Dateline: Hoisington, Kansas

Twilla Joyce Brack, 83, died April 25, 2015, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, Kansas.
She was born July 20, 1931, on a farmstead West of Hoisington, the daughter of Henry Cordrey and Maudie Elizabeth (Anglin) Spires. Twilla attended Hoisington High School.

On January 22, 1949, she married Ralph D. Brack, in Independence, Kansas. He died June 30, 2000.

Twilla worked as a nurse’s aide for 9 years at the Hoisington Hospital. She then worked the next nine years as an office nurse for Dr. Robert Moore and later retired as a dental assistant for Dr. Blake Herres. A people person by nature, Twilla’s life brought her into close contact with probably hundreds of people.

Survivors include: a son Dennis Brack and wife Kellie of Great Bend; daughters, Reatha Michaelis and husband Roger of Great Bend, Terry Schneider and husband Norbert of Hoisington, Verna Hoover and husband Wayne of Pierce City, MO; five brothers and sisters, Briace Spires of Norton, KS, Basil Jantz of Salina, Clayton Spires of Hoisington, Shirley Juby of Gillette, WY, and William Spires of Westminster, CO; fifteen grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband and an infant daughter, Denise Brack; three sisters, Nadine Beeman, Melba Maggard, Berniece Whittaker, and a brother, LaVern Spires.

Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at Hoisington Bible Church, with Rev. Gary Clark presiding. Interment will be in Hoisington City Cemetery.
Friends may call 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to the Hoisington Bible Church in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, P.O.Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.

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