Juanita M. Ayers
Aug 23, 2007
Juanita Mae Ayers, 86, died Aug. 23, 2007, at Dillon Living Center. She was born May 15, 1921, in St. Joseph, Mo., the daughter of Edward and Gladys M. Swartz Willis. She graduated from Pratt High School. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, having lived at Marion County Lake and in Nickerson, she was a homemaker. She belonged to United Methodist...
Josiah Roper
Aug 23, 2007
Josiah Roper, was stillborn Aug. 23, 2007, at Wichita. He was the son of David and Tonya Foster Roper. Survivors include: his parents, his brothers and sisters, Levi, Seth, Gabe, Caleb, Faith, Noah, Mercy, Elijah, and Felicity; grandparents, Gary and Lana Foster, Abbyville, and Rex and Marilyn Roper, Everson, Wash. Service was held Friday at their home, Abbyville. Elliott Mortuary,...
Russ T. Templeton
Aug 20, 2007
Russ T. "Gramps" Templeton, 92, died Aug. 20, 2007, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 16, 1914, in Webb City, Mo., the son of Tommy T. and Linnie Mae Creech Templeton. He was a longtime Hutchinson resident. He was the owner and operator of Templeton Service Stations. He also served as the mayor of South Hutchinson and...
Mary M. Miller
Aug 19, 2007
PARTRIDGE - Mary Martha Miller, 88, went to be with the Lord Aug. 19, 2007, at her home. She was born April 10, 1919, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Abraham F. and Sarah Miller Nisly. She attended East Eureka Country School in Reno County. A resident of Partridge, she was a homemaker. She belonged to the Center Amish Mennonite Church....
Richard F. Waddle
Aug 17, 2007
ABBYVILLE - Richard F. "Dick" Waddle, 75, died Aug. 17, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Oct. 12, 1931, in Abbyville, the son of Fred S. and Edna P. Krauter Waddle. He graduated in 1949, from Abbyville High School. He was a lifelong farmer and was a machinist for Cessna for 25 years. He belonged to New Life Christian...
Myron Krenzin
Aug 16, 2007
Myron Krenzin, 88, died Aug. 16, 2007, at Dillon Living Center. He was born Oct. 27, 1918, in Plevna, the son of Ernest Edward and Leah Oyer Krenzin. He attended Plevna High School for three years, and then graduated in 1941, from Hutchinson High School. He attended Hutchinson Community College. He was a dairyman, administrator and marketing specialist for the...
Verling D. Huffman
Aug 15, 2007
Verling D. Huffman, 88, died Aug. 15, 2007, at Golden Plains Health Care Center. He was born Nov. 25, 1918, in Hutchinson, the son of George Edmund and Mary Evangeline Miller Huffman. He graduated from Hutchinson High School and Salt City Business College. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he was a fireman for the Hutchinson City Fire Department, was appointed...
Norman G. Loop
Aug 14, 2007
Norman Guy Loop, 79, died Aug. 14, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Jan. 16, 1928, in Hardy, Neb., the son of Guy Albert and Alice Juliette Clark Loop. He has been a Hutchinson resident since 1961. He graduated from Hardy High School in 1946. He worked for Ideal Cement Plant, Superior, Neb., later working for Champlin Petroleum...
Wilburn J. Richardson
Aug 12, 2007
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Wilburn J. Richardson, 79, died Aug. 12, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 6, 1928, in Southland, Texas, the son of Sam Jones and Mary Ellen Gentry Richardson. He was a longtime resident of the Abbyville and Arlington areas, moving to South Hutchinson in 2005. He was the owner and operator of...
Alberta E. Alstatt
Aug 11, 2007
Alberta E. "Bert" Alstatt, 74, died Aug. 11, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Feb. 1, 1933, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Albert and Blanche Wilhite Hammond. She was a lifelong Reno County resident. She attended Langdon High School. She worked at Fraese Drug and later at the Medical Center pharmacy as an assistant and bookkeeper. She belonged to...
Carlos Isaiah Maese
Aug 10, 2007
Carlos Isaiah Maese died Aug. 10, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Aug. 10, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital, the son of Rico Maese and Rebecca Espinoza. The family has been lifelong residents of Hutchinson. Family belongs to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church, South Hutchinson. Survivors include: his father and mother of the home; a brother, Abraham of the...
J. Chester Bengston
Aug 9, 2007
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - J. Chester "Chet" Bengston, 84, died Aug. 9, 2007, at Hospice House. He was born July 10, 1923, in rural Windom, the son of John William and Hildur Caroline Elkholm Bengston. A longtime rural Inman resident, he was a retired farmer. He belonged to Andover Lutheran Church, rural Windom, serving as a trustee. On June 5, 1955,...
Harold R. Reed
Aug 8, 2007
Harold R. Reed, 95, died Aug. 8, 2007, at Hospice House. He was born Nov. 20, 1911, in Plevna, the son of Commodore A. and Susie Caldwell Reed. He graduated from Hutchinson High School and attended Hutchinson Junior College. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he worked for Santa Fe Railroad from 1941 to 1974, retiring as a switchman and yardmaster....
Hulda Wegener
Aug 7, 2007
Hulda Wegener, 96, died Aug. 7, 2007 at her home. She was born Nov. 8, 1910, in Rockford, Wash., the daughter of August and Dorothy Schneider Ficken. She was a Hutchinson resident since 1949. She graduated in 1930 from Blue Hill (Neb.) High School and graduated from Lutheran Institute, Hastings, Neb., in 1931. She was a homemaker. She belonged to...
Patricia A. Weesner
Aug 4, 2007
Patricia Ann "Pat" Weesner, 77, a wonderful mother, went home to be with her Lord, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. She was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Garden City, the daughter of Charles Burton "Sib" and Anna Ruth Jones Wheeler. She was a 1947 graduate of Sylvia High School and attended Hutchinson Community College and the University of Maryland. She was...
Floyd Schraeder
Aug 4, 2007
Floyd Schraeder, 84, died Aug. 4, 2007, at Galichia Heart Hospital, Wichita. He was born April 23, 1923, in Rush Center, the son of Otto and Blanche Jecha Schraeder. A lifetime resident of Rush County, moving to Hutchinson in 1989, he was a stockman and farmer, retiring in 1989. He belonged to the First United Methodist Church. On Oct. 14,...
Barbara J. Montgomery
Aug 2, 2007
Barbara Jean Montgomery, 85, died Aug. 2, 2007, at Wesley Towers Hester Care Center. She was born May 16, 1922, in Sterling, the daughter of Robert LeRoy and Ruth Jane Russell Ball. She graduated from high school in 1940 in Indianapolis, Ind., and received her teaching certificate from Sterling College. A resident of Phoenix for 27 years, moving to Hutchinson...
Elton Conrad Getz
Jul 30, 2007
Elton Conrad Getz, 87, died July 30, 2007, at Wesley Towers Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born on Sept. 10, 1919, in Studley, the son of Conrad Harmon and Lola Hazel Cunningham Getz. He was a Hutchinson resident since 1966, growing up in Tasco. He graduated in 1932 from Hoxie. He retired from sales in 1990 after 25 years...
William Shepard "Bill" Averitt
Jul 30, 2007
LAWRENCE - William Shepard "Bill" Averitt, 87, died July 30, 2007, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born Dec. 15, 1919, in Abbottsburg, N.C., the son of Franklin Shepard and Sallie Bell Monroe Davis Averitt. He graduated from Tar Heel (N.C.) High School in 1940. He worked as a meat grader for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 30 years...
Wayne Wineinger
Jul 28, 2007
Wayne Wineinger, beloved husband, best friend and uncle, 54, died July 28, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 24, 1952, in Anthony, the son of Harold W. and Rogene L. Clawson Wineinger. He graduated in 1970 from Norwich High School, in 1972 from Garden City Community College, and in 1976 from Kansas State University. He worked for...
