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 </figure>Larry L. Kleweno, age 82, died October 14, 2020 at Cedar Village, 
Ness City.&nbsp; He was born on July 4, 1938 to Herman H and Pauline 
(Filbert) Kleweno in Ness City, Kansas at a maternity home.Larry’s first home was southwest of Bazine, which he always called 
the “Home Place”.&nbsp; When his grandmother Filbert died in 1947 Herman and 
Pauline took their family into Bazine to live and care for Grandpa 
Filbert.&nbsp; Living at the South end of town there was room for a mild cow,
 chickens, rabbits, and ducks.&nbsp; His sister and Melford Shaben wanted to 
take Larry to the county fair, but he said, “No.”&nbsp; He wanted to stay 
home and take care of the chickens, rabbits, and ducks.Larry attended the Bazine Grade school and completed his freshman 
year at Bazine High School. In 1952 the Kleweno family moved to Lenora, 
Kansas where he started his sophomore year.&nbsp; After filling the farm 
generator there was an explosion from the gasoline fumes, and he was 
badly burned. For the next four weeks he was hospitalized in Norton, but
 when gangrene set-in he was sent to a Denver hospital by train.&nbsp; They 
had to remove the windows to get him unloaded on the stretcher.&nbsp; Larry 
spent another 13 weeks in the hospital.&nbsp;After graduating from high school, he was drafted and ruled 
ineligible because of the burns on his legs and hand.&nbsp; Larry went to 
Wichita for a short while to help a contractor from Norton erect steel 
frame buildings.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Following the March 1957 blizzard, he worked with a 
telephone crew rebuilding lines around Ellis, Kansas. &nbsp;When Darlene and Melford moved to Ness City in 1960, Larry moved to 
the farm where he remained until he need the cared of Cedar Village on 
January 28, 2018.It was on a cold night in January 1964, when he asked for a ride in 
Marian’s new 1964 Chevy Impala SS.&nbsp; Their bonding began and they were 
married March 6, 1965 at the Bazine United Methodist Church.Larry was a lifetime member of the Bazine Methodist church, worked 
hard, enjoyed the cattle, brothers-in-law, family, and friends and still
 wanted chickens in his later years.&nbsp; He enjoyed going to auctions with 
neal and Dean and collected Minneapolis-Moline tractors and many old 
cars.&nbsp; He preferred FORDS.He was Dad to Laura and Linn and Grandpa to Taylor Murray and Samantha Kleweno.He is survived by his wife, Marian; daughter, Laura Kleweno; son, 
Linn Kleweno and his wife, Jennifer and sister, Marlene Trible of 
Ingleside, Texas.Larry was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Darlene 
Demoret, Wilma James, and Kathleen Slack; four nephews, Michael Slack, 
Roman Wiehebrink, Jr., John Kevin Landauer, and Barry Landauer; and 
niece, Sheely Delaney Wesley.Funeral service will be at the Bazine Cemetery, Bazine, Kanas on 
Saturday, October 17, 2020, 12 O’clock Noon. The family requests casual 
attire. Viewing will be on Friday, October 16, 2020 from 1:00 to 9:00 
p.m. at Fitzgerald Funeral Home.The family requests memorial contributions to Cedar Village, Ness 
County Bank Building Foundation, or the Ness County Historical Society.

Larry Lee Kleweno