Velda L. Howell
Apr 6, 2008
Velda L. Howell, 85, died April 6, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born May 6, 1922, in Trego County, the daughter of John Grant and Oliva Knox Dawson She graduated from Hoisington High School in 1940. She was a homemaker and a Christian. On May 8, 1953, she married Bobby James Howell, Sr. in Oklahoma City. He died on...
Michael J. Bogner
Apr 4, 2008
Michael "Mike" J. Bogner, 78, died April 4, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Sept. 21, 1929. He was a handyman extraordinaire. On May 17, 1996, he married Delores M. Jerry. She survives. Other survivors include: two sisters, Mercedes Seibel and Georgie Urien; six stepchildren; 15 step-grandchildren; 29 step-great-grandchildren; and four nephews. He was preceded in death by a...
Stanley M. Flora, Jr.
Apr 3, 2008
Stanley Mac Flora Jr., 67, died April 3, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 27, 1940, in Brazoria, Texas, the son of Stanley Mac and Viola Ruth Ewing Flora. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired union pipefitter, and retired from the City of Hutchinson Park Department where he worked in plumbing and maintenance. He belonged...
Pamela J. Chain
Apr 2, 2008
Pamela J. Chain, 61, of Grafton, Wisconsin, formerly of Hutchinson, died April 2, 2008, at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was born March 3, 1947, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the daughter of Theodore and Clora Yarberry Mielke. She graduated from Kingman High School in 1965 and later received her Associate's Degree from the University of Kentucky in 1983. A...
Joe Krafels
Apr 2, 2008
Joe Krafels, 82, died April 2, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital after a sudden illness. He was born Aug. 4, 1925, at Scammon, the son of Joe and Nona Johnson Krafels. He graduated from Winfield High School and Wichita State University. He was a teacher and coach at Hoisington High School, coming to Hutchinson High in 1956, where he was the...
Alyce A. Young-Wilken
Mar 30, 2008
Alyce A. Young-Wilken, 59, Died March 30, 2008, at the Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Jan. 16, 1949, at Tecumseh, Neb., daughter of John and Ellenora Dorn Schmidt. In 1967 she graduated from Sterling (Neb.) High School and received her A.A. from Hutchinson Community College. She was a Paramedic R.N. and E.R. nurse with the Hutchinson Hospital for over 25...
Graydon L. Scott
Mar 30, 2008
Graydon L. Scott, 82, died March 30, 2008 at his home. He was born Sept. 23 1925, the son of Mary Elizabeth Collins and Roy Scott. He graduated from Ottumwa, Iowa, High School. After World War II he moved to work with his mother and stepfather on the John C. Jones Ranch south of Garden City. He retired in 1983...
Barbara R. Wenner
Mar 28, 2008
Barbara Ruth Wenner, 90, died March 28, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born Sept. 11, 1917, in Senecaville, Ohio, the daughter of Walter C. and Stella E. Hardesty Moorehead. She graduated high school in Senecaville, Ohio. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a retired nurses aide at Grace Hospital and St. Elizabeth's Hospital. On April 17, 1940, she married...
Destenie Olivia Marie Heller
Mar 27, 2008
Destenie Olivia Marie Heller, seven weeks, died March 27, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Feb. 7, 2008, at KU Medical Center, Kansas City, the daughter of Richard Dean Heller II and Lataisha Gwenn-Jean Miller. Survivors include: her parents, Richard Dean Heller II, and Lataisha Gwenn-Jean Miller, Hutchinson; brothers, Wesley and Eric Heller; sisters, Zoie Heller, and Dalizah Malloy;...
Krista A. Wiliams
Mar 27, 2008
Krista A. Williams, 43, died March 27, 2008, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Wichita. She was born Oct. 8, 1964, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Kenneth A. and Barbara J. Keefer. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1983 and attended Hutchinson Community College. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She was a...
Gladys J. Thrasher
Mar 27, 2008
Gladys J. Thrasher, 80, died March 27, 2008, at her home in Arlington. She was born Feb. 16, 1928, in Tryon, Okla., the daughter of Euel Ivis and Mabel Miller Parkhurst. She attended Castleton Schools at Castleton. A resident of Arlington, she was a homemaker and worked for many years as a cook in food service at the Arlington Schools....
Vesta J. Pownell
Mar 25, 2008
Vesta J. Pownell, 81, died March 25, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born April 18, 1926, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Ernest and Alice Hill Pownell. She was a 1944 graduate of Hutchinson High School, attended Hutchinson Junior College and the University of Colorado and graduated from Emporia State Teachers College. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, she retired in 1981...
Betty J. Kempton
Mar 25, 2008
Betty Jean Kempton, 79, died March 26, 2008, at Topeka Westwood Manor, Topeka. She was born April 11, 1928, in Sabetha, the daughter of Burt and Mary Whitman Kistner. She attended schools in Hiawatha and graduated from Hiawatha High School. A resident of Topeka since 1995, formerly of Hutchinson and Hiawatha, she was a homemaker and previously worked as a...
Leona Mae Dillard
Mar 25, 2008
Leona M. Dillard, 87, died March 25, 2008, at her home in Hutchinson. She was born April 28, 1920, on a farm near Haviland, the daughter of Vernon and Mae Bryant Sneed. She graduated from Haviland High School and held a B.S. in Commerce degree from Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, and an M.B.S. degree from Columbia University, New York...
Patsy L. Roberts
Mar 25, 2008
Patsy L. "Pat" Roberts died March 25, 2008 at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born January 2, 1925 in Sulpher, Oklahoma to Joseph B. and Hazel Mae Williamson Fortier. She received her High School diploma in 1942 from Stephens College in Columbia, MO and received an Associate of Arts also from Stephens in 1946. Pat married Dick C. Roberts in Hutchinson...
Charles A. Wilson, Sr.
Mar 25, 2008
Charles Albert Wilson Sr. passed away March 25, 2008, at Reno County Hospice House in Hutchinson at the age of 74. He was born April 17, 1933, in Wagoner County, Okla. His parents were Charles C. Wilson and Alberta Techau Wilson. Oct. 13, 1951, he married Shirley Ann Posey in Okay, Okla. He is survived by his wife; two sons,...
Lee R. Seems
Mar 23, 2008
ARLINGTON - Lee R. Seems, 70, died March 23, 2008, at Mennonite Friendship Manor in South Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 2, 1937, in Lebanon, the son of Elmer and Ida Fay Manchester Seems. He graduated from Esbon High School in the class of 1955. A resident of Arlington, he was a lineman for Sprint Telephone. He belonged to Arlington...
Ruth E. Smith
Mar 22, 2008
Ruth E. Smith, 80, died March 22, 2008, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 27, 1927, in St. John, Ks. She was raised by her Aunt and Uncle Howard and Alma Cappell after the death of her parents. She graduated from St. John High School in 1945, and attended Business College in Wichita. She was a bookkeeper for...
Fred A. Green
Mar 22, 2008
Fred A. Green, 91, formerly of Hutchinson, died March 22, 2008, at Meadowlark Adult Care Home, Wichita. He was born Sept. 27, 1916, in Hugo, Okla., the son of William T. and Bertha Head Green. He was an electrician. He belonged to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 661. He belonged to the First Baptist Church. He was...
Wilma P. Chase
Mar 19, 2008
Wilma Pearl Chase, 99, died March 19, 2008, at Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born Jan. 1, 1909, in Burrton, the daughter of William E. and Mable Ida Rogers Baughman. She was a graduate of Burrton High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1941, she was a homemaker. She belonged to First Baptist Church, Hutchinson. On May 13,...
