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Clyde C. Anderson
Apr 18, 2006
Clyde Cliffton "Andy" Anderson, 87, died April 18, 2006, at Hospice House, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 22, 1919, in Hutchinson, the son of Clyde Cliffton, Sr. and Mary Eula Hudsell Anderson. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, he attended Hutchinson High School. He was the retired owner and president of Superior Boiler Works, Inc. He belonged to the Christian Church On...
Anne Mustain
Apr 16, 2006
Anne Mustain, 60, died March 16, 2006, at her home, Esmont, Va. She was born Nov. 19, 1945, in Wichita, the daughter of James and Martha Young Mustain. She graduated from Hutchinson High School, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., Northwestern University, Chicago, Case Western University, Cleveland, and the University of Virginia. A former resident of Hutchinson, she worked in the University...
Ricky L. Scott
Apr 15, 2006
Ricky Lee Scott, 38, passed away April 15, 2006. Born March 8, 1968, he is survived by his mother and stepfather, Cathie and Dean Showalter and father and stepmother, Johnny and Diana Scott, all of Hutchinson. He was a 1986 graduate of Hutchinson High School. He was employed by Mid-America Redi-Mix as a truck driver. He is survived by a...
Cecile L. Forney
Apr 14, 2006
Cecile L. Forney, 98, died April 14, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Dec. 9, 1907, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Arthur and Gertrude Carr Glover. She graduated from Hutchinson High School, and attended William Woods University, Fulton, Mo. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, she had worked in the Reno County Clerks Office, for Kansas Grain Inspection and retired from...
May P. Walker
Apr 13, 2006
May Pauline Walker, 100 years and eight months, passed away early Thursday, the 13th of April 2006, at her home, where she had lived for 30 years. She was born the seventh child of Japheth P. and Kizzie Ann Clark Rickman on the 17th of August, 1905, in Valley Center. When she was a teenager the family moved into a...
Ralph W. Gates
Apr 13, 2006
Ralph W. Gates, 89, of Hutchinson, died April 13, 2006, at Dillon Living Center, Hutchinson, He was born Aug. 21, 1916, at Papillion, Neb., the son of Harry Edward and Gertrude Harriet Lenser Gates. He was a resident of Lyons from 1963 until moving to Hutchinson in 2002. He was a graduate of Omaha South High School and was a...
Charles Mckinley Cooper, Jr.
Apr 13, 2006
Charles McKinley Cooper, Jr., 81, died April 13, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born June 3, 1914, in Hutchinson, the son of Charles M. and Marguerite Elsie Heim Cooper, Sr. He graduated from Langdon High School. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he was a retired weighmaster for Farmland Industries. He belonged to St. Paul's United Church of Christ, American Legion...
Darrell W. Watson
Apr 12, 2006
Darrell Woodard Watson, 83, died Wednesday April 12, 2006, at Hospice House, Hutchinson, Kansas. He was born March 16, 1923, in Loyal, Okla., the son of Orbra John and Lulu Ida Ogle Watson. He graduated from Loyal High School in 1941 and earned his degree from Harris Chiropractic College of Wichita in 1958. He served in the 8th Air Force...
Alfred A. Colburn
Apr 10, 2006
Alfred Austen Colburn, 94, died April 10, 2006, at Good Samaritan Village. He was born July 5, 1911, in Terlton, Okla., the son of Charles Dee and Nanny V. Haws Colburn. He graduated from Terlton High School in 1929 and attended Oklahoma A&M, Stillwater, for two years. A Hutchinson resident since 1992, formerly of Roosevelt, Ariz., he was a refrigeration...
Christopher A. Hildenbrand
Apr 9, 2006
Christopher A. Hildenbrand, 84, died April 9, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Dec. 23, 1921, in Kinsley, the son of Christopher and Fern Keith Hildenbrand. A Hutchinson resident for 21 years, he graduated from Great Bend High School in 1940. He graduated from Yankton College, Yankton, S.D., in 1945, with a BA in Social Studies, and from Fort...
Nola Charter
Apr 8, 2006
Nola Marqurite Louise Willis Charter, 89, died April 8, 2006, at Hospice House. She was born to Walter Daniel and Blache Almira Mathias Willis on Dec. 24, 1916, in Wherry, Rice County, Kan. She married Orville Leone Charter on April 9, 1939, in the First Christian Church, Nickerson, Kan. He died March 6, 1989. She is survived by daughters, Twila...
Allan D. Kales, Jr.
Apr 6, 2006
Allan D. Kales Jr., 55, died April 6, 2006, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 7, 1950, in Detroit, the son of Allan D. Sr. and Peggy Jean Knapp Kales. He was a U.S. Army veteran of Vietnam. He is survived by his father. Private services will be held. Elliott Mortuary, Hutchinson, is in charge of the arrangements.
Ronald L. Bringle
Apr 6, 2006
Ronald Leon Bringle, 78, died April 6, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Jan. 8, 1928, in Fort Scott, the son of Robert and Ethel Hunsicker Bringle. He graduated in 1946 from Hutchinson High School. A resident of Hutchinson, moving from Chanute in 1992, he was a repeater technician for Southwestern Bell Telephone, retiring in 1991 after 42 years....
William A. Fair
Apr 5, 2006
SOUTH HUTCHINSON - William Adolphus Fair, 96, died April 5, 2006, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born June 10, 1909, in Reno County, the son of William Adolphus and Ida Lena Nelson Fair. A lifetime Reno County resident, he graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1927, and attended Kansas State Agriculture College. He was a farmer, retiring after...
Geneva M. Maxwell
Apr 3, 2006
PARTRIDGE - Geneva M. Maxwell, 96, died April 3, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Feb. 5, 1910, in Troy Township, Reno County, the daughter of Charles and Bertha M. Blake Amerman. A lifetime Partridge and Reno County resident, she graduated from Partridge High School in 1928. She taught school from 1932 to 1937 at the Fairmont School, rural...
Henry Joseph Yunck
Apr 2, 2006
Henry Joseph Yunck, 92, died April 2, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital E.R. He was born April 22, 1913, in Portsmouth, Iowa, the son of Joseph P. and Mary Margaret Cavanaugh Yunck. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he graduated from Dowling High School, West Des Moines, Iowa, and from LaSalle Extension University in Traffic Management ICC Practitioner. He was general traffic manager...
Carrie Ann Steed
Apr 2, 2006
Carrie Ann Steed, 88, died April 2, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born Aug. 14, 1917, in Sterling, the daughter of Hubert and Julia Shuler Steed. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1936, Hutchinson Community College and the University of Missouri in Kansas City. She taught school for 35 years at Prosperity and North Reno Schools, retiring in...
Helen L. Hobbs
Apr 2, 2006
ARLINGTON - Helen L. Hobbs, 92, died April 2, 2006, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. She was born May 14, 1913, the second daughter of Oscar W. and Mabel Brooks Dilliard. The family lived two and a half miles east of Langdon. Being raised in the Langdon area, she lived in Arlington from 1935 until moving to Mennonite Manor in...
Emma Jean Trent
Apr 1, 2006
Emma Jean Trent, 80, died April 1, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital, ICU. She was born May 3, 1925, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Rufus Milton and Frances Dov-ie Tucker Lindsey. She attended Ce-ntral High School. A lifetime Hu-tchinson resident, she was a homemaker, retired from Hutchinson Bag Company as a surge operator, and during World War II, was a "Rosie...
Donald R. Paque
Apr 1, 2006
Donald Roger Paque, 73, died April 1, 2006, at Mennonite Manor, South Hutchinson. He was born April 23, 1932, in Green Bay, Wis., the son of Ray and Evelyn Vandeleest Paque. He graduated high school at Green Bay. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he retired in 1995, as the owner and operator of Venture Industries and Mid-America Wholesale. He was a...
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