Barbara "Barb" Reinert
October 1, 1956 ~ October 26, 2022
Barbara Ann (Barb) Reinert, 66, loving wife and mother, passed from this life on October 26, 2022, after a long, courageous battle with cancer.
Barb was born on October 1, 1956 to Bernard (Ben) and Bertha Adam in Smith Center, KS. The family was located in Esbon, KS where she went to school and lived on the family farm until they moved to Tipton, KS in 1969. She graduated from Tipton High School in 1974, and went on to attend Brown Mackie College in Salina, KS.
She married the love of her life, Alan Reinert, in 1978 and later moved to Wichita, KS where they started a family and had two wonderful and endearing children, Ashley and Ben.
She is survived by her husband, Alan Reinert and children Ashley Reinert of Wichita, KS, and Ben Reinert of Kansas City, MO, her brother John Adam of Salina, KS, sister Kathryn Burghart and husband Bernie of Salina, KS, sister Tilly Kirchner of Charlotte, NC, brother Ed Adam and wife Judy of Tipton, KS, brother Jack Adam of Des Moines, IA, sister Suzie Talbert of Pasadena, CA, and sister-in-law Mary Adam of Garden City, KS along with numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family.
She was preceded in death by her parents Bernard (Ben) and Bertha Adam, sister Lenora Mick, sister Margaret Henry, brother Charles Adam, sister Loretta Murray, sister Mary Sharrow, sister Caroline Whittecar, brother Bernie Adam, and extended family members.
Barb lived for her family and took great joy in being a loving mother to her two children. She loved watching them grow up and spending time together on family vacations, holidays, and birthdays as well as offering sage advice and guidance whenever it was needed (and maybe sometimes even when it wasn’t). She loved books, music, and dancing, and passed that love and appreciation on to her children through regular trips to the library and days spent listening to her vinyl record collection. Nothing excited her more than a project, luckily for her she was married to, in her own words, “MacGyver”, who could help make all her home improvement visions reality. Her favorite times were spent with her family working on those projects including spending a year together remodeling Ashley’s new home. She was also a woman of passionate faith, who found incredible strength in praying the rosary regularly, which helped carry her through a long, tiresome, and painful cancer treatment process that she would never, ever complain about. She will be remembered as an incredibly kind and warm friend, sister, wife, and mother who always put the needs of others above her own all the way through the very last day of her life. She is, and will be dearly missed and remembered by all those who knew her. Her legacy lives on through her children and husband, who are a product of her kind heart and loving nature and who try to pass that impact on daily to everyone they come in contact with.
A Rosary Service will be held at 5:30 pm, Thursday, November 3, 2022; a Memorial Mass will be held at 10:00 am, Friday, November 4, 2022, both at Church of the Resurrection Catholic Church. The Memorial Mass may also be viewed on a livestream through the Church of the Resurrection YouTube page. To view, please got to YouTube and search Church of the Resurrection Wichita. A private family burial will take place in Tipton, KS at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorials have been established with: Wesley Medical Center ICU Nurses, 550 N. Hillside, Wichita, KS 67214 and St. Joseph Indian School, P.O. Box 326, Chamberlain, SD 57326. Services in care of Downing & Lahey East Mortuary.
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Barb was a childhood friend and cousin. We went to the Adams house often and Barb and I always played together. Had a lot of fun. She was 4 years older than me but she was always kind and loving. Her laugh will always be with me! Rest in peace until we meet again! My deepest sympathies to her family and friends.