Barbara was raised on the family homestead, located on the N.E. quarter of Section 4, Township 16, Range 17, Rush County, Kansas. She was one of six sisters and five brothers, namely: Maggie, Barbara, Elizabeth, Mary, Katherine, and Bertha; John, Joseph, Ignatius, Richard, and Aloysius.

When Barbara was six years old, the family built a new home in Pfeifer, and moved there, for the purpose of educating their children, and to be near the Catholic Church, but at the same time they kept up their farming.

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Barbara Roth was born to Peter and Barbara Roth on September 23, 1885, at Pfeifer, and departed this life at the Grisell Memorial Hospital in Ransom on June 25, 1966, at the age of 80 years, 9 months and two days.

She was married to George Breit on November 15, 1904, moving to the Arnold community in 1924, where she had made her home since.

She leaves to mourn her passing, four daughters, Mrs. Ray Marhofer of Colby, Mrs. Sal Herman of WaKeeney, Mrs. Jack Tanner of Hutchinson, Mrs. Gordon St. Clair of Albany, Ga.; four sons, Sylvester of Scott City, George of Norman, Okla.; Robert of the home, and Dale of Hoxie; 17 grandchildren, 11 great- grandchildren, two brothers and three sisters.

She was preceded in death by her husband on March 7, 1964, by one son, Victor, October 25, 1965, and by her parents, three sisters and four brothers.

She was a kind and loving mother and will be greatly missed by her family and large circle of friends. Funeral mass was Wednesday morning, June 29, from the St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Ransom conducted by Rev. Cornelius Leunissen, pastor. Burial was in the family plot in the church cemetery. Parish rosary was Tuesday evening, June 28, 7:30 o'clock at the Fitzgerald Funeral Home.

Ness County News, 6/30/1966