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...
Lillian M. Brewer
Dec 16, 2007
Lillian M. Brewer, 89, died Dec. 16, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center. She was born April 9, 1918, in Navarre, the daughter of Oren Clifford and Ethel Mae Rock. She graduated from Emporia High School in 1936, and attended the College of Emporia. A resident of Hutchinson since 1956, moving from Concordia, she was a homemaker. She belonged to...
Nevaeh Lynn Leshore
Dec 15, 2007
Nevaeh Lynn LeShore, 26 days old, died Dec. 15, 2007, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Nov. 19, 2007, at Hutchinson, the daughter of Jamie LeShore and Cheri Herald. Survivors include: her parents; a brother, Adonis Petty-Gray; a sister, Alexis Herald; grandparents, Maria Guzman, Lora Herald and Jimmy LeShore, all of Hutchinson; great-grandparents, Santos and Jane Amaya, and...
H.E. Bofink
Dec 15, 2007
H.E. "Pete" Bofink, 83, died Dec. 15, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Nov. 24, 1924, in Jackson, Mich., the son of H.E. and Dorothy Zerman Bofink. He graduated in 1942, from Jackson High School, Jackson, Mich. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was the vice president of the printing plant for R.L. Polk Co., retiring after 47 years...
Payton A. Mitchell
Dec 12, 2007
Patyon Allen Mitchell, four months, died Dec. 12, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born July 19, 2007, in Hutchinson, the son of Curtis and Pam Mitchell. Survivors include: his parents, Hutchinson; a brother, Gregory Davis, Hutchinson; a sister, Madison Paige Mitchell, Hutchinson; grandparents, Jay and Jo Davis, Hutchinson, Linda and Lyle Housh, Hutchinson, and Bob and Charlotte Mitchell, Camdenton,...
Nellie G. Douglas
Dec 12, 2007
Nellie Geraldine "Gerry" Douglas, 92, died Dec. 12, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born June 4, 1915, in Colwich, the daughter of Arthur L. and Laura E. Givens Beer. She was a 1935 graduate of Hutchinson High School. A Hutchinson resident for most of her life, she was retired from American Investors Life Insurance Company. She belonged to Church...
