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Lee Ridge

Lee Ridge

Oct 10, 2009

Lee Ridge, 55, died Oct. 10, 2009, in Poteau, Okla. He was born July 21, 1954, in Dodge City, to Richard and Sara Carter Ridge. A resident of Hutchinson since 2000, coming from Dodge City, he worked for Mid States Supply. In Feb. 2001, he married Terri Walline in Hutchinson. She survives. Other survivors include: a son, Matthew Ridge, and...

Charles T. Mccoy, M.D.

Charles T. Mccoy, M.D.

Oct 9, 2009

Charles Thomas McCoy, M.D., 93, died Oct. 9, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Aug. 2, 1916, at home in Partridge, to William Ross and Mary Etta Friend McCoy. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farmer. He was of Scotch, Irish, and German ancestry. He had a total of 20 years of schooling, plus...

Orlean K. Neufeld

Orlean K. Neufeld

Oct 8, 2009

Orlean K. Neufeld, 89, died October 8, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born December 9, 1919, in Okeene, OK the daughter of Fred and Esther Herbel Geis. She was graduate of Durham High School. A Hutchinson resident since 1940 moving from Durham, KS, she was a homemaker and a member of First Congregational Church. On December 6, 1946...

Mary J. Haen

Mary J. Haen

Oct 7, 2009

Mary J. Haen, 56, died Oct. 7, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 9, 1952, in Hutchinson, to Bill J. and Charolean Willis Haen. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1970, then graduated from Sidney's Hairdressing College, and attended Hutchinson Community College. A lifelong resident of Hutchinson, she had worked as a secretary for...

Lola A. Green

Lola A. Green

Oct 6, 2009

Lola A. Green, 83, died Oct. 6, 2009, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers. She was born Aug. 24, 1926, Dighton, to Gustave Bruno and Anna Louise Bulk Weide. She graduated in 1944, from Yates Center High School. She was a homemaker and a retired cook at the former Liberty Junior High School. She belonged to the First Church of...

Billy R. Stiebens

Billy R. Stiebens

Oct 5, 2009

Billy Ralph Stiebens, 73, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, at his home. He was born June 9, 1936, at Frederick, Oklahoma the son of Ralph and Nellie Viola "Bobbie" Ulrich Stiebens. On June 16, 1955, he married Carlene Buchanan at Pueblo, Colo. She survives. Other survivors include: two sons, Johnny Ralph, McPherson, and Timothy Paul and his wife Diana, Hutchinson;...

Archie Benjamin Carlile

Archie Benjamin Carlile

Oct 4, 2009

Archie Carlile, 83, died Oct. 4, 2009 at his home in Hutchinson. He was born April 17, 1926 in Cheney to Jacob Powell and Fannie Mae Wright Carlile. He was an auto mechanic at Cheney Chevrolet, then a mechanic and gas plant operator at Peoples Natural Gas Company in Cheney. On April 17, 1948 he married Wilma Adean Suiter in...

Doris J. Ankerholz

Doris J. Ankerholz

Oct 4, 2009

Doris J. Ankerholz, 78, died Oct. 4, 2009, at her home, South Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 25, 1931, in Nickerson, to Orville and Mariah Burgin Risley. She graduated from Nickerson High School in 1950. A lifetime Reno County resident, she was a homemaker and cake baker. She belonged to the South Hutchinson United Methodist Church, and T.O.P.S. On May...

Alvin Hartman

Alvin Hartman

Oct 4, 2009

Alvin Hartman, 95, died Oct. 4, 2009, at Elm Grove Estates, Hutchinson. He was born June 2, 1914, in Alfred, N.D., to Ludwig and Pauline Klein Hartman. A resident of Hutchinson since 1968, he was a retired maintenance employee for U.S.D. No. 308 Hutchinson Public Schools. On May 18, 1941, he married Adeline Doris Sedler in Rothsay, Minn. She died...

Goldie Honomichl

Goldie Honomichl

Oct 4, 2009

Goldie Honomichl, 82, died Oct. 4, 2009, at Golden Plains Health Care Center. She was born May 19, 1927, in Galva, to Frank B. and Lena Boehs Wedel. She grew up on a farm near Little River and moved to Hutchinson in 1971. She attended schools in Little River. She graduated from Stewarts Beauty Academy, Salina, and she received a...

Carl Edward Schwartzkopf

Carl Edward Schwartzkopf

Oct 3, 2009

Carl Schwartzkopf, 95, died October 3, 2009 at Mennonite Friendship Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born May 14, 1914 in Alexander to Philip and Mary George Schwartzkopf. On August 4, 1934 he married Delores Kueffer in Alexander, KS. She died June 13, 2009. A resident of Wichita since 1941, he taught one year at Timken, KS, then worked at Cessna...

Marjorie Wingfield

Marjorie Wingfield

Oct 2, 2009

Marjorie Wingfield, 94, passed away Oct. 2, 2009, at Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born April 8, 1915, in Haviland, Ks, the daughter of Samuel and Rinda Massey Williams. She spent her childhood in Haviland and moved to Hutchinson in 1936. She married Vern Wingfield on Dec. 12, 1936, in Haviland. He passed away Oct. 8, 2006. They spent 12...

Milo Calvin Hill

Milo Calvin Hill

Oct 1, 2009

Milo Calvin Hill, 85, died October 1, 2009 at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 23, 1924 in Smith County, KS the son of Emery Bert and Dovie Marie (House) Hill. A 1942 graduate of Portis High School, Portis, KS Milo was a proud veteran of the U.S. Navy serving in the Pacific 3rd Fleet on the U.S.S....

Ida M. Marciano

Ida M. Marciano

Sep 30, 2009

Ida M. Marciano, 82, died Sept. 30, 2009, at Elm Grove Estates, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 7, 1926, in McCracken, the daughter of Barnibus B. and Bertha M. Lewis Brandt. She graduated from McCracken High School. A resident of Hutchinson, she retired after 20 years as a photo processor at Deming Studio in Hutchinson. She had previously worked at...

Roy E. "Leroy" Beach

Roy E. "Leroy" Beach

Sep 30, 2009

Roy E. "Leroy" Beach, 92, died Sept. 30, 2009, at the Golden Plains Health Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 20, 1917, in Terry, Mont., the son of Homer and Frances Wright Beach. He was a carpenter for Foy Construction for 50 years. He was a member of the Berean Baptist Church, Hutchinson. His favorite hobby was roping and...

Jane E. Mcelroy

Jane E. Mcelroy

Sep 28, 2009

Jane E. McElroy, 88, died Sept. 28, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 24, 1921, in Powhattan, Ks., in Brown County, the daughter of Ezra and Minnie Vanover Bowron. Her family farmed near Powhattan in Brown County in the 1920s, and 1930s, on 230 acres that was cleared with mules. Her father later was a judge in...

Vera Schriever

Vera Schriever

Sep 28, 2009

Vera Schriever was escorted by her Lord, Jesus Christ, on Sept. 28, 2009 through the gates of heaven to the mansion he built for her. Vera Jean Horst was born the sixth child to John and Marie Horst on Feb. 4, 1936 in Oak, Neb. Vera was baptized and confirmed at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Ruskin, Neb. She graduated from...

Nellie Irene Miller

Nellie Irene Miller

Sep 27, 2009

Nellie Irene Miller, 88, died Sunday, September 27, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born February 12, 1921, to Rueben B. and Lizzie Hershberger Miller at Middlebury, Indiana. She was a homemaker. She married Edwin L. Miller April 25, 1946, in Middlebury, Indiana. He survives. Other survivors include: sons, Marlin and Trudy, Hutchinson, Omar and Elsie, Harrison,...

Loren Kenneth "Nick" Nichols

Loren Kenneth "Nick" Nichols

Sep 27, 2009

Loren Kenneth "Nick" Nichols, 86, passed away peacefully with his loved ones at his side at Hospice House, Hutchinson, Kan., on Sept. 27, 2009. He was born on Oct. 2, 1922, the fourth child of Walter O. and Blanche Barr Nichols at the family farm near Lucas, Kan. After attending the small country grade school he went to Lucas High...

Betty Ann Winter

Betty Ann Winter

Sep 26, 2009

Betty Ann Winter, 89, died September 26, 2009 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born January 20, 1920 in Nickerson, Kansas the daughter of W.S. & Eva Greene Shuler. On October 4, 1943 she married Frank Edward Winter in Hutchinson. He died June 25, 1994. Betty graduated from Nickerson High School and Hutchinson Community College. A former office worker...

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