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Charlotte L. Miles
Nov 24, 2008
Charlotte L. "Charlie" Miles, 74, died Nov. 24, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 30, 1934, in Isabel, Kan., to Alvin Doras and Viola A. (Oller) Blue. She was raised in Isabel, then attended Pratt Community College and graduated from Brown Mackie Business College in Salina. A resident of Hutchinson since 1980, she was a...
Bonita M. "Bonnie" Mcclelland
Nov 24, 2008
Bonita "Bonnie" M. McClelland, 69, went to be with the Lord on Nov. 24, 2008, after a lengthy illness. She was born the daughter of Harlan Oren Wood and Iona Helen Valette Wood on Feb. 2, 1939, in Stockton. Bonnie lived and settled in Hutchinson, but also had lived in Missouri and Illinois. She graduated from Memphis High School, Memphis,...
Winifred Grace Weatherbee
Nov 23, 2008
Winifred Grace Weatherbee, 87, died Nov. 23, 2008, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 31, 1921, in rural Rice County, the daughter of Frederick and Susanna Dressel Altenbaumer. She attended Sunny Four Elementary School in rural Rice County and graduated from Bushton High School, Bushton. A longtime resident of Great Bend, moving to Hutchinson in...
Phyllis M. Hawkes
Nov 23, 2008
Phyllis M. Hawkes, 78, of Hutchinson, died Nov. 23, 2008, at Mercy Regional Health Center, Manhattan, Kan. She was born Nov. 21, 1930, in Minneapolis, Minn., the daughter of Wallace and Ethel Webster. A Hutchinson resident since 1952, she retired from the Reno County Clerks Office after 20 years. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star...
Jacqualine E. Perry
Nov 22, 2008
Jacqualine "Jackie" Ellen Perry, 59, died Nov. 22, 2008, at her home, South Hutchinson. She was born April 23, 1949, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Delbert Jack and Mary Ellen Drake Perry. A lifetime area resident, she was a rodeo cowgirl and trained quarter horses. She was of the Christian faith. Survivors include: a son, Shawn Neil Cox, Atlanta; a...
Carl D. Hoyt
Nov 22, 2008
Carl D. Hoyt, 77, died Nov. 22, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 2, 1931, in Dexter, the son of Orval and Jennita Ruth Marker Hoyt, from the age of 19 months, he was raised by Ray and Lena Cheever. He graduated from Louisburg High School, attended the University of Kansas, then later graduated from Salt City...
Robert E. Luman
Nov 22, 2008
Robert Eugene Luman, 81, died Nov. 22, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born June 2, 1927, in Hutchinson, the son of Daniel "Doc" and Hazel A. Hutton Smyres. He attended Nickerson and Hutchinson schools. He was a lifetime Reno County resident. He was a mechanic for Morton Salt Company for 40 years, retiring in 1989. He...
Wanda Strouse
Nov 21, 2008
Wanda Strouse, 74, died Nov. 21, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center E.R., Hutchinson. She was born June 24, 1934, in Ellinwood, the daughter of Rafael M. and Concepcion Alatorre Anzo. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker. She belonged to St. Teresa's Catholic Church and the Ladies Altar Society at the church. On June 7, 1970, she married...
Dona Mae Gottsch
Nov 21, 2008
Dona Mae Gottsch, 78, died Nov. 21, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 5, 1930, in rural Hardtner, the daughter of Paul and Gladys Reed Molz. She graduated from Hardtner High School and then from Oklahoma A&M with a degree in Home Economics. A resident of Hutchinson since 1972, moving from El Dorado, she was a home...
Wilma J. Ruebke
Nov 21, 2008
Wilma J. Ruebke, 72, died Friday Nov. 21, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 1, 1936, in Pratt, the daughter of Wilbur and Mildred Heller Massow. She had been a machinist at Eaton Corporation for 20 years, retiring in 1998. In 1961, she married Robert H. "Bob" Ruebke. He died Jan. 23, 2007. Survivors include:...
Jack H. Storey
Nov 20, 2008
Jack H. Storey, 92, died Nov. 20, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 5, 1916, in Hartford, Ark., the son of John G. and Elizabeth Ann Lee Storey. He graduated high school in Hartford, and then attended Chillicothe Business College. A resident of Hutchinson for the past several years, moving from Fort Smith, Ark., he...
Arlena Kaye Smith
Nov 17, 2008
BURRTON - Arlena Kaye "Peaches" Smith, 64, died Nov. 17, 2008, at her home, Burrton. She was born Feb. 10, 1944, in Laverne, Okla., the daughter of Caleb Harry and Bernice LeCrone Tolle. She was a resident of Burrton but had previously lived in Wichita, Madison, Battle Creek and Norfolk, Neb. She was a homemaker at the time of her...
Patricia "Pattie" Gail Lamberth
Nov 15, 2008
Patricia Gail "Pattie" Lamberth, 60, died Nov. 15, 2008, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born June 21, 1948, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Vernon Lamberth and Adeline "Addie' Geis. She graduated in 1966, from Hutchinson High School. She moved to the California Bay area after graduation, where she resided for many years. Due to illness she returned to Hutchinson...
Glee F Tripp
Nov 15, 2008
Glee F. Tripp, 86, died Nov. 15, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 13, 1922, in Omaha, Neb., the son of Frank Edward and Eva Frances Doyle Tripp. He was an architect. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. On June 24, 1945, he married Helyn V. Ward. She died June 1, 2006. Survivors...
Marjorie Jean Woleslagel
Nov 14, 2008
Marjorie Jean Woleslagel, 85, died Nov. 14, 2008, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born June 13, 1923, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Earl Frank-lin and Katherine Elizabeth Williston Baker. She worked for Cessna for a time, and by studying on her own, advanced to the position of executive secretary. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1941 and attended...
Nelson Charles Jacobs
Nov 14, 2008
Nelson C. Jacobs, 85, died Nov. 14, 2008, at Wheatlands Health Care Center, Kingman. He was born June 19, 1923, in rural Zenda, the son of James W. and Maude Wilcox Jacobs. He attended a country school near Zenda. A lifelong Zenda community resident, moving to Medicine Lodge in 1996 and then to Kingman in 2005, he was a farmer...
Clifford Carson Treaster Jr.
Nov 13, 2008
Clifford Carson "Cliff" Treaster Jr., 61, died Nov. 13, 2008, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Wichita. He was born Jan. 28, 1947, in Chicago, the son of Clifford Carson Sr. and Blanche Irene Cates Treaster. A resident of Hutchinson since 1980, he was a contract painter. He was a U.S. Army veteran, serving as a sergeant....
Delbert L. Durr
Nov 10, 2008
Delbert L. Durr, 81, died Nov. 10, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 17, 1927, in Holyrood, to Floyd Gilbert and Esther Marie Boldt Durr. He graduated from Ransom High School in 1945. On Dec. 12, 1955, he married Rachel Leah Fabrizius in WaKeeney. She survives. He served in the United States Navy from 1951 to 1955,...
Larry Dean Dove
Nov 8, 2008
Larry Dean Dove, 73, died Nov. 8, 2008, at Deseret Health Care, Hutchinson. He was born June 16, 1935, the son of Lloyd Orien and Lorene G. Claypool Dove. He served in the U.S. Navy. On Nov. 3, 1989, he married Sonya F. Story. She survives. Survivors include: sons, Larry O., Eddie and David; daughter Elaine; mother; brother, Darrell D....
Martha H. Phillips
Nov 7, 2008
Martha H. Phillips, 81, died Nov. 7, 2008, at Thorne Care Center at Wesley Towers. She was born Feb. 26, 1927, in Kansas City, the daughter of John McClellan and Ellen Belle Kerr Frye. She graduated from Wyandotte High School, Kansas City, and attended Kansas State University. A resident of Hutchinson since 1950, she and her husband, Dan, owned and...
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