Elizabeth M. (Bernatzki) Stiebe

90, died Jan. 3, 2017 at her home near Kinsley, KS.  She was born on Sept. 8, 1926 to Joseph and Katherine Bernatzki in Kinsley, KS.

She attended school in Kinsley and graduated high school in spring of 1944.  After high school she worked at Bentley Hardware in Kinsley until she married Alfons A. Stiebe on Nov. 20, 1947 at the Methodist Parsonage in Larned, KS.  They took a three week wedding trip through the southwest United States to California.  Upon their return, they made their home north of Kinsley on the farm where Alfons grew up, and Elizabeth became a full time homemaker.

She was preceded in death by husband Alfons, Feb. 24, 2014, parents Joseph and Katherine, sister Margaret Mulford and brother Richard Bernatzki.

She is survived by two sons David and Wife Cindy of Kinsley, and Arlyn of Manhattan, KS., two granddaughters Alexis of Hutchinson, KS., and Kristin of Kinsley, KS.

Funeral service will be held at 10am on Fri. Jan. 6, 2017 at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church Kinsley, KS. with burial to follow at Peace Lutheran Cemetery, north of Kinsley. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given to the Church in care of McKillip Memorial Funeral Home, Kinsley.