Charles Eugene Carlson

HERINGTON - Charles Carlson, died Tuesday, December 6th, 2016, at the Herington Municipal Hospital.  He was born April 26th, 1925, north of  Burdick, the son of Algot R. and Sadie L. Carlson.

Funeral services will be at 2:00 PM, Saturday, December 10th, 2016, at the Hebron Lutheran Church, Burdick, with Pastor Bill Peterson, officiating. Burial will follow at the Hebron Lutheran Cemetery.  The family will receive friends Friday evening at the funeral home from 6:30 pm to 8:30pm.

He graduated from Diamond Valley High School with the class of 1943.  On June 9, 1946, he married Arlene F. Laudemann at the St. John Lutheran Church at White City.  They have a son Mike Carlson (wife-Linda) of Burdick; and a daughter Jean Brunner (husband-Kent) of Lost Springs.

He was a farmer and a rancher and he worked at the Burdick Grade School as a custodian, coach, and bus driver.  He was a 50 year member of the Order of the Eastern Star and a current member of White City Chapter #421.  He served as Past Patron at both the Herington and Burdick Chapters.  He was also a Past Master of the Burdick Lodge and a member of the Hebron Lutheran Church in Burdick.  He was a kind and gentle man devoted to his family, friends, and his faith, a hard worker and enjoyed belonging to his community.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and his brother Richard Carlson on February 6, 2016.  He is survived by his wife of seventy years Arlene of Herington; his children and their spouses; four grandchildren: Amy Hanley (John), Cicely Karst, Jill Day (Lance), Nolan Brunner (Melissa); 7 great grandchildren; Tucker and Dodger Day, Rylee, Preslee and Britlee Karst, and Leah and Noah Brunner.

The family requests memorials, in lieu of flowers, to Hebron Lutheran Church; and they may be sent in care of the Zeiner Funeral Home-Herington Chapel, 404 S. Broadway, Herington, KS, 67449-3038.