E. Bert Martin, Jr.
Dec 30, 2007
E. Bert Martin Jr., 90, died Dec. 30, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born June 6, 1917, in Pueblo, Colo., the son of E. Bert Martin Sr. and Ethel Frame Martin. He graduated from Englewood Colorado High School and attended Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla., and Taylor Instrument School, Rochester, N.Y. He was a resident of California for 60...
Chester A. Graham
Dec 30, 2007
Chester Arthur Graham, 91, died Dec. 30, 2007, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born March 31, 1916, in Schenectady, N.Y., the son of Chester Arthur Graham Sr., and Violet Pearl Myers Graham Ballard. A resident of Hutchinson since 1936, he was a machinist with Cessna for 37 years, retiring in 1978. He was a former member of the...
Charles R. Smith
Dec 27, 2007
Charles R. "Bob" Smith, 89, died Dec. 27, 2007, at Hospice House. He was born Nov. 27, 1918, in Ellsworth County, the son of Fred M. and Ruth E. McCall Smith. He graduated in 1937 from Brookville High School. He was a longtime Hutchinson resident, and had formerly lived at Buhler Sunshine Meadows Retirement Home. He had 21 years of...
Edith E. Yoder Phillips Cline
Dec 27, 2007
Edith Evelyn Yoder Phillips Cline, 96, died Dec. 27, 2007, at Hospice House. She was born Aug. 15, 1911, on a farm north west of Inman, the daughter of Levi M. and Tillie Yoder. A longtime resident of the Hutchinson and Inman areas, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Mitchell United Methodist Chapel and Monitor Church of the Brethren....
Jeannice Posey
Dec 27, 2007
Jeannice "Spottie" Posey, 78, died Dec. 27, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born March 6, 1929, in La Crosse, the daughter of Fred Arthur and Elizabeth Gross Erb. A resident of Hutchinson since 1945, she was a homemaker. On July 28, 1948, she married Raymond "Spot" Snyder in Hutchinson. He died April 6, 1973. On Jan. 7, 1974, she...
Marvin H. Sewing
Dec 26, 2007
Marvin H. "Bud" Sewing, 85, died Wednesday Dec. 26, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born March 21, 1922, in St. John, KS, the son of Henry and Lydia Schulz Sewing. He graduated in 1939, from Hutchinson High School. He worked for Montgomery Ward for 22 years, and then co-owned and operated Bud and Bob's Conoco Service Station until retiring...
Daphne Clare Weidler
Dec 26, 2007
Daphne Clare Weidler, 89, died Dec. 26, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Aug. 10, 1918, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of Thomas J. and Anna Rose Ebling Carney. She attended Brooklyn High School, Brooklyn, N.Y. A resident of Hutchinson since 1994, moving from Colorado Springs, Colo., she was a retired inspector for Hewlett Packard. She belonged to the...
Marcella Shuman
Dec 26, 2007
Marcella "Marcy" Shuman, 89, died Dec. 26, 2007, at Golden Plains Health Care Center. She was born Aug. 24, 1918, in St. John, the daughter of Henry and Lydia Schulz Sewing. She graduated in 1936, from Hutchinson High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a cook with U.S.D. 308, retiring in 1980, and a personal care nursing assistant with...
Charles L. Patten
Dec 25, 2007
Charles L. Patten, 65, died Dec. 25, 2007, at his daughter's home. He was born April 23, 1942, in Hutchinson, the son of Frank Patten, Iva Samples and Clifford Taggart. A resident of Hutchinson and Partridge, he was a retired construction supervisor for Borton L.C. of Hutchinson. He served in the U.S. Navy. He married Betty Isbell and later married...
Ethel M. Shuff
Dec 23, 2007
Ethel May Shuff, 100, died Dec. 23, 2007, at Hester Care Center. She was born April 3, 1907, in Plevna, the daughter of Benjamin and Blanche Holmes McRevey. She graduated from Plevna High School in 1925 and attended McPherson College. A longtime resident of Plevna, she was a homemaker and farmwife. She belonged to Trinity United Methodist Church, E.H.U. and...
Cleo Mae Mezger
Dec 23, 2007
Cleo Mae Cox Mezger passed away peacefully from this life on Sunday, December 23, 2007, at Dillon Living Center where she had resided for the past four months. She was born on December 14, 1918, in Cimarron, Gray County, Kansas to James Ervin and Merle Violet Smith Cox. She was raised by her maternal grandparents, John H. and Lucinda Mae...
Norma O'Neal
Dec 21, 2007
Norma O'Neal, 80, died Dec. 21, 2007, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 14, 1927, in Lawrence, the daughter of Charles A. and Edith Pearl Elston Anderson. A Hutchinson resident for 28 years, she was a homemaker. On Sept. 29, 1979, she married George E. O'Neal in Hutchinson. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, James Michael...
Gloria J. Hempstid
Dec 21, 2007
HAVEN - Gloria J. Hempstid, 88, died Dec. 21, 2007, at Hospice House. She was born Nov. 11, 1919, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Guy and Mabel, Burris Swanson. She was a graduate of Hutchinson High School and Kansas State University. She was the Co-Owner of Hempstid Variety Store in Haven for over 40 years. She attended the Haven United...
Dessia M. Nieciecki
Dec 20, 2007
Dessia Mae Nieciecki, 76, died Dec. 20, 2007, in North Fort Myers, Fla. She was born Nov. 6, 1931, in Bloomington, Ind., the daughter of Millard and Lillie Elkins Robertson. She graduated from Bloomington (Ind.) High School. A resident of Hutchinson, she was the retired owner and operator of Hearts Desire framing and needlework shops, with locations in Hutchinson, Great...
Bobbie F. Ford
Dec 20, 2007
GROVE, Okla. - Bobbie F. Ford, 78, died Dec. 20, 2007, at the Grove Nursing Center. He was born Nov. 10, 1929, in Hutchinson, the son of Winifred and Ada Jones Ford. He was a former Hutchinson and Topeka resident. He belonged to the American Legion, Topeka, and the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge, Grove. He was a chief master...
Bertha E. Wipf
Dec 20, 2007
Bertha E. Wipf, 104, died Dec. 20, 2007, at Thorne Care Center. She was born March 5, 1903, in rural Reno County, the daughter of Adam and Elizabeth Keller Wipf. A resident of Hutchinson, formerly of Sterling, she had worked as an operator for Sterling Telephone Company for 28 years, and then worked in the billing department for Mid Kansas...
Edward D. Hays
Dec 19, 2007
Edward D. "Eddie" Hays, 89, died December 19, 2007, at his home in Hutchinson, Ks. He was born Oct. 6, 1918, in Lyons, Ks., an only child of Charles Edward Hays and Bessie Leah Maxwell Hays. On June 5, 1940, he married Esther Anna Smith. She survives. He was a longtime resident of Hutchinson, having moved from Lyons, Ks., with...
Norman J. Hesterberg
Dec 19, 2007
Norman J. Hesterberg, 89, died Dec. 19, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 30, 1917, in Ellis, Neb., the son of Henry and Christena Cordsen Hesterberg. He graduated from Hutchinson High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1927, moving from Ellis, Neb., he was the co-owner and operator of Quality Floor Center, Hutchinson, and then worked at Bybee...
Harold G. Hoffman
Dec 18, 2007
Harold G. Hoffman, 80, died Dec. 18, 2007, at Hospice House. He was born Aug. 1, 1927, at Wichita, the son of Harold and Cleora Richardson Hoffman. In 1945 he graduated from Wichita East High School and attended Wichita State University. He was a PGA Golf Professional for 34 years, retiring in 1988 from Carey Park Golf Course. He belonged...
Cleta D. Blessing Friesen
Dec 17, 2007
Cleta D. Blessing Friesen, 87, died Dec. 17, 2007, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born June 17, 1920, at Roxbury, the daughter of Willard and Edith May Lilly Blessing. In 1938, she graduated from Inman High School and attended Salt City Business College, Hutchinson. She was the co-owner of Ike's Food Market in Inman for 26 years and...
