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"Bear" Hubbs

"Bear" Hubbs

Apr 22, 2008

"Bear" Hubbs, 59, died April 22, 2008, at Hospice House. He was born March 14, 1949, at Sedalia Mo., to Lloyd Dean Sites and Violet Laverne Hubbs Sites. He was an independent mechanic, farm hand and all around junker. He was of the Baptist faith. On March 22, 1980 he married Annette Joletta Teague in Hutchinson. She survives. He is...

Leon A. Daines

Leon A. Daines

Apr 21, 2008

Leon A. "Cotton" Daines, 79, died April 21, 2008, at his residence. He was born on March 13, 1929, at Springdale, Ark., the son of Fred Otis and Addie Walden Daines. He attended Salt City Business College in Hutchinson. He was a truck driver for Borton Inc. for 35 years. He was a Hutchinson resident. He served in the U.S....

Mildred L. Friesen

Mildred L. Friesen

Apr 21, 2008

PARTRIDGE - Mildred L. Friesen, 90, died April 21, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Oct. 12, 1917, in Inman, to Henry and Agnes Pauls Nickel. She had been a Reno County resident since 1947. She graduated form Wichita East High School in 1935. She was a homemaker and she and her husband farmed in Reno County near Pretty...

Gertrude D. "Trudy" Link

Gertrude D. "Trudy" Link

Apr 21, 2008

SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Gertrude D. "Trudy" Link, 92, died April 21, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born July 7, 1915, in Greenwood County, KS, the daughter of William Joseph and Josephine Freeman Churchman. She was retired from the Reno County Courthouse. She belonged to the South Hutchinson United Methodist Church. On Dec. 5, 1936, she married Eugene Albert...

Lois M. Smith

Lois M. Smith

Apr 20, 2008

Lois M. Smith, 97, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother went to be with her Lord April 20, 2008, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 1, 1910, in Simpson, the daughter of Ralph and LaVina Rodman Weaver. She was a high school and Adele Hale Business College graduate. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a retired bookkeeper...

Beulah M. Arnold

Beulah M. Arnold

Apr 18, 2008

Beulah M. Arnold, 92, died April 18, 2008, at Hester Care Center at Wesley Towers. She was born April 21, 1915, in Pueblo, Colo., the daughter of Arthur David and Matilda Ann Wade Woodcock. She graduated from Manhattan High School in 1933, and Kansas State University in 1938. She had been a resident of Hutchinson since 2001, moving here from...

Cora Schmidt

Cora Schmidt

Apr 18, 2008

ARLINGTON - Cora Schmidt, 95, died April 18, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born Jan. 10, 1913, in Gypsum, the daughter of Pearl and Nellie Reeves Rininger. She graduated from Bucklin High School. She moved to the Arlington community in 1940, from Wilmore. She was a nurse's aide at Grace Hospital. She belonged to the Arlington United Methodist Church....

Doris S. Moore

Doris S. Moore

Apr 15, 2008

BUHLER - Doris S. Moore 91, died April 15, 2008 at the Buhler Sunshine Home, Buhler. She was born Jan. 24, 1917, on the family farm south of Cedar Vale, the daughter of Frank and Olive Sollers Seaman. She attended the Chautauqua County rural schools, graduated in 1933 from Cedar Vale High School, and attended American Business College in Wichita....

Aaron James "Aj" Walton

Aaron James "Aj" Walton

Apr 14, 2008

Aaron James "AJ" Walton, born to Autumn and Aaron Walton, died minutes after birth at the Hutchinson Hospital on April 14, 2008. AJ is survived by his parents; his sisters, Ava and Adalyn; grandparents, James and Denise Walton, and Brad and Debbie Johnson, Stafford; great-grandparents, Royce and Marsha Johnson, Hutchinson, and Elizabeth Sullivan, Claude, Texas. He was preceded in death...

Georgiann Welch

Georgiann Welch

Apr 14, 2008

Georgiann Welch, 84, died April 14, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Dec. 11, 1923, at Hutchinson, the daughter of George T. and Charline Graves Allison. She was a retired bookkeeper for Architectural Millwork and had also worked at Wiley's and Gordon's. She belonged to the First United Methodist Church. On April 11, 1943, she married Donald R. Harmon....

Freda Chapman

Freda Chapman

Apr 12, 2008

Freda Chapman, 90, died April 12, 2008, at Deseret Health Care, Hutchinson. She was born May 29, 1917, in Bee Branch, Ark., the daughter of Amos and Lou Ward Hall. A resident of Hutchinson since 1959, she was a homemaker and ran a day care out of her home for 10 years. On Nov. 8, 1936, she married Jack Chapman...

Geraldine L. Ruzich

Geraldine L. Ruzich

Apr 12, 2008

Geraldine Lois Ruzich, 85, died April 12, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 8, 1922, in Stafford, the daughter of Lloyd Emmett and Myrtle Lenore Minks Burns. She was a 1940, graduate of Sylvia High School and attended Pittsburg State University. She has been a Hutchinson resident since 1942. She was secretary to the Superintendent of Schools...

Edward W. Parris

Edward W. Parris

Apr 12, 2008

Edward Walker Parris, 64, died April 12, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 24, 1943, in Lubbock, Texas, the son of Olin Worthing and Velma Lee Parker Parris. He had lived in Pratt for 15 years, moving to Hutchinson in 2007. He was the general manager of Ninnescah Rural Electric, Pratt, retiring in 2004, with 15 years of...

Jesus Antonio Martinez

Jesus Antonio Martinez

Apr 10, 2008

Jesus Antonio Martinez, three days, died April 10, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born April 7, 2008, in Hutchinson, the son of Reymundo Flores and Rosaelia Jasso-Martinez. The family belongs to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Survivors include: his father, Reymundo Flores, his mother, Rosaelia Jasso-Martinez; grandparents, Rosalio Sr. and Guadalupe Flores, and Otilia Martinez, all of Hutchinson;...

Audrey Dunlap

Audrey Dunlap

Apr 9, 2008

Audrey Jane Dunlap, 91, died April 9, 2008, at Dillon Living Center, where she was a resident for six years. She was born May 8, 1916, at Peace Creek, Reno County, to Cecil and Louise Grub Clothier. She was a resident of Sylvia before moving to Hutchinson almost 65 years ago. She graduated from Sylvia High School in 1933 and...

Dorothy Marvin

Dorothy Marvin

Apr 9, 2008

Dorothy Marvin, 97, died April 9, 2008, with staff she loved from the Good Samaritan Center and Hospice Care of Kansas at her side. She was born March 20, 1911, at Milwaukee, the daughter of Fredrich and Julia Pleva Mentzel. She lived in Milwaukee for 90 years, and lived in Menomonie Wis. from 2001 to 2004, and then she moved...

Randy O'Toole

Randy O'Toole

Apr 9, 2008

SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Randy O'Toole, 45, died April 9, 2008, at Hospice House. He was born July 17, 1962, at Girard, the son of Frank and Rosemary Volmer O'Toole. He graduated in 1980 from Girard High School and Pittsburg State University, as a Physical Education and History graduate. He was an operations manager for Ramsey Oil and Propane until retiring...

Lou Talbott

Lou Talbott

Apr 8, 2008

Lou Jane Talbott, 60, died April 8, 2008, at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. She was born May 13, 1947, in Pratt, to Richard Lee and Jean Fincham Talbott. She graduated from St. Mary's High School in Dodge City and attended the University of New Mexico and St. Mary's of the Plains, in Dodge City. She was a homemaker. She...

Eldon W. Eagles

Eldon W. Eagles

Apr 7, 2008

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Eldon W. "Buzz" Eagles, 88, of Springfield, Mo., formerly of Hoisington, Kansas, made a peaceful transition from this life to the next at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday April 7, 2008, in the Manor at Elfindale, Springfield, Mo. Buzz joins the love of his life for over 60 years, Elsie, who passed away April 17, 2007. He was born...

Eva L. Osborn

Eva L. Osborn

Apr 6, 2008

Eva L. Osborn, 69, died April 6, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born June 28, 1938, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Charles O. and Berniece Stout Zumalt. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1956. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie No. 2550. On March 26, 1959, she...

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