George Sherman Hyatt

George Sherman Hyatt age 95 passed away on Monday, August 19, 2024 at Medicalodges on Midland in Coffeyville, Kansas with his family by his side. 

George Sherman was born on November 6, 1928 to George Seth and Maude Lee (Conley) Hyatt in Parsons, Kansas. Sherman attended grade school and his secondary education in Parsons, where he graduated from Parsons High School.  

Depending on when you met George Sherman Hyatt you could define if you knew him as George or as Sherman. He was always gracious to answer to either.  

After graduation Sherman and a group of friends went to enlist in the US Navy. Wanting to secure their preferred branch of service, but to his surprise when they left, he was the only one that had completed the enlistment. Sherman was on the USS Amphion Repair Ship serving during the Korean war, receiving formal training as a machinist, learning to craft parts often from no patterns, only pieces of parts to copy a pattern from. His military training became a lifelong career.  

After returning home a beautiful young woman by the name of Martha Lee Redburn caught Sherman’s eye. After a brief courtship, the two were wed on Christmas day in 1953, in Shaw, Kansas. The couple had celebrated their 69th Wedding Anniversary together when Martha preceded him in death on January 12, 2023, the two Honey Mooned in New Orleans. Sherman and Martha started their home in Parsons, Kansas. They moved to Caney and Sherman commuted to Wichita to work in Aerospace, and later began working for Wheatley's in Caney. Eventually moved to Coffeyville to their forever home. Sherman then worked for ParMac in Coffeyville and in the evenings his second job was at Arrow Valve in Caney. He eventually made Arrow Valve his full-time employment where he worked until his retirement. Sherman and Martha had five children, losing two sons at birth.  

Sherman and his family attended Coffeyville Bible Church formerly known as the Church of the Open Door. The last 30 years of his life Sherman faithfully studied his Bible, he was passionate about studying God’s word and living it out daily in his life. Macular degeneration eventually took Sherman’s eyesight, but he didn’t let that get him down. He continued as always to spend hours in his vegetable garden always willing to share his harvest with friends and neighbors. He enjoyed feeding and watching birds, playing chess, or singing with his grandkids. To all that knew him he never complained about anything and if you ask him how he was his reply was always “I can’t complain”. Sherman was a kind, compassionate and content man who made a profound impact on all that knew him.  

Sherman is survived by his children Craig Hyatt and wife Rose, Randy Hyatt, and wife Mary, LeeAnn Williams and husband Mike, his grandchildren, Megan, and Zachary Hyatt, those he loved as his own grandchildren, Holly Schupp and husband Billy, Ethan Williams and great grandchildren Abigail and Maggie Mae Schupp, brother, Bill Hyatt and wife Laurie and sister-in-law Yvonne Hyatt. In addition to his parents and wife, Sherman was preceded in death by infant sons, Kenneth Wade and Phillip Wayne Hyatt, infant grandson Johnathan Workman, siblings John Hyatt, Rita Carter, Marjorie Smith, Thelma Douglas, Vaughn Hyatt, Fred Staton. 

The family will receive friends from 10am to 11am Saturday, August 24th, 2024 at Ford-Wulf-Bruns Chapel, 2405 Woodland Ave., Coffeyville, Kansas prior to a processional to Graveside Services in Parsons, Kansas where he will be laid to rest next to Martha and their infant sons in Memorial Lawn Cemetery. Services will be streamed live under his obituary page https://www.fordwulfbrunschapel.com/obituaries/george-hyatt where you may also leave an online condolence or share a memory with the family. The family request memorial contributions be made in Sherman’s Memory to Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. Contributions may be made in care of the chapel.