Obituary for Patricia L. Ohmes
Patricia L (Rome) Ohmes passed to the life eternal on March 21, 2022, bring an end to a generation of Rome’s in Finney County.
Born July 4th 1934, in Hays, Kansas, Pat (Patty) was the youngest and last living child of Nick and Pauline (Boxler) Rome. The family lived in St. Peter Kansas until 1939 when the family relocated to rural Holcomb where Pat spent her free time working on the family farm and writing daily letters to her brothers serving overseas during WWII. She graduated from Holcomb High School. During school she enjoyed playing basketball, tennis, and bowling. She once bowled a perfect 300 game in her youth. After High School she was called to religious orders and graduated from the Dominican School of Nursing, Marymount College in Salina. She spent serval years serving as a labor and delivery nurse in Salina, Great Bend, and Northwestern Kansas. Eventually she determined she could serve others better outside the holy order and moved back to Garden City to work at St. Catherine’s and help her brother Dave with his children after his wife passed away suddenly. Upon returning to Garden City, she met and married Aloysius Ohmes on Sept 27, 1969, and started a family.
Many will remember Pat for her award-winning baking, canning, and horticulture products that she sold at the local farmer market as well as exhibiting at the Finney County and Kansas State Fairs. She was an active member of St. Dominic’s Catholic Church and enjoyed cooking, canning, baking, gardening, quilting, and playing cards with friends and family.
Survivors include her husband Aloysius, three sons Robert (Vanessa) Coeur D' Alene, ID, Joseph Garden City, KS, Andrew (Amanda) Wassenaar, Netherlands. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was proceeded in death by her daughter Dr. Julie (Marc) Stoner, her parents; eight brothers, Adolph Rome, Ed Rome, Jerry Rome, Mike Rome, Dave Rome, Pete Rome, John Rome, Anton Rome; Five sisters, Mary Rome, Mary Rome, Katherine Ruman, Clara Rome, and Ann Scariano.
Vigil Service and Rosary will be held at St Dominic’s Catholic Church at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2022, in Garden City. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022, also at St. Dominic Catholic Church with Rev. Warren Stecklein as Celebrant. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Garden City. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday at Garnand Funeral Home in Garden City. The family request in lieu of flowers that memorials be given to the Julie A Stoner memorial scholarship in Biostatistics at the Hudson College of Public Health University of Oklahoma in care of Garnand Funeral Home.
Born July 4th 1934, in Hays, Kansas, Pat (Patty) was the youngest and last living child of Nick and Pauline (Boxler) Rome. The family lived in St. Peter Kansas until 1939 when the family relocated to rural Holcomb where Pat spent her free time working on the family farm and writing daily letters to her brothers serving overseas during WWII. She graduated from Holcomb High School. During school she enjoyed playing basketball, tennis, and bowling. She once bowled a perfect 300 game in her youth. After High School she was called to religious orders and graduated from the Dominican School of Nursing, Marymount College in Salina. She spent serval years serving as a labor and delivery nurse in Salina, Great Bend, and Northwestern Kansas. Eventually she determined she could serve others better outside the holy order and moved back to Garden City to work at St. Catherine’s and help her brother Dave with his children after his wife passed away suddenly. Upon returning to Garden City, she met and married Aloysius Ohmes on Sept 27, 1969, and started a family.
Many will remember Pat for her award-winning baking, canning, and horticulture products that she sold at the local farmer market as well as exhibiting at the Finney County and Kansas State Fairs. She was an active member of St. Dominic’s Catholic Church and enjoyed cooking, canning, baking, gardening, quilting, and playing cards with friends and family.
Survivors include her husband Aloysius, three sons Robert (Vanessa) Coeur D' Alene, ID, Joseph Garden City, KS, Andrew (Amanda) Wassenaar, Netherlands. She is also survived by 11 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was proceeded in death by her daughter Dr. Julie (Marc) Stoner, her parents; eight brothers, Adolph Rome, Ed Rome, Jerry Rome, Mike Rome, Dave Rome, Pete Rome, John Rome, Anton Rome; Five sisters, Mary Rome, Mary Rome, Katherine Ruman, Clara Rome, and Ann Scariano.
Vigil Service and Rosary will be held at St Dominic’s Catholic Church at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, 2022, in Garden City. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 25, 2022, also at St. Dominic Catholic Church with Rev. Warren Stecklein as Celebrant. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Garden City. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday at Garnand Funeral Home in Garden City. The family request in lieu of flowers that memorials be given to the Julie A Stoner memorial scholarship in Biostatistics at the Hudson College of Public Health University of Oklahoma in care of Garnand Funeral Home.