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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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...
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