Ottilia (Staab) Leiker

Ottilia “Tillie” Leiker, 95, Catharine, died Monday, September 14, 2015 at the Ellis Good Samaritan Center.

She was born January 12, 1920 in Catharine the daughter of Charles and Rosa (Koerner) Staab.  She was a homemaker and on September 6, 1938 she married Alfred J. “A.J.” Leiker in Antonino, KS.  He died April 27, 2001.  She was a member of the St. Catherine Catholic Church, and the Altar Society/Christian Mothers.  She loved to cook, make noodles, canning, sewing, and crocheting.

Survivors include a daughter, Joyce Crane and husband Robert of Shawnee, KS, a son Alfred Leiker, Jr. of Catharine, a son Derald Leiker and wife Carol of Kansas City, KS, and a daughter Patricia Vandenberg and husband Harold of Ellis, four sisters Josepha Dreiling of Grand Junction, CO, Rose Doerfler of Morris, IL, Geraldine Dreiling of Denver, and Mary Louise Staab of Hays, eleven grandchildren and twenty one great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, four brothers; Rudy, Alfred, Edward, and Charlie Staab, and two sisters; Freda Dinges and Flora Doerfler.

Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the St. Catherine Catholic Church, 1681 St. Joseph Street, Catharine, Kansas.  Burial will be in the St. Catherine Cemetery.  Visitation will be from 6:00 until 8:00 pm on Friday and from 8:30 am until 9:30 on Saturday, all at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1906 Pine.  An Altar Society/Christian Mothers rosary will be at 6:30 pm followed by a parish vigil service at 7:00, both on Friday at the funeral home.  Memorials are suggested to the St. Catherine Cemetery Fund, in care of the funeral home.  Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com