Dateline: Great Bend, Kansas

Name of Deceased: Opal May Reichel                                              Age: 80

Date of Death: May 6, 2016

Place of Death: At her home in Great Bend, Kansas

Date of Birth: February 6, 1936 at Ness City, Kansas

Parents Name: Herman Wayne and Diana (Musselman) Mellies

 

OBITUARY INFORMATION

She married Arnold Neal Reichel November 17, 1954 at Bushton, Kansas.

She was a homemaker and worked as an operator for AT&T, as a dispatcher for the Rush County Sheriff, and was co-owner of the Bison Mini-Mall.

Mrs. Reichel was a Great Bend, Kansas resident since 2001 coming from Bison.

She was a member of First United Methodist Church and Bison United Methodist Church. She was a 4H leader for the Lone Star Rangers and was an avid painter. She enjoyed camping, fishing and hunting, as well as always planting a very large garden every year.

 

SURVIVORS

Survivors include her husband: Neal Reichel, of the home; two sons: Joel Reichel and his wife Terry of Alexander, and Jody Reichel and his husband Seth Munter of San Francisco, Calif.; two daughters: Charlotte Brening and her husband Phil of Fort Worth, Texas, and Cherie Belford and her husband Larry of Hoisington; one sister, Sandi McNulty of Cheyenne, Wyo.; one brother: Ron Mellies of Glendale, Ariz.; eleven grandchildren, Nicholas Brening, Michael Brening, Sandra Ritterhouse, Heather Whisnant, Kendra Belford, Shawn Marvin, Tyler Marvin, Levi Reichel, Ashley Reichel, Rebecca Reichel and Travis Reichel; 23 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Irvin Mellies and Bob Miller.

 

SERVICE INFORMATION

Funeral Services will be at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at First United Methodist Church in Great Bend with The  Reverend Reuben Lang’at officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at La Crosse City Cemetery. Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, May 9, 2016 at Bryant Funeral Home. Memorials are requested to Rush County EMS or Bison Community Library, 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