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...
Kenneth Addison
Feb 3, 2008
Kenneth "Kenny" Addison, 86, died Feb. 3, 2008, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. He was born April 2, 1921, in Newcastle Neb., the son of Dean and Frances Smith Addison. He was a graduate of the Souix City Iowa High School and attended Business College in Souix City. A Hutchinson resident since 1957, he owned and operated Al-Char Bowling Lanes...
John R. Bether
Feb 3, 2008
After a long illness, John Riley Bether died peacefully at the age of 78 on Feb. 3, 2008, at the Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler, KS. He was born on May 25, 1929, to parents August and Norma Owen Bether in Nashville, KS. At the age of 12, John moved to Hutchinson with his family. He graduated from Hutchinson...
Helen A. Cornwell
Feb 1, 2008
Helen Alberta Cornwell, 60, died Feb. 1, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Village. She was born July 11, 1947, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Alva Howard and Margery Alta George Giles. She graduated in 1966, from Hutchinson High School. She was a lifetime resident of Hutchinson. She belonged to Bethany Church of the Nazarene, the Red Hat Society, and the...
Helen L. Norris
Feb 1, 2008
Helen Lucille Norris, 75, died Feb. 1, 2008, at Thorne Care Center. She was born Oct. 6, 1934, in Shadduck, Okla., the daughter of Orville and Helen Smith Thomas. She graduated in 1952 from Guymon (Okla.) High School. A longtime resident of Pratt, moving to Hutchinson in 1995, she was a homemaker. She belonged to the First Baptist Church, Hutchinson,...
Esther R. Neighbors
Jan 31, 2008
Esther R. Neighbors, 83, died Jan. 31, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Nov. 15, 1924, in Cass Lake, Minn., the daughter of Fred and Katherine "Katie" Gobbitz DeWitt. A resident of Hutchinson since 1953, she was the owner and operator of LTD Upholstery. In 1953, she married David J. Neighbors in Clovis, N.M. He survives. Other survivors include:...
Verle D. Rutledge
Jan 30, 2008
Verle D. Rutledge, 77, died Jan. 30, 2008, at his home. He was born Jan. 14, 1931, in Arlington, the son of Paul and Anna Albright Rutledge. A lifetime Arlington resident, he attended Arlington High School. He was a farmer and worked for Cessna and Eaton Corp., retiring from Eaton in 1991 after 38 years. He then worked as a...
