Janet Lentz

Janet Lentz, 95 of El Rancho Cucamonga, CA and formerly of Kearney, died Saturday, December 29, 2012 at the Kindred Hospital in Ontario, CA. Services will be 9:30 AM, Saturday January 19, 2013 at O'Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney. The Rev. Dr. Stephen Price-Gibson will officiate. Private family interment will follow at the Kearney Cemetery. There will be no visitation. Memorials are suggested to the American Heart Association. On-line condolences may be submitted to osrfh.com. O'Brien - Straatmann - Redinger Funeral Home of Kearney is in charge of arrangements. She was born April 4, 1917 in Milford, Kansas to Fred and Oma (Mellinger) Walters. She began her schooling in Studley, Kansas and moved with her family at the age of eight to Edmond, Kansas, where she attended elementary and high schools. After finishing school, she married (divorced) and had two daughters. She later graduated from White’s Beauty Academy in Wichita, Kansas. She worked in beauty shops in Kansas and also in Nebraska, where she moved to in 1949. In 2011, she moved from Kearney to California. She enjoyed her new surroundings and continued making numerous friends. On December 7, 1953, she married Clemon (Clem) Joseph Lentz in Holbrook, AZ. He passed away in January 1983. She was a 50 year member of Tuscan Chapter #29 Order of Eastern Star, a past Noble Grand and 50 year member of Naomi Rebekah Lodge #12 and past President and Life Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary #759. She was the oldest past President of the Auxiliary and served in 1958 - 1959. She enjoyed many crafts, including quilt making and crocheting, which she gave to family, friends and the Good Samaritan Hospital. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Marilyn and Leroy Spargo of California and her large and loving family of 5 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and 12 great great grandchildren. She loved her family deeply and will be missed by all who knew and loved her. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents, her great grandson, David Spargo of California, her daughter, Carolyn Thurston of Kearney, her sister, Freda Blume of Kearney and her brother, Wallace Walters of Glendale, AZ.

Janet Lentz

April 4, 1917 - December 29, 2012