Blanche Crawford Ball
Nov 24, 2009
STERLING - Blanche Crawford Ball, 80, passed away Nov. 24, 2009, at Sterling. She was born Feb. 24, 1929, at Syracuse, N.Y., to Frank Nickell and Kathryn Elizabeth Wilson Crawford. She was a Middleton, Ohio high school graduate and attended Sterling College, Fort Hays State and Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, Calif. She had lived in Lancaster for 33 years before...
Patience I. "Pat" Woolfolk
Nov 24, 2009
Pat Woolfolk, 86, died Nov. 24, 2009, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 19, 1923, at Little River, the daughter of Charles and Nellie Champ Hodgson. Pat graduated from Little River High School in the class of 1941, and attended Kansas State University. She was a Dental Assistant at Dr. Leo Rogers' dental office in Hutchinson....
James E. Dawson
Nov 23, 2009
James E. "Jim" Dawson, 77, died November 23, 2009 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born April 10, 1932 in Hutchinson to Robert W. and Vada Houck Dawson. He was a 1950 graduate of Nickerson High School and 1954 graduate of Kansas State University. He was a farmer in the Nickerson area. On November 29, 2008 he married Shirley Chambers...
Stanley Nelson Keeler
Nov 22, 2009
Stanley N. Keeler, 57, died Nov. 22, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 14, 1952, in Stafford, to Albert and LaDonna Davidson Keeler. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he was a welder at Dan Deeair. He was an avid sports fan and a musician. Survivors include: daughter, Maranda Magnuson and husband Jason, Hutchinson; brother, Donald Keeler...
Lester Eugene Rose
Nov 21, 2009
Lester E. Rose, 95, died Nov. 21, 2009, at Hester Care, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. Lester was born Aug. 27, 1914, on a farm near Bluff City, Kansas, the eighth of 11 children. His family moved to the Waldren, Ks, area, where he went to grade school. He went to his freshmen year at Anthony High School The family moved to...
Michael J. Maloney
Nov 19, 2009
Michael J. Maloney, 63, died Nov. 19, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 31, 1946, in Hutchinson, the son of John "Jack" and Nathalie McCaffery Maloney. Michael graduated from Haven High School in 1964 and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. An avid KU basketball fan, he...
William D. Bornholdt
Nov 18, 2009
William D. "Bill" Bornholdt, 84, died Nov. 18, 2009, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born May 17, 1925, in Hutchinson, the son of Eugene Dwight and Fern Lentz Bornholdt. He was a 1943 graduate of Buhler High School, Buhler, attended Hutchinson Junior College, received his Bachelor of Arts in 1956 and his Masters in Education in 1962, both from...
Ruby E. Ragsdale
Nov 16, 2009
SYLVIA - Ruby E. Ragsdale "Grandma," 101, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, at her home in Sylvia. She was born July 5, 1908, in Nashville, Kan., to Loran Albert and Maude Harris Gillett. She was a homemaker. On Dec. 16, 1934, she married James O. Ragsdale in Wichita. He died Oct. 28, 1976. Survivors include: three sons, Jim and Don,...
Ronald G. Graber
Nov 16, 2009
Ronald Gene Graber, 72 of Hutchinson, went to his eternal home in heaven Monday morning, November 16, 2009, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born Jan. 19, 1937, in Hutchinson, the son of Walter J. and Mabel Stucky Graber. He graduated in 1954 from Pretty Prairie High School. He worked in retail and personnel management in Johnson City,...
Harold B. Taylor
Nov 15, 2009
Harold B. Taylor, 85, died Nov. 15, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born May 15, 1924, in Walton, to Robert L. and Elsie May Warren Taylor. He graduated from Peabody High School, Peabody. He was an engineering liaison at Cessna, retiring in 1987. He belonged to the First Church of the Nazarene. He served in the U.S. Marines....
Linda Goossen
Nov 15, 2009
DOUGLASS - Linda I Goossen, 72, Douglass, died Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at her home. She was born May 9, 1937, in Meade, to Peter L. and Katherine Isaac Classen. She graduated from Meade Bible Academy in 1955, and from Grace Bible Institute in 1960. She was a member of Cumberland Bible Church, Douglass. She was a homemaker. On June...
Kenneth F. Weatherbee
Nov 14, 2009
Kenneth Frank Weatherbee, 93, died Nov. 14, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 28, 1916, in Emporia, to Paul and Ethel Newton Weatherbee. He graduated in 1933, from Muskogee (Okla.) High School and in 1936 he graduated with a degree in diesel engineering from Hemphill School, Memphis, Tenn. A resident of Hutchinson since 1987, moving...
John A. Hearn
Nov 14, 2009
John Allen Hearn, 61, of Hutchinson, died November 14, 2009, at the Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born August 29, 1948, in Stafford, the son of Harold "Gus" and Vera Mae John Hearn. He attended Kinsley schools and graduated from Kinsley High School in 1967. He attended community college in Denver, Colorado for two years. He was a veteran...
Albert J. Miller
Nov 13, 2009
Albert J. Miller, 77, died Nov. 13, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 2, 1931 in Hutchinson to John D. and Emma Helmuth Miller. He was a lifetime resident of Hutchinson with the exception of several years spent in Colorado. Albert was the founder and co-owner of Humphrey's Reno Fabricating & Sales Company from 1956-1983. He...
Louise Delventhal
Nov 11, 2009
ARLINGTON - Louise Delventhal, 80, died Nov. 11, 2009, at her home, Arlington. She was born Sept. 14, 1929, in Pineville, Ky., the daughter of Bennett D. and Lula P. McAdoo Wilson. She was a 1947 graduate of Kingman High School. A longtime resident of Arlington, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Arlington United Methodist Church. She was very...
Virgie Headings
Nov 11, 2009
Virgie Headings, 91, died Nov. 11, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 9, 1918, in McPherson County, the daughter of Frank and Lizzie Zimmerman Hostetler. She was a graduate of Hesston Academy, Hesston. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She was a longtime member of the former Yoder Mennonite Church and taught Bible school and...
Charlene L. Bottomley
Nov 10, 2009
Charlene L. Bottomley, 81, died Nov. 10, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 12, 1928, in Pendall, Ark., the daughter of Otto Monroe and Leva Still Nichols. She was a 1946 graduate of Wichita East High School and attended Wichita State University. A former resident of Wichita, moving to Hutchinson in 1969, she was the administrator of...
Harold E. Ghormley
Nov 10, 2009
PARTRIDGE - Harold E. Ghormley, 74, died Nov. 10, 2009, at Galachia Heart Hospital, Wichita. He was born May 4, 1935, in Knoxville, Tenn., the son of Leo Otis and Annie Elizabeth Neubert Ghormley. He was a 1953 graduate of Partridge High School, a 1955 graduate of Hutchinson Community College and a 1957 graduate of Kansas State University, Manhattan. He...
Lillian Rae Rakestraw
Nov 10, 2009
BUHLER - Lillian Rae Rakestraw, 92, died Nov. 10, 2009, at Buhler Sunshine Meadows, Buhler. She was born Jan. 19, 1917, in Geneseo, the daughter of Emmit Ray and Bertha Eleanor Manwarren Miller. A resident of Buhler, formerly a longtime resident of Sterling, she was a homemaker. She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Sterling, was a Sunday...
Fern M. Nelson
Nov 10, 2009
Fern M. Nelson, 93, died Nov. 10, 2009, at Golden Plains Health Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 15, 1916, in Columbus, Kan., to Lyle J. and Mary May Tabler Souder. A Hutchinson resident since 1952, she was a homemaker and a previous owner of the Anchor Inn. She also cleaned houses. On Jan. 17, 1948, she married John...
