Rozel – Calvin C. Blattner, 86, passed away September 30, 2014 in Wichita.

He was born January 14, 1928 in Rozel; the son of Charles and Elizabeth Haun Blattner. A longtime area resident; he was a rural Mail Carrier.

During WWII, he served in the Army, Pacific Theater. He loved bowling, coaching youth sports softball and baseball, was an avid gardener and loved hunting and fishing.

On March 1, 1953 he married Lois I. Wimberly in Larned. She passed away June 6, 2002.

Survivors include: two sons, Tom and wife Susan, Lenexa, and Matt and wife Teresa, Wichita; four daughters, Deborah Conover and husband Dana, Ohio, Kay Blattner, Manhattan, Mary Reasoner and husband Mark, Wichita and Nancy Lloyd and husband Michael, Arkadelphia, AR; a brother, Gene Blattner, Rozel; two sisters, Charlotte Becker, Hays and Dorothy Ideker, Kinsley; fourteen grandchildren and one great grandchild.

He was preceded in death by; five brothers, Sanford, LeRoy, Joe, Vernon and Charlie and a sister, Ellen Bentley.

Funeral service will be 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Beckwith Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Bethann Black presiding. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday at the Mortuary. Burial will be in the Fairmount Cemetery, Jetmore, Kansas.

Memorials may be given to the Jordaan Memorial Library, in care of the Beckwith Mortuary, P.O. Box 477, Larned, KS 67550. Personal condolences may be left at www.beckwithmortuary.com.