Meng, Dixie 1943-2024 Wathena, Kan.

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WATHENA, Kan. – Dixie (Wykert) Meng, 81, of Wathena, Kansas, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, at K.U. Medical Center, in Kansas City.

Dixie was born on March 8, 1943, in Burr Oak Township in Doniphan County, Kansas, to Harold and Gladys (Harness) Wykert. She was a lifelong resident of Doniphan County. Dixie retired from the Elwood School District where she was a cook for several years.

She is a member of the Christ Lutheran Church, LWL, Quilt Club of the Church, Red Hat Society, Iowa Point Community Club and Wathena Garden Club.

As we remember the wife, mother, grandmother and friend that Dixie was, we think of the hard-working, tough-loving, God-fearing legacy that she has left behind. She loved spending time with her family and friends. Her favorite pastimes were quilting, playing cards (cheating sometimes haha), volunteering at the church, crocheting, gardening, attending grandchildren’s events, cooking and baking and all things traveling. Her biggest joy in life was her family and making sure they were taken care of in every way. Everything she did, she did with love, whether that was putting us back on the straight and narrow or giving us a shoulder to cry on. She was one of the hardest working women that God placed on this side of heaven. She kept our hearts full of love and our bellies full of homemade raspberry jelly, pies, noodles and so much more. She was the light of our lives and she kept our world turning. She will be missed dearly by so many.

Dixie married Bob Meng on Sept. 16, 1961, in Wathena. He survives the home.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and three brothers, Donnie, Johnny and Jimmy Wykert. Additional survivors include her sister, Pat (Terry) Masters, of Wyoming; and children, Doug Meng (Sherry), of Troy, Kansas, and Brenda Ward, of Sabetha, Kansas; grandchildren, Garrett Meng and Alyssa Schmille (girlfriend), Troy, Daniel and Tanna Kuhnert, Denton, Kansas, Kassi Meng and Riley Peters (fiance), Vermillion, South Dakota, Ryan Key and Sami Gamache (fiance), Arnold, Missouri, Amy Key and Alex Schmille (fiance), Omaha, Nebraska, Dana Key, Columbia, Missouri, Dakota Ward and Diana Gomez (girlfriend), Liberal, Kansas, Kyler Ward, Belgrade, Montana; great- grandchildren, Layla, Will, Harlen and Jamison Kuhnert, and Maleah and Noah Ward.

FUNERAL: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, 10 a.m. at the Christ Lutheran Church, in Wathena.

The family will receive friends Friday evening 6 to 8 p.m. at the Harman Rohde Funeral Home, in Wathena, where friends may call after 9 a.m. Friday.

Memorials can be made to the Christ Lutheran Church or The Quilt Club

Burial: Walnut Grove Cemetery, in rural Iowa Point, Kansas.

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