Larry Linsner

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He has 'eased' his last 'T', he has 'jinxed' his last 'Hi', he has 'played' his last 'Horse', and he has 'ganned' his last 'Shenan'. The little boy that made his mother chase him through the sticker patch to avoid his punishment has finally outrun us all. Larry Linsner ended his mischievous ways surrounded by his loving family on Monday, September 1, 2025.

He was an ornery and beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He entertained us all with his antics and he will be dearly missed. Beyond his playfulness was a heart of pure gold.

Larry grew up in Hoisington, Kansas where he met and married his wife, Charlotte. He was a track star and set school records for distance running. He worked for Kansas Brick and Tile in Barton County for several years, before he moved to Wichita for a few years and worked for Boeing. He moved back to the area and worked for Bressler and later Peterson and Vaughn in Great Bend, Kansas where he learned the plumbing trade and he was proud of the fact that he worked on the high rise building and the Community College in Great Bend, as well as many other local projects throughout Kansas, including helping to plumb the technical school in Liberal, Kansas. Larry moved his family to Goodland, Kansas where he taught plumbing at the Vocational Technical school for many years. He eventually opened his own successful plumbing business and there was never a Thanksgiving, Easter, or Christmas meal where he and his family didn't have an emergency plumbing call that he answered willingly.

Larry was born on August 4, 1938, in Great Bend, Kansas at St. Rose Hospital to Robert Linsner and Lois Ehly. He grew up on the family farm north of Hoisington, Kansas. In 1952, he attended the Catholic Divine Word Seminary school in East Troy, Wisconsin where he strived to make his grandparents and parents proud of him. Larry was not great at following rules. While in seminary school, Larry would sneak out at night into the adjoining woods and set illegal rabbit traps. The priests and monks (like everyone who knew Larry) looked the other way when he would bring the rabbits that he caught back to the seminary and the monks would cook them for all the students to enjoy. On a train ride home Larry sat next to a very pretty girl and decided she "smelled really nice" and determined that a life of priesthood was probably not for him.

Larry was widely known for being the guy that 'would give you the shirt off his back'. He was a generous and charitable soul who volunteered for many causes and would help anyone he ever met. He never knew a stranger. His friend Terry Riedel recounted the first time he ever met Larry was when he was repairing a fence on his farm north of Walker. Larry happened to be driving past his farm and stopped to help. Terry had no idea who Larry was and mentioned to him that he wouldn't be able to pay him. Larry's response was "I didn't ask for any darn money!" They were friends for over 20 years after this auspicious meeting.

Larry is survived by his brothers, Jim and Joe Linsner, his two sisters Pam Redetzke and Rhonda Herman, his three children Bruce Linsner and wife Devota Demarco, Lynn DiPlacito and husband Tony, and LeAnn Pidcock and husband Steve, his five grandchildren, Kaycie Naglowsky, Chaelyn Hamann, Christian Flanders, Chelsey DiPlacito, and Dylan Pidcock, also one great-grandchild, Aerick Naglowsky. He was preceded in death by his wife Charlotte Linsner, his two brothers, Robert and Patrick Linsner, his sister Ann Schenk, his grandchild Robert Linsner, and his son Brian Linsner.

In his later years, Larry who was an avid hunter and fisherman, retired with his wife Charlotte to Walker, Kansas and he spent the last 30 years of his life catching as many fish as he could from area lakes, hosting local fish fries, and volunteering for local community causes including Options in Hays for victims of domestic violence. Larry was an active member of and served on the parish council for the St. Ann Catholic Church in Walker, Kansas.

We will miss his strength, his spirit, and most of all his infectious laughter. He taught us all to smile through the heartache and laugh through the tears.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 6, 2025, at the St. John Catholic Cemetery in Hoisington, Kansas with Father Curtis Carlson presiding. Lunch to follow at St. Ann Catholic Church School at 1275 Walker Ave, Walker, Kansas.

Memorials may be made to the Hospice of HaysMed, in care of Nicholson-Ricke Funeral Home, PO Box 146, Hoisington, KS 67544.