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Allan Lee Thaemert<\/p>\nAllan Lee Thaemert<\/p>\n
Allan Lee Thaemert,
\n87 of Manhattan, Kansas, died on Monday, January 26, 2026, at the Via Christi
\nVillage in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
Allan was born on
\nApril 09, 1938, in Sylvan Grove, KS, the son of Erwin and Viola (Thaete)
\nThaemert.\u00a0 He grew up on the family farm
\nin rural Sylvan Grove, KS where he spent many years helping with the farming
\nand ranching. He graduated from Sylvan Grove High School in the class of
\n1956.\u00a0 Allan was an outstanding athlete
\nat Sylvan Grove where he excelled in 4 sports including baseball, basketball,
\nfootball, and track.\u00a0 After high school
\nhe graduated from Kansas State University achieving his bachelor\u2019s degree in
\neducation and eventually worked to achieve his master\u2019s degree from
\nSouthwestern State Teacher\u2019s College in Weatherford, Oklahoma.\u00a0 While attending Kansas State, he was a
\nletterman on the baseball team where he started at shortstop for the
\nWildcats.\u00a0 He was united in marriage to
\nMary Ann Reese on May 31, 1959, at the rural Immanuel Lutheran Church near
\nLaton, KS.\u00a0 Allan and Mary Ann first met
\nthrough their local Lutheran Church\u2019s high school youth group functions
\n(‘Walther League’).\u00a0 From this union Allan
\nand Mary Ann were blessed with five children: Troy, Todd, Becky, Tom and James.
\nThey raised their children in the Lutheran faith and provided them with a firm
\nfoundation of God\u2019s grace through Christ.\u00a0
\nThey settled in Manhattan, KS where Allan taught math and drivers
\neducation at Manhattan High School for over 30 years.\u00a0 During this time Allan enjoyed his children\u2019s
\nactivities and coached several of the children\u2019s little league teams.\u00a0 Upon his retirement in 1994 Allan and Mary
\nAnn moved back to the Reese family farm located north of Natoma.\u00a0 He enjoyed the rural setting as well as
\nactively maintaining the homestead.\u00a0 Many
\nenjoyable years were spent hosting his children and grandchildren for frequent
\nfamily gatherings at ‘The Farm\u201d’\u00a0 Allan
\nwas a member of Lutherans for Life and proud Kansas State University
\nAlumni.\u00a0 He was able to follow K-state
\nfootball quite closely as he worked on the football chain gang for 33
\nyears.\u00a0 He loved gardening, the county
\nfair, the circus, antiques, auctions, arrowhead hunting, war history, watching
\nwesterns.<\/p>\n
Surviving family
\ninclude his son Todd Thaemert of Manhattan, KS, daughter Becky Pancost (Jon) of
\nLucas, KS, son Tom Thaemert (Krista) of Manhattan, KS, son James Thaemert of
\nManhattan, KS; brothers Ravon Thaemert (Shirley) of Denver, CO and Leon
\nThaemert (Donna) of Colorado Springs, CO\u00a0
\nand 5 grandchildren:\u00a0 Savannah
\nAwbrey (Nate), Reese Thaemert (Marissa), Sophie, Harlan, and Lily Pancost.<\/p>\n
He was preceded in
\ndeath by his parents, wife Mary Ann, and son Troy Thaemert.<\/p>\n
A celebration of
\nAllan\u2019s life will be held at 11 A.M. on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at the
\nPeace Lutheran Church in Natoma, Kansas.\u00a0
\nViewing will begin at 10 A.M. on Saturday at the church with family
\ngreeting guests from 10 A.M. to service time.\u00a0
\nBurial will follow at the North Lutheran Cemetery in rural north
\nNatoma.\u00a0 The family invites family and
\nfriends to join them at the church for lunch immediately following the graveside
\nservice.\u00a0 Memorials can be made to the
\nPeace Lutheran Church and sent in care of the mortuary.\u00a0 Pohlman-Varner-Peeler Mortuary of Russell,
\nKansas, is in charge of the funeral service arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allan Lee Thaemert Allan Lee Thaemert, 87 of Manhattan, Kansas, died on Monday, January 26, 2026, at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-115465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}