Janet L. Bartel

Janet L. Bartel, age 75, died Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Meade District Hospital, Meade, Kansas.

She was born November 24, 1939, in rural Meade, Kansas, the daughter of Jake J. and Lena D. (Harms) Isaac. As a young girl she attended the Lily Dale School and later the Meade Bible Academy in rural Meade County. A lifetime resident, she was a rural mail carrier.

She was a member of the Church of the Nazarene and she enjoyed gardening, embroidery, music, baking cookies, and camping at the Meade State Lake.

On June 13, 1958, she married Pete D. Bartel at Meade. He surivives.

Other survivors include:

Two sons, Myron Bartel of Pratt, Kansas

Gordon Bartel of Meade, Kansas

Two daughters, Cindy Friesen of Meade, Kansas

Vonda Ronen of Wichita, Kansas

Three brothers, Dean Isaac of Houston, Texas

Jerry Isaac of New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania

Gary Isaac of Denver, Colorado

A sister, Lavonne Loewen of Meade, Kansas

Nine grandchildren Nine great-grandchildren

She is preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Virgil Ray Isaac.

Memorial services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the Emmanuel Mennonite Church, Meade, with the Reverend Ken Harder presiding. Cremation has taken place. Private family inurnment services will be held at a later date.

The family would welcome memorials to the Lone Tree Retirement Center or the Church of the Nazarene in care of Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary, Meade.