Cecilia C. Susie Ward, 89, died January 26, 2011 at Central Kansas Medical Center, Great Bend, Kansas. She was born November 30, 1921 at Beaver, Kansas, the daughter of Valentine and Anna M. (Feltes) Kramer. She married Leonard Buck Ward June 14, 1962 at Miami, Oklahoma. He died July 7, 1983. A lifetime Great Bend resident, Mrs. Ward was a retired bookkeeper and co-owner of Ward Motel. She is survived by one sister, Eleanor Wilkinson, Great Bend. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Valentine J. Smokey Kramer, Jr., Nicholas Nick Kramer, and Ambrose Bud Kramer; and five sisters, Elizabeth Nightengale, Dorothy Reed, Lavella Laughlin, Anna Magie, and Catherine Kramer. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, January 31, 2011 at Bryant Funeral Home. The Reverend John Grummon will officiate. Burial will be in Great Bend Cemetery. Friends may call from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m., Sunday, January 30, 2011 with the family receiving friends from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m., at Bryant Funeral Home. Memorials are requested to the American Heart Association, in care of the funeral home.