Donald Dewey Hackler, 78, Baldwin City, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Baldwin City. Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at Wilson’s Funeral Home in Wellsville. 

The family will meet with friends from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Burial will follow services in the Wellsville Cemetery. 

Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart of America Hospice in care of Wilson’s, PO Box 486, Wellsville KS  66092.   

Donald Dewey Hackler was born Nov. 1, 1930, in Gardner, the son of Dewey Albert and Clara Elizabeth (Leeker) Hackler.  

He grew up in the Baldwin City area and graduated from Baldwin High School in 1949.

In October of 1950, Don joined the United States Army, serving his country as an active military police officer in the Ready Reserve.  He was honorably discharged in 1961.

On April 10, 1959, he married Sue Mitchell. They were married 50 years before his passing. Sue survives at the home in Mission, Texas, where they had spent the last 17 years retired part time and living full time the last four and half years.  

Don loved to tinker with cars and tools and never minded a good day of fishing.

Don worked for the Sunflower Ammunition Plant several years and was employed by General Motors as a millwright at the Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kan., where he retired in 1992.  He was a member of the UAW Local #31.

Don is survived by his wife of the home; daughter Patty (Flory) Evans and her husband Robin of Baldwin City; daughter, Annette “Leah” Hackler of Ann Arbor, Mich.; a sister, Mona Ortolf of Olathe; four grandchildren, Clint Flory, J.D. Flory, Kyle Flory and Rusty Flory, six great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.  

He is preceded in death by his parents.

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