Earl A. Aldrich
Jan 23, 2007
Earl A. Aldrich, 96, died Jan. 23, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. He was born Sept. 8, 1910, in Sylvia, the son of Joseph Edward and Zenira Eugenia Fergus Aldrich. In 1930, he graduated from Sylvia High School. A Hutchinson resident since 1984, moving from the Plevna-Sylvia area where he had been a longtime resident, he was a...
Lorene Waldschmidt
Jan 22, 2007
Lorene Waldschmidt, 79, died Jan. 22, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 11, 1927, in Anthony, the daughter of Laurans A. and Beulah A. Heath Van Ranken. In 1945, she graduated from Anthony High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she had worked at the Reno County Courthouse for 36 years, retiring in 1992 as the Reno County...
Harold L. Yoder
Jan 21, 2007
Harold L. Yoder, 77, died Jan. 21, 2007, at his home. He was born Aug. 24, 1929, in Hutchinson, the son of Reuben D. and Katie A. Miller Yoder. He attended Hesston College. A lifetime Hutchinson and Yoder resident, he was a farmer and owner of Yoder Excavating. He belonged to Countryside Baptist and attended First Mennonite Church. He sang...
Jesus, Jessica, Aubrianna Garcia
Jan 20, 2007
Jesus Manuel "Boogie" Garcia, 25, Jessica Renae Garcia, 22, and their 20-month-old daughter Aubrianna Michelle Garcia died Jan. 20, 2007, in an automobile accident in Hutchinson. Jesus was born Sept. 18, 1981, in Hutchinson, the son of Jose Manuel "Boogie" and Charlene Faye Martinez Garcia. He attended Hutchinson schools, including Trinity and Hutchinson High School. He was a supervisor for...
Pauline Mcgonigle
Jan 20, 2007
Pauline McGonigle, 83, died peacefully Jan. 20, 2007, at Via Christi-St. Francis Hospital, in Wichita, with her family at her side. She was born March 23, 1923, in Pembroke, Wales, United Kingdom to John and Edie Outhwaite. Pauline immigrated to the United States with her parents and brother in May 1928, sailing two weeks on the RMS Berengaria and settling...
Charles "Buck" Jenkins
Jan 19, 2007
Charles "Buck" Jenkins, 74, died Jan. 19, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital, ICU. He was born April 5, 1932, in Alva, Okla., the son of Eugene Moses and Emma Ruth Phillips Jenkins. A resident of Hutchinson since 1941, he had been a correctional officer and supervisor at Hutchinson Correctional Facility. On June 4, 1949, he married Maxine Mildred Socha in Hutchinson....
Charles E. Hill
Jan 19, 2007
BURRTON - Charles Edward "Chuck" Hill, 89, died Jan. 19, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born June 13, 1917, in Preston, the son of Clayton S. and Edna Siegrist Hill. He was a 1935 graduate of Burrton High School. A lifetime Burrton community resident, he was a farmer. He belonged to Burrton United Methodist Church and a was...
Robert L. Slater
Jan 18, 2007
Robert L. "Bob" Slater, 82, died Jan. 18, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Oct. 11, 1924, in Hutchinson, the son of Roscoe and Monzelle Logan Slater. He graduated from Wichita East High School. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, he was a retired linotype operator for The Hutchinson News . He belonged to the First United Methodist Church as...
Mildred R. Hewerdine
Jan 18, 2007
Mildred R. "Mickey" Hewerdine, 87, died Jan. 18, 2007, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers. She was born Oct. 16, 1919, in Fairfield, Ill., the daughter of Lewis and Susan Young Caldwell. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a former nurses' aide and was on the kitchen staff at Hutchinson High School. She belonged Bethany Church of the Nazarene. She...
Samuel Baggett
Jan 17, 2007
Samuel "Russell" Baggett, 90, died Jan. 17, 2007, at Dillon Living Center. He was born Nov. 24, 1916, in Sterling, the son of Samuel and Bess Phillips Baggett. He attended schools in Sterling. A resident of Hutchinson, formerly of Sterling, and Ft. Smith, Ark., he was a retired switchman for Santa Fe Railroad. He was baptized in the Baptist Church,...
Courtney Ivan Chaney
Jan 17, 2007
Courtney Ivan Chaney, 43, died Jan. 17, 2007, at his home. He was born June 27, 1963, in Kansas City, Mo., the son of Charles Sylvester Chaney Sr. and Gloria Jean Donnell. He graduated in 1981 from St. John High School and attended McPherson College. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he was an independent construction worker and mechanic. On June 27,...
Alta M. Bleything
Jan 16, 2007
Alta May Bleything, 82, died Jan. 16, 2007, at Hospice House. She was born Jan. 9, 1925, in Lake City, the daughter of Albert and Alma Vanderplas Shmidl. She graduated from Lake City High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker. She belonged to First Christian Church, T.O.P.S., Phi Beta Thi sorority and was past president of the...
Maryalma Fair
Jan 15, 2007
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Maryalma Fair, 92, died Jan. 15, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born June 30, 1914, in Geneseo, the daughter of Porter and Myrtle Mae Loutzenhiser Liscum. In 1932, she graduated from Hutchinson High School and attended Salt City Business College. A lifetime area resident, she was a farmer's wife. She was past president of Lincoln...
Edward J. Kobetich
Jan 15, 2007
Edward J. Kobetich, 65, died Jan. 15, 2007, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 8, 1941, in Clay Center, the son of John Edward and Hilda I. Ayres Kobetich. In 1959, he graduated from Abilene High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Kansas State University and a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Nebraska, and...
Helena L. Wooldridge
Jan 15, 2007
Helena L. Wooldridge, 89, died Jan. 15, 2007, at Hester Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 19, 1917, in Wichita, the daughter of Thomas and Lilly Brandenberg Crabb. A longtime Kingman resident, moving to Hutchinson in 1993, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Trinity United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, Round Table Club, United Methodist Women and the Veterans of...
Marilyn J. Pritchard
Jan 14, 2007
Marilyn J. Pritchard, 72, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Hutchison Hospital. She was born Dec. 30, 1934, in Sterling, the daughter of Roy Albert and Ruby May Strait Lyon. She was a homemaker. On May 2, 1954, she married Robert I. Pritchard in Hutchinson. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, David W., Salina; three daughters, Barbara J. Fallis, Buhler,...
Eleanor C. Kale
Jan 14, 2007
Eleanor C. Kale, 86, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born June 5, 1920, in Larned, the daughter of Wiley Buchanan and Mattie Dazey Compton. She graduated from Larned High School, received her bachelor's degree from Hays State Teachers College, her master's degree from Southwestern University, Weatherford, Okla., and her second master's degree from Kansas University. A...
Thelma E. Thode-Groth
Jan 14, 2007
Thelma E. Thode-Groth, 98, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 26, 1908, in rural Sterling, the daughter of Edward Foraker and Anna Barbara Royer Drake. In 1926, she graduated from Reno County High School, Nickerson. A resident of Hutchinson, she was a farm housewife. She was a former member of Saxman Presbyterian Church....
Christine Ann Lehman
Jan 14, 2007
Christine Ann Lehman, 1 month 21 days, died Jan. 14, 2007, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Nov. 23, 2006, in Wichita, the daughter of Scott Butler and Shelley Ann Rupiper Lehman. Her parents were long time residents of Hutchinson. Her parents and family belonged to the Church of the Holy Cross. Survivors include: her parents; two brothers,...
Virgil Dean Johnson
Jan 13, 2007
INMAN - Virgil D. Johnson, 78, died Jan. 13, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Oct. 11, 1928, in Little River, the son of Carl W. and Myrtle L. Briggs Johnson. He graduated in 1946, from Little River High School. A longtime resident of the Windom and Inman areas, he was a farmer, stockman, and retired from KPL...
