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Larry L. Feese

Larry L. Feese

Apr 11, 2009

Larry L. Feese, 71, died April 11, 2009, at Hospice House after a prolonged illness. He was born May 3, 1937, in Hutchinson, the son of the late Earl and Clara Kitch Feese. Following graduation from Hutchinson High School in 1955, he attended Hutchinson Junior College as a physical education major. In 1958, he married Judith Kasper of Hutchinson. They...

Dorothy Wright

Dorothy Wright

Apr 11, 2009

Dorothy Wright, 77, died April 11, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 15, 1931, in Walnut, the daughter of Richard and Vera Hook Webb. She was a long-time Hutchinson resident, previously living in Mullinville. She graduated from St. Teresa High School, Hutchinson, the class of 1949. She was a retired insurance agent with Wade Patton...

George M. Adrian

George M. Adrian

Apr 11, 2009

George M. Adrian, 87, passed away over to his heavenly home on April 11, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 25, 1921, in Ewing, Neb., the son of Sidney E. and Laura E. Dierks Adrian. On Sept. 28, 1940, he married Opal Sisson, and they were married more than 50 years when she passed away. He was...

Robert M. Swanson

Robert M. Swanson

Apr 9, 2009

SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Robert M. "Bob" "Swanee" Swanson, 78, died April 9, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 11, 1930, in Providence, R.I., the son of Clarence A. Swanson Sr. and Edna M. Dodd Swanson. He attended Cranston High School, Cranston R.I., and signed with the Pittsburg Pirates the April before his graduation. This brought him to...

Norma Jeannine Jones

Norma Jeannine Jones

Apr 7, 2009

Jeannine Jones, 78, died April 7, 2009, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born May 29, 1930, in Pratt, the daughter of Chester A. and Ada Woodward Kendall. She was a 1948 graduate of Haviland High School. A resident of Hutchinson, moving from Great Bend several years ago, she was a homemaker. She belonged to First Christian Church, Great...

Margaret Anne Reynolds

Margaret Anne Reynolds

Apr 5, 2009

Margaret Anne Reynolds, 56, died April 5, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 4, 1952, in El Dorado, the daughter of Howard William and Mary Darlene Cates Halstead. She was a 1971 graduate of Augusta High School, Augusta, and received her CNA training from Cowley County Community College. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a...

Edna Mae Wernet

Edna Mae Wernet

Apr 5, 2009

Edna Mae Wernet, 86, died April 5, 2009, at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 14, 1923, the daughter of William Newcomb and Hazel Mae Kelly Pearce. She graduated from Hutchinson High School and attended Hutchinson JUCO. She was a homemaker. She belonged to the Faith United Methodist Church, where she was the church organist for...

Dorothy E. Woods

Dorothy E. Woods

Apr 4, 2009

Dorothy E. Woods, 98, "Teacher of The Dance," died April 4, 2009, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born June 26, 1910, in Beloit, Kan., the daughter of Walter W. and Mary "Susie" Sparks Woods. She graduated in 1928 from Hutchinson High School, in 1930 from Hutchinson Community College and received an Advanced Drafting Degree from the...

Frederick H. "Fred" Pieplow

Frederick H. "Fred" Pieplow

Apr 3, 2009

Frederick H. "Fred" Pieplow, 72, died April 3, 2009, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 25, 1936, in Hutchinson, the son of Ray Albert and Ruby Blanche Cooley-King Pieplow. He graduated from Nickerson Rural High School with the Class of 1954. A resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired farmer. He belonged to Berean Baptist Church, was a...

Delmas H. Kling

Delmas H. Kling

Apr 3, 2009

Delmas H. Kling, 84, died April 3, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson, after a long illness. He was born Oct. 27, 1924, in Wetmore, the son of Herbert C. and Beryl F. Williams Kling. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he retired after 27 years at the Hutchinson Hospital and most of those years at Grace Hospital. On July 31, 1949, he...

Bennie D. Evans

Bennie D. Evans

Apr 3, 2009

Bennie D. Evans, 89, died April 3, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 19, 1919, in South Hutchinson, to Tom and Leavina Richards Evans. He was the founder and former owner of Evans Rental, South Hutchinson. In May 1937, he married Eva L. Hamm in Hutchinson. She died Feb. 6, 2005. Survivors include: a daughter, Marla Griggs,...

Mary Ann Kasselman

Mary Ann Kasselman

Apr 2, 2009

Mary Ann Kasselman, 72, Hutchinson, died April 2, 2009 at Promise Regional Medical Center. Born February 3, 1937, at Ninah, Wis. She was the daughter of Rev. R.H. and Laura Nelson Spangler. She grew up in the Concordia and Great Bend communities. A graduate of Great Bend High School and attended Ottawa University and Grace Hospital School of Nursing. She...

E.Z. Fortune

E.Z. Fortune

Apr 2, 2009

E.Z. "Easy" Fortune, 86, died April 2, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 1, 1922, in Lucas, the son of Roy H. and Eva B. Barr Fortune. He was a 1941 graduate of Hutchinson High School. A long time Hutchinson resident, he was an auditor for the State of Kansas. He was a member of...

Geraldine L. Rooney

Geraldine L. Rooney

Mar 31, 2009

Geraldine L. Rooney, 90, died March 31, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 3, 1919, in Lincoln Neb., the daughter of Lee E. and Neta Haviland Tatum. She has been a Hutchinson resident since 1985. She was a homemaker, retired bookkeeper, and payroll clerk for Chevrolet Co. She was a member of the Holy Cross...

Gerald Thomas "Jerry" Zelfer

Gerald Thomas "Jerry" Zelfer

Mar 31, 2009

ABBYVILLE - Gerald Thomas "Jerry" Zelfer, 68, died March 31, 2009, at his home. He was born Dec. 12, 1940, in Oneida, the son of Francis Leroy and Pauline Katherine Ronnebaum Zelfer. He attended St. Teresa's Schools and was a 1962 graduate of Kansas University. He was a broker and farmer. He was a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church....

Harriet Helmick Cushing

Harriet Helmick Cushing

Mar 29, 2009

Harriet H. Cushing, 87, died March 29, 2009, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 15, 1922, in Minneapolis, Minn., the daughter of Daniel S. and Juliet Webster Helmick. She graduated in 1940, from Washburn High School, Minneapolis, Minn., and in 1944, from the University of Minnesota. She was a homemaker. She belonged to Grace Episcopal Church, Hutchinson,...

Rescheduled Postponed Service Updates

Rescheduled Postponed Service Updates

Mar 28, 2009

NANCY ANNE MERRYMAN BRENTLINGER - 2:00pm, Sunday March 29, 2009 @ Park Place Christian Church, Hutchinson. ANGELINE STOUGHTON - 2:00pm, Monday March 30, 2009 @ Elliott Mortuary Chapel, Hutchinson. KAREN K. CARTER - 4:30pm, Tuesday March 31, 2009 @ Elliott Mortuary Chapel, Hutchinson. please call 620-663-3327 with any questions.

Leona Pearl "Pearly" Janzen

Leona Pearl "Pearly" Janzen

Mar 28, 2009

Leona Pearl "Pearly" Janzen, 80, died March 28, 2009, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born Aug. 23, 1928, in Ellinwood to Clyde Orville and Josephine Abby Thorp Drake. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. On Aug. 31, 1946, she married Elmer Janzen in Hutchinson. He survives. Other survivors include: three sons, Jerry and wife Debbie,...

Evelyn Thompson

Evelyn Thompson

Mar 28, 2009

Evelyn Thompson, 87, died March 28, 2009, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. She was born May 16, 1921, in Conway, the daughter of Izella and Samantha I. Ring Rathbun. She attended Adela Hale Business College, Hutchinson. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Grace Bible Church. On Jan. 18, 1946, she married Charles Allen Thompson in...

Dale L. Harrison

Dale L. Harrison

Mar 28, 2009

Dale Leon Harrison, 40, died March 28, 2009, at his home in Jarrell, Texas. He was born April 20, 1968, to Gary "Chuck" and Kay Harrison in San Diego. A graduate of Fairfield High School, Langdon, and Pittsburg State University, Dale was a 1986 United States National Award winner for leadership service. He was a Plastics Engineer for Pactiv Corp...

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