LEONARD JOE MARTI

LAMAR-Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Apostolic Christian Faith Church in Pittsburg, Kan., for Leonard Lewis Joe Marti, 85, Lamar, who died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, at Via Christi Village, with loved ones by his side. A graveside committal service will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Apostolic Christian Cemetery in Barton County.

Arrangements are under the direction of Daniel Funeral Home.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, at the funeral home in Lamar.

Memorial contributions may be made to Apostolic Christian Faith Church in Pittsburg, Kan. or Hospice Compassus, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Evelyn Marti; a brother, Dale Marti and wife Corrine, Lamar; a brother-in-law, Roy Roth, Eureka, Ill.; two sisters, Dorothy Wagenbach and husband Paul, Burlington, Iowa and Allene Steffen and husband Jerry, Goodfield, Ill.; a sister-in-law, Teresa Marti, Burlington, Iowa, and many nephews and nieces. Other survivors he considered to be his family include Calvin and Jodi Luthi, Lamar and their children, Audrey Rokey and husband Aaron, Morris, Minn., Jessica Braker and husband Jesse, Liberal and Jared, Ryan, Caleb, Nathan, Amber, Austin, Danielle and Clint Luthi, all of Lamar.

He was preceded in death by a son, Jeff Marti; two brothers, Alvin Marti and Ervin Marti and two sisters, Ruth Schrock and Corrine Roth.

Mr. Marti was born Sept. 11, 1930, in Barton County, the fifth of the eight children of Fred and Anna (Kaufman) Marti. In addition to being a lifelong farmer, he had also worked for a few years at Lawn Boy in Lamar. On July 30, 1955, he married Jewell Evelyn Thorburn and they made their home and reared their son, Jeffrey, on the farm. A devoted husband and father, he was a spiritual leader, a quiet, patient teacher and role-model for many more than just his immediate family. While no one could fill the void left when his son Jeff died as a teenager, due to a heart condition, he continued to be an admired father figure and was loved deeply by a large extended family.