Linda Bartel, Goessel
Linda Bartel Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information (jostfuneralhome.com)
November 4, 1920 - August 16, 2021
Melva Linda (Reimer) Bartel was born November 4, 1920 to Abraham S. and Katharina Buller Reimer. She and her five sisters (Alice, Dora, Erna, Milda, and Lenora (Lou)) grew up on a farm northwest of Goessel in McPherson County.
Linda attended Emma Valley Grade School and graduated from Goessel High School in 1939. She was baptized May 16, 1937 at Goessel Mennonite Church by Reverend P. P. Buller. She worked at the Bethel Hospital in Newton from 1939 until the summer of 1942.
On November 12, 1942, she married Melvin O. Bartel. She joined the Johannestal Mennonite Church on November 14, 1943. Later she and Melvin joined the Lehigh Mennonite Church on March 6, 1966. Linda joined First Mennonite Church of Hillsboro on May 19, 1996, where she remained a member until her departure to her heavenly home on August 16, 2021.
Melvin and Linda lived on a farm northwest of Hillsboro and were blessed with four children (Gilbert, Roger, Janice and Tamara). Linda worked for 20 years at Ratzlaff Draperies in Goessel from 1978 to 1998. She continued to live on the farm and work after Melvin passed away in 1984. She moved to Grand Oaks Apartments in Hillsboro in 1998 shortly after her retirement. She moved to Bethesda Home in Goessel in March of 2015.
Linda enjoyed working outside in her garden on the farm and her flower garden at Grand Oaks. She also enjoyed walking through the butterfly garden at Bethesda Home. She enjoyed cooking and baking. Her children and grandchildren especially enjoyed her baking which routinely included zwieback, cherry rolls and special apricot cookies at Christmas. The family would get together on Sunday evenings at her apartment and Mom always had baked goods to share with us. While they were able to do so, Linda and her sisters Erna and Milda took several bus tours to different parts of the United States which they all enjoyed.
When visiting with Mom about her life sketch, she indicated that she wanted her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren to know how much she loved each of them and how “precious” they were to her. Family was of utmost importance to her and she loved all of us unconditionally and would do anything for us that she could. What she did most faithfully was pray for family and friends.
Linda celebrated her 100th birthday in 2020 with her family.
She went to her heavenly home early in the morning of August 16, 2021. She will be remembered with love and for the amazing, strong woman that she was.
She is preceded in death by her parents and five sisters, her husband Melvin in 1984, her son Gilbert Bartel in 2005, her daughter Tammy Bartel Beason in 1987.
She is survived by her son Roger and wife Fern Bartel, daughter Janice and husband Rick Hoefer, grandchildren Kristina Bartel, Steve Bartel and fiancé Krista Buller, Jenny and husband Jeff Wells, Josh and wife Bridgette Meliza, Robin and husband Zach Ebmeier, Nicki and husband Kevin Nolasco, great-grandchildren Seth Bartel and wife Abby, Hannah Bartel, Amanda Bartel, Emma Bartel, Reiley Wells, Nathan Wells, Emiley Wells, Casen Meliza, Calen Meliza, Zander Ebmeier, Sam, Corina, Casey, Cheyenne and several great-great grandchildren.
Even though we know she is in a better place, she will be greatly missed but the love remains.
Celebration of Life service 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 21, 2021 at First Mennonite Church in Hillsboro officiated by Pastor Tom Harder. Committal service 10:00 a.m. Saturday at Lehigh Mennonite Cemetery, rural Lehigh. Family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday at Jost Funeral Home in Hillsboro.
Memorials to First Mennonite Church or Bethesda Home in care of Jost Funeral Home, P.O. Box 266, Hillsboro, KS 67063.
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