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Bertie Hughs

Bertie Hughs

Jan 18, 2010

Bertie Hughs, 70, died Monday Jan. 18, 2010, at Galichia Heart Hospital, Wichita. She was born Oct. 10, 1939, in Hutchinson, to Lloyd Alvin and Ruth Carolyn Ramsey Hammar. She was a graduate of Bucklin, Kan. High School in 1957, and the Adela Hale Business College in 1958. She was a secretary at Cessna and later Eaton Corp. for 30...

Iva F. Straley

Iva F. Straley

Jan 17, 2010

Iva Faye Straley, 91, died Jan. 17, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born April 14, 1918, in Castleton to George Henry and Rosaline Virginia Levin White. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1937. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, she worked for Cessna Aircraft doing aircraft woodwork, and was a salesperson for C.R. Anthony, and 18 years for J.C....

Jerry P. Nichols

Jerry P. Nichols

Jan 17, 2010

Jerry P. Nichols, 88, Hutchinson, died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 11, 1921, to George and Harriett M. Haynes Nichols at Hutchinson. He was a 1939 Hutchinson High School graduate, a charter member of Paganica Country Club, a lifetime musician playing the drums in several dance bands, American Legion Lysle Rishel Post...

John L. Torrez

John L. Torrez

Jan 17, 2010

John L. Torrez, 92, died Jan. 17, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 8, 1917, the son of Pablo Martinez and Candelaria Lopez Torrez. John graduated from Hoisington High School in 1938 and then served in World War II as a Corporal with the Army. He worked as a grain elevator operator with Jim Barrett...

Baby Roberto Jorge "R.J." Rojas

Baby Roberto Jorge "R.J." Rojas

Jan 14, 2010

Baby Roberto Jorge "R.J." Rojas was born prematurely at 23 weeks on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, to his parents, Jorge and Jennifer Rojas at the Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan. He weighed 1 pound, 8 ounces and was 12 inches long. After 37 short days here on Earth, Roberto died peacefully in his loving parents' arms, while in the...

John F. Hayes

John F. Hayes

Jan 14, 2010

John F. Hayes, a local attorney, died January 14, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, at the age of 90. He was born in Salina, Kansas, on December 11, 1919, the only child of J. Frank and Helen Dye Hayes. Hayes graduated from Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson Community College, Washburn University and Washburn Law School. He was a member...

Phyllis E. Schmidt

Phyllis E. Schmidt

Jan 13, 2010

Phyllis E. Schmidt, 76, died Jan. 13, 2010, at St. Francis, Wichita. She was born April 17, 1933, in Manson, Iowa, the daughter of Emery and Edna Peterson Egli. She attended Hesston College and then graduated in 1955 from LaJunta Mennonite School of Nursing, LaJunta, and Colo., as a Registered Nurse. She was a former resident of Greensburg, Rocky Ford,...

Fern Olive Roth

Fern Olive Roth

Jan 13, 2010

Fern Olive Roth, 91, died January 13, 2010 at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 14, 1918, in Goff, KS to Horatio Alfred and Mary Margaret Hinkle Myers. She was a resident of Arlington for most of her life, until she moved to Hutchinson in 1995. She was a homemaker. On Dec. 24, 1947, she married Emmanuel Roth...

Mary J. Sader

Mary J. Sader

Jan 13, 2010

Mary J. Sader, 71, of Hutchinson, died January 13, 2010 at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born November 26, 1938 in Scott City, the daughter of George & Helen Dinkle Crowl. She graduated from Scott City High School in 1956. She moved to Hutchinson in 1990 with her family from Garden City. Mrs. Sader was a member of the...

Norma L. Bradley

Norma L. Bradley

Jan 13, 2010

Norma L. Bradley, 82, died Jan. 13, 2010, at her home. She was born February 14, 1927, in Youngtown, Kan., the daughter of Frank and Marie Elizabeth Stoewe Ireland. She graduated from Florence High School in 1945, and then Friends University. She later received her Masters from Emporia State Teachers College in 1967. Norma was one of the first special...

William "Bill" Lee Craft

William "Bill" Lee Craft

Jan 10, 2010

William "Bill" L. Craft, 86 years old, graduated to heaven on Saturday, January 9, 2010. Bill was born Nov. 9, 1923, on a farm outside of Kinsley, Kansas, and grew up on the Craft family farm south of Kinsley. He attended a rural one-room grade school and graduated from Kinsley High School. During World War II from 1943 to 1946,...

Marjorie B. Gibson Elliott

Marjorie B. Gibson Elliott

Jan 10, 2010

Marjorie B. Gibson Elliott, 91, died Jan. 10, 2010, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchin-son. She was born Oct. 21, 1918, in Macksville, Kansas, the daughter of Harvey and Hazel Finkle Bre-neman. She was a 1936 graduate of Macksville High School and a 1940, graduate of Kansas State University. A Hutchinson resident since 1948, she taught at Liberty Junior...

Logan C. Guffey, Jr.

Logan C. Guffey, Jr.

Jan 10, 2010

Logan C. Guffey, Jr., 90, died January 10, 2010 at Buhler Sunshine Meadows, Buhler. He was born July 30, 1919 in Columbus, KS to Logan C. and Susanah (Goode) Guffey, Sr. He was a graduate of Pittsburg Collge High, Pittsburg, KS. He received his Master's from Pittsburg State Teacher's College. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII, serving in...

Helen Joan Crisafi

Helen Joan Crisafi

Jan 9, 2010

SOUTH HUTCHINSON - H. Joan Crisafi died Jan. 9, 2010, at Mennonite Manor. She was born Aug. 25, 1932, on the family farm in western Reno County to Harold John and Lillian Naomi Lenz Brosius. A longtime resident of Plevna, she lived in Dodge City, Stafford and Lyons, before retiring in Hutchinson. She graduated from Plevna High School in 1950,...

Georgia Juanita Crandall

Georgia Juanita Crandall

Jan 7, 2010

Georgia Juanita Crandall, 89, died Jan. 7, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 2, 1920, in Kingman, to Homer R. and Bertha Shea Moore. She graduated from Kingman High School in 1938. While in Hutchinson she was a secretary for the McNaughten Investment Company and worked for the Kansas SRS Hutchinson Office, retiring in 2000....

Nellie M. Reusser

Nellie M. Reusser

Jan 7, 2010

Nellie M. Reusser, 87, died Jan. 7, 2010, at Dillon Living Center in Hutchinson. She was born July 22, 1922, in Hutchinson, to Albert W. and Eva Lisman Oliver. She was a homemaker. She belonged to the Baptist faith. On July 18, 1940, she married Clifford Reusser, Sr. in Wichita. He died Sept. 30, 2003. Survivors include: a son, Clifford...

Patsy Hill

Patsy Hill

Jan 6, 2010

Patsy Hill, 74, died January 6, 2010 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born May 2, 1935 in Dodge City to Clarence F. and Addie L. Tippie Bowman. On Dec. 12, 1957, she married Reginald Lee Hill. He died in July of 1989. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker. Patsy was a member of the National...

Charlie F. Enfield, Jr.

Charlie F. Enfield, Jr.

Jan 6, 2010

Charlie F. Enfield Jr. died Jan. 6, 2010, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 6, 1934, in Hutchinson to Charlie F. and Katherine BuenaVista Ebersole Enfield. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1952 and attended Hutchinson Community College, graduating in 1954. He was a service technician for Kansas Gas Service...

Evelyn J. Davisson

Evelyn J. Davisson

Jan 6, 2010

PLEVNA - Evelyn J. Davisson, 80, died Jan. 6, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born near Plevna, Kan. on March 14, 1929, the daughter of Floyd and Otilla Nusser Wright. On Feb. 27, 1948, she married Clare Davisson, Jr. They were married for 61 years. They lived on the same farm for 60 years near Plevna....

Georgina Ladd

Georgina Ladd

Jan 3, 2010

Georgina Ladd, 64, died Jan. 3, 2010, at her home in Hutchinson. She was born July 2, 1945, in Hathersage, England, the daughter of Rowland and Maggie Slinn Gittus. She graduated from Lawnswood High School for Girls in Headingley, Leeds, England. She worked for Bridlington Railroad in England and then moved to Chicago in 1964, where she worked as a...

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