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Aurelia I. Kittle
Feb 27, 2010
Aurelia I. Kittle, 95, died Feb. 27, 2010, at Thorne Care Center at Wesley Towers. She was born Oct. 23, 1914, at Partridge, Kan., to Vernon Christian and Shirley Vaughn Downs Hipp. She was a lifetime Reno County resident. She graduated from Partridge High School and attended Emporia State University. She was a homemaker, a farm wife, taught school in...
Otho "Barney" Ewbank
Feb 27, 2010
Otho Bernard "Barney" Ewbank, 91, died Feb. 27, 2010, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community, Lawrence. He was born Nov. 22, 1918, in Hutchinson, Kan., the son of Lester & Gracia Harrison Ewbank. On Sept. 10, 1944, he married Ann R. Vento in New York City. She died May 8, 2004. Survivors include: four daughters Carolyn Henderson, Norristown, Pa, Mary Yadon,...
Otho B. Ewbank
Feb 27, 2010
Otho Bernard "Barney" Ewbank, 91 died Feb. 27, 2010, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community, Lawrence. Memorial Service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, May 28, 2010, at Elliott Mortuary Chapel. Inurnment will be in Penwell-Gabel Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hutchinson, with military graveside rites conducted by U.S. Naval Honor Guard. Memorials can be made to St Teresa's Catholic Church or Hutchinson...
Rosalie F. Nunemaker
Feb 26, 2010
Rosalie F. Nunemaker, 78, South Hutchinson, went to be with her Lord Feb. 26, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 28, 1931, in Raymond, to Frank and Eunice Proffitt Stout. The Stout family later moved to Langdon where Rosalie graduated from Langdon High School. She was married to Charles Edward Nunemaker for 25 years. Rosalie...
Deetta E. Davis
Feb 26, 2010
DeEtta E. Davis, 81, died Feb. 26, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 6, 1929, in Hutchinson, to Reuben and Mable Spangler Gilliland. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She loved bingo. She was a member of Friends Church, Hutchinson. On Nov. 5, 1945, she married Granville C. "Red" Davis in Hutchinson....
Clyde Hall
Feb 25, 2010
Clyde Hall, 86, passed away Feb. 25, 2010, at Dillon Living Center after a long illness. He was born Valentine's Day, 1924, Davis City, Mo., son of J. Edward and Lucille Hall. He lived his childhood and young adult years in the Olathe and Bonner Springs, Kan. area. In 1942, he moved to Hutchinson to live with his sister and...
Joshua Darin Thomas
Feb 25, 2010
Joshua Darin Thomas, 35, died in Hutchinson Feb. 25, 2010. He was born May 17, 1974, in Hutchinson to Tommy and Sheila Groseclose Thomas. He was a member of First Southern Baptist Church. He had been a student at Central Christian College, McPherson, and Barclay College, Haviland. Survivors include: his mother and stepfather, Sheila and Bill McLain; brother, Shane, all...
Harold Eugene Moorman
Feb 25, 2010
Harold Eugene Moorman, 78, died Feb. 25, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born May 19, 1931 at rural Nickerson in the home of his parents, William L. and Laura C. Osenbaugh Moorman. He attended Centennial Grade School and graduated in 1948, from Reno Community High School in Nickerson. Harold served in the U.S. Army from 1952 to...
Stewart M. Bowersox
Feb 24, 2010
Stewart M. Bowersox, 57, died Feb. 24, 2010, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 10, 1952, in Stafford, Kan., son of Richard B. and T. Ferne Miller Bowersox. He was a longtime Hutchinson resident. He graduated from Norton High School in 1970 and Kansas State University in 1982. He belonged to First United Methodist Church, United Methodist...
Theodore A. "Ted" Wiebe
Feb 23, 2010
HUTCHINSON - Theodore A. "Ted" Wiebe, 84, died Feb. 23, 2010, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born June 18, 1925, in Halstead to Herman P. and Eva K. Smiley Wiebe. He attended Harvey County rural schools and graduated from Halstead High School in 1943. Ted graduated from Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg in 1949, with a Bachelors Degree,...
M. Morris Miller
Feb 23, 2010
HUTCHINSON - M. Morris Miller, 90, died Feb. 23, 2010, at Mennonite Manor in South Hutchinson He was born Feb. 7, 1920, in Great Bend, Kan., to Charles A. and Louise Alice Wesley Miller. In 1938, he graduated from Radium High School and attended Hutchinson Community College. He was an Automotive Parts Dept. Manager at Davis-Child Chevrolet Co. for many...
Virginia L. Toland
Feb 21, 2010
Virginia Toland, 84, died Feb. 21, 2010, in Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 19, 1925, in St. John, to Roy and Jesse Cooper Potter. She was a clerical worker for several companies in Hutchinson. She was a member of First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson. Survivors include: sister, Evelyn Folger, Houston, Texas; two sons, Dean Toland, Wichita, and Richard Toland, Ottawa;...
Thelma C. Hawks
Feb 19, 2010
Thelma C. Hawks, 89, died Feb. 19, 2010, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 21, 1920, in Hutchinson, to Francis Edward and Charlotte Leona Dull Costello. She was a member of the Church of the Holy Cross and the Altar Society. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. On Jan. 24, 1942, she married...
Carl E. Sparkman,Sr.
Feb 19, 2010
Carl E. Sparkman Sr., 91, died Feb. 19, 2010, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 5, 1918, in Ryan, Okla., to Frederick C. and Willie Pearl Glazner Sparkman. He graduated from Ryan High School, Ryan, Okla. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was an insurance agent for Kansas City Life Insurance and Prudential Life Insurance Company, and was...
David L. "Roy" "Chief" Plank
Feb 18, 2010
YODER - David L. "Roy" "Chief" Plank, 76, died Feb. 18, 2010, at St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita. He was born March 20, 1933, in Garnett, to Samuel David and Katie Yoder Plank. He attended Harmony Country School, Yoder. He was retired, having been a former driver for several area couriers, he had delivered The Hutchinson News, and has...
Claude D. Parks
Feb 17, 2010
HUTCHINSON - Claude D. Parks, 78, died Feb. 17, 2010, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born June 26, 1931, in rural Reno County, to W.A. and V. Katherine Elam Parks. He was a lifelong Reno County resident. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1949 and received his B.S. from Emporia State University and his Masters Degree from...
Betty L. Werth
Feb 16, 2010
Betty L. Werth, 76, died Feb. 16, 2010, at Andover Life Care Center, Andover. She was born Jan. 20, 1934, in Larned, the daughter of Frank J. and Addie Esible Lang Prosser. She was a 1952 graduate of Larned High School. Betty was a member of the Church of the Holy Cross, Hutchinson, where she was a member of the...
Gerald-Lee D. Smith
Feb 15, 2010
Gerald-Lee D. Smith, 73, died Feb. 15, 2010 at his home. He was born July 28, 1936 in Hutchinson to Oscar Lee and Syvia Fay McCurdy Smith. He was head custodian at School District 60 in Pueblo, CO. Then he worked at Hutchinson Foundry and Steel, and retired from Dillon's Bakery Department. On February 14, 2005, he married Donetti L....
Violet Hoover
Feb 14, 2010
Violet R. Hoover, 86, died Feb. 14, 2010, at her home at Wesley Towers. She was born May 3, 1923, in Syracuse, to Orville O. and Martha Fischgrabe Atwood. She married George Hoover in Lamar, Colo. He died March 24, 1962. A resident of Hutchinson since 1989, coming from Stafford, she retired from Stafford Elementary School, where she was a...
Doris L. Rank
Feb 13, 2010
Doris L. Rank, 82, of Hutchinson, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, at the Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 19, 1927, in Maryville, Mo., the daughter of Otho D. and Grace N. Adkins Young. She grew up in Maryville and attended schools there, graduating from Horace Mann High School in 1945. She later attended one year of business...
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