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DIANA BLATTNER, 64 died November 24, 2015 at St. Francis Select Speciality Hospital in Wichita, KS. She was born on June 2, 1951 in Clay Center, KS, the daughter of Don Liby and Betty Jo Brannan. Diana was raised in Clay Center and graduated from CCCHS in 1969. She married Jerry Blattner on November 15, 1969. Diana worked as a health care provider in Clay, Geary and Dickinson counties. She was a former member of the First Baptist Church in Clay Center. Diana also served as a Cub Scout and Boy Scout leader. She is preceded in death by son, Jeff and sister Susie Liby.
Survivors:
Husband: Jerry Blattner, Abilene, KS
Daughter: Alisa and husband Troy Fisher, St. John, KS
Son: Jason and wife Simaron Blattner, Abilene, KS
Father: Don Liby, Randolph, KS
Mother: Betty Jo Mall, Clay Center, KS
Brother: Steve and wife Sandy Liby, Clay Center, KS
Sister: Julie and husband Wayne Timmerman, Clay Center, KS
4 Grandchildren
Memorial Services will be held on Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 10:30 AM at the First Baptist Church in Clay Center, KS
Officiating the service will be Rev. Matthew Coleman
Inurnment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Clay Center, KS
Visitation will be held on Friday, December 4, 2015 from 3-7 PM, the family will greet friends from 5- 7PM at Neill-Schwensen-Rook Funeral Home
Memorials: Diana Blattner memorial fund to be designated later c/o the funeral home
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Paul H. Kohman, 91, of Hope, entered his heavenly home on Thanksgiving morning, November 26, 2015. He was born on April 15, 1924, to Albert and Emma (Fromm) Kohman at the family home near Dillon.
He attended Prairie Union, a one-room school across the road from his home and graduated from Hope High school in 1942. After graduation he helped his father with farming and raising cattle and enjoyed working with his riding horses. Paul took over the family farm as his life’s work.
On September 2, 1960, Paul and Lawana Webb were united in marriage at the First Baptist Church in Barnard, Kansas. Mark was born in 1962 and Monte in 1964.
Paul accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior early in his life and became a member of the First Baptist Church of Dickinson County where he served faithfully until the church closed. The family enjoyed attending church associations and church conferences. In recent years Paul and Lawana attended the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
He served his community as a board member for an early telephone company, Dillon Cooperative, Dickinson County Farm Bureau, Tampa Cooperative, and the First Baptist Cemetery.
Paul enjoyed attending their sons’ ballgames, water skiing, picnics at the pond, and fishing with neighbors. He especially enjoyed family vacations his brother Don hosted for water-skiing in Missouri, the Fromm family reunions on Memorial Day at the Kohman home, and in recent years the fall weekend Rook tournaments at his sister’s home in Springfield, Missouri and at a cousin’s home in Kansas City.
Preceding Paul in death were his parents, two brothers: Gordon (Margaret) and Don, and his sister Mary Ann Bergen (Hal).
Surviving are his wife Lawana; two sons, Mark and his wife Wendy of Austin, Texas, and Monte and his wife Marianne, who live on the family farm after Paul and Lawana moved to Hope seven years ago. Grandchildren are Matthew, Katie and Will of Austin.
Visitation with family present will be on Friday, December 4, from 6-8 pm at the Carlson-Becker Funeral Home in Hope.
The memorial service will be Saturday, December 5, at 11a.m. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1179 Jeep Road, Abilene (nine miles northwest of Hope). Paul had made arrangements to have his body donated to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Memorials may be given in memory of Paul to Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) for missionaries Mark and Wendy Kohman, or Hospice of Dickinson County and may be sent in care of the Carlson-Becker Funeral Home, 106 N. 2nd Street, Hope, Kansas 67451.