Alva Review-Courier -

Bobbie Dale (Rittgers) Lonker, 84, of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, died Friday, January 14, 2022 at Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital.

She was born on March 9, 1937, in Hutchinson, Kansas, to William Dale Arlington Rittgers and Thelma Marie (Ellsworth) Rittgers. After graduation from Hutchinson High School, she attended Hutchinson Junior College then transferred to Kansas State University. It was at K-State where her cousins, Larry and Jerry Jones, introduced her to their Beta brother, James "Jim" Lonker. Bobbie and Jim fast became Beta sweethearts and were married in 1961 at the United Methodist Ch...