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Mary Jane "Jane" Rife

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Doris C. Leighnor

Doris C. Leighnor

Jun 12, 2007

Doris C. Leighnor, 75, died June 12, 2007, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 21, 1931, in Junction City, the daughter of Roy Johnson and Louise Moore Johnson Clewell. She was a 1949 graduate of Hutchinson High School and graduated from Hutchinson Junior College. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. On Sept. 1, 1951, she...

Edith M. Day

Edith M. Day

Jun 12, 2007

ARLINGTON - Edith M. Day, 86, died June 12, 2007, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 26, 1921, northwest of Langdon, the daughter of Harry Daniel and Goldie Myrtle Powell Mitchell. She attended schools in Sylvia, Arlington and had graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1939. She also attended Salt City Business College. A resident of Reno...

Joseph F. Warren

Joseph F. Warren

Jun 10, 2007

PLEVNA - Joseph F. Warren, 63, died June 10, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born March 29, 1944, in Denver, the son of Joseph and Carrol F. Kuskey Warren. He was a resident of Plevna for the last year, moving from Pratt, where he was a 40 year resident. He was a diesel mechanic for Doonan's Trailer Corp, Great...

Lois I. Sparks

Lois I. Sparks

Jun 10, 2007

MOUNT HOPE - Lois I. Sparks, 86, died June 10, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Dec. 26, 1920, in Mulhall, Okla., the daughter of Ira Mont and Bessie Bland Lowrie. She put herself through high school and graduated in 1943 from Mulhall High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society. A resident of Mount...

Margo Neufeld

Margo Neufeld

Jun 9, 2007

Margo Neufeld, 58, died June 8, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center. She was born Sept. 21, 1948, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Abe S. and Orlean K. Geis Neufeld. She graduated in 1966, from Hutchinson High School, attended Paris Junior College, Paris, Texas, and in 1984, completed her LVN, in Paris, Texas. A resident of Hutchinson, spending 15 years...

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