Benjamin "Ben" Nida, 37, passed away June 27, 2024. He was born May 26, 1987 to Charles and Barbara (Husarik) Nida in Wichita, KS. 

Benjamin had a great heart and loved his family deeply. He always tried to see the good in everyone, and would go to great lengths to help his friends and family even when it required personal sacrifice. Growing up, Ben looked up to his two older sisters. Together, they got into their share of mischief, like when they lifted him up on the kitchen counter to raid the cookie jar. They conveniently ran off with their cookies before momma came and left little Benjamin to take the blame. 

Ben had a keen sense of humor, was extremely intelligent, loving, caring and was loved by everyone. Ben completed a GED and went through vocational training to become an auto mechanic, going on to work at Steven Volkswagen and a number of dealerships before recently opening his own shop with a partner. For those of us who knew and loved Ben, the world was brighter, warmer, and better while he was here and he was taken from us much too soon.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents, John and Esther Husarik and Charles L. Nida. Ben is survived by his wife of thirteen years, Alyssa; son, Braxton; daughter, Breelynne; family dog, Dagen; sisters, Sarah Igartua, Rachel (Ryan Lambert) Nida; parents, grandmother, Thelma Johnson; and nieces, Olivia, Rayna, Ava, and Raylene.

On Tuesday June 25 2024 Ben was erroneously picked up for contempt of court and taken to the Sedgwick County Jail. His wife Alyssa had been working on his blood sugars for almost 2 hours before law enforcement arrived to pick him up. She notified them she had just returned from the store with more drinks/snacks to work on getting his sugars back up to a normal level- they were kind and allowed her to finish working on him and she was able to get his blood sugar up to 70 and stable before he was arrested and taken. In the less than 48 hours they had him -Alyssa spoke with Ben twice on Tuesday but never heard from him Wednesday- Thursday morning before 3am he was pronounced dead and his blood sugar was well over 1100. He could not have been given ANY insulin in his remaining hours of his life and he should have been rushed to a hospital at the moment he started to  become incoherent instead of ignored for hours before "taken to a medical wing" where they started to check his vitals and realized there was something very wrong- and called ems for him to die before they even arrived.