Barbara L. Ferron
Jun 30, 2006
Barbara Lee "Bobbie" Ferron, 79, died June 30, 2006, at Good Samaritan, Hutchinson. She was born Oct. 26, 1926, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Leo and Laree Duley Ferron. She was a graduate of Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson Junior College, and Kansas State University. A Hutchinson resident for the past 20 years, moving back from Dallas, she had worked for...
David H. Darling, Jr.
Jun 27, 2006
STERLING - David H. Darling Jr., 84, died June 27, 2006, at Sterling Presbyterian Manor, Sterling. He was born July 18, 1921, in Wichita, the son of David H. Sr. and Ariel V. Trapp Darling. He was a 1940 graduate of Hutchinson High School, attended Hutchinson Community College and a Radio and TV Institute in Los Angeles, Calif. Blind since...
Lester L. Bishop
Jun 26, 2006
Lester L. Bishop, 80, died June 26, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born April 17, 1926, in Williamsburg, the son of Charles Theodore and Mary Elizabeth Fletcher Bishop. A resident of Hutchinson for 33 years, he retired from Reno County Public Works after 20 years of service. He attended First Church of the Nazarene. On Aug. 3, 1956, he...
Neva N. Schmelzer
Jun 26, 2006
Neva N. Schmelzer, 98, died June 26, 2006, at Good Samaritan Center, Hutchinson. She was born June 26, 1908, in Artesia, N.M., the daughter of Robert and Maude Constant Kline. A Hutchinson resident since 1940, she was a homemaker and bookkeeper for Tucker's Meat Market. She belonged to Trinity United Methodist Church, Hutchinson, and was a member of the Carey...
Mary Nisly
Jun 26, 2006
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Mary Nisly, 86, died June 26, 2006, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born July 10, 1919, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Samuel A. and Delila Beiler Nisly. A lifetime Hutchinson area resident, she lived in South Hutchinson. She was a retired nurse's aid, working 24 years at the former Grace Hospital and Hutchinson Hospital, then...
Vada V. Tucker
Jun 25, 2006
Vada V. Tucker, 87, died June 25, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Aug. 27, 1918, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Ernest W. and Gertrude M. Nelson Schroll. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, she had worked for Saylor Cleaners for 20 years. She belonged to Community Church of the Brethren. On Feb. 27, 1937, she married C. Wayne Tucker...
Doris N. Morris
Jun 25, 2006
Doris Nadine Morris, 91, died June 25, 2006, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. She was born Aug. 2, 1914, in Nickerson, the daughter of Michael Walter and Mary Viola Yaple Blanchfield. She was a 1934 graduate of Sterling High School. A lifetime resident of Reno County, she was a homemaker. She belonged to Mitchell Chapel United Methodist Church and United Methodist...
Esther M. Laws
Jun 24, 2006
Ester M. Laws, 59, died June 24, 2006 at Golden Plains Health Care Center, Hutchinson. She was born Feb. 27, 1947 in Ellis, the daughter of Bonaventure P. and Helen E. Weber Brungardt. She graduated from Wakeeney High School and attended Salt City Business College, Hutchinson. A resident of Hutchinson most of her life, she was a homemaker and certified...
Garnett R. Fields
Jun 22, 2006
Garnett R. Fields, 96, died June 22, 2006, in Hutchinson. She was born Jan. 11, 1910, in Talmage, the daughter of Lewis Elmer and Helen Steele Chase. She graduated from Salt City Business College. A resident of Hutchinson since 1940, she was a homemaker and worked as a secretary for Krause Plow during World War II. She belonged to First...
Carl J. Balzer
Jun 22, 2006
Carl John Balzer, 81, died June 22, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Oct. 11, 1924 on the family farm near Inman, the son of Peter W. and Anna Siemens Balzer. He graduated in 1942 from Buhler High School. a 34 year resident of Inman, moving to Hutchinson in 1984, he was a farmer, Allis Chalmers dealer and salesman...
Glenn L. Simpson
Jun 21, 2006
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Glenn L. Simpson, 74, went to be with his Lord, June 21, 2006, at Hospice House. He was born April 15, 1932, in rural Stanton County, the son of Roy Douglas and Martha Ellen Jones Simpson. He graduated in 1950 from Hutchinson High School. A lifetime South Hutchinson resident, he was a cabinet maker and finish carpenter,...
Ruth E. Gnuse
Jun 21, 2006
Ruth Edna Gnuse, 91, died June 21, 2006 at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born July 4, 1914 in Quincy, IL, the daughter of William and Anna Dicks Hillman. She graduated in 1931 from Quincy High School, Quincy, IL. A Hutchinson resident since 1958, she was a teacher for 22 years at Quincy, IL public schools, retiring in 1958....
Richard T. Parker
Jun 21, 2006
Richard T. "Dick" Parker, 82, died June 21, 2006, at the Thorne Care Center at Wesley Towers, Hutchinson. He was born Nov. 12, 1923, in El Dorado, Kan., the son of Arthur and Frieda Jones Parker. In 1936, Parker and his younger brother, Jack, were taken from an orphanage in Hutchinson by the Kent sisters, Mabel, Mattie, Isabel and their...
Thomas N. Johnson
Jun 19, 2006
Thomas N. "Tom" Johnson, 87, died June 19, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital, Hutchinson. He was born May 29, 1919, in Henryetta, Okla., the son of Albert Wesley and Bessie Millicent Hall Johnson. He graduated from Iola High School in 1937 and from Kansas State University in 1957. A resident of Hutchinson since 1961, he was a cost estimator for English...
Marian E. Tigner
Jun 19, 2006
Marian E. Tigner, 86, died June 19, 2006, at Hospice House. She was born Dec. 27, 1919, in Swan, Iowa, the daughter of Ross E. and Hazel N. Falor Buckley. She graduated from Liberty Center High School, Liberty Center, Iowa, in 1937. In 1961, she graduated from Sterling College and received her reading specialist degree from Emporia State University. A...
Cleo F. Kornelson
Jun 19, 2006
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - Cleo Fern Kornelson, 83, died June 19, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital emer gency room. She was born Feb. 10, 1923, in Fort Dodge, the daughter of Roy Wallace May and Amy Elnora Stoughton. She was a 1941 graduate of Hutchinson High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, living 28 years in Valley Falls and returning to Reno County...
Evelyn M. Yutzy
Jun 18, 2006
Evelyn Marie Whitecotton Yutzy, 80, died June 18, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Oct. 2, 1925, in Garden City, the daughter of Oliver Whitecotton and Thelma Thompson Whitecotton Martin. A resident of Hutchinson since 1951, she was a homemaker. She belonged to the Seventh Day Adventist Church. On Dec. 29, 1956, she married Mahlon R. Yutzy in Newton....
Donald M. Stiles
Jun 16, 2006
Donald M. Stiles, Jr., 74, died June 16, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 31, 1931, in Mankato, the son of Donald M. and Ruth E. Brown Stiles Sr. He graduated in 1949, from Hutch-inson High School, and attended Wentworth Military Academy and the University of Kansas. A resident of Hutchinson since 1938, he was the owner of...
Clara C. Luman
Jun 15, 2006
Clara C. Luman, 75, died June 15, 2006, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, due to an accidental fall in her home June 4. She was born Sept. 8, 1930, in Sylvia, the daughter of John K. and Laura Jane Helm Nusser. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1948. A longtime Hutchinson resident, she moved with her family from Sylvia...
Charles V. Williams
Jun 14, 2006
Charles Vincent "Chuck" Williams, 42, died June 14, 2006. He was born June 8, 1964, in Hutchinson, the son of Robert P. and Judy Haynes Williams Sr. A longtime resident of the San Fernando Valley area in California, returning to Hutchinson three months ago, he was an automotive painter. Survivors include: his father, Robert P. "Bob" Williams Sr., Hutchinson; his...
