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Todd Graves

Todd Graves

Feb 22, 2008

Todd Graves, 39, died Feb. 22, 2008, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born July 28, 1968, in Hutchinson, the son of Raymond M. and Barbara Barkman Graves. A 1987 graduate of Buhler High School, he was a lifetime Hutchinson resident and an electrician for Automation Engineering and Intergration. He belonged to First Christian Church. On Nov. 20, 1993, he married...

Nina E. Seyb

Nina E. Seyb

Feb 20, 2008

PRETTY PRAIRIE - Nina E. Seyb, 92, died Feb. 20, 2008, at Prairie Sunset Home, Pretty Prairie. She was born July 27,1915, Alden, the daughter of, James W. and Ermine Bradley Dimmitt. She graduated from Johnson High School, and attended business school in Hutchinson, a long time Pretty Prairie resident. She was a homemaker. She belonged to Pretty Prairie United...

Winifred V. Koehn

Winifred V. Koehn

Feb 20, 2008

Winifred V. Koehn, 87, died Feb. 20, 2008, at Hester Care Center. She was born June 3, 1920, in Burrton, the daughter of Lyle and Flota F. Parker Jones. She was a 1938 Burrton High School graduate. A lifetime Burrton and Hutchinson area resident, she was a homemaker. She belonged to First Congregational Church. On June 7, 1940, she married...

Philip A. Webster

Philip A. Webster

Feb 19, 2008

Philip A. Webster, 87, died Feb. 19, 2008, at Thorne Care Center at Wesley Towers. He was born July 15, 1920, in Iola, the son of John L. and Margaretha Krueger Webster. He graduated from Paseo High School, Kansas City, in 1938 and from Hutchinson Junior College in 1940. A longtime Hutchinson, resident, he was a project engineer for Woodwork...

Mary H. Holmes

Mary H. Holmes

Feb 19, 2008

Mary Helen Holmes, 90, died Feb. 19, 2008, at Desert Palace Assisted Living, Chandler, Ariz. She was born Oct. 3, 1917, in Chase, the daughter of Roland Thomas and Bessie Jane Haxton McGuire. A resident of Arizona since 1971, moving from Hutchinson, she was a seamstress for Lillie Rubin and Sakowitz, both of Arizona. She was a former member of...

John G. Baird

John G. Baird

Feb 19, 2008

John Gordon Baird, 91, died Feb. 19, 2008, at Brandon Woods Health Center, Lawrence. He was born March, 1, 1916, in Vesper, the son of John C. and Julia Corbett Baird. He was a graduate of Hutchinson High School in 1934. A longtime Hutchinson area resident, he moved to Lawrence in 2005, he was a retired electrician. He formerly belonged...

Vera M. Cunday

Vera M. Cunday

Feb 17, 2008

Vera M. Cunday, 85, died Feb. 17, 2008, at Hospice House in Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 9, 1923, in Burrton, the daughter of Arthur Lewis Likens and Helen Berg Ackley. She was a 1943 graduate of Reno Community School. A Hutchinson area resident most her life, she was an Administrative Assistant for USD 308. She belonged to the Westside...

Janelle Krenzin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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