Dateline: Great Bend, Kansas

Name of Deceased: Ryan Robert Fanshier                                       Age: 36

Date of Death: June 24, 2015

Place of Death: Great Bend Regional Hospital in Great Bend, Kansas

Date of Birth: June 17, 1979 at Great Bend, Kansas

Parents Name: Randall and Angela (Sharpe) Fanshier

OBITUARY INFORMATION

He married Kristin Stabenow July 28, 2007 at Kansas City, Kansas.

Ryan grew up in Great Bend, graduating from Great Bend High School in 1998 and Kansas State University in 2003. For ten years he was plant manager for Cargill and returned home last year, to become owner and operator Central Plains Seed Service, Great Bend.

Ryan was a loving husband, and a wonderful father, son, and brother; had an infectious smile, and loved to have fun and play with his children.

SURVIVORS

wife: Kristin Fanshier, of the home

parents: Randy and Angie Fanshier, Great Bend, KS

one son: Cole Fanshier of the home

one daughter: Emma Fanshier of the home

two brothers: Matt Fanshier and his wife Julie of Kansas City, KS, and Luke Fanshier and fiancée Brittany Grattan of Wichita, KS

one niece, Hadley and one nephew, Cooper

paternal grandmother, Frances Fanshier of Great Bend, KS

maternal grandmother, Dorothy Sharpe of Clyde, KS

 

SERVICE INFORMATION

Funeral Service: Monday, June 29, 2015

Time of Service: 2:00 p.m.

Place of Service: First United Methodist Church in Great Bend

Officiant: The Reverend Lennie Maxwell

Interment: Eden Valley Cemetery, Seward, Kansas

Visitation:  1:00 to 9:00 p.m., with the family receiving friends from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Sunday, June 28, 2015 at Bryant Funeral Home

Memorial Fund: In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions to the Children’s Education Fund, 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