Dateline: Ellinwood, Kansas

Name of Deceased: June Evelyn Buczinski Billinger                 Age: 91

Date of Death: October 1, 2015

Place of Death: Woodhaven Care Center, Ellinwood, Kansas

Date of Birth: June 25, 1924 at Wichita, Kansas

Parents Name: James E. and Ethel (McDonough) Smith

 

OBITUARY INFORMATION

She married Lawrence Buczinski July 11, 1945 at Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He died April 26, 1997. She then married Charles J. Billinger October 23, 1999 at Great Bend. He died April 24, 2000. A long-time Great Bend and Ellinwood resident, she was a secretary for Beech Aircraft, Wichita, Holland Engraving and IRS in Kansas City, and Fryberger Mortuary. She was co-owner of Miracle Water, Great Bend.

She was a member of St. John Episcopal Church and American Legion Post 180 Auxiliary, both of Great Bend; Heritage Club and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, both of Ellinwood; Sweet Adelines and Red Hat Society.

 

SURVIVORS

two sons: Larry J. Buczinski and his wife Marilyn of Great Bend, KS, and Daniel J. Buczinski and his wife Diana of Goddard, KS

two daughters: Christina Gonzalez and her husband Sam of Crosby, TX, and Diana Rightmire and her husband Warren of Kansas City, MO

ten grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren and step-grandchildren

two step-sons, Charles Buczinski and Charles Billinger

five step-daughters, Geneva Spotz, Mary Richardson, Toni Schneweis, Mary Charles and Cecelia Conrad

She was preceded in death by one brother, James E. Smith, Jr., and one sister, Jean Griggs.

 

SERVICE INFORMATION

Funeral Service: Monday, October 5, 2015

Time of Service: 2:00 p.m.

Place of Service: St. John’s Episcopal Church in Great Bend

Officiant: The Reverend Phyllis Brannon Flory

Interment: Great Bend Cemetery, Great Bend, Kansas

Visitation:  1:00 to 9:00 p.m., with the family receiving friends from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., Sunday, October 4, 2015 at Bryant Funeral Home

Memorial Fund: Heritage Club, 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