Beverly Louise Kolb, 80, died December 18, 2010 at Great Bend Regional Hospital, Great Bend.

She was born February 22, 1930 in Ottawa; the daughter of Leo Clarence and Frances Louise Doty Howard. A former resident of Pawnee Rock, moving to Great Bend in 2008; she was a telephone operator for the South Western Bell and Larned State Hospital.

She was a member of the Telephone Pioneers.

On June 12, 1949 she married E. Dean Kraisinger in Lawrence, Kansas. On September 28, 1978 she married Sandy Kolb at Great Bend. He passed away October 18, 2005.

Survivors include; three sons, Anthony D. Kraisinger, Pawnee Rock, Bruce A. Kraisinger and wife Kristi, Salina, Mark D. Kraisinger, Rural Pawnee Rock, two daughters, Terry Lyn Mandle and husband Kim, Lecompton, Diana K. Yetschke, Great Bend, three step-sons, Jim Kolb and wife LaDean, Larned, Jan Kolb and wife Jean, Las Vegas, Jon Kolb and wife Beth, Dallas, TX., a sister, Barbara Woods, New York, 17 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by; her husband, two step-sons, Scott Kolb and Kiah Kolb, and two brothers, Gordon Howard and Roger Howard.

Funeral service will be at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday December 22, at the Beckwith Mortuary Chapel with Pastor Dale Stanley presiding. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Mortuary. Burial will be in the Larned Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in care of the Beckwith Mortuary, P.O. Box 477, Larned, KS 67550.