Delores (DECHANT) RIEDEL
7/4/1937 3/13/2008
Delores (Dechant) Riedel, 70, Hays, died Thursday, March 13, 2008, at Hays
Good Samaritan Center. She was born July 4, 1937, in Liebenthal to Cornelius and
Ursela (Legleiter) Dechant. She was a 1955 graduate of Girls Catholic High
School. She married Donald A. Riedel on June 17, 1961. She was a homemaker. She
was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church, WaKeeney.
Survivors include four sons, Glenn Riedel and wife, Tammy, and Donnie Riedel,
Darran Riedel and wife, Loriand, and Guy Riedel, two daughters, Diedra Riedel,
and Desiree Brady and husband, Steve, three brothers, Emerald and Harry, and
Virgil, five sisters, Bernice Schaffer, Peggy Norris, Rosie Giesick, Carol Werth
and Jeanette Gabel, 18 grandchildren, Courtney, Cindy, Catie, Clayton Riedel,
Aubrey, Alexis, Adelle Riedel, Emily, Tiffany, Kristi and Austin Duncan,
Alexander, Adrianna and Ayden Brady, and Blake, Brock, and Blaine Riedel; and
two great-grandchildren, Karlee and Lane Fairless
She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, a twin, Donnie, and
LaVerne, a sister, Mary Ann Meder, and the father of her children, Donald
Riedel, Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church,
Liebenthal; burial in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Submitted by Gayle M. Garrett