ROBERT LEE THIMESCH

Dateline/Cunningham

Robert Lee Thimesch, 88, died Jan. 4, 2021, at the Kingman Community Hospital.

He was born Nov. 3, 1932, at Cleveland, Kansas the son of Frank and Helen Meis Thimesch.  A longtime resident of the Cunningham community, having also lived in the Cleveland and St. Leo communities, he was a retired restaurant owner and soil conservationist and heavy equipment operator

Robert was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

On April 4, 1959, he married Joan Wessel. She survives.  Other survivors include four daughters, Yvonne McCune and husband Terry, Roberta Kobbe, Naola Vaughn,  Jackie Schonlau and husband Ray; sons Raymond Thimesch and  wife TamGiao,  Mark Thimesch; brothers Charles, Gary, and Richard; sisters Betty Jo McLaughlin and Mary Francis Flores; 18 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by brothers Jerome, Leon and Kenneth; sisters Darlene Robinson and Connie K. Rigsby; and granddaughter Brittany Young.

Parish rosary will be at 10:00 a.m., Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Cunningham with the Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m.  The family will receive friends from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sunday, at the Livingston Funeral Home, Kingman.  Burial will be in the Sacred Heart Church Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Cunningham Museum, the Cunningham Fire Dept., and the Cunningham Community Center all in care of Livingston Funeral Home.