Martha M. Traffas
Feb 13, 2007
Martha M. "Mardi" Traffas, 96, died Feb. 13, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born May 19, 1910, in Chicago, the daughter of George and Martha Virbukas Zaromskis. A Hutchinson resident since 1974, moving from Sharon, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Church of the Holy Cross, Altar Society and St. Veronicas Circle of Holy Cross, The National...
Nima M. Newington
Feb 13, 2007
Nima M. Newington, 78, died Feb. 13, 2007, at Pleasant View Nursing Home in the Plaza, Inman. She was born May 19, 1928, in Detroit, the daughter of Frederick O. and Emma May Rowan Newington. She had attended school in Topeka. A resident of Hutchinson since 2001, formerly of Topeka, she was a secretary at medical offices. She belonged to...
William P. Owens
Feb 12, 2007
William P. "Bill" Owens, 98, died Feb. 12, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Aug. 15, 1908, in Emporia, the son of Owen Thomas and Elizabeth Rees Owens. In 1929, he graduated from Emporia High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he was business owner of Owens Tractor Implement, Emporia, A & W Restaurants of McPherson and Hutchinson, and...
Marie E. Lang
Feb 12, 2007
Marie Erika Lang, 90, died Feb. 12, 2007 at Hester Care Center, Wesley Towers. She was born April 24, 1916 in Aberdeen, Idaho, the daughter of Henry Gerhard and Anna L. Kopper Fast. She graduated in 1936 from Whitewater High School. A longtime Sylvia area resident, moving to Hutchinson, she was a homemaker and farmer's wife. She belonged to First...
Frankie L. Meador
Feb 11, 2007
Frankie L. Meador, 101, died Feb. 11, 2007, at Riverside Village Retirement Center, Wichita. She was born April 19, 1905, in Nickerson, the daughter of James Frank and Carrie Mae Jones Whitt. She graduated from Nickerson High School in 1925. A resident of Wichita since 2005, haveing been a longtime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker. On Feb. 17, 1932...
Kathleen S. Keller
Feb 9, 2007
Kathleen S. "Kay" Keller, 87, died Feb. 9, 2007, at Thorne Care Center, Wesley Towers. She was born March 1, 1919, in Plains, the daughter of Paul Archie and Carrie Inez Malone Myers. She graduated from Plains High School in 1938. A longtime Arlington resident, moving to Hutchinson in 1982, she was a homemaker and farmer. She belonged to Trinity...
Phyllis A. Rowland
Feb 9, 2007
Phyllis A. Rowland, 72, died Feb. 9, 2007, at the Good Samaritan Center. She was born Jan. 16, 1935, in Geneseo, the daughter of Marion and Lois E. Rusk Buckbee. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, she was a bakery worker at Dillon's. She belonged to Crossroads Christian Church. In October 1951, she married Adrian Blasé, in Hutchinson. He died April...
Maebert Main
Feb 9, 2007
Maebert Main, 83, died Feb. 9, 2007, at Hospice House. She was born Nov. 29, 1923, in Sedgwick, the daughter of Jesse E. and Furilla Mae Hare Cox. A longtime Hutchinson resident, having lived prior in Dodge City, and Fort Wayne, Ind., she was the manager of the former Moose Lodge swimming pool and worked for Taco Grande for more...
Gary Colley
Feb 7, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gary Colley, 66, died Feb. 7, 2007, at his home, Columbus, Ohio. He was born March 9, 1940, in Hutchinson, the son of Herman and Verna Pauls Colley. A longtime resident of Hutchinson, moving to Ohio in 1991, he was a former auto body repairman and paint technician. On Aug. 31, 1979, he married Debbie Davis in...
Mary A. Graber
Feb 6, 2007
PRETTY PRAIRIE - Mary Alice Graber, 77, died Feb. 6, 2007, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. She was born Aug. 21, 1929, in Pretty Prairie, the daughter of W. H. "Billy" and Mary Alice "Mollie" Collingwood Seyb. In 1947, she graduated from Pretty Prairie High School, then attended Southwestern College, and graduated from Wesley School of Nursing in 1952. A...
Pauline Clough
Feb 6, 2007
Pauline Clough, 86, died Feb. 6, 2007, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born May 6, 1920, in Lost Springs, the daughter of Frederick and Fannie Peterson Baustian. She was a 1938, graduate of Lost Springs High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1986, moving from the Lerado community, she was a homemaker and a nurses' aide for Kingman County...
Jessie V. Cokeley
Feb 6, 2007
Jessie Viola Cokeley, 101, died Feb. 6, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Sept. 19, 1905, in Villisca, Iowa, the daughter of Arthur and Annie Timby Reichardt. A long time Hutchinson community resident, moving for Gridley, she was a homemaker. She belonged to New Hope Baptist Church, Extension Home Unit, and Bible Study Club. Tatting was one of her...
Ruby I. Elzey
Feb 5, 2007
Ruby I. Elzey, 81, died Feb. 5, 2007, at her home, Hutchinson. She was born May 11, 1925, in Naylor, Mo., the daughter of Thomas J. and Addie Roundtree Hunt. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Eastwood Church of Christ. In 1947, she married George L. Elzey in St. Joseph, Mo. He died in...
Steven J. Gilmore
Feb 5, 2007
BUHLER - Steven J. Gilmore, 52, died Feb. 5, 2007. He was born Feb. 21, 1954, in Hutchinson, the son of James H. and Helen L. Eldredge Gilmore. In 1972, he graduated from Nickerson High School. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, he was foreman for G&B Masonry Contractors. He was of the Christian faith. Survivors include: his mother; a sister, Christine...
Kenneth Dale Osborn
Feb 4, 2007
Kenneth Dale Osborn, 74, died Feb. 4, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital, ICU. He was born Dec. 1, 1932, in Penalosa, the son of Robert and Lottie Thelma Dahl Osborn. He graduated in 1951 from Cunningham High School. A resident of Emmett for 16 years, moving to Hutchinson in 1995, he was an electrician, retiring from KP&L in 1995. He belonged...
Darrell L. Gaston
Feb 4, 2007
Darrell Laurence Gaston, 79, died Feb. 4, 2007, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 29, 1927, in Sylvia, the son of Boyde F. and Viola Shankle Gaston. He graduated from Chase High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 1959, he owned Gaston Feed Transport. He belonged to Faith Baptist Church, Hutchinson. He was also a member of the Hutchinson-Reno...
Richard A. Jarmer
Feb 4, 2007
Richard Allen Jarmer, 53, died Feb. 4, 2007, at Robert J. Dole V.A. Medical Center, Wichita. He was born Oct. 1, 1953, in Hutchinson, the son of Joseph and Darlene Barnes Jarmer. In 1972, he graduated from Buhler High School. A resident of Hutchinson, formerly of Tulsa, Okla., moving here at the end of 2006, he was a construction worker...
Rhoda M. Denning
Feb 4, 2007
Rhoda M. Denning, 77, died Feb. 4, 2007, at Buhler Sunshine Home. She was born May 19, 1929, in Battle Creek, Mich., the daughter of Raymond and Velma Baker Good. In 1947, she graduated from West Frankfort High School, Frankfort, Ill., and received her clinical technician degree in 1955 from Fitzsimons Army Hospital, Denver. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she was...
Esther H. Shea
Feb 4, 2007
Esther H. Shea, 92, died Feb. 4, 2007, at Eudora Nursing Center. She was born June 20, 1914, in Hutchinson, the daughter of John Baptist and Mary Magdalene Klug Kaiser. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, she was a homemaker. She belonged to St. Teresa's Catholic Church, Hutchinson. On Aug. 12, 1932, she married Thomas James Shea in Newton. He died Oct....
Leona F. Stauffer
Feb 2, 2007
Leona F. Stauffer, 93, died Feb. 2, 2007, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Nov. 14, 1913, in Nickerson, the daughter of Burdette and Nina Riley Gleason. She had lived in Reno and Pratt Counties, before moving to Rawlins, Wyo., from 1941 to 1999, moving back to Hutchinson in 1999, she was a homemaker, and was a switchboard...
