---Fern Ochs Axman, 94, died February 14, 2016, at Great Bend Regional Hospital. She was born October 23, 1921, in LaCrosse, Kansas, the daughter of Chester Henry and Ollie V. (Butler) Crotinger. She graduated from Bison High School.
---Fern was a homemaker and a seamstress. She loved to play bingo and cross-stich. Fern knitted and crocheted hundreds of scrubbers, dish rags, and baby blankets for family and friends. She was also a big fan of WWE Wrestling and Royals Baseball.
---A longtime resident of Hoisington moving to Great Bend in 1998. She was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hoisington and the V.F. W. Auxiliary #7428.
---On October 5, 1941, she married Orland Ochs in Galatia, Kansas. He died April 23, 1959. She then married Sylvester Axman on July 18, 1970 in Hoisington, Kansas. He died July 26, 1970.
---Survivors include; a son, Orland Ochs, Jr. of Hoisington; two daughters, Charlotte Schneider and husband Ron of Great Bend, and Linda Bartonek and husband Alan of Salina; six grandchildren, Scott Long and wife Sharron, Mike Long and wife Dana, Shannon Schneider and wife Orleny, Charla Peterman, Dan Bartonek, and Lynae Curtis and husband Greg; and 13 great grandchildren; and 11 great great grandchildren.
---She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, and a daughter, Margaret Long; four brothers, John, Clarence, Alvin, and Ned Crotinger; an infant sister, Maritta Crotinger, and two other sisters, Ruthette Hursch, and Beth Schneider.
---Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, with The Reverend Canon Phyllis Flory and Father Ultan Murphy presiding. Burial will follow in the Otis Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or Hands of Hope Rescue, in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
---Fern was a homemaker and a seamstress. She loved to play bingo and cross-stich. Fern knitted and crocheted hundreds of scrubbers, dish rags, and baby blankets for family and friends. She was also a big fan of WWE Wrestling and Royals Baseball.
---A longtime resident of Hoisington moving to Great Bend in 1998. She was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hoisington and the V.F. W. Auxiliary #7428.
---On October 5, 1941, she married Orland Ochs in Galatia, Kansas. He died April 23, 1959. She then married Sylvester Axman on July 18, 1970 in Hoisington, Kansas. He died July 26, 1970.
---Survivors include; a son, Orland Ochs, Jr. of Hoisington; two daughters, Charlotte Schneider and husband Ron of Great Bend, and Linda Bartonek and husband Alan of Salina; six grandchildren, Scott Long and wife Sharron, Mike Long and wife Dana, Shannon Schneider and wife Orleny, Charla Peterman, Dan Bartonek, and Lynae Curtis and husband Greg; and 13 great grandchildren; and 11 great great grandchildren.
---She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, and a daughter, Margaret Long; four brothers, John, Clarence, Alvin, and Ned Crotinger; an infant sister, Maritta Crotinger, and two other sisters, Ruthette Hursch, and Beth Schneider.
---Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, with The Reverend Canon Phyllis Flory and Father Ultan Murphy presiding. Burial will follow in the Otis Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or Hands of Hope Rescue, in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
---Fern Ochs Axman, 94, died February 14, 2016, at Great Bend Regional Hospital. She was born October 23, 1921, in LaCrosse, Kansas, the daughter of Chester Henry and Ollie V. (Butler) Crotinger. She graduated from Bison High School.
---Fern was a homemaker and a seamstress. She loved to play bingo and cross-stich. Fern knitted and crocheted hundreds of scrubbers, dish rags, and baby blankets for family and friends. She was also a big fan of WWE Wrestling and Royals Baseball.
---A longtime resident of Hoisington moving to Great Bend in 1998. She was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hoisington and the V.F. W. Auxiliary #7428.
---On October 5, 1941, she married Orland Ochs in Galatia, Kansas. He died April 23, 1959. She then married Sylvester Axman on July 18, 1970 in Hoisington, Kansas. He died July 26, 1970.
---Survivors include; a son, Orland Ochs, Jr. of Hoisington; two daughters, Charlotte Schneider and husband Ron of Great Bend, and Linda Bartonek and husband Alan of Salina; six grandchildren, Scott Long and wife Sharron, Mike Long and wife Dana, Shannon Schneider and wife Orleny, Charla Peterman, Dan Bartonek, and Lynae Curtis and husband Greg; and 13 great grandchildren; and 11 great great grandchildren.
---She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, and a daughter, Margaret Long; four brothers, John, Clarence, Alvin, and Ned Crotinger; an infant sister, Maritta Crotinger, and two other sisters, Ruthette Hursch, and Beth Schneider.
---Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, with The Reverend Canon Phyllis Flory and Father Ultan Murphy presiding. Burial will follow in the Otis Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or Hands of Hope Rescue, in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
---Fern was a homemaker and a seamstress. She loved to play bingo and cross-stich. Fern knitted and crocheted hundreds of scrubbers, dish rags, and baby blankets for family and friends. She was also a big fan of WWE Wrestling and Royals Baseball.
---A longtime resident of Hoisington moving to Great Bend in 1998. She was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Hoisington and the V.F. W. Auxiliary #7428.
---On October 5, 1941, she married Orland Ochs in Galatia, Kansas. He died April 23, 1959. She then married Sylvester Axman on July 18, 1970 in Hoisington, Kansas. He died July 26, 1970.
---Survivors include; a son, Orland Ochs, Jr. of Hoisington; two daughters, Charlotte Schneider and husband Ron of Great Bend, and Linda Bartonek and husband Alan of Salina; six grandchildren, Scott Long and wife Sharron, Mike Long and wife Dana, Shannon Schneider and wife Orleny, Charla Peterman, Dan Bartonek, and Lynae Curtis and husband Greg; and 13 great grandchildren; and 11 great great grandchildren.
---She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, and a daughter, Margaret Long; four brothers, John, Clarence, Alvin, and Ned Crotinger; an infant sister, Maritta Crotinger, and two other sisters, Ruthette Hursch, and Beth Schneider.
---Funeral service will be 10 a.m., Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, with The Reverend Canon Phyllis Flory and Father Ultan Murphy presiding. Burial will follow in the Otis Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, at the funeral home, with family to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or Hands of Hope Rescue, in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.
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