Michael Henry Gans, Bennington, died Friday, August 20, 2010. He was born on the farm at Verdi, Kansas.
Mike was a life-long farmer and rancher, the owner and operator of Gans Inc. and Gans Cattle Co Inc.
Survivors include his wife, Linda (Leeburg) Gans; daughters; Michele Wise and her husband Cecil of Coffeyville, Andrea Gans of Wichita; half-brother, Greg Wolf of Bennington; aunts, Madge Martin of Wichita and Marvelle Crow of Salina.
He was preceded in death by his father Henry Gans Jr., mother, Phyllis (Crow) Gans Wolf; his grandmother, Edna Gans and aunt, Margaret (Gans) Hale.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 A.M., Friday, August 27 at the United Church of Bennington. The casket will remain closed at the church. Burial will be in the Bennington Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Wednesday at Wilson Shields Funeral Home, Minneapolis and from 2:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Thursday where the family will receive friends from 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 P.M.
Memorial contributions may be made to the United Church of Bennington or Hospice Care of Kansas and may be left in care of the funeral home.