Marilyn J. Peirce
Sep 15, 2008
Marilyn J. Peirce, age 75, of Hutchinson passed away Monday evening at the Pleasant View Home in Inman, Kan. She is preceded in death by her father, Harry E. Peirce, her first husband, Everett L. Westfahl and her sister Ellen Sizemore. She is survived by her mother, Daisy Peirce of Hutchinson; her sisters, Sondra Green of Denver, Colo., and Dorothy...
Velma M. Hipp
Sep 14, 2008
Velma M. Hipp, 89, died Sept. 14, 2008, at Hospice House. She was born Oct. 9, 1918, in Arlington, the daughter of John Peter and Beulah May Breese Koestel Jr. She graduated from Arlington High School in 1936. A resident of Hutchinson, she was retired from Consolidated Manufacturing, working there for 22 years. She belonged to the First Presbyterian Church....
Agnes M. Ruebke
Sep 13, 2008
PRETTY PRAIRIE - Agnes Marie Ruebke, 97, died Sept. 13, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 15, 1911, in Castleton, the daughter of John D. and Carrie M. Krehbiel Krehbiel. A lifetime Reno County resident, she was a farmwife and helped operate Ruebke Orchard, Pretty Prairie. She belonged to First Mennonite Church, Pretty Prairie. She...
Sandra Theresa Thomas
Sep 13, 2008
Sandra Theresa "Grandma Sandra" Thomas, 60, died Sept. 13, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 8, 1948, in Bay St. Louis, Miss., the daughter of Edward John and Daisy Theresa Tolbert Bell, Jr. She graduated from Valena C. Jones High School, Bay St. Louis, Miss., and attended Business College in Cincinnati, Ohio. A resident of...
Jennifer Sarah Ditson
Sep 13, 2008
FORT HOOD, Texas - Jennifer Sarah Ditson, 26, died Sept. 13, 2008, in Burrton. She was born Sept. 7, 1982, in Houston, the daughter of James and Kathleen Rivers Easter. She graduated in 2001, from Cotopaxi (Colo.) High School, and attended Pueblo Community College. A resident of Fort Hood, Texas, she was a homemaker. She belonged to the Canon Community...
Annabell L. Conrad
Sep 11, 2008
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Annabell Lola Conrad, 88, died Sept. 11, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 2, 1920, near Partridge in Reno County, the daughter of Henry and Milly Olga Massoni Koestel. She graduated from Partridge High School in 1940. A lifetime Reno County resident, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Partridge Community Church,...
Alvin L. Coop
Sep 10, 2008
Alvin L. Coop, 89, passed away Sept. 10, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 3, 1918, in Dudley, Mo., the son of Pearl and Ruby Allen Coop. He was a graduate of Fostoria High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1941, he was a mechanic and service manager at O'Mara Pontiac for 16 years, then worked as...
Owen D. Zehr
Sep 10, 2008
Owen Dale Zehr passed away Sept. 10, 2008, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. Owen was born Sept. 28, 1925, in Burrton to Dave and Georgie Nickle Zehr. He graduated in 1944 from Burrton High School as President of his class. Owen married his high school sweetheart, Joy I. LaGree on Dec. 7, 1945. He retired from Getty/Texaco after 35 years...
Robert Lynn Jacques
Sep 10, 2008
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Robert Lynn Jacques, 85, went home to be with his Lord on Sept. 10, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 3, 1923, in Hutchinson, the son of Robert L. and Leonora Conway Jacques. He was a 1941 graduate of Partridge High School. A resident of South Hutchinson, he was a farmer/stockman and...
Carol B. Grounds
Sep 10, 2008
Carol B. Grounds, 76, died Sept. 10, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 14, 1932, in Topeka, the daughter of William Frank and Alberta Beckmann Grounds. She was a 1950 graduate of Waverly High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1950, she was an order processing clerk for Colladay Wholesale Hardware, Hutchinson. She belonged to...
Clyde A. Patton
Sep 8, 2008
Clyde A. Patton, 62, died Sept. 8, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 21, 1945, in Scott City, the son of Fred M. and Lorene Gropp Patton. He graduated in 1964, from Greeley County High School. He was raised in the Tribune community, and had lived in Scott City and Garden City before moving to Hutchinson. He...
Kathy Evans Mcleish
Sep 8, 2008
DIGHTON - Kathy Evans McLeish, 53, died Sept. 8, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born July 2, 1955, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Milton W. and Mardell J. Delaney Evans. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1973, and from Kansas State University in 1977. She was a teacher for Dighton Public Schools USD No. 482....
Joseph G. Previtera
Sep 7, 2008
Joseph G. Previtera, 85, died Sept. 7, 2008 at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 21, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pa., the son of Isadore and Olympia Previtera. He was raised in Somerdale, N.J. Upon joining the Air Force, he was stationed in Salina and then moved to Hutchinson in 1945. He was the owner of Previtera Construction Company....
Elizabeth H. Dahlberg
Sep 6, 2008
Elizabeth "Libby" Holtzclaw Dahlberg, 89, died Sept. 6, 2008, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 6, 1919, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Charles R. and Anna M. Hadley Holtzclaw. She graduated from Hutchinson High School and attended Adela Hale Business College. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a bookkeeper and loan processor at Bankers Investments Company, Hutchinson....
Shirley L Fast
Sep 5, 2008
Shirley L. Fast, 78, died Sept. 5, 2008, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Jan. 11, 1930, in Peoria, Ill., the daughter of Stanley L. and Elsie A. Braun Johnson. She graduated from Augusta High School in 1947. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, she worked originally as a telephone operator and later for many years as a school...
Oral Hodges
Sep 4, 2008
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Oral F. Hodges, 90, passed away Sept. 4, 2008, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 8, 1918, in Anthony, the daughter of Alfred and Julia Pigg Hughbanks. Oral grew up in the Sterling area and lived her adult life in Hutchinson. She was a homemaker and charter member of TOPS for over 30 years....
Dolores Powell
Sep 3, 2008
Dolores "Dee" M. Powell, 75, died Sept. 3, 2008, at Thorne Care Center of Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. She was born March 12, 1933, at Bertrand Nebraska, to Frank and Edna Anderson Bose. She was a Hutchinson resident since 1963, moving here from Lexington, Nebraska. She graduated from Larned High School in the class of 1950. She worked at Sears Dept....
Doris Frankenstein
Sep 3, 2008
Doris Margaret Frankenstein, 87, died Sept. 3, 2008, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born Sept. 5, 1920, in N. Tonawanda, N.Y. to Rev. Carl A. and Clara M. Brusehaber Frankenstein. She was a resident of North Tonawanda N.Y. until moving to Hutchinson in 2002. She was a homemaker and a child care provider. She belonged to the St....
Dorothy J. Staib
Aug 31, 2008
Dorothy J. Staib, 82, died Aug. 31, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 17, 1926, in South Hutchinson, the daughter of Edward Glen and Vivian Gladys Childs Whittle. She graduated in 1944 from Hutchinson High School. A lifetime area resident, she was a lab technician for Singleton-Joyce Optical for 26 years and was a Wal-Mart door greeter....
Margaret Marie Hamby
Aug 31, 2008
Margaret Marie Hamby, 67, died Aug. 31, 2008, at Promise Regional Medical Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 2, 1941, in Eureka, the daughter of Charles Sr. and Lillie Dossey Caylor. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a retired custodian for Hutchinson Community College. On Dec. 5, 1955, she married Gilbert "Gib" Hamby in Wichita. He died Jan. 5,...
