Vernon D. Elliott
Aug 20, 2008
ANTHONY - Vernon Dick Elliott, 84, died Aug. 20, 2008, at Anthony Community Care Center, Anthony. He was born Nov. 28, 1923, in Anthony, the son of George Oliver "Dick" and Lillian Piehl Elliott. A lifetime resident of Anthony, he was a 1942 graduate of Anthony High School, a graduate of Hutchinson Junior College, Hutchinson, a graduate and President of...
Rj Ratliff
Aug 17, 2008
Rj Ratliff, 82, went to be with his Lord, Aug. 17, 2008, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born June 4, 1926, in Hardy, Ark., the son of P.H. and Annie L. Stites Ratliff. A resident of Hutchinson since 1955, he was a construction worker for the City of Hutchinson. He belonged to the 11th Avenue Chapel. He served in...
Mary E. Davis
Aug 17, 2008
Mary Elizabeth Davis, 78, died Aug. 17, 2008, at Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born July 1, 1930, in Larned, the daughter of Leroy D. and Katheryn Herndon Harris. A former resident of Clovis, Calif., and Larned, she lived in Hutchinson since 2004. She received both her BA (1959) and MA (1982) from California State University, Fresno, Calif....
Aaron E. Cox
Aug 17, 2008
Aaron E. Cox, 36, died Aug. 17, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born March 17, 1972, in Hutchinson, the son of Steven E. and Linda S. Stiggins Cox. He graduated from Shadow Mountain High School, Phoenix, in 1990, McPherson College in 1998 and was a graduate of Emporia State University. He had been a special education teacher at...
Orlie E. Beer
Aug 14, 2008
MILLEVILLE Calif. - Orlie Eugene "Gene" Beer, 68, died Aug. 14, 2008, in a cycle/deer accident in the mountains of Hat Creek, Calif. He was born Aug. 8, 1940, the son of Mount and Hulda Jane "Tootise" Nuefeld Beer. On Aug. 9, 1986 he married Jane Olsen. She survives. Other survivors include: three children, Jack, Laura and Kimberly; a sister,...
Frank L. Pifer
Aug 13, 2008
Frank Lee Pifer, 78, of Hutchinson, died Aug. 13, 2008, at Buhler Sunshine Meadows Nursing Home. He was born Aug. 4, 1930, in Hutchinson, the son of Orville Lee and Mable Ester Spohn Pifer. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he retired from Cessna in 1976 and then opened Pifer Auto Salvage. He retired again in 1992. On April 3, 1951,...
Karen S. Rohr
Aug 12, 2008
Karen Sue Rohr, 55, died Aug. 12, 2008, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 18, 1952, in Newton, the daughter of Charles A. and Helen Louise Gillihan Wilson. She graduated from Marion Abramson High School, New Orleans, with the class of 1970. A resident of Hutchinson, for the past 10 years, she was a C.N.A., and C.M.A., at...
Phillip A. Henderson
Aug 12, 2008
Phillip A. Henderson, 86, of Hutchinson, died Aug. 12, 2008, at the Hutchinson Hospital. He was born March 16, 1922, at Hutchinson, the son of Arthur O. and Thelma Q. Shuman Henderson. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he was a 1940 graduate of Hutchinson High School and attended Salt City Business College. He retired in 1982 after 37 years as...
Clair Joe Porter
Aug 11, 2008
Clair Joe Porter, 96, died on Aug. 11, 2008, at his home in Racine, Minn. He was born Jan. 1, 1912, son of William Joel and Cora Ellen Mayhlery Porter in Reno County. He graduated from Abbyville High School in Abbyville. Clair was the owner-operator of Utility Sales and Engineering in Rochester, Minn. for many years and retired in 1975....
Joan "Dorothy" Hemel
Aug 11, 2008
Joan "Dorothy" Hemel, 73, died Aug. 11, 2008, at Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 13, 1935, the daughter of Fred Elias and Carrie Williams Farmer. On Feb. 7, 1986, she married Clifford Hemel in Ness City. He died Jan. 27, 1991. Survivors include: brother, Marvin Farmer; and sister, Wanda Webb; a nephew, Glenn E. Anderson; niece, Sandra S. Anderson; and...
Joseph M. Miller
Aug 11, 2008
Joseph M. Miller, 61, died Aug. 11, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Sept. 20, 1946, in Kalona, Iowa, the son of Mahlon E. and Edna Miller Miller. He was the owner of Carriage Crossing and the past owner of the Dutch Kitchen. He belonged to South Hutchinson Mennonite Church. On Dec. 30, 1965, he married Mary Ellen Nisly...
Iona A. Gleason
Aug 10, 2008
Iona A. Gleason, 75, died Aug. 10, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born May 10, 1933, in Thurston, Neb., the daughter of Herbert and Anna Paulsen Messerschmidt. She graduated from West Fork Arkansas High School in 1950 and then attended Wayne State College, Nebraska, and graduated from Sterling College in 1962. She worked on her post-graduate degree at Washington...
Philomena Franz
Aug 9, 2008
Philomena Franz, 96, passed away at St. Joseph Carondelet Manor in Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. Philomena was born in Munjor, Kan., on Dec. 31, 1911, and raised in Ness City, Kan. She was the daughter of Francis and Rosa (Kronawitter) Pfannenstiel. After graduating from Ness City High School, she attended Marymount College in Salina, Kan. She...
Rosalie J. Ballard
Aug 9, 2008
Rosalie J. Ballard, 83, died Aug. 9, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 11, 1925, in Mulberry, the daughter of Johnsie E. and Myrtle May Hamilton Williams. She graduated in 1943 from Mulberry High School. She was a homemaker. She belonged to Park Place Christian Church. On Nov. 15, 1945, she married Bill Ray Ballard in Pittsburg....
Philomena Franz
Aug 9, 2008
Philomena Franz, 96, passed away at St. Joseph Carondelet Manor in Kansas City, Mo., on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. Philomena was born in Munjor, Kan., on Dec. 31, 1911, and raised in Ness City, Kan. She was the daughter of Francis and Rosa (Kronawitter) Pfannenstiel. After graduating from Ness City High School, she attended Marymount College in Salina, Kan. She...
Violet L. Kohrs
Aug 7, 2008
Violet Louise Kohrs, age 100, of Buhler Sunshine Meadows, peacefully left her earthly body and slipped into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and into the presence of God on Aug. 7, 2008. She was born March 18, 1908, at Dillon, Kansas, the daughter of William C. and Christina (Sigle) Sandow. Raised in rural Dickinson County,...
Roy L. Blick
Aug 7, 2008
Roy L. Blick, 76, died Aug. 7, 2008, at his home. He was born July 17, 1932, at Hutchinson, the son of John and Grace Kennedy Blick. He was a resident of Hutchinson since 1982, after retiring. He was a 1951 graduate of St. Teresa High School, Hutchinson. He retired as air traffic controller; Indianapolis Center, in 1982. He belonged...
Lawrence R. Guthrie
Aug 7, 2008
Lawrence Richard Guthrie, 76, died Aug. 7, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born April 6, 1932, in Lewis, the son of Gilbert Wayne Sr. and Edith Ethel Evans Guthrie. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, moving from Larned, he was a machine tender at Republic Paper Board for 42 years. On March 11, 1952, he married Joy B. Long in...
Ralph K. Almquist
Aug 6, 2008
Ralph Kingsley Almquist, 72, died Aug. 6, 2008, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 3, 1935, at Larned, to Oscar and Edna Branine Almquist. Ralph was a Hutchinson area resident since 1972 and was a member of First Christian Church. He was in the Air Force where he became a Drill Instructor. After he was honorably discharged...
Johnny L. Cochran
Aug 6, 2008
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Johnny L. Cochran, 82, formerly of Greensburg, died Aug. 6, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, at South Hutchinson United Methodist Church. Graveside inurnment will be at 10:30 a.m., Monday, August 18, 2008 at Fairview Cemetery at Greensburg, Kansas
