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Janelle Krenzin
Feb 17, 2008
Janelle Krenzin, 84, died Feb. 17, 2008, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born March 29, 1923, in Plevna, the daughter of Walter Edwin and Olive Claire Pieplow Rapp. She graduated from Reno County School, now Nickerson High School. A lifetime resident, she was a homemaker. She was a member of Ladies Bridge Club and the Study Club. On...
Lloyd D. Musick
Feb 17, 2008
Lloyd Dean Musick, 80, died Feb. 17, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 5, 1927, in Hutchinson, the son of Leslie V. and Opal H. Lambert Musick. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1946 and attended Hutchinson Community College. He worked for 16 years at Carey Salt and was a car salesman for both Davis-Child and...
Ruth S. Luna
Feb 16, 2008
Ruth S. Luna, 95, died Feb. 16, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 2, 1913, in Dodge City, the daughter of Tommie R. and Stella Bell Enser Southards. A resident of the Hutchinson area since 1942, moving from St. John, she was a homemaker. She was a former member of the First Baptist Church. On...
Evie J. Nisly
Feb 16, 2008
Evie J. Nisly, 22, died Feb. 16, 2008, at her home. She was born Jan. 18, 1986, in San Salvador, El Salvador, the daughter of Arthur and Lillian Joy Miller Nisly. She was a Hutchinson resident. She belonged to Center Amish Mennonite Church, near Partridge. Survivors include: her parents; two brothers, Kevin Arthur and Karlin John, both of the home;...
Gerald E. Sheahan
Feb 16, 2008
Gerald Edward Sheahan, 75, died Feb. 16, 2008, at the emergency room at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Nov. 15, 1932, in Kingman, the son of William Lawrence and Mabel Rowley Sheahan. He graduated from Zenda High School in 1950. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired carpenter. He belonged to Holy Cross Catholic Church, the Hutchinson Carpenters...
Susan Ryan
Feb 15, 2008
Susan Darrow Ryan, 95, died Feb. 15, 2008, at Dillon Living Center. She was born Sept. 5, 1912, in Blaine County, Okla., the daughter of Edwin Lyman and Marie Louise Driever Darrow. A longtime resident of Oklahoma City, moving to Dillon Living Center in 2001, she had worked as a guard at Tinker Air Force Base during World War II,...
Eva Martha Foos
Feb 15, 2008
Eva Martha Foos, 93, died Feb. 15, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 15, 1914, in Bazine, the daughter of Jacob H. and Mary Scheuerman Staley. She graduated from Bazine High School in 1933. A resident of Hutchinson since 1999, formerly a longtime resident of Bazine, she was a farm wife and had worked at Ralph's IGA,...
Mary Ann Goss
Feb 15, 2008
Mary Ann Goss, 62, died Feb. 15, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born June 21, 1945, in Lyons, the daughter of Raymond and Velma Wilkerson Ashley. She graduated from Chase High School in 1963. A resident of South Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Westside Baptist Church. She loved art and taught many art painting classes over...
Lou Ann Hickey
Feb 14, 2008
Lou Ann Hickey, 51, died Feb. 14, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Dec. 8, 1956, in Ness City, the daughter of Harry Dean and Dora Mae Burnett Shull. She graduated in 1975, from Lane County High School, and attended Garden City Community College and Fort Hays State University. A resident of Hutchinson since 1980, she was a waitress...
Susanne Unruh
Feb 13, 2008
SAHAURITA, Ariz. - Susanne Unruh, 68, died Feb. 13, 2008, at St. Mary's Hospice, Tucson, Ariz. She was born Aug. 22, 1939, in Great Bend, the daughter of John and Nora Ellen Graham Munds. She graduated from Burrton High School, Burrton, in 1957. She had lived in Wichita until moving to Seattle, Wash., in 1968. She retired as assistant manager...
Clawrence W, Hopkins
Feb 13, 2008
Clarence W. Hopkins, 91, died Feb. 13, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Nov. 26, 1916, McPherson, the son of Wade W. and Mary Edith Wilson Hopkins. He graduated from Hutchinson High School. He was a Mechanic working for International Harvester and retiring from Consolidated Manufacturing in 1981 after 22 years of service. He belonged to Bethany Church of...
Virgil Smith
Feb 13, 2008
Virgil "Smitty" Smith, 85, died Feb. 13, 2008, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 2, 1922, in Hutchinson, the son of Henry Elsworth and Minnie Cecil Luginbill Smith. He graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1940. He was a longtime resident of Hutchinson, living in Manhattan from 1976 to 1996. He was the Dillons Store manager in...
Bob Carl
Feb 13, 2008
Bob Carl, 52, died Feb. 13, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Oct. 13, 1955, at Kansas City, Mo., the son of Joseph E. and Norine L. Schmidt Carl. He was a Hutchinson resident since July 2007, moving from St. George, Utah, and formerly a resident of Dodge City. He graduated from Shawnee-Mission North West High School. He was...
Gaines Wilbur Eidson
Feb 10, 2008
STERLING - Gaines Wilbur Eidson, 33, died Feb. 10, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Feb. 7, 1975, in Nickerson, the son of Orval and Maxine Eldridge Eidson. He graduated from Nickerson High School in 1993 and attended Vo-Tech school at Hutchinson Community College. He was a farmhand for Bob Mizell. On May 30, 1998, he married Kandee Sue...
Robert E. Fletcher, Jr.
Feb 10, 2008
Robert E. Fletcher Jr., 85, died Feb. 10, 2008, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. He was born June 9, 1922, in Hutchinson, the son of Robert E. Sr. and Agnes Lillian Russ Fletcher. He was a graduate of Hutchinson High School in 1941. A lifetime Hutchinson area resident he was a retired brick mason. He belonged to the Crestview Bible...
Harold D. Dufek
Feb 9, 2008
Harold D. Dufek, 86, died February 9, 2008, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born November 15, 1921 in Noble County, Oklahoma, the son of Emil Dufek and Petra Elvrum Dufek. After living in Oklahoma and Texas, the family moved to Hutchinson in 1933. He attended high school and junior college at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell,...
Harvey A. Peters
Feb 9, 2008
Harvey A. Peters, 66, died Feb. 9, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Aug. 24, 1941, in Hutchinson, the son of Clause K. and Martha E. Klassen Peters. A lifetime resident of the Hutchinson and Inman areas, he was a farmer, truck driver and had worked for the Co-op Steel Plant on East Fourth. On Oct. 5, 1963, he...
Evelyn C. Dukelow
Feb 8, 2008
Evelyn C. Dukelow, 97, died Feb. 8, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 19, 1910, in Hutchinson,the daughter of William and Lillian Peck Ellsworth. A 1929 Hutchinson High School graduate. She lived in Hutchinson, since 1980, moving from Cleveland, Ohio, and previously from Denver, New Orleans, San Mateo, Calif., and Atlanta. She was a homemaker. She belonged...
Lyle Ray Ullom
Feb 7, 2008
Lyle Ray Ullom, 60, died Feb. 7, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 15, 1947, in Hutchinson, the son of Happy Phillip and Edna FlorEtta Conrad Ullom. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he was a truck driver for Rawhide Trucking and had worked for Shears and Dahlsten Truck Line. He belonged to New Life Church of the...
Kenneth G. Unruh
Feb 7, 2008
Kenneth Glenn Unruh, 77, died Feb. 7, 2008, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born July 29, 1930, in Montezuma, the son of Tobias P. Unruh and Viola Nightengale Liebman-Shaw. He graduated in 1950 from Hutchinson High School, attended Hutchinson Community College, and graduated in 1958 from Pittsburg State University. He was the owner and operator of Arrow Machine and...
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