Naomi Valentine "Val" Bartley, 96, died November 26, 2007 at her McPherson, Kansas, residence. She was born Valentine's Day, February 14, 1911 at Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of Lawrence Harrison and Ann James Thorp. She was a 1928 graduate of Larned High School, Larned, Kansas. She married Charles Edward Bartley at Larned. He died December 13, 1984. A resident of Great Bend most of her life, Mrs. Bartley was a homemaker and owned Val's Market and the Mayflower Cafe. Mrs. Bartley was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, former Girl Scout Leader, Guardian of Bethel #30, International Order of Job's Daughters, all of Great Bend. She was Grand Guardian of International Order of Job's Daughters, State of Kansas, 1955 and 1956, and was a member of the Golden Sheaf Chapter 226 Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include one son James Bartley and wife, Doris, Fairfax, Virginia; two daughters, Elizabeth Erwin and husband, Fred, Russell, Kansas, and Jean Regier and husband, Jerome, McPherson, Kansas; one daughter-in-law, Bette Bartley, Sugarland, Texas; eleven grandchildren; twenty-three great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a son, Lawrence Bartley, and one granddaughter, Nancy Kay Bartley. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, November 29, 2007 at First Presbyterian Church, Great Bend, with the Reverend Hal Staats officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at Bryant Funeral Home. A memorial in Mrs. Bartley's name has been established with the Nancy Kay Bartley Scholarship Fund at Barton County Community College, in care of the funeral home.