Gene" Jones, 86, died Dec. 15, 2009, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. He was born July 19, 1923, in Hutchinson, to Charles Raymond "Charley" and Frances Grace Emery Jones. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 2001. A resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired mechanic for the City of Hutchinson and worked for 27 years...
Mildred D. Moore
Dec 14, 2009
Mildred D. Moore, 86, of Hutchinson, formerly of Nickerson, died Dec. 14, 2009 at her home. She was born June 11, 1923, at Beaver, Oklahoma, the daughter of John & Lulu Johnson Snyder. She attended schools in Beaver, Okla. and Azie, Texas. She moved to Nickerson in 1944, from Calif., and to Hutchinson in 1996. She was a Dairy Cattle...
Junior K. Haverty
Dec 13, 2009
Junior K. "J.R." Haverty, 82, died Dec. 13, 2009, at Wesley Towers, Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born June 10, 1927, in Lawrence, to Alvin Augustus and Ruby Dalphine Moore Haverty. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1945, and the University of Kansas in 1951 with a degree in engineering and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon...
Brien Roy "Pete" Peterson
Dec 13, 2009
ARLINGTON - Brien Roy "Pete" Peterson, 77, of Arlington, died Sunday at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 30, 1932, to Roy and Vivien O'Brien Peterson at Rapid City, S.D. He attended Chadron Prep School, Chadron, Neb., and graduated 1950, from Cheyenne Wyoming High School, then graduated from Fort Hays State University in 1960. He was a...
J.R. O'Leary
Dec 12, 2009
PRETTY PRAIRIE - J.R. O'Leary, 69, died December 12, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 14, 1939, in Kingman to Harold V. and Rosalia Smith O'Leary. He was raised in Pretty Prairie and graduated from Pretty Prairie High School in 1957. On June 5, 1960, he married Joyce A. Schrag at the First Mennonite Church in...
Virginia May Denner
Dec 12, 2009
Virginia M. Denner, 87, died Dec. 12, 2009, at her home, Aurora, Colo. She was born July 7, 1922, in Florence, the daughter of Harlie and Jennie McClellan Bolton. She was raised by her father and stepmother, Katherine Bolton. She graduated in 1940 from Reece High School, Reece, KS. She retired in 1987, with 33 years of service with USD...
Joanne M. Bowers
Dec 12, 2009
Joanne M. Bowers, 75, died December 12, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born July 21, 1934, in Pottsville, Pa, the daughter of Joseph Albert and Mary Elizabeth Bawn Purcell. She graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Pottsville, she was a homemaker. On August 13, 1955, she married James L. Bowers in Pottsville. He died October...
Dahlia "Dal" Jones
Dec 12, 2009
Dahlia "Dal" Jones, 67, died December 12, 2009 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 20, 1942 in Glascock County, Georgia, the daughter of Thomas & Lois Newsome Williford. She graduated from Thomson High School, Thomson, GA in 1960. Dal was a clerk at Long John Silver's for 12 years and was a member of Walnut & Campbell Church...
Margaret Ann Meadows
Dec 11, 2009
Margaret Ann Meadows, 77, died December 11, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born August 18, 1932, in the Sylvia Township, the daughter of E.C. "Fat" and Henrietta A. DeFrieze Edwards. She graduated from Sylvia High School in 1950 and then the Pratt Nursing Program. A resident of Hutchinson since 1989, she was a retired practical nurse and farmer....
James F. Hill
Dec 10, 2009
James F. Hill, 81, died Dec. 10, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Jan. 25, 1928, in Muskogee, Okla., the son of Frank and Sadie Simmons Hill. He was an independent plumber, having worked for several area companies in addition to running his own business. He was a member of Bethany Church of The Nazarene. He...
Patricia B. Nichols
Dec 9, 2009
Patricia Belle Nichols, 76, died Dec. 9, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 20, 1933, in Hutchinson, to Patrick and Lucille May Walborn Devine. She was a Hutchinson resident and attended Hutchinson Schools. She was a homemaker; also was a day-care provider and had owned and operated the Dixie Dip 500 on South Main in...
Marie Biles
Dec 9, 2009
Marie Biles, 88, died Wednesday in Hutchinson. She was born November 18, 1921, at Glasco to William and Belle Olson Windhorst. She was a 1939 graduate of Glasco High School. She belonged to Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, Hutchinson and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and homemaker. On April 25, 1942, she married Arlie G. Biles at Salina. He survives....
Donald L. Rose
Dec 8, 2009
Donald L. Rose, 76, died Dec. 8, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 4, 1933, in Ingalls, Kansas, the son of Theodore and Lena Warfield Rose. He graduated from Lewis High School and then attended Fort Hays State College. On June 7, 1953 he married Evelyn Rose Wight in Kinsley. He served with the KC97 Refueling Squadron...
Dwaine E. Newton
Dec 7, 2009
Dwaine Eldon Newton, 79, departed this life on Dec. 7, 2009. He was born Nov. 12, 1930, in Belpre, to Elvie Luther and Marjorie May Huchstep Newton. He attended school in Manter and graduated from Manter High School in 1948. He retired as safety manager of Collingwood Grain after 27 years. He belonged to the Carey Park Golf Course and...
Clarence W. Fry
Dec 6, 2009
Clarence William "Bill" Fry, 88, died December 6, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 15, 1921 at St. John, to Clarence C. and Thelma Beman Fry. He grew up in St. John and had graduated from St. John High School. He served in World War II, Navy, South Pacific. Following the war he worked at...
