1984-01-30-p2
Collection: 1984
Title
1984-01-30-p2
Subject
Hutter, John C.
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Source
Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
1984-01-30
Rights
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1984-01-30-p2,” Digital Augusta, accessed April 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/194.
Text
Coach Hutter Eulogized
By MICHAEL McDERMOTT News Editor
John Calvin Hutter coached to win and nobody knew that better than the dozens of family members, former players, and friends who gathered at the Augusta High Schol gym Saturday for the coach’s funeral.
The tall, the slim and the stocky attended the funeral of the man who had taught them how to compete at basketball, track, and football while introducing them to the basics of a Christian lifestyle. More than 200 were on hand to hear Rev. Thomas Kelly of Kansas City eulogize coach Hutter.
With Hutter’s casket among floral arrangements at the north end of the gymnasium, dedicated to him two years ago, Rev. Thomas reminded the family, “Many of you here today have been touched in a positive way by the life of John Hutter and you’ll never be the same again.”
Rev. Thomas pictured Hutter as a coach who expected the best from his players in athletics as well as their studies and as a loving husband, father and friend.
“John placed Christ first, others second and himself last,” Rev. Thomas
said of the man who once served as Sunday School superintendent for the First Nazarene Church of Augusta and who was faithful in all his service to the church.
Rev. Thomas reported that Hutter once said he regretted not praising “his players and their accomplishments more.”
Hutter coached football, basketball and track at Augusta High School from 1944 to 1966. He was the school’s winn-ingest basketball coach and compiled a 340-121-1 record in that sport. The one tie game was decided by officials.
After leaving Augusta, Hutter coached at Hoisington until a kidney ailment forced him to retire in 1977. He died of that ailment at the St. Francis Regional Medical Center last Wednesday at the age of 66 — three days before his 67th birthday.
Hutter was born here Jan. 28, 1917 to Andrew Clinton and Flora Ethel Sapp Hutter.
After graduating from Augusta High, Hutter attended El Dorado Junior College and went to Pittsburg State College on an athletic scholarship.
He married his high school sweetheart, the former Thelma Thompson.
She preceded him in death in 1970. His second wife, Loventrice, survives.
The Nazarene minister also recognized that Hutter was survived by three sons, two brothers, a sister, gran-children, nieces, nephews and “a host of friends.”
Rev. Amos Williams, Hutter’s pastor at the local Nazarene church, assisted with Saturday’s funeral service.
Serving as honorary pallbearers for Saturday’s funeral were Dick Ambler, Cliff Baum, Kelso Deere, Sam Miller, Friday Murray and Clare Patterson. The active casketbearers were Jim Ashcraft, Carl Calvert, Bill Guest, Emerson Stewart, Dolan Brant, and Calvin Applegate.
Coach Hutter was laid to rest at Elmwood Cemetery.
An informal reception was held in the high school commons area for former players and friends Saturday afternoon.
Memorials to Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) or the John C. Hutter scholarship fund at Augusta High School have been suggested.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta was in charge of arrangements.
A Respected Man
GYMNASIUM CROWD — More than 200 individuals and family members paid their last respects to former Augusta High School football-basketball-track coach John Hutter Saturday during a gymnasium funeral service. Hutter died last week at the St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita at age 66.
Original Format
Newspaper clipping
Title
1984-01-30-p2
Subject
Hutter, John C.
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Source
Augusta Historical Museum, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
1984-01-30
Rights
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette, Augusta, Kansas, USA, “1984-01-30-p2,” Digital Augusta, accessed April 25, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/194.Text
Coach Hutter Eulogized
By MICHAEL McDERMOTT News Editor
John Calvin Hutter coached to win and nobody knew that better than the dozens of family members, former players, and friends who gathered at the Augusta High Schol gym Saturday for the coach’s funeral.
The tall, the slim and the stocky attended the funeral of the man who had taught them how to compete at basketball, track, and football while introducing them to the basics of a Christian lifestyle. More than 200 were on hand to hear Rev. Thomas Kelly of Kansas City eulogize coach Hutter.
With Hutter’s casket among floral arrangements at the north end of the gymnasium, dedicated to him two years ago, Rev. Thomas reminded the family, “Many of you here today have been touched in a positive way by the life of John Hutter and you’ll never be the same again.”
Rev. Thomas pictured Hutter as a coach who expected the best from his players in athletics as well as their studies and as a loving husband, father and friend.
“John placed Christ first, others second and himself last,” Rev. Thomas
said of the man who once served as Sunday School superintendent for the First Nazarene Church of Augusta and who was faithful in all his service to the church.
Rev. Thomas reported that Hutter once said he regretted not praising “his players and their accomplishments more.”
Hutter coached football, basketball and track at Augusta High School from 1944 to 1966. He was the school’s winn-ingest basketball coach and compiled a 340-121-1 record in that sport. The one tie game was decided by officials.
After leaving Augusta, Hutter coached at Hoisington until a kidney ailment forced him to retire in 1977. He died of that ailment at the St. Francis Regional Medical Center last Wednesday at the age of 66 — three days before his 67th birthday.
Hutter was born here Jan. 28, 1917 to Andrew Clinton and Flora Ethel Sapp Hutter.
After graduating from Augusta High, Hutter attended El Dorado Junior College and went to Pittsburg State College on an athletic scholarship.
He married his high school sweetheart, the former Thelma Thompson.
She preceded him in death in 1970. His second wife, Loventrice, survives.
The Nazarene minister also recognized that Hutter was survived by three sons, two brothers, a sister, gran-children, nieces, nephews and “a host of friends.”
Rev. Amos Williams, Hutter’s pastor at the local Nazarene church, assisted with Saturday’s funeral service.
Serving as honorary pallbearers for Saturday’s funeral were Dick Ambler, Cliff Baum, Kelso Deere, Sam Miller, Friday Murray and Clare Patterson. The active casketbearers were Jim Ashcraft, Carl Calvert, Bill Guest, Emerson Stewart, Dolan Brant, and Calvin Applegate.
Coach Hutter was laid to rest at Elmwood Cemetery.
An informal reception was held in the high school commons area for former players and friends Saturday afternoon.
Memorials to Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) or the John C. Hutter scholarship fund at Augusta High School have been suggested.
The Dunsford Funeral Home of Augusta was in charge of arrangements.
A Respected Man
GYMNASIUM CROWD — More than 200 individuals and family members paid their last respects to former Augusta High School football-basketball-track coach John Hutter Saturday during a gymnasium funeral service. Hutter died last week at the St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita at age 66.
Original Format
Newspaper clipping