December 25, 2024

Bernice Jean Redger, 82, died Thursday, December 24, 2015 at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. 

She was born April 5, 1933 at Fairview in Major County, Oklahoma, the daughter of Cornelius and Katherine (Kahn) Koehn. A longtime Gray County resident, she was a homemaker. 

She was a member of the Church of God In Christ Mennonite in Cimarron. 

On March 29, 1959 she married Ivan Redger at Fairview, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on December 6, 1994. 

Survivors include: her 4 children, Jonilla Loewen and husband Lionel, Cimarron, Camilla Ensz and husband Keith, Cimarron, Marcella Loewen and husband Donald, Winton, California and Verle Redger and wife Louann, Montezuma; 3 brothers, Allen Koehn and wife Virginia, Oklahoma City, James Koehn and wife Arlyn, Fairview and Randy Koehn, Leland, Mississippi; 4 sisters, Marjorie Schmidt, Fairview, Fern Koehn and husband Galen, Hawkeye, Iowa, Gail Koehn, Fairview and Lala Young, Fairview; a brother-in-law, Don Redger and wife Wanda, Ingalls; 18 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. 

She was also preceded in death by her parents and 4 brothers. 

Funeral services will be 10:30 am Sunday, December 27, 2015 at the Church of God In Christ Mennonite, Cimarron with Ministers Dallas Koehn and Calvin Koehn officiating. Burial will follow in the Cimarron Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church on Saturday, December 26, 2015 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. 

The family suggests memorials to the Gray County Over 50 Center or the church both in care of Ziegler Funeral Chapel, P.O. Box 446, Cimarron, Kansas 67835.