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- Hutchinson News
February 27, 2009
Ruth Ann "Roonie" Anderson Sellers, 72, died Feb. 26, 2009, at Hospice House, Hutchinson.
She was born June 1, 1936, in Hutchinson, the daughter of Montford Jay Anderson, Jr. and Mary Kopke Anderson. She graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1954, attended Cottey College, Nevada, Mo., where she was Phi Theta Kappa.
She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree (with distinction) from the University of Kansas in 1958. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity-social sorority, Pi Sigma Alpha-Political Science honorary, Phi Alpha Theta-History honorary, Mortar Board-honorary, Phi Beta Kappa-honorary fraternity of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and an Elizabeth M. Watkins Scholar. She was a lifetime Hutchinson resident.
She belonged to First Presbyterian Church, Hutchinson, where she was an Elder, Presbyterian Church (USA), committee service in all governing bodies, i.e. Session, Presbytery of Southern Kansas, Synod of Mid-America, General Assembly Commissioner and Special Committee. She was a Kansas Action for Children Board member, Reno County Mental Health Association board member, TECH board member, Bob Johnson Youth Foundation founding board chair, Hutchinson Community Foundation founding board member, Leadership Kansas participant, Leadership Hutchinson board member and program chair, and Health Care Inc. board member and chair.
On Dec. 22, 1958, she married Merl F. Sellers in Hutchinson. He survive
Other survivors include: son, Thomas and wife, Anne, Hutchinson; daughters, Susan Buttram and husband, Sam, St. Louis, Mo., and Ann Comfort and husband, Stuart, Greensboro, N.C.; grandchildren, John and Mary Buttram, Katherine, Andrew and Laura Sellers and Benjamin Comfort.
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