Wilma M. Shackelford
Jan 3, 2008
Wilma Mae Shackelford, 80, died Jan. 3, 2008, at the Good Samaritan Center. She was born Aug. 10, 1927, in rural Yoder, the daughter of A.H. and Blanche Wilhite Hammond. She graduated from Cranford College in 1985. A longtime resident of Yankee Run at Kanopolis Reservoir, she was a waitress at the former George's Cafe and Elwood Cafe, and retired...
Karen S. Inghram
Jan 2, 2008
Karen Sue Inghram, 71, died Jan. 2, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 4, 1937, in Hutchinson, the daughter of James Albert and Mary E. Burch Henry. She attended schools in Hutchinson. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She was one of Jehovah's Witnesses. On Oct. 15, 1977, she married David Lee Inghram in Hutchinson....
Marie J. Kaiser
Jan 2, 2008
Marie J. Kaiser, 92, died Jan. 2, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 23,1915, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Alfred Ray and Phoebe Loretta Rucker Teter. She attended the Hutchinson school system. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was one of the original residents at Elm Grove Estates. She was a homemaker and a nurse's aide at...
Curtiss E. Hadley
Jan 2, 2008
Curtiss E. Hadley, 81, died Jan. 2, 2008, at the Arkansas Heart Hospital, Little Rock, Ark., as a result of complications from heart surgery. He was born July 6, 1926, in Hutchinson, the son of Eldon and Laura Schlegel Hadley. He attended Hutchinson High School. A resident of Hutchinson, he was the owner of Hadley Floor Covering and Life and...
C. David Hayes
Jan 1, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, Missouri - C. David Hayes, 67, died Jan. 1, 2008, at Table Rock Lake, Mo. He was born May 22, 1940, in Mocksville, N.C., the son of Richard D. and Mary Martin Hayes. He had received his Masters Degree in the field of science from the University of Texas at El Paso. A resident of Huntsville, Texas, he was...
Audra M. Mettscher
Jan 1, 2008
Audra M. Mettscher, 80, died Jan. 1, 2008, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 9, 1927, at Worth, Mo., the daughter of Ralph and Effie L. Fickle Gladstone. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a hairdresser and a homemaker. She belonged to Zion Lutheran Church, Women of the Moose Chapter 1371, and was a former member of Sweet...
Betty Mezger
Jan 1, 2008
Betty Mezger, 83, of Hutchinson, KS., passed away peacefully on Weds., January 2, 2008, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease at The Sweet Life of Rosehill, Shawnee, KS. She was born October 11, 1924 near Liberal, KS., the third child of Nathan and Mary Jane Redfern Jones. She graduated from Preston High School in May 1942. During WWII, she took...
Nellie A. Mathis
Jan 1, 2008
SOUTH. HUTCHINSON - Nellie Alta Mathis, 93, died Jan. 1, 2008, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born March, 3, 1914, in Plato, Mo., the daughter of James M. Gaddy and Etta Florence Smith. She attended school in Missouri. A longtime resident, moving to Hutchinson in1942 from Missouri, she was a homemaker. She belonged to First United Methodist Church,...
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...
