Melody Rae Hutchinson

September 29, 1962 - February 1, 2020

Melody Rae (Robuck) Hutchinson was born on September 29th, 1962 in Los Angeles County, California. As a teenager she moved to Des Moines, Iowa and began life where she was a cook at the Des Moines International Airport. She had her first son Donald Miller. She also met her husband, Merlin Hutchinson. They were married twenty-five years until his passing in 2017. They’d along the way have their other children, Eugene, Virgil, and Jacquelyn. In 2002, they moved to Storm Lake where she spent seventeen years. She babysat for many and finished raising her children. Melody loved to cook, clean, 80s rock, concerts, the Chiefs, and some of her favorite shows like the Golden Girls and Little House on the Prairie. In 2015, she had a massive stroke which would change her life. Throughout the next five years, she fought and continued to keep going. In 2019 she moved to Overland Park, Kansas for her last years. On February 1st, 2020 Melody Hutchinson passed away, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She is proceeded in death by her father Michael Robuck, mother Cleo (Stepp) Robuck, brothers John Robuck and Paul Robuck, close nephew Curtis Allen Wells, and husband Merlin Hutchinson. She is survived by her children Donald and Angela Miller, Eugene Hutchinson, Virgil Hutchinson, and Jacquelyn Hutchinson, five grandchildren including Trinity, Chris, Donald, Priest, and Melody, brothers Michael, Allen, Richard, and Timothy Robuck, sisters Linda McAninch, Sharon Christensen, and Julie Robuck, and many loving cousins, nieces and nephews, and in-laws. A celebration of life for Melody will be announced at a later date.