Patricia A. Lierz, 83, Baileyville, died Thursday, September 26, 2013 at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.

She was born October 25, 1929, on a farm northeast of Seneca, the daughter of Elmer G. and Josephine Rethman Stallbaumer. She attended St. Bede’s School in Kelly and St. Patrick’s School in Corning. Pat helped on the family farm and also did domestic work and took care of new born babies for local families.

On September 12, 1950, she married Henry J. Lierz at St. Patrick’s Church at Corning. They lived and farmed on the Lierz farm until 1961 when they moved to a farm east of Vliets. In 1979 they moved back to the Lierz home place where they had livestock and a dairy. Pat worked at Annunciation School in Frankfort from 1968 to 1971 as a cook. She worked at the USD #380 Grade School at Frankfort for 10 years and at the Friendly Neighbor Nutrition Center in Frankfort for 14 years until she retired in 1994. They retired from farming in April of 1986 and moved into Baileyville. Pat and Henry celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in September of 2000.

She was a member of Sacred Heart Church and St. Ann’s Altar Society at the church in Baileyville. She was a former member of Annunciation Church and the Altar Society where she had served as an officer. Pat liked sewing, embroidery, cooking and baking. She and her husband enjoyed playing cards with friends.

Survivors are three sons, William (Rex), Kenneth (Pam) and James all of Topeka; three daughters, Jean (Dan) Wrosch of Onaga, Shirley (Gary) Hulsing of Topeka and Connie Lierz of Baileyville; two brothers, Lawrence “Larry” Stallbaumer of Corning and Gerald Stallbaumer of Topeka; five sisters, Darlene Roeder of Seneca, Jo Ella Ronnebaum of Centralia, Mary Shephard, Diane McConnaughey and Linda Feldkamp all of Topeka; eight grandchildren; and eighteen great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Lierz on November 27, 2010; two daughters, Mary Jo on August 1, 1957 and Elizabeth Louise on April 5, 1963; and two brothers, Donald Stallbaumer on September 7, 1980 and Galen Stallbaumer on December 14, 2004.

Mass of Christian burial will be Monday, September 30, 2013 at 10A.M. at the Sacred Heart Church at Baileyville. Burial will be in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Corning, KS. The rosary will be prayed at 2 & 7 P.M. Sunday at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca where she will lie in state after 8 A.M.

Memorial contributions may be given for COINS for A Cause and St. Patrick’s Cemetery, sent in care of the family.