Mary Agnes Obermeier....Age 79

ROSARY: 6PM MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH
VISITATION TO FOLLOW UNTIL 8PM
BOTH AT EDDY-BIRCHARD FUNERAL HOME.

SERVICE: 10AM TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH- ST. PHILIP NERI CHURCH, OSAWATOMIE, KS

BURIAL: OSAWATOMIE CEMETERY

MEMORIALS: ST. PHILIP NERI CHURCH

Memorial may be sent in care of:
Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home
P.O. Box 430
Osawatomie, KS 66064

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Mary Agnes Obermeier age 79, of Osawatomie, Kansas passed from this life on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at St. Luke’s Hospice House in Kansas City, Missouri.

Mary was born in Anderson County, Kansas on January 22, 1935 the second of five children born to August and Gertrude (Oswald) Wolken.

Mary grew up in Anderson County, Kansas along with her four siblings and two older half-sisters. She attended school in the Greeley school district, graduating from Greeley High School with the class of 1953.

Mary first met her future husband Harry Obermeier, who had recently returned home from the war in Korea, while attending a dance in Greeley. On March 26, 1954 the couple married in Olathe, Kansas. They made their home in Osawatomie and became the parents of six children. Patricia (who died at birth), Edward, Paul, Elizabeth, David and Mary. Her husband Harry died in 1982, they had been married for twenty-eight years.

In 2004 Mary married Jess A. Bolling at St. Philip Neri Church in Osawatomie. They later moved out of town to a rural home in Osawatomie where they have lived for the past ten years.


Mary was a full time wife and mother until her youngest child started school in 1965. She then went to work for the Holiday Manor Nursing Home in Osawatomie (later renamed Life Care Center of Osawatomie) where she worked as a Certified Medication Aide for forty years, retiring in 2005.

Mary was a caring and loving mother, a kind, sweet, and generous woman. Everyone who knew Mary knew her as an incurable optimist, someone who always saw her glass as half full and rising. Mary was known to be a realist, a down to earth sort of person who possessed an uncommon wealth of common sense. Having grown up in the wake of the Great Depression era she was conscious of the value of everything and learned to make the most of what she had, one of the many traits she instilled in her children for which to this day they are most grateful.

Mary was a fabulous cook and her baked goods, particularly her apple pie, were well known to anyone who had ever had it. Anyone who’d ever tasted her apple pie would agree that it was some of the best they’d ever eaten. She enjoyed being outside, tending her calves and chickens and working in her garden or her wonderful strawberry patch behind the garage.


She was a devoted Catholic and an active member of St. Philip Neri Church in Osawatomie. She was always one to help with church functions and activities and helped with the cooking etc at many church dinners.

Mary was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband Harry, her infant daughter Patricia, and one brother, Louis Wolken.

She is survived by her husband Jess A. Bolling of the home, her five children and their spouses: Ed and Anita Obermeier of Somerset-Paola, KS, Paul and Vickie Obermeier of Osawatomie, KS, Elizabeth and John Dunsworth of Houston, TX, David Obermeier of IA, and Mary Johns of Lane, KS. One brother John Wolken of Garnett, KS, two sisters: Elizabeth Rainwater of Belton, MO, Bernadette Madison of Blue Springs, MO, and two half-sisters Kathleen Guilfoyle of Garnett, KS, Deloris Midkiff of Clyde, TX and sister in-law Janette Wolken of Garnett, Kansas. Eight grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and two step grandchildren. As well as numerous other family and friends.