THANK YOU - KAREN JACOB AND JIM HARRELL

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Thank You - an extra special Thank You - to Karen and Jim for keeping the Paradise Blog up to date.  I appreciate them for helping  with the blog for the past several years. They started out as Paradise Blog professionals so they certainly did not have to be trained.  In fact, Jim has been my Tech Guy since the beginning.

I have been in a hospital (three different ones) since Nov. 28, 2019.  I am hoping that this present hospital care - Holiday Resort in Emporia  - will be the last one.  I qualified  to be in a nursing home because I, hopefully, am curable  LOL!  It has been somewhat hard since March because I can't have visitors.  A Nursing Home with no visitors is very quiet.  My family comes to my window and we talk on our phones. We can NOT open the windows. Holiday Resort is a perfect facility for me.  Thank You Lord.

Paradise School Reunion

I have been informed from a member of the school reunion committee that the reunion is still on.
It will be July 18th.

The home grown band "THE PROPHETS" will be playing again.

More information will be forthcoming and things may change.

Stay safe and healthy.
We want to see you at the reunion!!!

Jim

Judith Lynn (Benedick) Nuss

Judith Lynn Nuss passed away on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at the Rooks County Health Center in Plainville at the age of 77. Judith was born in Stockton, Kansas on June 9, 1942 to Virl and Leta Benedick. She attended High School in Paradise. Judith was a mother to Tim, Monty, and Todd in her younger years and later on she met and married Gerald Nuss and to this union Jerry, Chad, Dallas, Eva, and Michelle were born.

Judith loved time with her family especially playing card games like pitch, poker, and gin rummy. She enjoyed cooking and being in the company of her dogs.

She is survived by her husband, Gerald Nuss of Plainville, KS; children, Tim Krob, Monty Karst, Todd Alan Templeton, Jerry Nuss, Chad Nuss, Dallas Nuss, Eva Malin, and Michelle Nuss; siblings, George and Alan Benedick; twenty five grandchildren and many great-grandchildren.

Judith is preceded in death by her parents, Virl and Leta Bendick; step-mother, Francis Benedick; and siblings, Larry and Clayton Benedick, Donovan Krob, Joyce Cotton, and Bethel Krob

Private family services have been chosen.

Memorials are suggested to the Judith Nuss Memorial Fund and may be sent in care of Plumer Overlease Funeral Home, 320 SW 2nd St, Plainville, KS 67663.

Marilyn Barrett (Former Teacher)

Marilyn Rhea (Somers) Barrett, 90, of Pratt, Kansas, and formerly of Paradise, 
Kansas, passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020 at the Pratt Health & Rehabilitation 
Center in Pratt.

Marilyn was born August 25, 1929 in Altoona, Kansas.  She was one of five children
born to Rhea Moore and Thelma Doris (Davis) Somers.  She grew up in Altoona,
Paradise, Bird City, Kansas, Spring, Kansas and Ensign, Kansas.  She attended and 
graduated from Ft. Hays State University with a degree in Education.

Marilyn was united in marriage to Harry W. Barrett on January 10, 1953 in Clayton, 
New Mexico.  This union was blessed with five children; Terry, Kent, Sandee, Richard 
and Max.  Later in life they divorced.  Harry preceded her in death in October, 1994.

Marilyn was a devoted School Teacher.  She taught in Copeland, Kansas, Cedar 
Point, Kansas, Turon, Kansas, Paradise, Kansas from 1967 to 1973, Winona, Kansas 
from 1974 to 1984, and Natoma, Kansas from 1985 till retirement.  She was a member 
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  After retirement, she was a board 
member of the Natoma School Board.  She also was a member of the Paradise City 
Council for over 20 years..  In her spare time she enjoyed sewing, doing crafts 
especially ceramics, learning family history, and spending time with her grandchildren 
and great grandchildren.

Marilyn’s surviving family include two daughters, Terry Allen (David) of Manhattan, 
Kansas and Sandee Bates (Douglas) of Sparta, Tennessee; three sons, Kent Barrett 
(Karen) of Pratt, Kansas, Richard Barrett (Koleen) of Colby, Kansas and Max Barrett 
of Pratt, Kansas; brother, K. Ronald Somers (Nancy) of Idaho; two sisters, Joyce Anne 
 Barnes of Warrensburg, Missouri and Monice Laray Somers of Russell, Kansas; 
16 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her 
 parents and sister Lola Jeanne Heath.

A Graveside service will be held at 11:00 A.M., Thursday, May 14, 2020 at the 
Mt. Hermon Cemetery in Paradise, Kansas.  No Visitation being held.  A Memorial 
has been established with the Waldo Senior Center.  Contributions and condolences 
may be sent to Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary, who is in charge of these arrangements.