Dennis E. Stallbaumer, 50, of Washington, KS, formerly of Sabetha and Seneca, KS, died Wednesday, June 7, 2000, at the Centennial Homestead care home in Washington, where he had been a resident since July 1996. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1989.

He was born September 23, 1949, at the Seneca Hospital in Seneca, the son of Donald P. and Teresa Wiltz Stallbaumer. The family lived in Sabetha where he grew up and graduated from the Sabetha High School in 1967. Dennis was employed in Seneca at the Seneca Wholsale where he had a delivery route for two years. In 1969 he began work at Keim Transportation in Sabetha where he did long-haul trucking throughout the U.S. until 1989 when he was diagnosed with MS. He moved to Seneca in 1989 before moving to Washington, KS in 1996 when nursing home care became necessary.

In July of 1970 he married Katherine “Kathy” Jacobs in Seneca. They were later divorced. He married Cindy Nutsch in October of 1976; they were divorced in 1996.

Survivors are his father, Donald P. Stallbaumer of Seneca; his mother, Teresa Robinson of Topeka; four sons, Shawn Stallbaumer of Falls City, NE, Shannon Stallbaumer of Herkimer, KS, Jason Stallbaumer and Casey Stallbaumer, both of Washington, KS; two daughters, Shylah and Lacy Stallbaumer, both of Washington, KS; a; a brother, Larry Stallbaumer of Hoyt; four sisters, Marie Latoski of San Francisco, CA, Jeanette Kocher of Hiawatha, KS, Janet Glothlin of Olathe, KS, Lorraine Liccardi of Topeka; and two grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held 10 AM Monday, June 12, at St. Augustines’s Catholic Church in Washington, KS. Inurnment with a graveside service will be at 11 AM Thursday, June 15, at St. Augustine’s Cemetery in Fidelity, KS.

Memorials may be given for an Education Fund for his children, and sent in care of the family.