FuNERAL SERVICE First Baptist Church McPherson, Kansas

Thursday, March 1, 2012

OFFICIATING CLERGY Rev. Les Cantrell

EULOGY READING Whitney Thiessen

SPECIAL MUSIC "On Eagles' Wings" & "The Prayer"

Lois Bersuch and Debbie Furgason, vocalists Hymns: "How Great Thou Art" #16

"Amazing Grace" #299 Anita Muhs, organist

CASKETBEARERS Chad Larson Dylan Thiessen Trent Furgason

Trevor Furgason Dennis Bersuch Jason Clinkscale

USHERS Gary Peterson Jim Pauls

INTERMENT McPherson Cemetery - McPherson, Kansas

MEMORIAL DONATIONS The family suggests that memorial donations be given to Mount Hope Santuary or Friendship Meals in loving memory of Dorris.

RECEPTION Following the committal service at McPherson Cemetery, everyone is invited to join the family for a luncheon in the fellowship hall at First Baptist Church.

ApPRECIATION

On behalf of the family, we wish to express their sincere appreciation for all your kindnesses, evidenced in thought and deed and for your presence at this service.

Stockham Family Funeral Home

1JO'R1US L. 'TJfITSSTN ]11:N'I 15, 1931 - j'E'B. 26, 2012

I~ Iorris Lucille Thiessen was born in rural Council Grove, Kansas at her

Grandma Blankey's home. She was the daughter of Charles E. and Louisa May (Blankley) Bersuch. A year and a half later, they moved to Cottonwood Falls where her brother Steve was born.

The family moved again to the Stewart Fann west of Elmdale on Middle Creek, just east of Cottonwood Falls. They lived there until moving to McPherson in 1946, when Dorris was fifteen. Dorris loved to tell the story of when she rode a horse to school, and she always added that she did this even when it was snowing. This is where she developed her passion for horses. Dorris graduated McPherson High School in 1949.

After High School, she met and later married Mervin "AI" Thiessen. They moved several times; to Great Bend KS, and to Columbus Ohio, where Greg was born in 1953. They then moved to Kansas City for a short time. Job transfers took them to Palmdale, CA in 1956, where Diana was born in 1957. In 1960, Dorris started working for North American Rockwell Aviation, in Palmdale as a Blue · Print Crib Attendant, later becoming a supervisor. She worked for North American Rockwell for eight years and started doing upholstery on the side. The family decided to move back to McPherson in 1970.

Dorris learned upholstery in California and took that to McPherson where she set up shop in her home. After moving to the country in 1972, she re-established her passion for raising horses until 1990, when she moved back to town following her divorce. She continued doing upholstery until retirement.

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Dorris loved her family, good times with grandchildren, and her pets, especially "Babe", her Min Pin. She always enjoyed conversations with others and telling a good story. She is loved and missed.

Dorris entered peacefully into eternal rest on Sunday, February 26, 2012, surrounded by family at McPherson Hospital. She was eighty.

Survivors include: son, Greg Thiessen and wife, Charlene, of McPherson, KS; daughter, Diana Larson and husband, Mark, of McPherson, KS; brother, Steven Bersuch and wife, Lois, of McPherson, KS; four grandchildren, Krista Clinkscale and husband, Jason, Chad Larson, Dylan Thiessen, and Whitney Thiessen.

Miss Me 'But Let Me Go . When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me I want no rites in a gloom fIlled room

Why cry for a s.oul set free?

Miss me a little - but not too long And not with your head bowed low

Remember the love that we once shared Miss me - but let me go.

For this is a journey that we all must take And each must go alone

It's all a part of the Master's plan A step on the road to home.

When you are lonely and sick at heart Go to the friends we know

And bury your sorrows in doing good deeds Miss me - but let me go.

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