Our Mom was a wonderful, caring Mother. In 1990, I moved back to Wichita. I enjoyed many memories with Mom in the years following. One of the most special times was with Mom on a two-year project we would do every Monday. My husband and I had bought each of our parents a book for them to fill out about their memories. Year after year the book set blank. Mom would say, "I can't remember things about the past." Finally, I asked Mom if we could get together on Mondays going to coffee shops around Wichita. I would ask her questions in the book and write down what she said. She would then rewrite it in the book. We called this time together "Monday Memories with Mom". It was such a special time for both of us. Then came the years where she was in assisted living and then the nursing home. I would often read to her from this book, and she would relive her past. When I was leaving from my visit, she would blow me a kiss and say, "You made my day." There are many times where my Mother has made my days. I will surely miss her.

My Mother’s Hands: Written January 1989 by JoAnn Stone -----

I look down at my hands
and my mind races back
to years gone by.

In the darkness of the backseat
of our car as a little girl, I rested
on my mother’s lap. Security and 
love surrounds me. I lie staring at
my mother’s familiar hand.

These hands had so freely given:
bandaged wounded knees,
sewed Barbie doll clothes late at night
haloed her girl’s hair in pin curls, 
killed spiders on bedroom walls.
Hands holding, soothing, loving.
They had performed so many
unspoken, often forgotten tasks.
 
But now that little girl has grown.
the deep lines in her own hands
bring me to reminisce of old.
yet I ponder how love and generosity
is still so often expressed
in my mother’s hands.

“As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you.  Isaiah 66:13




My message is attached to a previous photo. 

We met John & Ginny shortly after they moved to Wichita through activities of the Knights of Columbus  Council 4118. When we celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in 1978 they were invited to our Mass & party and it was then we discovered we shared the same wedding anniversary date of January 17  & also we all shared birthdays  in October so we celebrated anniversaries & birthdays yearly for years to come. We travelled together with our first trip to Germany to see the Passion Play in Oberammergau. The list of memories with John & Ginny and then Ginny after John’s passing could go on forever Ginny’s special friendship is a blessing I will always cherish. Your families are in our thoughts & prayers. 
George & Vi Schuckman

Godspeed Geneva. A loving soul that will be dearly missed, and lovingly remembered. Now eternally reunited with her loving John, and other family, friends and loved ones that have gone before.
My sympathies to Geneva's family, friends and loved ones.

I played bridge with Ginny for over 45 years and enjoyed her beautiful smile and caring personality.  Many great memories of time spent with her and loved her laugh.  Ginny you are a treasure and one of a kind.  Much Love and prayers to all the family.


What can you say about Geneva Faltermeier, who has been my mother for 73 years and who brought me and my siblings into this world? Both our Dad and Mom have been the foundation of our family. They provided guidance and direction throughout our lives. While Dad worked, Mom stayed at home and raised all us kids. There was 16 years between the first born and the last. That is a lot of child rearing and years of diaper changing. And this was before Pampers was invented.
Mom was always the one who was there for us when we needed her. She was the one who put band aides on our knees when we fell. She would make our lunch each day before we went to school. Every night she would have dinner ready for us to share as a family sitting around the dining room table. She enjoyed us helping her make cakes and teaching us how to cook. She would always attend our plays we would put on with the neighborhood kids. She would discipline us like the time me and my friends tried to derail the train that went by our house by putting as much debris we could find on the tracks, and we were caught by a neighbor. One of the fondest memories I have as a child is sitting in the backyard screened-in-porch on a cool summer night and just talking.
She had a love for playing cards and would teach us how to play. One I really remember is Tripoli. But, her real passion for cards was playing Bridge. She would have two or three bridge clubs going at any one time. It was her way of socializing. She could play a multitude of card games and was able to remember the rules of each game. No need for Hoyle. She also loved board games. Whenever we got together as a family, she would pull out a board game for all of us to play.
Her Catholic faith was an important part of her life, and her example had a big influence on my faith. We were just a middle-class family, but her and Dad made sure that all of us children had a Catholic education.
Mom, we miss you but will always love you. Rest in peace with the Lord.

My mother, Geneva (Monteleone) Faltermeier, or Ginny as she preferred to be called, was born and raised in Kansas City, MO with her parents, Pasquale (Patsy) and Dominica (Minnie) and her two older sisters Vivian and Frances.
After working as a typist during WWII, Ginny met John Joseph Faltermeier on a blind date in 1947. Her all-Italian family preferred that she date an Italian boy but her parents liked John and accepted him in the family. 
Ten months after John and Ginny’s wedding on January 17, 1948 Mom became a busy mother with the birth of twins, Daniel and Diane in Cheyenne WY. As an air traffic controller for the Federal Aviation Agency her husband transferred to many locations including Butler MO where JoAnn was born in 1951. The family then moved to Lincoln, NE where John Jr. was born in 1957, named after his father, and in 1964 Paul was born making a family of seven. John was transferred again in 1966 to Grand Island, NE and finally in 1972 to Wichita. 
As the Faltermeier family expanded with grandchildren, family reunions became biannual. The first was the couple’s 40th wedding anniversary in 1987 in Estes Park, CO. This was followed by Black Hill SD, San Antonio TX, Buena Park CA, Wichita KS, Breckenridge CO, Branson MO, Kansas City MO, Cocoa Beach FL, back to Estes Park CO and back to Wichita KS in 2017.
John and Ginny have lived in the same house since they moved to Wichita and were active members of Saint Francis of Assisi for over 50 years, Mom as a prayer warrior with a rosary group and Dad as an usher and active Knights of Columbus officer.  
The family often called her our Queen Bee as mother kept us heading in the right direction and nurtured us all with her love and concern.  In Christianity, the bee has been seen as a symbol of Jesus Christ’s attributes. The honey reflecting his sweet and gentle character and the sting pertaining to his justice and the cross. Mother portrayed these characteristics throughout her entire life! 

We Love You

OBITUARY

Geneva "Ginny" (Monteleone) Faltermeier

October 5, 1922 – June 26, 2022

DeVorss Flanagan-Hunt Mortuary

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