Janet Meisinger

Janet N. Meisinger, 72, a farmwife and homemaker, passed away May 20, 2015, at Bethesda Home of Goessel.

Visitation was Friday evening at Zeiner Funeral Home of Hillsboro. Services were Saturday, May 23, 2015. A committal service was at 2 p.m. at Marion Cemetery, followed by a memorial service at 3 p.m. at Ebenfeld Mennonite Brethren Church, southeast of Hillsboro.

She was born Sept. 11, 1942, at Joplin, Missouri, the daughter of L. Bruce and Ruby (Leckron) Patton. After attending school at Riverton, Kansas, she attended Kansas State University. Janet graduated in 1964 with a degree in home economics. She served as the Marion County extension home economist for six years. She was united in marriage to Richard K. Meisinger, a farmer of Marion, on June 13, 1964.

Survivors include her husband, Richard; her sons, Mark and his wife, Sara, of Marion and Mike and his wife, Diane, of Hillsboro; a sister, Patricia Griffith of Penrose, Colorado; brothers Walter Patton of Overland Park and Leon Patton of Prairie Village; and six grandchildren, Caleb, Bryce, Isaac, Chase, Callie and Kenzie.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established for the Kansas 4-H Foundation in care of Zeiner Funeral Home, 205 Elm St., Marion KS 66861.