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Arlan E. "Gene" Hurd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;...

Bess Dean

Bess Dean

Aug 5, 2009

Bess Dean, 97, died Aug. 5, 2009, at Hester Care Center at Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born July 19, 1912, at Kill Creek in Osborne County, the daughter of Judd R. and Eva Salome Snyder Benwell. She was a graduate of Osborne High School. She was a homemaker. She moved to Hutchinson, with her husband, Jimmie Dean, in 1949...

Julie A. Sayers

Julie A. Sayers

Aug 4, 2009

Julie A. Sayers, 53, died August 4, 2009, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born March 7, 1956, in Leavenworth, the daughter of Richard L. and Donna Marie Rhudy Rogers. She was a graduate of Leavenworth High School, Leavenworth and a 1976 graduate of Emporia State University, Emporia. A systems analyst for Integrated Solutions, Julie was a member...

Barbara Jeanne Piper

Barbara Jeanne Piper

Aug 2, 2009

Barbara Jeanne Piper, Hutchinson, passed away Aug. 2, 2009, after a long struggle with Parkinson's Disease. She was born Nov. 30, 1927, in Wichita, the daughter of Victor L. and Mildred Rosberg Johnson. She graduated from Wichita East High School in 1945 and spent her freshman year of college at Mills College in Oakland, Calif. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa...

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