Floyd Malcom Bosch, age 89, passed away on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at Clay Center. Floyd was born on April 28, 1931 in Lincoln, KS to Fritz and Klara (Obermueller) Bosch. Floyd was baptized on May 3, 1931 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Lincoln, KS. He attended St. John’s Lutheran grade school and was confirmed on March 25, 1945. After graduating from Lincoln High School in 1949 he attended Kansas State University and St. John’s Lutheran College in Winfield, KS. He married Lillian Violet Briegel on June 27, 1954, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Salina, KS. Floyd graduated from Concordia Seminary, Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, St. Louis, and served his vicarage at Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, WI. Floyd was ordained on July 28, 1957 at St. John’s Lutheran Church at Lincoln, KS, and accepted a call to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England. He served at St. Timothy’s in Sunderland and at Luther-Tyndale in London. While in the E.L.C.E. Floyd served as a US Military Chaplain in Scotland and England. Floyd accepted a call to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Clay Center, KS in 1969. After leaving the ministry he worked as a carpenter until retirement.
In retirement Lillian and Floyd spent their summers in a fish camp on the Kenai River in Soldotna, Alaska, and their winters in Weslaco, Texas. They enjoyed taking mission trips, traveling, genealogy and spending time with family. Floyd was an avid outdoorsman and taught his children and grandchildren to fish and hunt. He loved to read, teach Bible class and enjoyed painting, wood carving and making stained glass windows.
Floyd was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian Violet, of 66 years. He is survived by their six children: Kathy Bosch (Jim Margheim) of Scottsbluff, NE, John (Carol) Bosch of Clay Center, KS, Mary Bosch of Parkville, MO, Peter Bosch of Sterling, AK, Timothy (Denise) Bosch of Sterling, AK and Patricia (Bill) Gibbons of Wheaton, IL, two sisters Eleanor McDonald of Clay Center, KS and Carol Trimpe of Shawnee, KS, 14 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, March 28, 2021 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 29, 2021, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Clay Center with Pastors Paul Tessaro, Michael Hofmann and Justin Panzer officiating.
Graveside services will follow at 2:30 p.m. at the St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery in Lincoln, Ks.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the Grant Us Grace Foundation (MSD), which was founded to help fund research for this rare disease that two of his great grandchildren have recently undergone bone marrow transplants. http://www.grantusgrace.love/