Susan Moore
Nov 28, 2009
Susan Lorraine (Passmore) Moore, 58, died November 28, 2009, at Hospice House of Reno County. She was born August 12, 1951, in Iowa City, Iowa. She was a longtime Hutchinson resident. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, December 4, 2009, at First Church of the Nazarene. Visitation will be at Elliott Mortuary Thursday, December 3, 2009, from...
Debbie Kay Orsborn
Nov 26, 2009
Debbie Kay Orsborn, 54, died Nov. 26, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 27, 1955, in Topeka, to Merle Max and Jacqueline Delores "Jackie" Deck Orsborn. She was a lifetime Hutchinson resident. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1973, Hutchinson Community College in 1978, and attended Emporia State University. During college she worked at...
Joan B. Schrag
Nov 26, 2009
Joan B. Schrag, 80, Hutchinson, died November 26, 2009 at the Hospice House in Hutchinson. Joan was born November 1, 1929 in West Hartford, Connecticut, the daughter of John W. & Geneveive Chobain Biss. She attended schools in Middletown, CT. and graduated from Middletown High School. In 1952, she graduated from Hartford Hospital School of Nursing in Hartford, CT. In...
Donald G. Tankersley
Nov 25, 2009
WICHITA - Donald G. Tankersley, 78, died Nov. 25, 2009 at Via Christi RMC, St. Francis Campus. He was born Feb. 23, 1931 in Junction City to Merril and Myrtle Elsie Sheaffer Tankersley. He grew up in Hutchinson then lived in Manhattan and Wichita. He was an auctioneer and in furniture sales. Donald served in the United States Air Force...
Eva C. Milburn
Nov 25, 2009
Eva Cora Milburn, 98, died Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, in Denver, Colorado. She was born Oct. 7, 1911, in Abbyville to Chester and Rosa Wingo Feese. A longtime Abbyville community resident moving to Denver in 1999, she was a homemaker. On November 24, 1926, she married George Harold Milburn in Partridge. He died March 1, 1980. She is survived by:...
Traci L. White
Nov 25, 2009
Traci Lynne White, 44, died Nov. 25, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 18, 1965, in Dodge City, the daughter of Gary and Carol Maixner Waldron. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she had spent several years in Guymon, Okla., where she belonged to the Sunset Lane Baptist Church, and was a member of AMBUCS. She was...
Patricia I. Woolfolk
Nov 25, 2009
Memorial service for Patience I. "Pat" Woolfolk, who died November 24, 2009, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, January 9, 2010, at Trinity United Methodist Church in Hutchinson. A book will be available to sign at Elliott Mortuary 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Reno...
Blanche Crawford Ball
Nov 24, 2009
STERLING - Blanche Crawford Ball, 80, passed away Nov. 24, 2009, at Sterling. She was born Feb. 24, 1929, at Syracuse, N.Y., to Frank Nickell and Kathryn Elizabeth Wilson Crawford. She was a Middleton, Ohio high school graduate and attended Sterling College, Fort Hays State and Antelope Valley College, Lancaster, Calif. She had lived in Lancaster for 33 years before...
Patience I. "Pat" Woolfolk
Nov 24, 2009
Pat Woolfolk, 86, died Nov. 24, 2009, at Thorne Care Center in Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 19, 1923, at Little River, the daughter of Charles and Nellie Champ Hodgson. Pat graduated from Little River High School in the class of 1941, and attended Kansas State University. She was a Dental Assistant at Dr. Leo Rogers' dental office in Hutchinson....
James E. Dawson
Nov 23, 2009
James E. "Jim" Dawson, 77, died November 23, 2009 at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born April 10, 1932 in Hutchinson to Robert W. and Vada Houck Dawson. He was a 1950 graduate of Nickerson High School and 1954 graduate of Kansas State University. He was a farmer in the Nickerson area. On November 29, 2008 he married Shirley Chambers...
Stanley Nelson Keeler
Nov 22, 2009
Stanley N. Keeler, 57, died Nov. 22, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 14, 1952, in Stafford, to Albert and LaDonna Davidson Keeler. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he was a welder at Dan Deeair. He was an avid sports fan and a musician. Survivors include: daughter, Maranda Magnuson and husband Jason, Hutchinson; brother, Donald Keeler...
Lester Eugene Rose
Nov 21, 2009
Lester E. Rose, 95, died Nov. 21, 2009, at Hester Care, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. Lester was born Aug. 27, 1914, on a farm near Bluff City, Kansas, the eighth of 11 children. His family moved to the Waldren, Ks, area, where he went to grade school. He went to his freshmen year at Anthony High School The family moved to...
Michael J. Maloney
Nov 19, 2009
Michael J. Maloney, 63, died Nov. 19, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 31, 1946, in Hutchinson, the son of John "Jack" and Nathalie McCaffery Maloney. Michael graduated from Haven High School in 1964 and attended the University of Kansas, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. An avid KU basketball fan, he...
William D. Bornholdt
Nov 18, 2009
William D. "Bill" Bornholdt, 84, died Nov. 18, 2009, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born May 17, 1925, in Hutchinson, the son of Eugene Dwight and Fern Lentz Bornholdt. He was a 1943 graduate of Buhler High School, Buhler, attended Hutchinson Junior College, received his Bachelor of Arts in 1956 and his Masters in Education in 1962, both from...
Ruby E. Ragsdale
Nov 16, 2009
SYLVIA - Ruby E. Ragsdale "Grandma," 101, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, at her home in Sylvia. She was born July 5, 1908, in Nashville, Kan., to Loran Albert and Maude Harris Gillett. She was a homemaker. On Dec. 16, 1934, she married James O. Ragsdale in Wichita. He died Oct. 28, 1976. Survivors include: three sons, Jim and Don,...
Ronald G. Graber
Nov 16, 2009
Ronald Gene Graber, 72 of Hutchinson, went to his eternal home in heaven Monday morning, November 16, 2009, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born Jan. 19, 1937, in Hutchinson, the son of Walter J. and Mabel Stucky Graber. He graduated in 1954 from Pretty Prairie High School. He worked in retail and personnel management in Johnson City,...
Harold B. Taylor
Nov 15, 2009
Harold B. Taylor, 85, died Nov. 15, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born May 15, 1924, in Walton, to Robert L. and Elsie May Warren Taylor. He graduated from Peabody High School, Peabody. He was an engineering liaison at Cessna, retiring in 1987. He belonged to the First Church of the Nazarene. He served in the U.S. Marines....
Linda Goossen
Nov 15, 2009
DOUGLASS - Linda I Goossen, 72, Douglass, died Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, at her home. She was born May 9, 1937, in Meade, to Peter L. and Katherine Isaac Classen. She graduated from Meade Bible Academy in 1955, and from Grace Bible Institute in 1960. She was a member of Cumberland Bible Church, Douglass. She was a homemaker. On June...
Kenneth F. Weatherbee
Nov 14, 2009
Kenneth Frank Weatherbee, 93, died Nov. 14, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 28, 1916, in Emporia, to Paul and Ethel Newton Weatherbee. He graduated in 1933, from Muskogee (Okla.) High School and in 1936 he graduated with a degree in diesel engineering from Hemphill School, Memphis, Tenn. A resident of Hutchinson since 1987, moving...
John A. Hearn
Nov 14, 2009
John Allen Hearn, 61, of Hutchinson, died November 14, 2009, at the Hospice House in Hutchinson. He was born August 29, 1948, in Stafford, the son of Harold "Gus" and Vera Mae John Hearn. He attended Kinsley schools and graduated from Kinsley High School in 1967. He attended community college in Denver, Colorado for two years. He was a veteran...
