Marvin W. Steinbrecker

  Marvin W. Steinbrecker went to his eternal home on April 22, 2022 in Kansas City, KS due to complications of Parkinson’s. He was 87.

Bill was born on April 18, 1935, at home in Scottsbluff, Nebraska to Conrad and Elizabeth (Dietrich) Steinbrecker. He graduated from Bayard High School with the Class of 1953. After graduation, Bill went to work for the United Telephone Company of the West as a line crew in Gering, Nebraska.

He married Virginia Bauer in 1957 in Bayard, Nebraska. They were blessed with two daughters. Soon after they were married, Bill was drafted into the United States Army. He attended boot camp in Fort Carson, Colorado and was stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona in the Signal Corp.

After military service, he returned to the United Telephone Company as an installer and was later promoted to installation and repair supervisor. Bill was later promoted to Nebraska Manager/Senior Staff Advisor. In 1982, he was transferred to United Telecom in Garnett, KS as a Customer Relations Representative. In 1987, he was then transferred to Junction City, KS as a Construction Control Administrator.

Bill retired from Sprint in 1999 in Junction City, KS where he worked for 42 years. He promptly joined the Junction City McDonald’s morning coffee club with the boys. He loved family vacations at Table Rock Lake as well fishing and golfing. He and Gin were able to enjoy several cruises and travel to many different countries including being sponsors of the 1979 Scottsbluff Marching Band Europe Tour. He always had a quick wit and dry sense of humor. Always a Husker fan.

Bill accepted Christ and was active in church by serving as deacon and youth group sponsor in Nebraska and Kansas.

Bill is survived by his wife, Gin of 65 years; his daughter and son-in-law, Marla and Rick Ronquillo of Albuquerque, NM; his daughter, Heather Setter of Manhattan, KS; four grandchildren: Jory and Clare Setter of Midvale, UT, Jackson Setter of Minneapolis, MN, James Ronquillo and fiancée Julia of Albuquerque, NM and Elise Ronquillo and finance Palmer of Denver, CO; great- granddaughter, Genevieve Setter and one on the way in July.

He is preceded in death by his parents and 2 sisters, Esther Harimon and Darleen Vogel and infant brother, Bobby.

A Celebration of Life Service for Bill will be held on Saturday April 30, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. at the First Christian Church, 1429 St Marys Road in Junction City, Kansas. Private burial will be held at the Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Riley in Manhattan.

The family suggests memorial contributions in memory of Bill to the Deaf Missions in Council Bluffs, Iowa (There mission is to have movies made in many different languages about the story of Jesus for people who are deaf, the mission meant so much to Bill and Gin.) Contributions may be sent in care of the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral Home, 1616 Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.