CHARLES EUGENE MARTI

LIBERAL- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Apostolic Christian Faith Church in Pittsburg, Kan., for Charles Eugene Marti, 93, Liberal, who died Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at Via Christi Village in Pittsburg, Kan. Burial will be held at 1:45 p.m. at the Apostolic Christian Cemetery in Lamar.

Visitation will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar. The family will also receive friends from 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., at the church prior to the service.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to the Apostolic Christian Faith Church or the Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Pittsburg, Kan., in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include two sons, Roger Marti and wife Kathy, Liberal and Kurt Marti and wife Linda, Lamar; one daughter, Becky Luthi and husband Lawrence, Liberal and three sisters-in-law, Kay Marti, Lamar, Delores Marti, Gridley, Ill. and Bonnie Braker, Liberal. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Marie (Braker) Marti; a daughter, Sandra Luthi; a granddaughter, Ami Pierce; seven brothers, Robert “Bob” Marti, Ed Marti, Dean Marti, Carl Marti, Allen Marti, Don Marti and Roland “Fleeter” Marti and four sisters, Eunice Martin, Polly Schrock, Peg Bucher and Rosemary Degnan.

Mr. Marti was born July 30, 1929, in Jasper, to Louis F. and Olive Belle (Cordill) Marti. He married Alice Marie Baker on Aug. 30, 1954, in Jasper. They lived in Lamar for 1 ½ years before moving to the farm in Liberal where they raised their family.

Charles worked as a crop and cattle farmer.

He was a member of the Apostolic Christian Faith Church in Pittsburg, Kan.