Dateline: Wichita, Kansas

 

Name of Deceased: Robert W. “Bob” Bridges                                Age: 94

Date of Death: October 28, 2014

Place of Death: Kansas Masonic Home, Wichita, Kansas

Date of Birth: November 28, 1919 at Turley, Oklahoma

Parents Name: Emery & Grace (Roberts) Bridges

 

OBITUARY INFORMATION

 

Married Bernadine Helen Straub May 4, 1942 at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Ellinwood, Kan.  She died August 8, 2000.

He worked for Skelly Oil and Getty Oil Company as a Field Gauger

Mr. Bridges was a Wichita, Kansas resident since 2004, coming from Great Bend.

He served in the National Guard.

He was a member of Prince of Peace Parish at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus Council #862, and Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #646, all of Great Bend.

 

SURVIVORS

 

two sons: James Robert “J. R.” Bridges and his wife Jeanne of Oktaha, OK, and Richard Leroy Bridges and his wife Mary of Garden City, KS

two daughters: Betty Jean Carroll and her husband Jim of Great Bend, KS, and Mary Frances Spade and her husband Ken of Wichita, KS

Grandchildren: Twenty-Three

Great-grandchildren: Twenty-Eight

Great-great-grandchildren:  Five

 

He was preceded in death by one infant brother, Richard Bridges, and two sisters, Frances Bennett and Imogene Westwood.

 

SERVICE INFORMATION

 

Vigil Service with Knights of Columbus Rosary will be at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, October 30, 2014 at Bryant Funeral Home.

Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m., Friday, October 31, 2014 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Great Bend. Father Ted Stoecklein will be celebrant. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Great Bend, Kansas. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Thursday, October 30, 2014 at Bryant Funeral Home. Memorials are requested to Sunflower Diversified Services or Kansas Masonic Home, in care of Bryant Funeral Home.

 

Condolences may be sent and notice viewed at www.bryantfh.net

                      Arrangements by    Bryant Funeral Home         1425 Patton Road       Great Bend, Kansas                      67530