Darlene Marie Hutchinson

Darlene Marie Hutchinson, 89, of Texas City, Texas, passed away December 8, 2024, after a valiant battle with leukemia.

Services will be held Tuesday, December 17, 2024, at St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal Catholic Church, in Texas City, Texas. Visitation will start at 11:30 a.m. with a memorial mass to follow at 1:30 p.m. A reception will follow the funeral at St. Mary’s Ponzini Hall.

Darlene was born May 27, 1935, in Hays, Kansas. She met her spouse, Delburn R. “Hutch” Hutchinson, at Dodge City High School, and they married in 1955. In 1960, she and Hutch moved to Texas City, Texas, after her husband accepted a job at Union Carbide Corporation.

Darlene spent the early years of their marriage as a wife and mother to their six children. She worked at Texas City High School in an administrative position after the children were raised. During her life in Texas City, she was very active in the community, assuming many leadership roles in community organizations and charities in which she was involved. She cared deeply for her family, friends, and her town of Texas City, and spent most of her time nurturing these three loves. 

She is preceded in death by her parents, George Bittel and Philomena Hammerschmidt Bittel, her husband, Delburn R. Hutchinson, and her oldest child, Debra Ann Hutchinson Poling. 

Survivors include her children, Wade Hutchinson and spouse Susan; Kelly Hutchinson, Jennifer Hutchinson, Stacy Hutchinson Anderson and Jeff Anderson, and Delburn J. Hutchinson; as well as her grandchildren, Jared Poling, Andrea Poling Power and Matt Power, Kathryn Hutchinson Dennin and Mike Dennin, Jeffrey Anderson, and Matthew Anderson. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to St. Mary of the Miraculous Medal or MD Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX 77210-4486 or www.mdanderson.org/gifts. In memory of Darlene, donations can be made directly to leukemia and lymphoma research at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas.