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Margaret N. Meng
Graveside service for Margaret N. Meng, 89, a former Garden City resident, was 2 p.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Gardens, Garden City.
Mrs. Meng died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003, at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif.
She was born Jan. 3, 1914, at Emporia, the daughter of William T. and Bertha M. Barncord Alexander.
A resident of San Jose since 1974, moving from Hutchinson, she was a homemaker and a member of the Christian faith.
In 1934, she married Lawrence C. Meng at Emporia. He died in 1968 at Kansas City, Mo.
She is survived by a son, William Meng, Pinole, Calif.; three daughters, Dee Long, Half Moon Bay, Calif., Dinah Leach, Sunnyvale, Calif., and Dixie Davis, Bristol, Va.; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Memorials to the Margaret Meng Memorial Fund may be sent in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home, 620 N. Main St.
Edna C. Koehn
Edna C. Koehn, 86, died Jan. 16, 2003, at St. Catherine Hospital.
She was born Nov. 16, 1916, in Gray County, the daughter of Henry C. and Dena Ratzlaff Koehn.
On Sept. 9, 1946, she married David A. Koehn, who survives. A lifetime resident of Cimarron, she was a homemaker and attended the Church of God In Christ Mennonite Church in Cimarron.
She also is survived by two daughters, Claudia Rohrback and Debbie Rojas, both of Garden City; two brothers, Robert Koehn, Kansas City, Kan., and Larry Koehn, Montezuma; a sister, Rogena Wilson, Wichita; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Eli, Elmer, Ervin, Howard "Hank" and William Koehn; and three sisters, Erma Jean Basinger, Betty Collins and Lena Marie Koehn.
Friends may visit from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at Burkhart-Ziegler Funeral Chapel in Cimarron. The funeral will be 1 p.m. Monday at the Church of God In Christ Mennonite Church, with the Rev. Curt Ensz presiding. Burial will be in Cimarron Cemetery.
Memorials may be given to ABC Pregnancy Care Center in care of Burkhart-Ziegler Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 786, Cimarron, KS 67835.
Alex Barnhart Sr.
INGALLS - Alex Barnhart Sr., 60, died Friday, Jan. 17, 2003, at Western Plains Medical Center in Dodge City.
The son of Ted and Janie (Morin) Barnhart, he was born Dec. 5, 1942, in Corn City, Texas.
He married Mary Torres in 1961 in Brownfield, Texas. He was a farm laborer and a member of the Catholic Church.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Alex Barnhart Jr., Dodge City; Ricky Barnhart, Ellsworth; Tony Barnhart, Ingalls; Henry Barnhart, Ingalls; a daughter Janie Barnhart, Ingalls; three brothers, Felix Barnhart, Brownfield, Texas, Roy Barnhart, Greeley, Colo., Eloy Barnhart, El Paso, Texas; three sisters, Alicia DeLon, Lorine Tijecina and Corine Gutteriz, all of Brownfield, Texas; 16 grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Vigil services will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Ingalls, with Rev. Joseph Bahr presiding.
Funeral Mass will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Ingalls, with Rev. Joseph Bahr presiding. Burial will follow in the Plains Cemetery, Plains.
Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Montezuma Funeral Home.
A memorial has been established for the Donor's Choice. Memorials may be mailed to Montezuma Funeral, P.O. Box 421, Montezuma, KS 67867.
The Rev. Wesley H. Davis
The Rev. Wesley Homer Davis, 79, of Buhler, died Monday, Jan. 6, 2003, at Hospice of Reno County, Hutchinson. His body was bequeathed to the University of Kansas Medical Center for Parkinson's research.
He was born Sept. 20, 1923, at Kansas City, Kan., the son of the Rev. John A. and Anna F. Davis. He began his schooling in Geneseo, attended Allen Grade School and Liberty Junior High School, graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1941, and attended Hutchinson Community College for one year.
He served four years in the U.S. Navy as the navigator aboard a destroyer escort in World War II, making three Atlantic crossings. He went through the Panama Canal and was in the South Pacific, Luzon, Lyngyon Gulf in the Philippines, and Tokyo Bay, Japan at the surrender signing.
After the war, he attended Southwestern College at Winfield, graduating in 1948. In 1951, he graduated from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill., with a master of divinity degree.
A retired clergy member of the Kansas West Conference of the United Methodist Church, he had served churches in Wellington, Leon, Jennings/Prairie Chapel, Deerfield, South Hutchinson, Hugoton and Anthony. After retirement, he served the Clayton/Norcatur/Lyle parish.
On Sept. 1, 1949, he married Jean Holt at Springfield, Mo. They retired in Hutchinson. At the time of his death, Mr. Davis was a resident of Sunshine Meadows Retirement Community in Buhler.
He was a member of Troop 8 Boy Scouts of America, earning the rank of Life Scout, and volunteered as an Adult Scouter, serving 65 years. His many awards and honors include God and Service, the highest award given by the United Methodist Church; Silver Beaver by Santa Fe Council in Garden City; Woodbadge; Order-of-the-Arrow; and serving as chaplain at the Valley Forge National Jamboree in 1957 and at Philmont Scout Ranch and Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch. He joined Lions Club International at Wellington, later transferring to other Lions clubs at Leon, Jennings, Deerfield, South Hutchinson, Dighton and Anthony, serving in numerous offices.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Jon Davis, St. Louis, and Brian Davis, Boston.
A memorial service is planned for 10:30 a.m. March 3 at the First United Methodist Church, Hutchinson.
Memorials are suggested to the Pass The Torch Scholarship Fund; Santa Fe Trail Council, BSA; Mission and Ministry Fund of Hutchinson First United Methodist Church; Hospice of Reno County; or the Michael J. Fox Parkinson Foundation. All memorials may be sent in care of the First United Methodist Church at Hutchinson.
Sylvia M. Paasch Melcher
Sylvia M. Paasch Melcher, 89, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003, at Neosho, Mo., where she had been a resident for the past two years.
She was born Aug. 30, 1913, in Beaver County, Okla., to J.L. and Jessie Vance, who homesteaded just south of Gate, Okla. She graduated from the Pleasant Valley country school in Gate, attended high school in Gate and in Garden City, where she graduated.
On Nov. 26, 1930, she married Parker Paasch. They lived in Arkansas and Oklahoma and later moved to Kansas, where she worked as a secretary in Garden City for many years. While living in Garden City, she was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church. Mr. Paasch died in February 1960. She also was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, one sister and one son.
She married George C. Melcher of Ulysses on June 5, 1971, and lived in Ulysses for several years before moving to La Veta, Colo. She was an active member of Mountain View Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir until their move to the Gran Villas in Neosho.
She is survived by her husband; four sons, Jerry Paasch, Springdale, Ark., David Paasch, Garden City, Martin Paasch, Los Angeles, and Michael Paasch of Goddard; one stepson, Charles Melcher, Lexington, Ky.; nine grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one stepgreat-grandchild; and a sister, Gertrude Spicer, Waterloo, Iowa.
Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at College Street Baptist Church in Ulysses, with the Rev. Sam Bynum officiating. Burial will be 3 p.m. Monday at Zelma Cemetery
in Gate.
Memorials may be made to Mountain View Baptist Church, La Veta. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Clark Funeral Home, Beaver, Okla.
Barbara Ellen Cox
LEOTI - Graveside service for Barbara Ellen Cox, 84, was to be 1:30 p.m. today at Ulysses Cemetery, with the Rev. Robert Nuckolls officiating.
She died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2003, at Wichita County Long Term Care Unit in Leoti.
She was born May 21, 1918, at Protection, the daughter of George Floyd and Laura Hinson Cox.
A longtime resident of Leoti, she previously had lived in Ulysses.
Survivors include two sisters, Fay Stevens, Fresno, Calif., and Eva Seib, Denver. She was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.
Memorials are suggested to the Wichita County Long Term Care Unit, in care of Price & Sons Funeral Home, Leoti.
Otto Ernst Bader
A victory celebration for Otto Ernst Bader, 83, of Livingston, Mont., was to be 10 this morning at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Livingston, with burial to follow in Wilsall (Mont.) Cemetery. The graveside committal was to be followed by a reception at Wilsall Senior Center.
Mr. Bader died Monday, Jan. 13, 2003, at Livingston Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
He was born July 16, 1919, at the family home in Cheyenne County, the seventh of nine children of Michael and Sophia Bader. Of German ancestry, his parents and three oldest siblings left their home in Nesselrode, Russia, in 1911 to homestead north of St. Francis where he received his education. He was baptized and confirmed in Salem Lutheran Church at St. Francis.
A World War II veteran, he enlisted in the Marines on Jan. 16, 1942. He attained the rank of staff sergeant while stationed at the Marine rifle range in LaJolla, Calif., where he was in charge of feeding 5,000 military personnel. While home on leave in December 1942, he married Ann Imhoff. Upon returning to duty, he was assigned to the II Armored Amphibian Battalion and was stationed on the island of Saipan in the Marians, south of Iwo Jima. After being sent to Mauwai Island, Hawaii for rest and recuperation and to wait for his next assignment, the war ended.
After the war, Mr. Bader was a driver for Denver-Chicago Transport Truck Line, worked on harvest crews in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas, and as a journeyman carpenter in home and commercial construction. He then moved to Denver where he worked for McDowl and later for Mayar-Osborn in the construction of concrete grain elevators.
While in Denver, he met Alice Ellen Frazier. They were married July 4, 1952, at his parents' home in St. Francis. In 1955, they settled in Garden City and he started his own business, Grain Elevator Maintenance Co. Inc. After retiring in 1978, they moved to Wilsall where he was able to fulfill his lifelong dream of raising Morgan horses.
Mr. Bader was an active church member, first at St. James Lutheran Church in Garden City, then at Shields Valley Lutheran Church in Wilsall and St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Livingston, and had served as a council member, Sunday School superintendent and choir member. He enjoyed fishing and all types of hunting, and was a member of the Sand and Sage Rod and Gun Club for several years while in Garden City.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Charlene Truax, Wilsall; two stepdaughters, Delsie Bader, Grand Island, Neb., and Shirley Ann Heaton, Lakin; a sister, Meta Dankenbring, Bird City; two brothers, Paul Bader, Valentine, Neb., and Robert Bader, Grand Island; 10 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters and two brothers.
Memorials are suggested to the St. Paul's Lutheran Church Building Fund, 1116 W. Geyser, Livingston, MT 59047.
Dahl Funeral Chapel, Bozeman, Mont., was in charge of arrangements.
