BIRD CITY -- Vada Dell (Beeson) Leach, 80, died Thursday (April 10, 2008) at Cheyenne County Hospital.

She was born Nov. 23, 1927, in Cheyenne County, Kan. She married William "Bill" W. Leach and worked as a homemaker.

Survivors include her husband, William Leach of Bird City; sons, Gary Leach of Bird City and Dexter Leach of Minneola, Kan.; daughters, Janice Baldwin of Cleveland, Tenn., and Deloris Sager of LaCrosse, Kan.; sister, Ona Edmonds of McCook; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Services will be Monday, 10:30 p.m. (CDT) at Wesleyan Community Church in Bird City. Burial will be in the Bird City Cemetery.

Memorials may be given in her name to Cheyenne County EMTs, Cheyenne County Hospital or Good Samaritan Village, all of St. Francis.

Knodel Funeral Home of St. Francis is in charge of arrangements.