Lucille Moore
Dec 23, 2009
Lucille Moore went to be with her Savior, Wednesday, December 23, 2009. She was born January 18, 1925 at Haven, Kansas, to George and Bertha Freed Dawson. She was a 1943 graduate of Hutchinson High School and attended Hutchinson Community College. She belonged to First Baptist Church, where she was a deacon and a Sunday school teacher for 25 years....
Diane Lea Stapleton
Dec 20, 2009
Diane Lea Stapleton, 51, of Hutchinson, died Sunday, December 20, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center in Hutchinson. She was born October 1, 1958, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Walter and Willa Mae I. Werst Stapleton. A life-long Hutchinson resident, she was a teacher at Lincoln Elementary School. Previously she had taught 6th grade at McCandless Elementary School. She attended...
Thelma I. Montgomery
Dec 20, 2009
DOWAGIAC, Mich. - Thelma I. Montgomery, 82, died December 20, 2009, at Lakeland Hospital in Nile, Mich. She was born Jan. 26, 1927, in Hardy, Ark., to Henry and Ollie Lawson Allen. On May 11, 1965, she married James W. Montgomery in Lyons. He died Jan. 20, 1995. She attended the Church of Christ. She worked for many years as...
Juanita Mary Rivera Hernandez
Dec 20, 2009
Juanita Mary Rivera Hernandez, 80, died Dec. 20, 2009, at St. Joseph Hospital, Kansas City. She was born Aug. 19, 1929, in Lyons, the daughter of Serapio and Casemira Valdez Rivera. A resident of Hutchinson moving from Carson, Calif., in 2005. Juanita was a member of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. She was married to Juan Hernandez. He preceded...
Thelma I. Montgomery
Dec 20, 2009
Thelma I. Montgomery, 82, died December 20, 2009 at Lakeland Hospital in Nile, MI. She was born Jan. 26, 1927 in Hardy, Ark to Henry and Ollie Lawson Allen. On May 11, 1965 she married James W. Montgomery in Lyons. He died Jan. 20, 1995. She attended the Church of Christ. She worked for many years as a dry cleaner....
Carolyn A. Fee
Dec 19, 2009
Carolyn A. Fee, 50, died Dec. 19, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson, of brain cancer. She was born Feb. 2, 1959, in Topeka. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1977, received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and then her Masters in Business Administration in 1983, both from the University of Kansas. Following graduation she moved to Dallas...
Ray E. Ratzlaff
Dec 18, 2009
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Ray E. Ratzlaff, 83, died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born March 19, 1926, at Buhler, to John K. and Sarah Regier Ratzlaff. He was a 1944 graduate of Buhler High School. He served as a clerk in the U.S. Army Medical Corp, stationed in Calcutta, India. He retired as...
Preston "Dutch" Jenkins
Dec 17, 2009
Preston "Dutch" Jenkins, 96, died Dec. 17, 2009 at Hospice House. He was born May 6, 1913 in Hutchinson to Harvey and Lillian Carrey Jenkins. On Aug. 11, 1934, he married Mabel Louise Hamby in Hutchinson. She died Sept. 16, 1994. Dutch was a car dumper at the Farmers Co-Op for 20 years. He also owned and operated P.G. Jenkins...
Max E. Coleman
Dec 17, 2009
Max E. Coleman, 87 died Dec. 17, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born on March 8, 1922, in Hutchinson to William D. and Bertha Scott Coleman. He was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. He was a graduate of Hutchinson High School in 1940, he attended Hutchinson Junior College and graduate from Kansas State University in 1949 with a degree...
Wesley Wayne "Jack" Jacques
Dec 16, 2009
Wesley "Jack" Jacques, 98, died December 16, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born November 29, 1911, in Valley Center, the son of George Leonard and Pearl Calista Ruble Jacques. He graduated from Cunningham High School in 1931. Jack was a plant manager for Kansas Oxygen, retiring in 1976. He attended Forest Park Presbyterian Church. On September...
Eugene R. Swank
Dec 16, 2009
SOUTH HUTCHINSON, KANSAS – Eugene R. Swank, 74, died Dec. 16, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson, KS. He was born Oct. 29, 1935 in Hutchinson to Ray and Louise Emily Parker Swank. He was a lead man in cabin service for United Airlines. He and Doris spent the last 34 years in Washington, moving to South Hutchinson six...
Eugene Raymond Jones
Dec 15, 2009
Eugene Raymond "Gene" Jones, 86, died Dec. 15, 2009, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. He was born July 19, 1923, in Hutchinson, to Charles Raymond "Charley" and Frances Grace Emery Jones. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 2001. A resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired mechanic for the City of Hutchinson and worked for 27 years...
Mildred D. Moore
Dec 14, 2009
Mildred D. Moore, 86, of Hutchinson, formerly of Nickerson, died Dec. 14, 2009 at her home. She was born June 11, 1923, at Beaver, Oklahoma, the daughter of John & Lulu Johnson Snyder. She attended schools in Beaver, Okla. and Azie, Texas. She moved to Nickerson in 1944, from Calif., and to Hutchinson in 1996. She was a Dairy Cattle...
Junior K. Haverty
Dec 13, 2009
Junior K. "J.R." Haverty, 82, died Dec. 13, 2009, at Wesley Towers, Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born June 10, 1927, in Lawrence, to Alvin Augustus and Ruby Dalphine Moore Haverty. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1945, and the University of Kansas in 1951 with a degree in engineering and was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon...
Brien Roy "Pete" Peterson
Dec 13, 2009
ARLINGTON - Brien Roy "Pete" Peterson, 77, of Arlington, died Sunday at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born August 30, 1932, to Roy and Vivien O'Brien Peterson at Rapid City, S.D. He attended Chadron Prep School, Chadron, Neb., and graduated 1950, from Cheyenne Wyoming High School, then graduated from Fort Hays State University in 1960. He was a...
J.R. O'Leary
Dec 12, 2009
PRETTY PRAIRIE - J.R. O'Leary, 69, died December 12, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 14, 1939, in Kingman to Harold V. and Rosalia Smith O'Leary. He was raised in Pretty Prairie and graduated from Pretty Prairie High School in 1957. On June 5, 1960, he married Joyce A. Schrag at the First Mennonite Church in...
Virginia May Denner
Dec 12, 2009
Virginia M. Denner, 87, died Dec. 12, 2009, at her home, Aurora, Colo. She was born July 7, 1922, in Florence, the daughter of Harlie and Jennie McClellan Bolton. She was raised by her father and stepmother, Katherine Bolton. She graduated in 1940 from Reece High School, Reece, KS. She retired in 1987, with 33 years of service with USD...
Joanne M. Bowers
Dec 12, 2009
Joanne M. Bowers, 75, died December 12, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born July 21, 1934, in Pottsville, Pa, the daughter of Joseph Albert and Mary Elizabeth Bawn Purcell. She graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Pottsville, she was a homemaker. On August 13, 1955, she married James L. Bowers in Pottsville. He died October...
Dahlia "Dal" Jones
Dec 12, 2009
Dahlia "Dal" Jones, 67, died December 12, 2009 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 20, 1942 in Glascock County, Georgia, the daughter of Thomas & Lois Newsome Williford. She graduated from Thomson High School, Thomson, GA in 1960. Dal was a clerk at Long John Silver's for 12 years and was a member of Walnut & Campbell Church...
Margaret Ann Meadows
Dec 11, 2009
Margaret Ann Meadows, 77, died December 11, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born August 18, 1932, in the Sylvia Township, the daughter of E.C. "Fat" and Henrietta A. DeFrieze Edwards. She graduated from Sylvia High School in 1950 and then the Pratt Nursing Program. A resident of Hutchinson since 1989, she was a retired practical nurse and farmer....
