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LAURA E. BARTUNEK Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, at the Will Funeral Chapel in Mitchell for Laura E. Bartunek, Mitchell, 83. She died Sunday, Feb. 19, in Mitchell. Rev. Sean McPherson officiated. Interment was at the ZCBJ Cemetery, Wagner. Pall bearers were Owen Martin, Robert Bartunek, Dennis Martin, Jim Lehi, John Bartunek, and David Hughes. Laura (Beth) Bartunek was born on March 5, 1922, at Carterville, MT, to Celos Orville and Ida Mildred (Chitwood) Dailey. After her father died, she came to live with an uncle and aunt, Sam and Elsie Dailey, rural Wagner. She grew up and attended Brian Township School and grade and high school in the Wagner area. On June 27, 1942, she married Robert Bartunek at Hartington, NE, and lived on a farm northeast of Wagner. Bob died in 1968. Laura then moved into Wagner. She worked at the Good Samaritan Center and also at the Wagner Pork Plant. She later moved to Mitchell. She is survived by her four children: Ronald Bartunek and wife, Leah, Gibsonia, PA; Marlin Bartunek, Custer; Judy Lehi and husband, Jim, Mitchell; Connie Martin and husband, Owen, Colton; and Paula (Wagner) Bartunek, Hawardan, IA; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one brother and five sisters; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert, a son Jerry, and four sisters: Opal, Marie, Kathleen and Dorothy.
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Lake Andes Wave March 15, 2006