HELEN “JEAN” MARTI

LAMAR- Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home for Helen Jean (Gardner) Marti, 91, Lamar, who died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019, at Barton County Memorial Hospital, following a short illness. Burial will be in Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 1 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Barton County Senior Center.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences left online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include three daughters, Karen Kinney, Lamar, Vicky Masterson, Lamar and Shirley Reinemann and husband Terry, Lowell, Ark.; six grandchildren, Chad Kinney and wife Mendy, Kori O’Sullivan and husband Brian, Chris Kinney, Kara Graves and husband Joe, Craig Reinemann and wife Amber and Jase Masterson and wife Macenzie; six great-grandchildren, Cody and Chelsey O’Sullivan, Kiersten and Keaton Kinney, Luke Masterson, Adeline Reinemann and Baby Graves expected in 2020; two sisters, Kay Marti and Opal Young, both of Lamar and many nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

She was preceded in death by her brother, Forrest Wayne Gardner.

Mrs. Marti was born June 18, 1928, in Arcola, to Thomas William and Katherine Irene (Twaddell) Gardner. She had spent her lifetime in Barton County and was proud to have been a farmer’s wife for many years. She had also worked at McDonald’s in Lamar, Lamar Apco, the Lamar Super Market, Jewell Medlin Ford and Tractors. She was a 1948 graduate of Lamar High School.

She married Edward Melvin Marti on Nov. 20, 1950, in Bentonville, Ark. He died Jan. 13, 1995.