Donald Hutchinson, Emporia
1929 - 2008
Donald Hutchinson of Emporia died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008 at Stormont-Vail hospital in Topeka.
Funeral arrangements will be announced by Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
The funeral for Donald William Hutchinson, 2514 La Guna Court, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Billie Blair of the Tall Grass Retreat Center in Matfield Green will conduct the service. Burial, with services conducted by American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980, will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. The family will meet friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to the Donald W. and Christina M. Hutchinson Athletic Scholarship Fund with the ESU Foundation and sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mr. Hutchinson died Friday, Jan. 11, 2008, at Stormont-Vail Medical Center in Topeka. He was 78.
He was budget director for Emporia State University for 27 years before he retired in 1993. Previously, he was an accountant II for the State of Kansas from 1958 to 1966. He served with the U.S. Marines during the Korean War.
The son of Samuel Andrew and Marian Hazel Baxter Hutchinson, he was born Wednesday, May 15, 1929, at Strawn. He graduated from Strawn High School in 1947 and from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia in 1958.
He married Christina Marie Keith on Dec. 25, 1950, at the First Christian Church in Emporia. She survives.
Mr. Hutchinson was a member and past treasurer for American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5.
He is also survived by two sons, Marlin Hutchinson of Emporia and Marshall Hutchinson of Salina; six brothers, Clifford Hutchinson of Emporia, Orville Hutchinson of Lebo, Samuel Hutchinson of Topeka, Jackie Hutchinson of Rantoul, Marvin Hutchinson of Wellsville and Harold Hutchinson of Villisca, Iowa; six sisters, Eleanor Powell and Melva Selby, both of Emporia, Patricia Dalby of Burlington, Kathleen Hutchinson of Lebo, Sharyl Bolyard and Joyce Nihiser, both of Osage City; three grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.