Melvin J. Ellis
Jul 3, 2007
Melvin J. "Bud" Ellis, 80, died July 3, 2007, at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Wichita. He was born Oct. 26, 1926, in Florence, the son of Ted J. and Lillian Leon Ellis. He graduated from Edgewood High School in 1943. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired staff sergeant for the United States Marine...
Helen K. Loepp
Jul 2, 2007
Helen K. Loepp, 84, died July 2, 2007, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born on July 21, 1922, in Inman, the daughter of John S. and Lissie Esau Schroeder. She was a resident if Hutchinson. She attended Buhler High School, graduating with the class of 1941 and Sid's Hairdressing College, Hutchinson. She was a homemaker and hairdresser, owning and...
David E. Unruh
Jul 2, 2007
David Eugene Unruh, 45, died July 2, 2007, in Minden, Neb. He was born March 9, 1962, in Hutchinson, the son of Kenneth G. and Elnora Scheuermann Unruh. He graduated in 1981, from Hutchinson High School. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, he was a millwright for Southwest Associates, Burrton, and had worked for American Maplan, McPherson, and Alcoa, Hutchinson. He belonged...
Joan L. Cantwell
Jun 28, 2007
HAVEN - Joan L. "Joli" Cantwell, 83, died June 28, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 11, 1924, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Karl E. and Ethel M. Davis Donnell. She graduated from Hutchinson High School with the class of 1941, Wichita University class of 1945, and completed her post-graduate work at the University of Kansas, and...
Mabel J. Hartung
Jun 27, 2007
Mabel J. "Jan" Hartung, 67, went home to be with the Lord on June 27, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Jan. 23, 1940, in Junction City, the daughter of Marion and Waneta N. Whitbeck Artes. She attended schools in Junction City. A resident of Hutchinson, she was owner and operator of Hartung Daycare for many years. She was...
Mary Jane "Jane" Rife
Jun 25, 2007
Mary Jane "Jane" Rife,85, died June 25, 2007, at Good Samaritan Village, Hutchinson. She was born July 7, 1921, in Turon, the daughter of Ernest Glen and Mary Etta Sprout Walker. She attended Turon Schools. She was a longtime resident of Burrton, moving to Hutchinson in 1977, briefly residing in Liberal from 2000 to 2004, before returning to Hutchinson. She...
Thursa M. Cannon
Jun 25, 2007
Thursa M. "Babe" Cannon, 89, died June 25, 2007 at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson after a lengthy illness. She was born Feb. 13, 1918, in Melrose, NM, the daughter of Fred and Gertrude Musselman Fox. She was a longtime resident of Hutchinson. She graduated from Plevna High School and she also graduated from beauty school in Hutchinson. She was retired....
Harold E. Cooper
Jun 24, 2007
Harold E. Cooper, 82, died June 24, 2007 at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born March 2, 1925 in Hugoton, the son of Charles Levitt and Lillian May Stuart Cooper. He was a Reno County resident for most of his life. He was a 1943 graduate of Reno Community High School, Nickerson. He also attended the University of Kansas and Colorado...
Barbara Dean Miller
Jun 24, 2007
Barbara Dean Miller, 78, died June 24, 2007, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born on Jan. 17, 1929, in Tecumseh, Okla., the daughter of Harold and Opal M. Guilliams Clark. She was a Hutchinson resident since 1937, moving here from Oklahoma. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1946 and from Kansas State University in 1950. Following her...
Inez L. Burling
Jun 24, 2007
Inez L. Burling, 95, died June 24, 2007 at Seton North West Hospital, Austin, Texas. She was born July 16, 1911, in Bucklin the daughter of Robert and Ella Chapman Harlow. She was a longtime Arlington resident where she devoted her life to her family, farms, church and community. She enjoyed many hobbies and was an excellent seamstress, a skill...
Lela Marie Wainner
Jun 22, 2007
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Lela Marie Wainner, 100, died June 22, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born March 3, 1907, in Siloam Springs, Ark., the daughter of Jonathan Franklin and Julia Frances Arnold Henson. She graduated from Nickerson High School in 1925, attended Sterling College, and received her teaching certificate; she earned her LPN in 1960 in Carlsbad, N.M. She...
Ned G. Harmon
Jun 22, 2007
Ned G. Harmon, 89, died June 22, 2007 at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 22, 1918 in Gate, Okla., the son of Winnie Benjamin and Daisy Jay Harmon. A resident of South Hutchinson, having lived in Springfield, Colo. from 1945 to 1948 and in Haviland from 1958 to 2006, he was a retired farmer and worked for...
Marjory L. Green
Jun 21, 2007
Marjory L. Green, 76, died June 21, 2007 at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Feb. 11, 1931 in Lamar, Colo., the daughter of Joseph Edward "Ed" and Doris "Queenie" McQueen. She graduated in 1949 from Hutchinson High School. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, she worked as a trimmer building mobile homes for Detroiter Mobile Homes for 18 years and then worked...
Albert D. Krehbiel
Jun 21, 2007
Albert Dean Krehbiel, 75, died June 21, 2007 at his home in Fredericksburg, VA. He was born July 18, 1931 in Lakin, the son of Albert C. and Mary K. Flickinger Krehbiel. He was a former resident of Pretty Prairie. He graduated from Pretty Prairie High School, attended Bethel College and graduated from Mexico City (Mexico) College. He worked in...
Howard L. Taber
Jun 17, 2007
Howard L. Taber, 66, died June 17, 2007, at his home in Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 7, 1940, in Centralia, Ill., the son of Marvin and Julia Williams Taber. He was a Hutchinson resident since moving here in 1950, when he moved here with his parents from Kearney, Neb. He graduated from Buhler High School in 1959. He was...
Mary E. Wendland
Jun 15, 2007
Mary E. Wendland, 95, died June 15, 2007, at Hester Care Center. She was born Sept. 1, 1911, in rural Lyndon, the daughter of LaForrest and Annie Peterson Elliott. She was a 1928 graduate of Lyndon High School and attended Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, to prepare herself to teach in a rural school. Her early schools were in rural...
William J. Boor
Jun 14, 2007
William J. "Bill" Boor, 84, died June 14, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital ER. He was born on July 16, 1922, in Beaver, the son of Wenzel H. and Anna Marie Hipp Boor. He was a longtime resident of Hutchinson, moving from Ellinwood where they lived for 23 years. He graduated from Hanston High School. He was a retired construction worker....
Steven Clary
Jun 13, 2007
Steven Clary, 58, died June 13, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born April 23, 1949, in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Timothy Titus and Beulah Franklin Clary. A resident of Hutchinson, he was a self-employed truck driver. On Sept. 1, 1968, he married Mary Sarras. She survives. Other survivors include: two sons, Matthew, Gardner, and John, Norton;...
Janice M. Cooke
Jun 13, 2007
Janice M. Cooke, 77, died June 13, 2007, at Pioneer Ridge Care Center, Lawrence. She was born March 19, 1930, in Dodge City, the daughter of Dr. Guy L. and Marion Brown Cowen. She graduated from Dodge City High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1963, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Trinity United Methodist Church, Hutchinson. On Dec....
Josephine A. Flora
Jun 12, 2007
Josephine Anne "Josie" Flora, 71, died June 12, 2007, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born Dec. 12, 1935, in Hutchinson, the daughter of James Wilbour and Christine Josephine Haas Walden. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker, owner of Flora's Custom Quilting and a longtime Avon representative. She was a lifetime member of both Kansas State Rabbit...
