Arlena Michael

Arlena Mae (Gutscher) Michael, born on Sept. 25, 1938, in Burr Oak, Kansas, to Claud and Alberta Gutscher, died Sept. 13, 2024, at Village Manor in Abilene, Kansas. She was 85 years old.

Arlena grew up in Burr Oak with her siblings, Zelma Jensen of Gower, Missouri, and Lennie Gutscher of Burr Oak, Kansas. She attended Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, where she met David E. Michael. The two were married on Aug. 17, 1958, at Sam’s Chapel at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas.

Arlena was a devoted stay-at-home mother upon welcoming their daughter Micky in 1960. A few years later, A...