DODGE CITY – Daisy Lee Wasson, 86, died Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at Trinity Manor, Dodge City.

She was born October 21, 1938 at Hugo, Colorado, the daughter of Otto Lewis

and Lucy Jane "Betty" (Holland) Blankenship. A Dodge City resident since 1945, moving from Colorado, she was a homemaker.

She was a member of Dodge City Church of Christ helping in the cradle roll nursery class for many years, Girl Scouts, Pairs and Squares, Prairie Schooners 4-H Club, Happy Hour Extension Club, and SKAVI-Southwest Kansas Association of the Visually Impaired, and Dodge City Ceramics where she made numerous keepsake ceramics for family and friends.

On May 5, 1955, she married the love of her life Clarence Wasson at Dodge City, Kansas. They celebrated 60 years of marriage before his death on December 15, 2016.

Survivors include: Dean and wife Jacque, Houston, Texas, Cindy Orebaugh and husband Mark, Dodge City, KS Todd and wife Nancy, Sedgwick, KS, Sandy Fisher and husband Greg, Columbiana, AL and Toby and wife Melissa, Pampa, TX; sisters,  Hazel Koehn, Colorado and Mary Wilhelm, Dodge City; 15 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren, 3 great great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Clarence; a son, Wilbur; her brothers Rupert and Alva Warden; sisters, Elma Byers, Rosa Baker, JoAnn Nichols, Bertha Unruh; and a grandson, Taylor Flaherty.

Funeral service will be 11:00 am Friday, September 5, 2025 at the Dodge City Church of Christ with Gary Bennett officiating. Burial will follow in the Kansas Veterans Cemetery, Ft. Dodge. Visitation will be Thursday, September 4, 2025 from noon to 8:00 pm at Ziegler Funeral Chapel, Dodge City.

The family suggests memorials to Dodge City Church of Christ or Hospice of the Prairie both in care of Ziegler Funeral Chapel, 1901 N. 14th Ave., Dodge City, Kansas 67801.