Anna M. (MANGUS) SANDERS

MANGUS, SANDERS, AURNER, TOWNER, MASON, PAYTON, SMITH, REDDING

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/6/2009 at 04:25:12

Great Bend Tribune
Great Bend, Kansas
April 21, 2005

OBITUARY - ANNA M. (MANGUS) SANDERS

1925 - 2005

Anna M. SANDERS, 80, died April 19 [2005] at Olathe Medical Center in Olathe [KS]. She was born February 15, 1925, in Kanorado [KS], the daughter of Luther L. Sr. and Elsie Mae (AURNER) MANGUS. She married Robert W. SANDERS on October 10, 1941, at Russell. He died in 1991. She was a lifetime Great Bend area resident and a homemaker. She was also a former Cub Scout and Girl Scout leader.

Survivors include three sons, Robert L. SANDERS and William W. SANDERS, both of Great Bend, and Ralph M. SANDERS of Bison; one daughter, Gloria J. TOWNER of Paola; two brothers, Luther L. MANGUS, Jr. of Aurora, Colo., and Charles L. MANGUS of Commerce City, Colo.; two sisters, Barbara MASON of Tucson, Ariz., and Virginia L. PAYTON of Kellerton, Iowa; 12 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded death by one son, Luther L. SANDERS; one daughter, Margaret E. SMITH; three brothers, Alva Dale MANGUS, Harold Lee MANGUS and Jay W. MANGUS; and one sister, Gwendolyn REDDING.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bryant Funeral Home, with the Rev. Don PADEN officiating. Burial will be at the Hillcrest Memorial Park in Great Bend. Visitation will be Thursday from 1-9 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to service time at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to Barton County Relay For Life or American Diabetes Association or American Lung Association. Funeral arrangements provided by Bryant Funeral Home 1425 Patton Rd., Great Bend, KS 67530 620-793-3525.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2009