James Eugene Hill
Aug 22, 2009
PRETTY PRAIRIE - James Eugene Hill, 82, died Aug. 22, 2009, at Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. He was born Feb. 19, 1927, in Beloit, to James Eugene and Isabel Irene Werts Hill. He was the retired owner of Prairie Roofing Company. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II and was stationed at Harpers Ferry. On...
Merreta "Mert" Vanalstine
Aug 22, 2009
Merreta M. "Mert" Vanalstine, 83, passed away August 22, 2009 at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born January 12, 1926 at home in Sylvia, Ks, the daughter of Jesse and Farrah Young Keesling. Mert worked at Hutchinson National Bank for 40 years, serving 20 years as the secretary in farm management retiring in 1994. She was a...
Alice M. Pratt
Aug 15, 2009
Alice M. Pratt, 96, of Hutchinson, died August 15, 2009, at Elm Grove Assisted Living Center in Hutchinson. She was born November 22, 1912, in Sheldon, Mo., the daughter of Earnest and Jessie Aue Creamer. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Westbrook Baptist Church. She married Lester O. Pratt on October 13, 1930, in Winfield. He died...
Arlan E. "Gene" Hurd
Aug 14, 2009
ALTUS, Okla. - Arlan E. "Gene" Hurd, 68, died Aug. 14, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 16, 1940, in Kingman, the son of Arthur W. and Ethel Logsdon Hurd. He was a graduate of Hutchinson High School. He served in the United States Air Force for 26 years, retiring as a Master Sgt. He was then...
Dorothy May Corley
Aug 13, 2009
Dorothy May Corley, 88, died Aug. 13, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 8, 1921, in Middleburg, Md., the daughter of Wilbur and Ada May Frounfelter Stonesifer. A beautician and homemaker, she was a member of the First Congregational Church and loved to spend time with her friends playing Bingo at Delos V. Smith Senior...
George T. "Bud" Janner
Aug 13, 2009
George "Bud" Janner, 74, died Aug. 13, 2009, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 18, 1934, in Kansas City, Mo., to George T. Janner Jr. and Lois White Janner. He graduated in 1953 from Hutchinson High School, and graduated from Hutchinson Community College. A resident of Hutchinson since 1941, moving from Kansas City, he had worked for Zephyr...
John Robert "Jack" Mccain
Aug 13, 2009
John Robert "Jack" McCain, 76, was called home to the Lord Thursday, August 13, 2009, surrounded by loved ones, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. Jack was born November 15, 1932, in Paris, Tennessee, the son of John Robert McCain and Raquel Escobedo Guerrero McCain de Perkis. He was baptized in the Baptist church. In 1950, he graduated from Grove High...
Anthony Robert Schubert
Aug 12, 2009
Anthony Robert Schubert, 90, died August 12, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Oct. 24, 1918 in Lagmond, Ks, the son of Anthony and Nora Pohl Schubert. He grew up in Hutchinson and after graduating from Hutchinson High School went to the US Naval Academy on a full scholarship. He was stationed aboard the USS Arizona and...
Carol J. Miller
Aug 12, 2009
NEWTON - Carol J. Miller, 75, of Newton, died Aug. 12, 2009, at Asbury Park in Newton. She was born Feb. 13, 1934, in Nickerson, Kan., the daughter of Vern Cecil and Grace Elsie Mattal Pike. She was a 1952 graduate of Nickerson High School and attended college in Great Bend and Pratt. A former resident of Nickerson, Hutchinson, Wichita...
R. Eugene "Gene" Schroder
Aug 12, 2009
BEL AIRE - R. Eugene (Gene) Schroder, 93, world traveler, began his final journey Aug. 12, 2009. He was born Jan. 8, 1916, to Roy and Rosa Schroder of South Hutchinson. He attended Hutchinson High School (class of 1933) and Hutchinson Junior College. He married Verna Siegrist on Nov. 5, 1939. He was a second Lieutenant in the Army during...
Arthur J. Collins, Jr.
Aug 12, 2009
Arthur J. Collins, Jr. died Aug. 12, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, Kan. Arthur Collins was born July 18, 1918, in Sabetha, Kan. He was the son of Arthur J. Collins and Edith Williams Collins. He graduated from Sabetha High School and went on to attend Washburn University, Topeka, Kan., and graduated from the University of Kansas, Lawrence,...
Jeanette Mae Keeler
Aug 12, 2009
OMAHA, Neb. - Jeanette Mae Keeler, 73, of Omaha, Neb., formerly of Hutchinson, died Aug. 12, 2009, at Immanuel Medical Center in Omaha after a long battle with ALS. She was born Oct. 14, 1935, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Harold D. Sr. and Daisy W. Greenfield Schrader. She attended schools in Hutchinson. She married Jim Hopper, who was in...
Jimmie J. Schnurr
Aug 9, 2009
Jimmie J. Schnurr, 77, died Aug. 9, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 21, 1932, in Plevna, to Leo L. and Lola V. Luellen Schnurr. He graduated in 1950 from Hutchinson High School. A resident of Hutchinson, he had worked for Carey Salt until 1953. In 1955, he joined the IBEW Union and was a journeyman electrician...
Kenneth D. Simmons
Aug 8, 2009
Kenneth Dale Simmons, 71, died August 8, 2009, at his home. He was born June 8, 1938, to Luther and Ruth Humphrey Simmons. He served in the National Guard. A retired correctional officer from the Hutchinson Correctional Facility, he was of the Protestant faith and a league bowler until several years ago. He married Carolyn Quiones in Hutchinson on October...
Bessie M. Torrez
Aug 8, 2009
Bessie M. Torrez, 86, passed away August 8, 2009, at Hutchinson Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born April 5, 1923, in Denver, Colo., the daughter of Petronilo and Rejina Moreno Navarro. She worked at Essex Group as a security guard in Hoisington, Kan., until she retired in 1994. She married John "Chon" Torrez on May 4, 1946, and resided in...
Robert Thomas Watson
Aug 7, 2009
KINGMAN - Robert Charles Watson, 72, died Aug. 7, 2009, in Kingman, Kan. He was born April 10, 1937, to the late J.C. and LaMoine Watson. Bob was a lifetime resident of Kingman, Kan. He graduated Kingman High School in 1955. He joined the U.S. Army and served in Korea for two years. After returning home, he worked with his...
Stanley M. Tennant
Aug 6, 2009
Stanley Miles "Stan" Tennant, 80, died Aug. 6, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 17, 1929, in Lerado, the son of James Otis and Modena Maude Whetstone Tennant. A 1947 graduate of Hutchinson High School, he was of the Protestant faith. From 1956 until his retirement in 1979, he worked for the Hutchinson Police Department,...
Clarence "Dale" Huxman
Aug 6, 2009
PRETTY PRAIRIE - Clarence "Dale" Huxman, 82, died Aug. 6, 2009, at St. Francis Hospital, Wichita. He was born Nov. 20, 1926, at Pretty Prairie, the son of Albert L. and Lydia A. Schrag Huxman. Dale was a dairy and wheat farmer; he also worked as a custodian for Executive Management Services. He was a member of the First Mennonite...
Dorene L. Krenzin
Aug 5, 2009
Dorene Louise (Burns) Krenzin, 85, passed away on August 5, 2009, in Waxhaw, North Carolina. She was born in Stafford, Kansas on October 7, 1923, and married her husband Ernie (from Plevna, Kansas) in 1944. Dorene and Ernie served in Africa with Mission Aviation Fellowship during the late 1950s. Dorene, Ernie and children then moved to Orange County, California in...
Thomas W. Claypole
Aug 5, 2009
Thomas "Tom" W. Claypole, 50, died August 5, 2009 at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 4, 1958 in Hutchinson to Donald L. & Elizabeth Jewett Claypole. A lifetime Hutchinson resident he retired as a carpenter from Collins Corporation. Surviviors include son, Jeremy Claypole; father Donald L. Claypole, both of Hutchinson; brother, Bill Claypole & wife Janice, Wichita;...
