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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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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...
Josie June Lavielle Peacock
Jan 2, 2010
SYLVIA - Josie June Lavielle Peacock, 84, died January 2, 2010, at Sterling Presbyterian Manor. She was born June 18, 1925, in Elkhart to L.V. and Florence Hill Lavielle. She was a 1943 graduate of Sylvia High School and a cadet nurse at St. Elizabeth's Hospital Nurses Training, Hutchinson, graduating in 1946. She had been a registered nurse at Pratt,...
Darlena A Janzen-King
Jan 1, 2010
Darlena A. Janzen-King, 78, died Jan. 1, 2010, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 5, 1931, in McPherson County, Kansas, the daughter of George K. and Helen Andres Peters. She graduated from Buhler High School and Adela Hale Business College. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a clerk/stenographer for the State of Kansas for 40 years,...
Ocie Zay Smith
Dec 27, 2009
Ocie Zay Smith, 84, went to be with the Lord Dec. 27, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 24, 1925, in Washington, Kansas, to Roy Wilbur and Gladys Hewitt Latham. She attended Washington High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a retired custodian for Grace Hospital and then later Hutchinson Hospital. She volunteered for crocheting for...
Virginia Hendrickson
Dec 26, 2009
Virginia Hendrickson, 86, died December 26, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center. She was born April 9, 1923, in Lyons, Kan., the daughter of Everett and Bertha Schwartz Poland. Virginia had worked at a dress shop when living in Rogers, Ark., and at Western Foods in Hutchinson. She was a member of Union Valley Bible Church and was very active...
William L. "Bill" Edwards
Dec 26, 2009
William L. "Bill" Edwards, 54, died Dec. 26, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 9, 1955, in Hutchinson, to William F. and Dorothy Lee Hoffman Edwards. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. Survivors include: his mother, Dorothy L. Edwards, Hutchinson; a brother, Gary (Rochele), Hutchinson; a sister, Sue Elliott (Jim), Maize; and numerous aunts, uncles,...
Vada B. Morgan
Dec 25, 2009
Vada Belle Morgan died Dec. 25, 2009, at her home in Tucson, Ariz. She was born Feb. 24, 1926, in Hutchinson to the late Fred and Mary Belle Farney Macklin. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1943 and Hutchinson Community College in 1946. In 1948, she married William H. (Bill) Morgan and moved to Wichita where they raised their...
Clara G. Solida
Dec 24, 2009
Clara G. Solida, 92, died Dec, 24, 2009 at Buhler Sunshine Home, in Buhler. She was born Nov. 4, 1917, in Webb City, Mo. to Oscar H. and Rosa Templeton Gardner. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Bethany Church of The Nazarene. She volunteered at the Reno County Food Bank and Meals on Wheels. On June 20,...
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