Don I. Miller, Sr.
Apr 24, 2006
Don Ivan Miller Sr., 87, died April 24, 2006, at Thorne Care Center, Hutchinson. He was born Dec. 31, 1918, in rural Sylvia. His parents were Earl and Blanche Calhoun Miller. He attended Kansas School for the Deaf, Olathe, where he was a Basketball All American. A lifetime Reno County resident, he was a machinist for Cessna for 28 years,...
Janet C. Walburn
Apr 23, 2006
Janet C. Walburn, 85, died April 23, 2006, at Pleasant View Home, Inman. She was born June 20, 1920, in Ellsworth, the daughter of John and Helen Hemmert Maloney. She graduated from Ell-sworth High School. A Hutchinson resident since 1954, moving from Douglass, she was a homemaker. Janet will always be remembered for her witty sense of humor, contagious laugh...
William C. Anderson
Apr 23, 2006
William Clark "Bill" Anderson, 89, died April 23, 2006, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Jan. 26, 1917, in Protection, the son of William and Fannie Clark Anderson. A longtime Hutchinson resident, he graduated from Protection High School and Friends University, Wichita. He completed specialized training at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. He worked for Prudential Insurance Company...
Raymond O. King
Apr 22, 2006
Raymond O. King, 72, died April 22, 2006, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Feb. 22, 1934, in Centerville, the son of William T. and Evelyn I. Mauk King. He graduated from Reno Community High School. A resident of Hutchinson since 2003, returning from Cottonwood Falls, he worked in the oil fields and mobile home manufacturing before retiring from...
Phyllis A. Agnew
Apr 21, 2006
Phyllis A. Agnew, 95, died April 21, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. She was born June 17, 1910, in Bushton, the daughter of Arnold and Grace Swisher Westrup. A resident of Hutchinson, moving from Mesa, Ariz., she was a homemaker. She belonged to First Presbyterian Church, Lyons. On Sept. 23, 1930, she married Harold W. Agnew in Bushton. He died Nov....
Jan D. Mcclelland
Apr 21, 2006
Jan D. McClelland, 60, died April 21, 2006. She was born Nov. 11, 1945, in Kinsley, the daughter of Patsy Eugene "Gene" and Wanda Winona Finlay Holland. She graduated from Kinsley High School, and attended K-State, taking horticulture and floral design. She was the owner of Prairie Magic Floral, and manager of the Pic Quik at 30th and Waldron. She...
Orville A. Preston
Apr 20, 2006
Orville A. "Bud" Preston, 81, died April 20, 2006, at Hutchinson Hospital. He was born Jan. 13, 1925, in Dodge City, the son of Orville O. and Alice Barnes Preston. He graduated in 1943 from Haven High School and then graduated from Salt City Business College. A lifetime Hutchinson resident, he was a clerk for Sante Fe Railroad for 30...
Lois Perrin
Apr 20, 2006
Lois Perrin, 84, died April 20, 2006, at Hester Care Center. She was born Sept. 10, 1921, in rural Partridge, the daughter of Harry and Esther Smith Hamilton. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1939, attended Hutchinson Junior College and graduated from the University of Iowa. A lifetime Hutchinson and Reno County resident, her family moved to Hutchinson from...
Kenneth E. Woodson
Apr 18, 2006
Kenneth E. Woodson died April 18, 2006, at his home, Hutchinson. He was born Jan. 3, 1927, in Hutchinson, the son of James Andrew and Thelma Plummer Woodson Sr. He graduated from Hutch-inson High School and attended Hutchinson Community College. A lifetime resident of Hutchinson, he retired in 1989, as supervisor from Eaton. He belonged to Bethel AME Church and...
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...
