Linda Liesel Ulrich

Linda Liesel Ulrich (1951-2024)

Linda Liesel Ulrich, 73, a descendant of one of Manhattan, Kansas’ most influential families of the 20th century, was found in her home in Wichita, Kansas. She died peacefully of natural causes on May 28, 2024. She was a veteran of the United States Air Force and served as a Law Enforcement Supervisor at McConnell Air Force Base and Incirlik Air Base, Turkey.

She was interred at Kansas Veterans’ Cemetery at Fort Riley/Manhattan on July 8, 2024. The service was officiated by Rev. Margaret McGhee from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan where the family previously attended. McConnell AFB in Wichita provided an Honor Guard.

Linda attended Kansas State University before entering the Air Force in 1978. After she was released from the military, she spent over twenty years providing security services in the Manhattan and Wichita areas. In 1998, she moved to Oaklawn where she was instrumental in promoting Oaklawn’s ‘National Night Out’. She held one every year since and worked tirelessly to improve safety in local neighborhoods. She received the William Garvey Crime Prevention Citizen Activist Award in 2017 and a grant from Eyewitness News and lawyer DeVaughn James to further her cause in the Oaklawn area.

Linda’s grandfather, Bernard L. Ulrich, was a civic and business leader in the mid-20th century in Manhattan. His father and uncles were builders and brick masons that built many of the buildings in downtown Manhattan, (including the Ulrich Building on the corner of 4th Street and Poyntz Avenue), and some of the earliest buildings of Kansas State University, two of which are still in use.

She is survived by her brother, John Robert Ulrich of Manhattan, a niece, Janna Lynn Baustert of Manhattan, four first-cousins, Sarah Elizabeth Stone of Justin, Texas; Donald H. Stone of Southlake; Texas, Benjamin E. Stone of Point Blank, Texas; and Stephen A. Stone of Denton, Texas.

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