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HOLLIDAY HERBERT HOLLIDAY SR., 100, BERRYTON, DIED SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2004, AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN APRIL 11, 1903 IN BELLE PLAINE, THE SON OF ROBERT LINCOLN AND LUCINDA STURGIS HOLLIDAY. MR HOLLIDAY WAS THE OLDEST LIVING GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATING IN 1921. HE TAUGHT SCHOOL IN HIS EARLY YEARS, AND BEGAN FARMING IN 1927 IN SHAWNEE COUNTY. HE LIVED ON THE SAME FARM NEAR BERRYTON SINCE 1946 UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE WAS A 78-YEAR MEMBER OF THE MASONIC LODGE, IN WHICH HE HELD NUMEROUS OFFICES. HE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE ALBERT NEESE LODGE NO. 248, WHERE HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER SINCE 1948 AND A MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH RITE BODIES. HE WAS A 78-YEAR MEMBER OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR AND WAS A MEMBER OF WAKARUSA CHAPTER NO. 390 OES AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. HE WAS A MEMBER OF ELMONT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND IN EARLY YEARS, HAD BEEN ACTIVE IN THE MONMOUTH TOWNSHIP FARM BUREAU. HE WAS A MEMBER OF LAWRENCE CAMERA CLUB AND THE TOPEKA CAMERA CLUB AND HAD RECEIVED NUMEROUS NATIONAL AWARDS FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPHY. HE MARRIED IRENE STAPEL ON DEC. 24, 1922, IN ELMONT. SHE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH ON NOV. 4, 1997. HE ALSO WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS SON, HERBERT E. HOLLIDAY JR., ON JUNE 19, 1999; HIS GRANDAUGHTER, DR BRENDA LOYD; TWO BROTHERS, A. OWEN HOLLIDAY AND ROBERT D. HOLLIDAY; AND HIS SISTER, RUTH HILTON. SURVIVORS INCLUDE A DAUGHTER, BARBARA LUE SIMMER, TOPEKA; SIX GRANDCHILDREN, 19 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND 3 GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.
HANSON HOWARD E. HANSON, 94, TOPEKA, DIED MONDAY, JULY 21, 2003, AT WESTWOOD MANOR IN TOPEKA. HE WAS BORN JULY 9, 1909, THE SON OF JOSEPH AND ADA MAY RACKNOR HANSON. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL IN 1927. HE COMPLETED THE FARMERS SHORT COURSE AT KANSAS STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE FROM 1931 TO 1933. MR. HANSON WAS A FARMER IN SHAWNEE COUNTY. HE RAISED HEREFORD CATTLE. HE ALSO WAS A LICENSED FUR DEALER FOR 32 YEARS. MR. HANSON WAS A MEMBER OF WANAMAKER 4-H CLUB WITH CROP AND LIVESTOCK PROJECTS. LATER HE WAS A CROP LEADER WITH THE DOVER 4-H CLUB. HE HAD WORKED WITH KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY TO PRODUCE HYBRID SEED CORN. HE SOLD CERTIFIED SEED FOR 25 YEARS. HE ATTENDED DOVER FEDERATED CHURCH. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE OAK GRANGE AT MISSION CENTER AND THE SHAWNEE COUNTY FARM BUREAU. HE HAD BEEN ACTIVE WITH THE SHAWNEE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION OFFICE IN TOPEKA. HE SERVED ON THE DOVER GRADE SCHOOL BOARD AND HAD ATTENDED THE DOVER FEDERATED CHURCH SINCE 1989, AND HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF WILLIAMS CHAPEL WESLEYAN CHURCH WEST OF DOVER. HE MARRIED JULIA ATWOOD ON MAY 12, 1946, NEAR AUBURN. SHE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH ON OCT. 5, 1995. SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO DAUGHTERS, ZELMA GOULD, TOPEKA, AND JUDY SPRIGGS, HOUSTON; A SON, PAUL HANSON, OLATHE; AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, CHRISTY, JASON, AND TANYA, ALL IN TEXAS, AND KENNY SPRIGGS, LAWRENCE. INTERMENT WAS AT DOVER CEMETERY. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL.
SOUEL LILLIAN JANICE SOULE DANNY JACKSON, 100, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, MARCH 20, 2011 AT HER HOME SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES. SHE WAS BORN JANUARY 26, 1911 IN DODGE CITY, KS, THE DAUGHTER OF ARTHUR LOUIS AND EMILY FRANCES (MADISON) SOULE. SHE MARRIED CLARKE M. JACKSON AT HER PARENT
BAINBRIDGE Name: ELDEENE MILLER ELDEENE O. MILLER, 84, TOPEKA, DIED THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2003, AT A LOCAL NURSING HOME. SHE WAS BORN DEC. 22, 1918, IN TOPEKA, THE DAUGHTER OF ELMER AND ORPHIA BAINBRIDGE. HER MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS 3 DAYS OLD. SHE WAS REARED BY MINNIE AND WALLIE BAINBRIDGE, HER AUNT AND UNCLE, IN TOPEKA. SHE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1936, WHICH WAS THEN ON THE WASHBURN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS. SHE WORKED AT GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. IN THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT, THEN MOVED TO THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT. SHE RETIRED AROUND 1980. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GOODYEAR SALARIED RETIREMENT CLUB AND THE GOODYEAR HOURLY RETIREMENT CLUB. SHE WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE GERMAN CLUB IN KANSAS CITY. SHE VOLUNTEERED AT THE VA HOSPITAL. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER HUSBAND, KENNETH RAYMOND MILLER, AND A BROTHER, ELMER BAINBRIDGE. BURIAL WAS AT MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL.
ENGLER LYLE ENGLER, 82, ABILENE, DIED WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2003, AT A CHAPMAN CARE FACILITY. MR. ENGLER AND HIS WIFE FARMED SOUTHWEST OF TOPEKA UNTIL MOVING TO ABILENE IN 1979. HE ALSO HAD BEEN A NON-DENOMINATIONAL MINISTER FOR MANY YEARS. HE WAS BORN FEB. 14, 1921, IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF CHESTER AND NETTIE COYLE ENGLER. HE WAS REARED IN TOPEKA AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1939. HE MARRIED BETTY DIETRICH ON DEC. 10, 1941. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, GARREN ENGLER, ABILENE; TWO DAUGHTERS, CHERYL WALTHALL, JOPLIN, MO., AND MARLA LANDIS, ABILENE; TWO BROTHERS, LARRY ENGLER AND WARREN ENGLER, BOTH OF TOPEKA; NINE GRANDCHILDREN; AND 10 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. MR. ENGLER WAS CREMATED. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL.
WILSON FRANCIS WILSON FRANCIS ORLA WILSON, 83, TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2006. FRANCIS WAS BORN SEPT. 28, 1922 IN BIG SPRINGS, KS THE SON OF CHARLES AND VENA MORRIS WILSON. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. FRANCIS SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE NAVY DURING WWII AS A COOK ON BOARD SHIP, PRIMARILY IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. HE WAS A MEMBER OF SEABROOK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH WHICH HE AND HIS PARENTS AND SONS HELPED TO BUILD. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCHS SOFTBALL TEAM FOR 50 YEARS PLAYING WITH AS WELL AS COACHING HIS SONS AND GRANDSONS. FRANCIS AND HIS WIFE, BARBARA, OWNED AND OPERATED WILSON TURKEY FARM FOR 60 YEARS. SHE PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN 2003. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS CHILDREN, LONNA HOUGH, TOPEKA, RAY WILSON, LENEXA, CHARLES WILSON, TOPEKA, AND SHERI BARKER, SARASOTA FL; TWO SISTERS, CHARLENE W. SMITH, TOLEDO OH AND CONNIE W. FRANKLIN, LEESVILLE TX; NINE GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL WAS AT WEST LAWN MEMORIAL GARDENS. TOEPKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
EMMONS KIPP MAYTAG EMMONS, 82, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012, AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN JANUARY 9, 1930, IN MANHATTAN, KANSAS, THE SON OF FOSTER N. AND GEORGIA E. CAREY EMMONS. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1947. KIPP SERVED IN THE U.S. NAVY AS A SEABEE FROM 1948 TO 1952. HE WAS EMPLOYED IN HIS FAMILY'S BUTANE BUSINESS FOR 21 YEARS. HE RETIRED FROM THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AFTER 20 YEARS WORKING AT CLINTON RESERVOIR. KIPP SERVED ON THE WASHBURN RURAL SCHOOL BOARD, WAS A MEMBER AND SERVED AS PAST MASTER OF THE WAKARUSA MASONIC LODGE #402 A.F. & A.M. AND WAS A MEMBER OF TOPEKA SCOTTISH RITE BODIES AND THE ARAB SHRINE. HE MARRIED CLARA L. MCCLELLAN SEPTEMBER 14, 1952, IN TOPEKA. SHE SURVIVES OF THE HOME. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, KIM M. EMMONS AND WIFE, KARLA OF TOPEKA; A DAUGHTER, CONNIE L. LONG AND HUSBAND PATRICK OF CARBONDALE; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. KIPP WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND A BROTHER, JAMES W. EMMONS. PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON APRIL 21, 2012 KINGMAN RICHARD E. KINGMAN, 74, TOPEKA, DIED SUNDAY, NOV. 2, 2003, AT A TOPEKA RETIREMENT HOME. HE WAS BORN SEPT. 5, 1929, IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF SETH P. KINGMAN AND LOUISE WATSON KINGMAN. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1947 AND FROM WASHBURN UNIVERSITY IN 1952. MR. KINGMAN WAS AN OFFICER IN THE U.S. MARINE CORPS AND SERVED IN JAPAN AND KOREA. HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYEED BY PL DALE CONTRACTOR IN GARDEN CITY, ROBERT E. MCKEE CONSTRUCTION IN MANHATTAN AND ALLIED ENGINEERING IN TOPEKA. HE WAS PARTNER IN KRAMER ENGINEERING IN TOPEKA FOR 28 YEARS. HE ESTABLISHED HIS OWN SURVEYING BUSINESS IN 1984. MR. KINGMAN WAS A MEMBER OF BOTH THE KANSAS AND MISSOURI LAND SURVEYORS AND HAD SERVED AS PRESIDENT AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HE WAS AND AVID AIRPLANE MODELER AND DEVOTED A LIFETIME ENJOYING AND SHARING HIS INTERESTS. HE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE CAPITAL CITY RC MODLERS ORGANIZATION AND THE BLUE SKY SQUADRON OF IMAA SCALE MODELERS CLUB. HE WAS ALSO A BOY SCOUT ADVISER, A PREVIOUS MEMBER OF THE BREAKFAST OPTIMIST CLUB AND HE ENJOYED A LIFELONG INTEREST IN AMERICAN HISTORY AS A MEMBER OF THE SANTA FE TRAIL AND OREGON TRAIL ASSOCIATIONS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF COUNTRYSIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FOR MANY YEARS. HE MARRIED BARBARA KRAMER ON JAN. 28, 1953, IN TOPEKA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A BROTHER, HAROLD KINGMAN, SAFFORD, ARIZ.; A SON, MARK KINGMAN AND HIS WIFE, SHERYL, TOPEKA; A DAUGHTER, MELISSA AND HER HUSBAND, MARK RAU, TOPEKA; AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN.
READY DARLENE ‘POLLY’ READY, 72, DIED FRIDAY, JAN. 9, 2004, IN TOPEKA. SHE WAS BORN MARCH 3, 1931, IN JEFFERSON COUNTY TO CLARENCE READY AND LAVERNE MARTIN READY, EASTON. SHE MOVED TO TOPEKA IN 1946 AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1948 AND ATTENDED CLARKS BUSINESS SCHOOL. SHE MARRIED DUANE BERGREN IN 1949. TWO SONS WERE BORN TO THIS UNION. THE COUPLE LATER DIVORCED. AFTER LEAVING TOPEKA IN 1965 TO RESIDE IN OMAHA, NEB., SHE WAS EMPLOYED AT UNMC AND RETIRED IN 1984. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, CLARENCE AND LAVERNE. SURVIVING ARE A COMPANION, DR. DONALD E. CLARK, TOPEKA; AND SONS AND DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW RANDY AND COLLEEN BERGREN, GRETNA, NEB., AND DENNIS BERGREN AND JAN, OMAHA, NEB.; AND THREE GRANDCHILDREN, CHRISTINE, JAKE, AND KATIE BERGREN, ALL OF GRETNA. SHORTHILL MARIAN E. EAKES, 74, TOPEKA, DIED FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 2004, AT MIDLAND HOSPICE HOUSE. MARIAN WAS BORN NOV. 24, 1930, IN TOPEKA, THE DAUGHTER OF ROLLO AND OLIVE REDMOND SHORTHILL. SHE GRADUATED IN 1948 FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. ON JULY 22, 1950, MARIAN AND JOSEPH EAKES WERE MARRIED. MARIAN WAS A HOMEMAKER. SHE COACHED GIRLS BASKETBALL AT HOLY NAME SCHOOL AND VOLUNTEERED AT THE YMCA. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF HOLY NAME CHURCH AND OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CIRCLE. MARIAN IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND, JOE; HER DAUGHTERS, MARILYN ANDERSON, MARCIA DEVLIN, PATTY KADLIECK AND BARBIE APPLEHANZ, ALL OF TOPEKA, TRESA BURGESS, FREDONIA, AND ANNETTE KELLY, HOLTON; HER SISTERS, MARILYN WITHMAN, TOPEKA, AND JEAN DORMAN, EL DORADO; 19 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 11 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER SON, JOE, IN 1999, AND HER GRANDDAUGHTER, JENNIFER LYNN ANDERSON, IN 1988.
WELLS Name: JAMES WELLS PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 JAMES EDWARD WELLS WAS BORN JULY 27, 1932 IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1950. HE ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND RECEIVED A B.A. FROM WASHBURN UNIVERSITY IN 1954. IN 1963, HE RECEIVED HIS LEGAL DEGREE FROM THE WASHBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW. JUDGE WELLS IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER, FLORENCE KIRKPATRICK, TOPEKA, AND HIS LOVING WIFE OF OVER 30 YEARS, LORENE WELLS IN 1985. HIS IS SURVIVED BY HIS FOUR CHILDREN, DOUG WELLS (JEANINE), TOPEKA, CHRIS DENNIS, OZAWKIE, SHERYL WELLS, LOWELL, MA AND WENDY WELLS (BOYD JANTZEN), TOPEKA; 6 GRANDCHILDREN, 6 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, AND HIS DEAR COMPANION OF MANY YEARS, MAXINE DEVER. JUDGE WELLS PROUDLY SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS A CAPTAIN IN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE FOR A SIX YEAR PERIOD. IN THIS COMMISSION HE SUPERVISED OVER 200 DEDICATED MEN STATIONED IN TOKYO, JAPAN. JUDGE WELLS HAD AN EXTENSIVE PROFESSIONAL CAREER BEGINNING WITH PRACTICING LAW FROM 1963-1978. WELLS SERVED AS THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY FOR TOPEKA, KANSAS. IN 1964, WELLS WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE REVISION OF CITY OF TOPEKA ORDINANCES, AS WELL AS THE ANALYSIS OF ORDINANCES FOR CONSTITUTIONALITY. FROM 1965-1967, HE WAS THE ATTORNEY FOR SHAWNEE COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT. HE ALSO PROUDLY SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT ON JUDGES JUDICIAL TESTING, AS WELL AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE KANSAS MUNICIPAL JUDGES ASSOCIATION. THE JUDGE WAS A TIRELESS SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT HIS CAREER. HIS HIGH LEVEL OF COMMUNITY CONSCIOUSNESS, RESPONSIBILITY AND DEDICATION RESULTED IN MANY CONTRIBUTIONS OF HIS PERSONAL TIME AND LEGAL EXPERTISE IN MANY CAPACITIES. HE WAS EVEN CALLED SANTA JUDGE FOR HIS YEARLY VISIT TO THE JAIL ON CHRISTMAS DAY TO REVIEW RECORDS OF PRISONERS TO SEEK A MEANS TO RELEASE THEM FOR THE HOLIDAYS.
MONTGOMERY PATRICK ARNOLD MONTGOMERY, 71, SPOKANE VALLEY, DIED JULY 3, 2004, IN SPOKANE VALLEY, WASH. HE WAS BORN DEC. 25, 1932, IN TOPEKA, AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1951. MR. MONTGOMERY WORKED AT VARIUS SALES JOBS AND THEN WORKED FOR GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. IN TOPEKA FOR 23 YEARS, MAKING HEAVY EQUIPMENT TIRES. MR. MONTGOMERY WAS A MEMVER OF MASONIC GOLDEN RULE LODGE NO. 90, AF&AM IN TOPEKA. HE MARRIED JOANN MCNEAL IN 1955. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN AND DIVORCED IN 1976. HE MOVED TO SPOKANE IN 1977, WHERE HE MARRIED MARLENE PHILLIPS. MR. MONTOGOMERY WAS SELF-EMPLOYEED IN HOME REPAIRS AND TILE SETTING BEFORE RETIRING IN 1987. HE ENJOYED WOODWORKING, RV CAMPING, COOKING AND VISITING WITH RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SON, TIMOTHY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE OF 27 YEARS, MARLENE; SONS, TED MONTGOMERY, AND HIS WIFE, CAROL, AND RICK MONTOGOMERY, AND HIS WIFE DAWN, TOPEKA; A DAUGHTER, BARBARA MONTGOMERY, MALVERN, PA; A STEPSON, DAN GRAY, SPOKANE VALLEY; SISTERS EFFIE, AND HER HUSBAND MERRILL LYTTLE, HENDERSON, NEV., AND MYRNA, AND HER HUSBAND, PAUL JONES, TOPEKA; AN AUNT, MARGUERITE, AND HER HUSBAND HIDDE HANENBURG, SPOKANE, WASH.; SIX GRANDCHILDREN; TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN; AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
ADAMS Name: DAVID ADAMS THE FOLLOWING WAS PUBLISHED ONLINE AT http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cjonline MEADE DAVID STEWART ADAMS, AGE 76, DIED THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 28, 2010 AT THE LONE TREE RETIREMENT CENTER, MEADE, KANSAS. HE WAS BORN JUNE 16, 1934, IN TOPEKA, KANSAS, THE SON OF RAYMOND E. AND JESSIE STEWART ADAMS. AS A YOUTH HE ATTENDED THE MAPLE HILL GRADE SCHOOL. FOR HIGH SCHOOL HE ATTENDED PEMBROKE COUNTY DAY SCHOOL IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI BEFORE GRADUATING FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1952. HE ATTENDED KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND THEN JOINED THE UNITED STATES ARMY, SERVING FOR SEVERAL YEARS. UPON HIS DISCHARGE, HE RETURNED TO KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY TO COMPLETE HIS EDUCATION. HE STARTED THE ADAMS RANCH AND FOCUSED HERFORD, SIMMENTAL, AND ANGUS CATTLE. DAVID WAS A MEMBER OF THE KANSAS CATTLEMAN'S ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN ROYAL, PEMBROKE HILL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, AND SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON FRATERNITY. HE WAS AN AVID PILOT. ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1980, HE MARRIED JUDY ROBERT IN MAPLE HILL, KANSAS. THEY RECENTLY CELEBRATED THEIR 30TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. DAVID WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT HIS 29 YEARS OF SOBRIETY. HE WAS COMMITTED TO HIS MINISTRY OF HELPING OTHERS WHO STRUGGLED WITH ALCOHOLISM AND IMPACTED HUNDREDS OF LIVES. HE AND JUDY FOUNDED THE MAPLE HILL AA AND AL-ANON GROUP AND BUILT THE BUILDING WHERE THEY HAVE CONTINUED TO MEET FOR 25 YEARS. SURVIVORS ALSO INCLUDE: HIS CHILDREN: SARAH ADAMS GUINN AND HUSBAND KENT OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS; AMY BERCKMAN AND HUSBAND BOBBY OF MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA; DAVID STEWART ADAMS, JR. AND WIFE CAROLINE OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS; HIS SISTER, ANN ADAMS RUSSELL OF LAWRENCE, KANSAS AND HER HUSBAND ROBERT (BOB) RUSSELL; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, ALEXANDER GUINN, GRACE GUINN, COLIN MCDONALD, KIRSTEN MCDONALD, ANDREW ADAMS, PAIGE ADAMS, AND AMANDA STEFFEN. THE FAMILY WOULD WELCOME MEMORIALS MADE TO: MEADE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN CARE OF FIDLER-ORME-BACHMAN MORTUARY, PO BOX 70, MEADE, KS 67864 NEWELL Name: ARTHUR NEWELL ARTHUR E. "BUD" NEWELL, 71, OF LECOMPTON, DIED SATURDAY, JAN. 29, 2005, AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN JAN. 9, 1934, IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF ARTHUR ROBERT AND JUANITA ELIZABETH LEUENBERGER NEWELL. BUD GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, WHERE HE PLAYED FOOTBALL. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U.S. ARMY AND WAS STATIONED IN GERMANY. BUD RETIRED WITH MORE THAN 35 YEARS AS A DISTRIBUTOR OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES FOR ZIMMER. LATER, HE ESTABLISHED SERENTA FARMS SCHOOL OF EQUESTRIAN ARTS AND EQUINE-FACILITATED THERAPY PROGRAM FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL DISABILITIES. HE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE KANSAS HORSE COUNCIL AND THE KANSAS HORSE FOUNDATION. HE WAS A PAST PRESIDENT OF KAW VALLEY CATBACKERS AND INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHING THE BUD AND MARTI NEWELL POWERCAT STRENGTH COMPLEX AT KANSAS STAT UNIVERSITY'S WAGNER STADIUM. BUD WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND A SISTER, ARNITA SELDERS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE DAUGHTERS, KIM MERTZ AND HER HUSBAND, JOE, RURAL MANHATTAN, COURTNEY CUNNINGHAM AND HER HUSBAND, ROB, TOPEKA, AND SUZY ROUSEY AND HER HUSBAND, WAYNE, MATTHEWS, N.C.; A SON, CHRIS NEWELL, AND HIS WIFE, KAREN, TOPEKA; A SISTER, JANE ALLEN AND HER HUSBAND, MARVIN, LANESVILLE, IND.; AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
BROWN Name: GARY BROWN GARY R. BROWN, 69, TOPEKA, DIED TUESDAY, AUG. 31, 2004 AT HIS HOME FROM COMPLICATIONS OF EMPHYSEMA. GARY WAS BORN APRIL 19, 1935, IN TOPEKA, TO C. ROY AND HELEN E. BROWN. GARY GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1953. AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, HE WAS EMPLOYED FROM 1953 UNTIL 1956 AT MOSBY-MACK MOTOR CO. IN 1956 HE ENTERED A PARTNERSHIP BUSINESS WITH HIS FATHER, WHICH WAS NAMED BROWN'S SUPER SERVICE. HE LATER BECAME SOLE OWNER AND RETIRED IN 2000. GARY WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF WHITE LAKES OPTIMIST CLUB AND CAPITAL POST NO. 1 OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. GARY ALSO ENJOYED TRAVELING AND CAMPING AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE GOOD SAM CLUB AND LATER THE NEWMAR KOUNTRY KLUB. HE MARRIED SHIRLEY M. REED. THEY DIVORCED. SHE SURVIVES. HE LATER MARRIED JOYCE M. BECKER OF TOPEKA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO SONS BY HIS FIRST MARRIAGE, KEITH L. BROWN AND KENT L. BROWN, BOTH OF TOPEKA; A STEPDAUGHTER, TAMMY JO GELLER, DESMOINES, IOWA; TWO BROTHERS, LARRY D. BROWN, LEAWOOD, AND JERRY L. BROWN, SALT LAKE CITY; TWO GRANDSONS; ONE GRANDAUGHTER; AND THREE STEPGRANDDAUGHTERS. BURIAL WAS AT THE MISSION CENTER CEMETERY. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL 9/2/04
EDSON Name: DONALD EDSON HOOD Name: PATRICIA DEL HERRO LOGAN Name: SANDRA WEAVER NICELY GENE DOUGLAS NICELY, SR., 69, OF OZAWKIE, KS PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 7, 2006 IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WY WHILE ON A WINTER TOUR. HE WAS BORN ON A FARM IN AUBURN, KS ON JUNE 17, 1936 TO HAZEL CAYWOOD NICELY AND HARRY BASIL NICELY, SR. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN TOPEKA AND ATTENDED KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY AND WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. HE STARTED HIS CAREER IN SALES AT HENRY MANUFACTURING. GENE THEN WORKED FOR ALLIS CHALMERS FOR 17 YEARS. IN 1978 HE MOVED TO GREAT FALLS, MONTANA AS THE GENERAL SALES MANAGER FOR CATERPILLAR TRACTOR. IN 1983 HE AND HIS FAMILY RETURNED TO KANSAS. HE BECAME A REAL ESTATE AGENT FOR HIGH PLAINS REALITY AND EARNED HIS PROPERTY APPRAISERS LICENCE. HE THEN WENT TO WORK AS AN APPRAISER FOR THE KANSAS DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY DEPARTMENT UNTIL RETIRMENT IN JUNE OF 2002. AFTER RETIREMENT, GENE BECAME A MASTER REMODELLER OF HIS CHILDREN’’S HOUSES. HE WAS PROUD TO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO VISIT ALL 50 STATES, ALL OF CANADA AND ALL THE STATES AND TERRITORIES OF AUSTRALIA, ENGLAND, AND JAPAN. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE SHIRLEY, HIS DAUGHTER, KATHI BARTLOW OF MERIDEN, KS; HIS SONS DOUG NICELY OF WILMINGTON, NC, JOHN NICELY OF WICHITA, KS, AND RANDY NICELY, OF TOPEKA; ONE SON-IN-LAW AND TWO DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, 3 GRANDCHILDREN, 5 STEP-GRANDCHILDREN, ONE GRANDSON-IN-LAW AND 6 STEP-GREAT GRANDCHILDREN; THREE SISTERS, KAREN MCLAUGHLIN OF CHARLESTON, SC, JUDY TALBOT OF WAGNER, OK, AND LINDA BARRACLOUGH OF TOPEKA; TWO BROTHERS, GLEN NICELY OF TOPEKA AND CURT NICELY, ST. LOUIS, MO. GENE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A DAUGHTER, SHERRY KAY, TWO BROTHERS, HARRY AND TERRY, A SISTER CHERYL, AND BOTH PARENTS. WILLIAMS Name: MARGARET PATTERSON
LUELLEN Name: LARRY LUELLEN LAWRENCE (LARRY) LEE LUELLEN WENT TO BE WITH HIS LORD ON EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 8, 2007 AT MIDLAND HOSPICE. HE WAS BORN JUNE 21, 1937 IN SOLDIER, KS, THE SON OF GARLAND AND ETHEL (OWENS) LUELLEN. LARRY GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1956 AND MARRIED HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART, DARLENE ZOOK, ON SEPTEMBER 16, 1956. HE WORKED FOR SANTA FE RAILROAD AS A SHEET METAL WORKER AND RETIRED AS A PIPE FITTER FROM GOODYEAR TIRE. LARRY AND DARLENE TRAVELED IN THEIR RV DURING RETIREMENT, SEARCHING FOR ANTIQUES AND GOOD SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC. LARRY WAS QUICK TO LAUGH AND HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR. HE WAS A MEMBER OF NORTHERN HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH AND AN HONORARY MEMBER OF SPIRES CHAPEL IN ROGERSVILLE, TN. THE JOY OF HIS LIFE WAS HIS FAMILY. HE LOVED THE LORD, GOSPEL MUSIC, CAMPING WITH FRIENDS, MONDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY AT THE TOWNSENDS, MAKING CANDY AND GOODIES FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY, AND HIS BELOVED BULLDOG, BOWSIE. BEFORE HIS HEALTH DECLINED, HE WAS AN AVID BICYCLIST. HE WAS A DEVOTED HUSBAND, FATHER, AND GRANDFATHER. LARRY WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND A BROTHER, BOBBIE. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE DARLENE, AND THEIR CHILDREN: DEBBI WILLIAMS AND HUSBAND JIM, TOPEKA, GREGG LUELLEN AND WIFE GRETCHEN, SPRING, TX, STACI LUELLEN OF TOPEKA, AND HIS SISTER, MAXINE MERRITT AND HUSBAND ED, TOPEKA. GRANDCHILDREN ARE CASEY FRISBY, SARAH YEAGER, RACHEL JORGENSEN, ERIN WILLIAMS, GARETT AND DARSEY LUELLEN. BURIAL WAS AT MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 4/10/2007
FOX Name: JANET KERNS JANET M. KERNS JANET M. KERNS, 66, OF AUBURN, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2006 AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN OCTOBER 10 1939, IN OSKALOOSA, THE DAUGHTER OF HOLLAND AND EVELYN VENDEL FOX. SHE WAS A 1957 GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. SHE WAS A TEACHER AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF LAKESHORE LEARNING CENTER FOR MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS. SHE MARRIED KENNETH D. KERNS ON DECEMBER 1, 1957 IN TOPEKA. HE SURVIVES. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY TWO BROTHERS. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE FIVE SONS, MICHAEL D. OF TOPEKA, TERRY J. OF WICHITA, DANNY J. OF SILVER LAKE, JEFFRY S. OF AUBURN AND JOEY A. KERNS OF PORTLAND, OR; HER MOTHER, EVELYN FOX OF TOPEKA; A SISTER, VICKI CORWIN OF TOPEKA; A BROTHER, GARY FOX OF DALLAS, TX; FOUR GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. MRS. KERNS WILL LIE IN STATE AFTER 2:00 PM, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 2006 AT PENWELL-GABEL MID TOWN CHAPEL WHERE THE FAMILY WILL GREET FRIENDS FROM 6:30 TO 8:00 PM THAT EVENING. BURIAL WAS AT MISSION CENTER CEMETERY. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 7/15/2006.
CONROY Name: DON CONROY PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON OCTOBER 26, 2005 DONALD C. CONROY JR. AGE 63, A RESIDENT OF SAN CLEMENTE, PASSED AWAY OCTOBER 22, 2005. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE; PAMELA B. CONROY. THREE SONS; JOHN HANLEY CONROY, DONALD C. CONROY III, AND BLAIR WALKER CONROY. ONE DAUGHTER; DANI LEE SWOPE. FATHER; DONALD C. CONROY SR. TWO BROTHERS; MONTE JOE CONROY AND RUSSELL JAMES CONROY. ONE SISTER; JESSICA YOLANDA FRASHIER. MR. CONROY IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HIS SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN. MR. CONROY HAD DEVOTED HIS CAREER TO MANAGEMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN IMPLEMENTATION, AND TROUBLESHOOTING ASSIGNMENTS IN THE DATA PROCESSING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AREAS OF THE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS FIELD. HE WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE LAGUNA BEACH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND ACTIVE WITH THE METHODIST HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH PROGRAMS. FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2005 - 1PM. LAGUNA BEACH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, LAGUNA BEACH, CA. WITH REV. JAYE WATSON, OFFICIATING. THOSE WHO WISH MAY MAKE CONTRIBUTIONS TO: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, OR THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. HUHS Name: JUDY GRIGGS MCMASTER Name: ROD MCMASTER ROD MCMASTER, 64, OF TOPEKA, SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2006, WHILE OFFICIATING A FOOTBALL GAME. HE WAS BORN JANUARY 24, 1942 IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF DELBERT AND JESSIE MCMASTER. ROD WAS RAISED IN PAULINE AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1960. HE WAS A 1964 GRADUATE OF EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY WHERE HE RECEIVED DEGREES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND BUSINESS. ROD HAD A DISTINGUISHED CAREER WITH STATE FARM INSURANCE AS A CLAIMS SPECIALIST FOR OVER 35 YEARS. HE MANAGED AUTO CLAIM SERVICES IN TOPEKA AND SERVED ON THE NATIONAL CATASTROPHIC CLAIMS TEAM UNTIL HIS RETIREMENT IN 1999. ROD WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT DEVELOPING AND MENTORING YOUNG ATHLETES. THIS WAS HIS 44TH YEAR OF OFFICIATING YOUTH AND COLLEGIATE SPORTS. HE WORKED FOR THE BIG 12 AND THE NFL. HE ALSO SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS COACHING HIS SONS' BASEBALL TEAMS. HE MARRIED HIS HIGH SCHOOL SWEETHEART JUNE MCCLURE ON AUGUST 31, 1963. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE JUNE, THEIR TWO SONS, TROY AND HIS WIFE SHELLY, TYLER AND HIS WIFE KATE, AND GRANDCHILDREN, THE LOVES OF HIS LIFE, TRENT, COURTNEY, CASSIDY AND KARSYN. IN ADDITION, HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER-IN-LAW AND HER HUSBAND, SUSAN AND DAN BAILEY AND THEIR CHILDREN ANDREW AND LARA. BURIAL Was AT MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 9/30/2006. SHULTS WILLIAM G. SHULTS, 68, PASSED AWAY TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010. WILLIAM WAS BORN IN TOPEKA ON JUNE 3, 1942, THE SON OF HOUSTON AND EDITH (RANDALL) SHULTS. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. WILLIAM WORKED FOR DEL MONTE FOR OVER 20 YEARS AND FOR THE LAST 23 YEARS WORKED AS AN OVERNIGHT STOCKER FOR WAL-MART. HE ENJOYED TINKERING WITH CARS AS A YOUNG MAN WHICH CULMINATED INTO A BUSINESS WITH HIS BROTHER MELVIN. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS EX-WIFE, NANCY SHULTS, MOTHER OF HIS SONS, WILLIAM SHULTS, ROBERT SHULTS, RUSS SHULTS; HIS TWIN SISTER, JUNE HUPP; SIBLINGS VIRGINIA BROWN, CHARLENE STEINBRECHER, DEAN SHULTS AND ANNE SOULE; GIRLFRIEND, BETTY PARRACK. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS BROTHER MELVIN SHULTS. WILLIAMS Name: DON WILLIAMS LARRY LONGHOFER OFTEN TELLS PEOPLE HOW WASHBURN RURAL ACTUALLY HAD TWO HEAD COACHES DURING ITS 1982 MARCH TO THE BOY'S STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. DON WILLIAMS WAS MORE THAN JUST AN ASSISTANT COACH, RECALLED LONGHOFER, THE JUNIOR BLUES' HEAD COACH AT THE TIME. THAT BECAME EVEN MORE OBVIOUS WHEN WILLIAMS WON HIS OWN STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP AS COACH OF THE JUNIOR BLUES THREE YEARS LATER. WILLIAMS, WHO PLAYED ON RURAL'S 1960 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM AND TAUGHT AT THE SCHOOL FOR 32 YEARS, DIED FRIDAY AFTER A LONG FIGHT WITH CANCER. HE WAS ONLY FOUR DAYS AWAY FROM HIS 61ST BIRTHDAY. "ONLY A COACH CAN APPRECIATE HOW MUCH A LOYAL AND TRUSTED ASSISTANT CAN MEAN TO A TEAM," LONGHOFFER SAID OF WILLIAMS. "HE JUST MADE THE WHOLE PROCESS A LOT MORE FUN. HE HANDLED ALL OUR DEFENSIVE SCHEMES, AND THERE WERE GAMES WE WON NOT JUST BECAUSE WE HAD BETTER PLAYERS, BUT BECAUSE WE HAD A BETTER GAME PLAN. "ALL OF US NEED SOMEONE WE CAN GET AN HONEST ANSWER FROM, TO TELL US THINGS WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO HEAR," LONGHOFER ADDED. "DON WAS THAT WAY FOR ME AND FOR HIS PLAYERS. HE WAS ALWAYS UPFRONT WITH ALL OF US." WILLIAMS SPENT 12 YEARS AS LONGHOFER'S ASSISTANT, AND THE JUNIOR BLUES PLAYED IN THREE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES IN THAT TIME. HE SERVED FOUR YEARS HAS RURAL'S HEAD COACH AND IN 1985 RETURNED THE CLASS 5A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TO THE SCHOOL. HE ALSO RECORDED ON THIRD-PLACE FINISH. IN 1985 HE WAS NAMED THE 5A STATE COACH OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS BASKET BALL COACHES ASSOCIATION AND CITY COACH OF THE YEAR BY THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL. WILLIAMS ALSO SERVED AS THE SCHOOL'S GOLF COACH FOR 23 YEARS, AND HIS 1997 TEAM WON THE CLASS 6A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. AFTER TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES FOR 20 YEARS AND SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR 12, WILLIAMS RETIRED IN 2002. HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SCHOOL'S HALL OF FAME EARLIER THIS YEAR. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL.
BERBERICH Name: LEONARD BERBERICH COOPER Name: LYNN COOPER CRABTREE Name: JANIE THOMPSON PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON JANUARY 4, 2011 JANET (JANIE) CRABTREE THOMPSON WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 4, 1943 IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO TO IVA AND RAY CRABTREE. THEY PRECEDED HER IN DEATH. SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SISTER, ANITA CRABTREE; HER TWO CHILDREN, LORRI AND STEVE DESCH, SHELLY AND TIM DAVIS; A NEPHEW, BRIAN ROACH AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN; CHEYENNE AND COLE DAVIS. JANIE OWNED HER OWN SALON, THE HEADE SHOPPE IN TOPEKA AND HER OWN CONVENTION SERVICES BUSINESS IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA. SHE WAS THE CONVENTION SALES MANAGER FOR THE TOPEKA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU AND, MOST RECENTLY, A FURNITURE SALES ASSOCIATE AND CONSULTANT FOR DISCOVERY FURNITURE IN TOPEKA. SHE WAS AN AVID GARDENER AND LANDSCAPE DESIGNER, ENJOYED INTERIOR DECORATING AND HAD A DEEP LOVE FOR ANIMALS, ESPECIALLY TWO OF HER FAVORITE PETS, LUCY & SPOOKY. WHEN HER KIDS WERE YOUNG, SHE LOVED TO RIDE HER HORSE, DOLLY. HER KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR, QUICK WIT AND CARING NATURE WILL BE MISSED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE MADE TO MIDLAND HOSPICE HOUSE OR HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY. DOERSCHLAG Name: JURL DOERSCHLAG GARCIA Name: MARVIN GARCIA GARCIA, MARVIN 67, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11, 2009 IN HIS RESIDENCE. HE WAS BORN AUGUST 4, 1942 IN ALVIN, TEXAS, THE SON OF JOAQUIN L. SR. AND HELEN MARY (MCPETERS) GARCIA. HE WAS A MEMBER OF ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH. MARVIN SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY DURING VIETNAM. HE LATER ATTENDED AND WAS A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WITH A DEGREE IN ENGINEERING AND AN AVID KANSAS JAYHAWKS FAN. HE WORKED IN CIVIL SERVICE AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE AND RETIRED AFTER TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS OF SERVICE. HE WAS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER FOR MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN CLARK COUNTY AS WELL AS CAREER TECHNOLOGY CENTER (CTC). SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS NORMA (OTT) GARCIA; DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW, EVA AND TRAVIS POLACH OF SPRINGFIELD; TWO SONS AND DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW, ALVIN AND JACKIE BURGESS OF LITTLE ELM, TEXAS, ANTHONY AND CRYSTAL GARCIA OF SPRINGFIELD; SISTER, FRAN MIDDLETON OF PARKER, COLORADO; THREE BROTHERS, EDWARD GARCIA OF GLENDALE, ARIZONA, JOAQUIN L. GARCIA JR. OF CARBONDALE, KANSAS AND JOHN GARCIA OF SCRANTON, KANSAS; SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, ALLIE, ADAM, AUBRIE AND AVERY BURGESS, ALEX GARCIA, AIDEN POLACH AND MADISON GARCIA AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND BROTHER, RICHARD L. GARCIA. SPRINGFIELD (OHIO) NEWS-SUN GERDES Name: KAREN AKERSTROM KAREN K. AKERSTROM, 66, PASSED AWAY, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2010 AT MIDLAND HOSPICE SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AFTER A COUREGOUS BATTLE WITH LEUKEMIA. KAREN WAS BORN JUNE 15, 1943 IN HORTON, KS. SHE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1961. KAREN MARRIED LARRY G. AKERSTROM ON JUNE 25, 1961 AT ST. ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SHE MANAGED MEADOW LANES BOWL FOR MANY YEARS AND ALSO WORKED RIGHT ALONGSIDE HER HUSBAND AND SON IN THEIR BUSINESS, SUPERIOR CARPET AND CONSTRUCTION. KAREN BELONGED TO THE MOOSE LODGE AND THE AMERICAN LEGION. SHE ENJOYED HER FRIDAY NIGHT COUPLES GOLF, HER TUESDAY LADIES GOLF GROUP, HER BRIDGE GROUP, AND SHE BOWLED IN MANY LEAGUES. KAREN WAS PROUD TO BE THE CHRISTMAS ANGEL AT VALEO. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER HUSBAND, LARRY; SON, BRENT AKERSTROM (TERRY); DAUGHTER, TAMMY FREED (CURT); BROTHER, WAYNE GERDES; TWIN SISTER, CAROLE NEWELL; GRANDCHILDREN, DON, AMBER, SCOTT, AND ANGELA AKERSTROM, JORDAN AND JARED FREED; GREAT GRANDAUGHTER, ARANA AKERSTROM AND MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS; STEP FATHER, GENE GRBINSON. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER MOTHER AND FATHER, CARL GERDES AND HELEN GERDES ROBINSON; NEPHEW BRYAN JOHNSON; IN-LAWS, JOHN AND LOLA AKERSTROM. BURIAL WAS AT TOPEKA CEMETERY TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL. MAY 9, 2010 GLORVIGEN Name: LLOYD GLORVIGEN HAGEMANN Name: DENIS HAGEMANN DENIS A. HAGEMANN, 69, TOPEKA, DIED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012, AT HIS HOME. HE WAS BORN MAY 2, 1943 IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF ALBERT R. AND ROBERTA E. OYLER HAGAEMANN. HE WAS A 1961 GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. HE ATTENDED WASHBURN UNIVERSITY AND EARNED A B.S. DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION FROM FT. HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1969. HE WAS A U.S. ARMY VETERAN, SERVING DURING THE VIET NAM WAR FROM 1963 TO 1966. HE WAS STATIONED IN SOUTH KOREA 13 MONTHS. DENNIS WORKED AS A CONTRACTOR IN CONSTRUCTION, OWNING AND OPERATING DENNIS HAGEMANN REMODELING AND REPAIR IN TOPEKA FOR MANY YEARS. HE HAD FORMERLY WORKED AT THE GOODYEAR COMPANY IN TOPEKA. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CAPITOL CITY GUN CLUB, A MEMBER OF N.R.A., AMERICAN LEGION AND WAS AN AVID MOTORCYCLIST. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, ROBERTA E. HAGEMANN, OZAWKIE, HIS COMPANION AND SWEETHEART OF 23 YEARS, DONNA K. KENNEY, TOPEKA, AND FOUR LITTLE FOUR FOOTED FRIENDS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER, ALBERT R. HAGEMANN ON JUNE 24, 1989 AND HIS SON, TRAVIS HAGEMANN ON JUNE 19, 2005. HARRISON Name: JIM HARRISON HOLLIDAY Name: BENNIE HOLLIDAY MILES Name: DAVID MILES PALUBINSKI Name: JOHN PALUBINSKI JOHN PALUBINSKI DEPARTED THIS WORLD TO BE WITH HIS LORD AND SAVIOR ON NOVEMBER 13, 2011. HE WAS BORN ON MARCH 17, 1943 IN TOPEKA, KS TO TONY AND NYLA PALUBINSKI. HE MARRIED JANE MYSWONGER ON JUNE 10, 1967. JOHN IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE JANE; SISTER MRS. TONYA MCCLELLAN (DAVID); 3 CHILDREN: KETTI DAWSON (LEON), FAITH NOVAK (SCOTT), JEREMY PALUBINSKI (SARA), AND ONE NEICE AND THREE NEPHEWS. HE NOTED HIS MOST SIGNIFICANT TIMES IN THE PAST 50 YEARS INCLUDE TROUT FISHING WITH HIS DAUGHTER FAITH; BASS FISHING WITH HIS DAUGHTER KETTI; FISHING AND HUNTING WITH SON JEREMY, AND FISHING WITH HIS FISHING BUDDIES JANE AND SISTER MARJORIE. MOST RECENTLY, IT HAS BEEN WATCHING HIS BEAUTIFUL GRANDDAUGHTERS BROOKLYN, MAKENNA, KRYSTA, AVA AND ALIYAH PLAY. WE WERE BLESSED TO HAVE JANE AND JOHN ATTEND WRHS 50TH REUNION AND TO HAVE SOME TIME WITH JOHN TO SHARE CHERISHED SCHOOL AND LIFE MEMORIES. ROSS Name: KATHRYN ANDERSON KATHRYN KATHY ANDERSON, 65, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME OF NATURAL CAUSES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2008. KATHY WAS BORN JULY 17, 1943 IN ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS THE DAUGHTER OF DONALD AND ELSIE SMALL ROSS. SHE SPENT THE MAJORITY OF HER LIFE IN TOPEKA GRADUATING FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1961. SHE ATTENDED EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY AND WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. SHE HAD ATTENDED FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE ABWA. SHE HAD WORKED FOR VICTORY LIFE INSURANCE AND H&R BLOCK. KATHY WAS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY THE STATE OF KANSAS SRS WORKING IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS. SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER FATHER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER MOTHER, ELSIE ROSS, TOPEKA; ONE SISTER, KANDY LEHMANN, TOPEKA; ONE BROTHER, KIM ROSS, HOLTON, KS; ELEVEN NIECES AND NEPHEWS, 20 GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS, AND THREE GREAT-GREAT NIECES. INTERMENT IS AT THE ZION LUTHERAN CEMETERY, EVEREST, KANSAS. STEVICK Name: JAMES STEVICK TUGGLE Name: DONNA TUGGLE
AUMAN Name: RICTOR AUMAN CRITES Name: GEORGE CRITES DOERSCHLAG Name: BETTY DOERSCHLAG DUNCAN Name: JIM DUNCAN HAWKS Name: TOM HAWKS HOVEY Name: GAYLE HOVEY HOWELL Name: CHARLES (CHUCK) HOWELL ST. CHARLES, MO. - CHARLES EMERSON "CHUCK" HOWELL, 61, ST. CHARLES, MO., FORMERLY OF ANKENY, IOWA, DIED PEACEFULLY SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 2005, AT BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS. WIDOWED SINCE 1984, HE WAS THE HUSBAND OF THE LATE JOHNANN CATHERINE MCKITTRICK HOWELL. HE WAS BORN IN DEMING, N.M., THE SON OF BETTY EMERSON HOWELL AND THE LATE CHARLES EDWIN HOWELL. HE GREW UP IN TOPEKA AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. HE ATTENDED CHURCH COLLEGE OF HAWAII AND EMPORIA STATE IN KANSAS. FROM KANSAS HIS CAREER TOOK HIM AND HIS FAMILY TO ANKENY, IOWA, WHERE HE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS BAFORE MOVING TO ST. CHARLES. CHUCK IS SURVIVIED BY HIS MOTHER, BETTY EMERSON HOWELL, ESTES PARK, CO.; A BROTHER, BOB HOWELL AND HIS WIFE, DIANE, ESTES PARK, CO.; A SISTER, SALLY AUSTIN RAY AND HER HUSBAND, JERRY, OLATHE, KAN.; TWO CHILCREN, CATHERINE LOUISE HOWELL, ALTOONA, IOWA, AND CHARLES EDWIN HOWELL AND TINA, CUMMING, IOWA; GRANDCHILDREN, COLTON CHARLES HOWELL, HALEY LYNN HOWELL AND DYLAN EDWARD STEIL; NIECES AND NEPHEWS; AND A LONGTIME FRIEND, DARLENE SPAFFORD, ST. CHARLES. BURIAL WAS AT PENWELL-GABEL'S MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY IN TOPEKA. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL 6/15/2005 JOHNSTON Name: TED JOHNSTON LEWIS Name: DELVY LEWIS FORMER WASHBURN RURAL AND KANSAS BASKETBALL STANDOUT DELVY LEWIS PASSED AWAY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE 68-YEAR-OLD’S DEATH ENDED A NINE-YEAR BATTLE WITH CANCER. LEWIS WAS NO. 24 ON THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL’S TOP 100 ATHLETES OF SHAWNEE COUNTY LIST, RELEASED THIS PAST SUMMER. A 1962 RURAL GRAD, LEWIS HELPED THE JUNIOR BLUES WIN A STATE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP IN ’60 AND POST A 67-7 RECORD DURING HIS THREE HIGH SCHOOL SEASONS. LEWIS WENT ON TO EARN ALL-BIG EIGHT FIRST-TEAM HONORS HIS SENIOR YEAR AT KU IN 1966. LEWIS SERVED AS TEAM CAPTAIN HIS SENIOR SEASON, WHEN HE AVERAGED 10.9 POINTS. HE ALSO WAS A THREE-YEAR LETTERMAN AT RURAL IN FOOTBALL AS A QUARTERBACK AND A THREE-YEAR LETTERMAN IN TRACK AND FIELD AS A JAVELIN THROWER. LEWIS WAS A THREE-YEAR STARTER AT POINT GUARD FOR THE JAYHAWKS. HE HELPED KU TO THE 1964 AND 1965 BIG EIGHT HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONSHIPS, WHERE HE WAS MVP OF THE 1965 TOURNAMENT. HE HELPED THE JAYHAWKS TO A 13-1 RECORD AND THE BIG EIGHT REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1966. THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL MARK Name: CHERYL WATKINS CHERYL ANNE WATKINS, 69, OF PHOENIX, AZ PASSED AWAY ON MAY 29, 2013, JUST 8 DAYS FOLLOWING HER 69TH BIRTHDAY. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE SPENT HER BIRTHDAY IN ST. JOSEPH’’S HOSPITAL BEING TREATED FOR SIDE EFFECTS OF THE CANCER THAT HAD AFFLICTED HER, ONCE IN 2006 AND AGAIN IN 2012-2013. FORTUNATELY, SHE WAS ABLE TO RETURN HOME WHERE SHE PASSED AWAY IN THE LOVING ARMS OF HER HUSBAND JIM. CHERYL ANNE MARK WAS BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, ON MAY 21, 1944. BECAUSE HER FATHER WAS IN THE MILITARY, SHE ATTENDED A WIDE VARIETY OF SCHOOLS IN MISSOURI, GEORGIA, TEXAS & IDAHO BEFORE GRADUATING FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN TOPEKA, KANSAS. AT WRHS, SHE WAS HONORED AS QUEEN OF COURTS BY THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL TEAM DURING HER SENIOR YEAR. AFTER GRADUATION, SHE ENROLLED AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY WHERE SHE MET HER FUTURE HUSBAND JIM. THEY MARRIED AT THE END OF HER SOPHOMORE YEAR & SHE LEFT SCHOOL TO WORK & HELP HER NEW HUSBAND FINISH HIS LAST 1.5 YEARS OF SCHOOLING. HIS FIRST JOB TOOK THEM TO THE SEATTLE AREA WHERE THEY SETTLED IN BELLEVUE. 12 YEARS LATER A JOB TRANSFER TOOK THEM TO PHOENIX WHERE THEY HAVE RESIDED EVER SINCE. CHERYL RAISED 2 SONS WHILE STAYING VERY ACTIVE IN HER FAITH THROUGH CHURCH & IN-DEPTH BIBLE STUDIES WITH BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP (BSF) AND COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY (CBS). AFTER HER SONS LEFT HOME, SHE PURSUED A LIFELONG GOAL IN MEDICINE & GOT HER RN DEGREE FROM PHOENIX COLLEGE IN 1998. HER 2 YEAR WORK EXPERIENCE IN NURSING WAS FOR HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY AS A CRITICAL CARE NURSE, THE SAME GROUP THAT WAS JUST CALLED IN FOR ASSISTANCE ON HER FINAL DAY. CHERYL IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND JIM, SONS JODY (JENNIFER) & MATT (LIZ), GRANDCHILDREN KAITLYN, JAKE, JIMMY & LIAM, MOTHER MARGIE MARK, BROTHER RICHARD MARK (SANDY) AND NIECES SARAH & EMILY MARK. CHERYL WAS A WONDERFUL WIFE, LOVING MOTHER & ADORING GRANDMOTHER. PUBLISHED IN THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC ON JUNE 2, 2013 MCELHANON Name: WARREN MCELHANON PARADIS PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON DECEMBER 30, 2010. RON PARADIS, 66, TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2010 AT HIS RESIDENCE. RON WAS BORN JUNE 30, 1944 IN CASPER, WYOMING, THE SON OF ORVILLE AND VONDA (BENDRIX) PARADIS. HE WAS A 1962 GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE WAS A FOUR YEAR BASKETBALL STARTER WHO HELPED LEAD THE JUNIOR BLUES TO THREE STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENTS INCLUDING A STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN 1960. IN 1962, HE WAS NAMED AS A SCHOLASTIC MAGAZINE FIRST TEAM ALL-AMERICAN. HE WAS A TWO-TIME ALL-STATE MEMBER AND REMAINS THE SCHOOL'S ALL TIME LEADING SCORER WITH 1,609 POINTS. RON THEN WENT TO KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY WHERE HE WAS A THREE YEAR LETTERMAN IN BASKETBALL AND PLAYED IN THE 1964 FINAL FOUR. HE REMAINS ONE OF THE WILDCAT'S TOP 100 CAREER SCORERS. FROM 1969 TO 1997, RON WORKED AT WIBW IN BOTH RADIO AND TELEVISION DURING WHICH HE WAS NAMED KANSAS BROADCASTER OF THE YEAR ON FIVE OCCASIONS. HE DID PLAY BY PLAY FOR THE KANSAS STATE NETWORK, WAS A PIONEER OF THE SPORTS RADIO CALL-IN FORMAT AND CREATED PARADIS PRODUCTIONS WHICH PRODUCED MEMORABLE CHARACTERS SUCH AS THE KRISKENKO BROTHERS, ARGO SNERDBALL, AND BITS LIKE RON'S ROD AND REEL. MOST RECENTLY, RON WAS INDUCTED INTO THE TOPEKA-SHAWNEE COUNTY SPORTS COUNCIL HALL OF FAME. RON MARRIED BETTY R. STRICKLEN ON AUGUST 27, 1966 IN MANHATTAN, KS. THEY LATER DIVORCED. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE SON, BROCK (STACEY) PARADIS, CHICAGO, IL; DAUGHTER, JENNA (VIC) RIGGIN, TOPEKA; GRANDCHILDREN, KYLE, MAXWELL, EMMIT, ; TWIN SISTER, YVONNE PARADIS, TOPEKA ; BROTHER, GREG (WENDY) PARADIS, GRAND ISLAND, NE ; NIECE KARA PARADIS, KANSAS CITY; AND NEPHEW JUSTIN PARADIS, KANSAS CITY. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, AND THREE BELOVED DOGS, GERONIMO, BERSHIVERS AND PANTHER. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE MADE TO HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY, 2625 NW ROCHESTER ROAD, TOPEKA, KANSAS 66617. VINCENT Name: DARRELL VINCENT
AKERS Name: MARVIN AKERS PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON JULY 8, 2010 MARVIN GLENN AKERS, 65, TOPEKA PASSED AWAY JULY 6, 2010. MARVIN WAS BORN NOVEMBER 9, 1944 IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF RALPH EUGENE AND OPAL MILDRED (SMALLEY) AKERS. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. MARVIN SERVED IN THE NATIONAL GUARD DOING AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE. HE MARRIED SHIRLEY MAE DOUGLAS ON APRIL 4, 1965 IN TOPEKA. HE WORKED IN COMMERCIAL DRYWALL FOR MANY YEARS IN A SUPERVISOR POSITION AND WAS THE ALL AROUND GO- TO- GUY. AS WELL AS HIS CAREER IN CONSTRUCTION MARVIN WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT FARMING AND AGRICULTURE AND RAISED HIS FAMILY IN THAT ENVIRONMENT. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 0198, OSAGE CITY. MARVIN HAD A GREAT WORK ETHIC; HE WAS A SIMPLE MAN AND HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR. HE ENJOYED THE OUTDOORS, FISHING, WOODWORKING AND WAS A RACE CAR ENTHUSIAST. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, SHIRLEY AKERS, TOPEKA; DAUGHTER, LORI RAE AKERS, KANSAS CITY; SON, JARED AKERS AND HIS WIFE, EMILY, LEE SUMMIT MO; GRANDCHILDREN, AVA SIMONE HARRINGTON, KAI JACOB HARRINGTON, DALLAS AND SARAH CHATHAM; GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER, JUNIPER PEARL CHATHAM; BROTHERS, MONTIE MERLE AKERS AND HIS WIFE, LINDA, MYRON RALPH AKERS AND HIS WIFE, COLEEN, ALL OF TOPEKA; AND A TRUCKLOAD OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS. BILLINGSLEY Name: LEONARD BILLINGSLEY CALL Name: FRANCES CALL CASEBIER Name: RICHARD CASEBIER RICHARD LOUIS CASEBIER, 56, TOPEKA, DIED SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2001, SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVAL AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL AFTER HE WAS STRICKEN AT HOME. HE WAS BORN SEPT. 15, 1945, IN TOPEKA, TO LOUIS JACOB AND RUTH COBURN CASEBIER. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1963 AND ATTENDED WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. HE WORKED IN THE ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT OF BURLINGTON NORTHERN SANTA FE RAILWAY. HE WAS A CO-OWNER OF CASEBIER FIREWORKS. HE WAS A MEMBER OF SEABROOK CONGERGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST. HE MARRIED JO ANN HARRIS ON AUGHUST 24, 1968 IN TOPEKA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, BRIAN EDWARD CASEBIER, TOPEKA; HIS PARENTS, LOUIS JACOB AND RUTH COBURN CASEBIER, TOPEKA; A SISTER, ROBERTA OESTREICH, WAKARUSA; AND A GRANDSON. CLUGSTON Name: MICHELE KELLEY MICHELE SUZANNE CLUGSTON KELLEY, AGE 56, DIED NOVEMBER 15, 2001 IN BOULDER, OF CANCER. MICHELE WAS BORN IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS ON MARCH 22, 1945, TO GERALD AND INGERID CLUGSTON. SHE WAS MARRIED TO TED FLYNN KELLEY JR. IN 1967, IN LITTLER ROCK, ARKANSAS. MICHELE GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WITH A BA IN EDUCATION IN 1967. IN 1987 SHE RECEIVED HER MASTERS DEGREE IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION FROM FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, BOCA RATON, FL. IN THE EARLY 70S SHE HELPED TO INITIATE THE ELEMENTARY SPANISH PROGRAM IN BOULDER. LATER SHE TAUGHT SPANISH IN THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS WHERE SHE LIVED AND WORKED AS A SPANISH SPEAKING VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST THE MARIEL BOAT REFUGEES FROM CUBA WHILE IN ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA. AFTER RETURNING TO BOULDER IN 1989 MICHELE TAUGHT SPANISH AT FREDERIC JR. AND SR. HIGH SCHOOL, WESTMINSTER HIGH SCHOOL, AND FAIRVIEW HIGH SCHOOL WHERE SHE INITIATED THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM. SHE ADVANCED TO ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL AT ANGEVINE AND CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. IN 2000 MICHELE BECAME PRINCIPAL AT VIKAN MIDDLE SCHOOL IN BRIGHTON, WHERE SHE FINISHED THE SCHOOL YEAR DESPITE HER ILLNESS. MICHELE WAS DEDICATED TO HER CAREER IN EDUCATION. HER FIRST DUTY WAS TO HER FAMILY. HER INTERESTS INCLUDED LATIN CULTURE, THE ARTS, AND TRAVEL. SHE SKIED, HIKED, CAMPED AND LOVED THE MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO. MICHELE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAN, TED KELLY, OF BOULDER, HER DAUGHTERS INGERID OF DENVER, AND MEGAN OF PORTAND, OR; MOTHER, INGERID CLUGSTON OF ALBUQUERQUE, NM; TWO SISTERS, INGRID DYE OF PHOENIX, AZ, AND CAROL MOYLE OF ST. PETERSBURG, FL; AND HER BROTHER, PETER CLUGSTON OF ALBUQUERQUE. SANSCHAGRIN Name: TOMMY SANSCHAGRIN
BOGAN Name: PEGGY SWANSON THE FOLLOWING IS FROM KAREN FRITTS ON 4/8/2009 (CLASS OF 1964): JUST A NOTE TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT PEGGY BOGAN SWANSON PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING ABOUT 6:00 IN A COLUMBUS OHIO HOSPITAL. SHE PASSED PEACEFULLY IN HER SLEEP. SHE WAS SO LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING TO TOPEKA FOR THIS SUMMER'S REUNION. CEARLEY Name: KEITH CEARLEY H. KEITH CEARLEY, JR., 62, A RESIDENT OF FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS PASSED AWAY ON MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2009 AT THE HOME OF HIS SISTER, MARILYN MATHIS AND HUSBAND BILL IN DOYLESTOWN, PA. HE WAS BORN ON MAY 3, 1946 IN LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS AND WAS A BELOVED SON, FATHER, BROTHER AND FRIEND. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY WITH A DEGREE IN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT AND BEGAN HIS CAREER AS THE YOUNGEST INNKEEPER IN THE HISTORY OF THE HOLIDAY INN HOTELS. HE PURCHASED HIS FIRST BONANZA RESTAURANT IN FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS IN 1972 AND BUILT THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS INTO A MULTI-STATE ORGANIZATION. IN 1976, HE FULFILLED A LIFELONG DREAM AND OPENED THE OLD POST OFFICE RESTAURANT. THE RESTORATION OF THE OLD POST OFFICE, WHICH WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF HISTORIC PLACES, WAS A MAJOR FORCE IN REJUVENATING DOWNTOWN FAYETTEVILLE AND BECAME AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. HE WAS AN AVID FAN AND FINANCIAL SUPPORTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL PROGRAMS AS WELL AS LOCAL YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER FRANCES AMBORT CEARLEY OF DALLAS, TX, SON SEAN AND GRANDDAUGHTER ANNA OF SEATTLE, WA, SON CHAD OF FAYETTEVILLE, AR, BROTHER DON, OF COLLEGE STATION, TX, AND SISTER, MARILYN MATHIS, OF DOYLESTOWN, PA. A GRAVESIDE SERVICE CONDUCTED BY MEMORIAL GARDENS OF SHERIDAN WILL BE HELD AT 11:00 A.M. ON MAY 11TH AT GRAPEVINE CEMETERY IN GRAPEVINE, ARKANSAS. A MEMORIAL SERVICE IN CELEBRATION OF KEITH'S LIFE WILL BE HELD AT MOORE'S CHAPEL IN FAYETTEVILLE ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, AT 10:00 A.M. IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, CONTRIBUTIONS IN HIS NAME CAN BE MADE TO CROSSROADS HOSPICE, 300 LAKESIDE DRIVE SUITE 120, HORSHAM, PA 19044. CHALMERS Name: ROB CHALMERS ROBERT EARL CHALMERS, 62 OF SCOTTSDALE, AZ., PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY, JULY 3, 2008 AT THE HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY'S SHERMAN HOME IN PHOENIX. HE WAS COMFORTED AT HIS BEDSIDE BY HIS WIFE, SON AND CLOSE FRIENDS. ROB WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 6, 1946 IN EVERETT, WA, THE SON OF DONALD AND LEONA CHALMERS OF TOPEKA. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE RITA, MOTHER LEONA AND SON BRETT AND WIFE STACY AND GRANDCHILDREN COLE AND RILEY. A GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, ROB SERVED 31 YEARS AS A FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENT, RETIRING IN 2002 FROM THE U.S. POSTAL INSPECTION SERVICE. HIS INVESTIGATIVE WORK INCLUDED ASSIGNMENTS IN SALT LAKE CITY, DENVER AND WASHINGTON. INERMENT WAS AT THE LYNDON CEMETERY. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 7/15/2008. ECKHART Name: GREGG ECKHART EILENBERG Name: JON EILENBERG PER HIS WISHES, THERE WAS NO OBITUARY OR MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JON. PER JON'S SON, JON HAD A MASSIVE STROKE ON WEDNESDAY MORNING THAT DESTROYED ESSENTIAL REGIONS OF HIS BRAIN. THERE WAS NO CHANCE HE WOULD EVER WAKE UP. LIFE SUPPORT WAS REMOVED ON FRIDAY MORNING AND HE PASSED QUIETLY. FINNERTY Name: WILLIAM FINNERTY BILL FINNERTY DIED SUDDENLY IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT SUNDAY, NOV. 9, 2003. BILL WAS BORN APRIL 5, 1946, IN OGDEN, UTAH, THE SON OF WILLIAM JOSEPH FINNERTY II AND ALBERTHA ANN (CLARK) FINNERTY. BEING FROM AN AIR FORCE FAMILY, BILL LIVED IN MANY PLACES WHILE HE WAS GROWING UP, INCLUDING NEW YORK, ALABAMA, NEBRASKA, TEXAS, AND MOROCCO, WHICH WOULD CERTINLY EXPLAIN HIS LOVE FOR TRAVEL. HE GRADUATED WITH DEGREES FROM BOTH KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY IN BIOLOGY AND COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY IN BUSINESS. BILL MET HIS WIVE PAT GERARDY, WHILE IN COLLEGE, AND THEY MARRIED IN AUGUST OF 1969. THEY MOVED TO FORT COLLINS IN 1971 AND THERE RAISED THEIR DAUGHTER, JILL. BILL WORKED FOR THE USDA AS AN AUDITOR FOR THE PAST 18 YEARS. ALTHOUGH TRAVELING FOR WORK MEANT THAT HE WAS AWAY FROM THE FAMILY, BILL ESPECIALLY ENJOYED WORKING IN WASHINGTON, D.C., NEW ORLEANS, AND NEW YORK, WHERE ON OCCASION, PAT WAS ABLE TO GO WITH HIM AND SPEND TIME SIGHTSEEING. BILL WAS A WONDERFUL, PATIENT AND PROUD FATHER. HE AND JILL WERE VERY CLOSE. BILL LOVED HUMOR AND HAD AN INFECTIOUS LAUGH THAT GAVE ALL HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS GREAT JOY. HE WAS SINCERE, HONEST AND A DOWN-TO-EARTH KIND OF GUY. TAKING ROAD TRIPS WITH HIS WIFE, PAT, VISITING SMALL TOWNS, DINING WITH THE LOCALS AND SEARCHING FOR ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES PROVIDED MANY WONDERFUL MEMORIES. MAINE IN THE FALL; THE WEST COAST IN THE WINTER; UTAH IN THE SPRING; AND YELLOWSTONE IN THE SUMMER WERE SOME OF HIS FAVORITE PLACES. BILL WAS SPONTANEOUS. AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE, HE AND PAT WOULD PICK UP JILL, BRYAN AND THE GRANDKIDS FOR A NIGHT OF CAMPING AND GAZING AT THE STARS TOGETHER. BILL WAS ALWAYS INVOLVED IN SPORTS, PLAYING IN HIGH SCHOOL AND LATER AS A FAN ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTING HIS LOCAL TEAMS. HIS GRANDCHILDREN, GAVIN AND PAYTON, MEANT THE WORLD TO HIM. BILL IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, PAT, OF FORT COLLINS; HIS DAUGHTER, JILL, HER HUSBAND, BRYAN DEVLIN, AND GRANDCHILDREN GAVIN AND PAYTON OF EATON. HUGHES Name: DAVID HUGHES DAVID J. HUGHES, 66, OF PORTSMOUTH PASSED AWAY ON APRIL 21, 2013 WITH HIS LOVING WIFE, BARBARA BURNS, BY HIS SIDE.DAVID WAS BORN IN ABERBARGOED, WALES IN 1946. DAVID WAS A GRADUATE OF MIT AND RECEIVED HIS MASTERS IN BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY FROM JOHNS HOPKINS. AS AN OCEANOGRAPHER, DAVID WORKED AT BIGELOW LABS, WOODS HOLE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE BEFORE MAKING THE TRANSITION TO TECHNOLOGY. DAVID WORKED AT DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION AND HEWLETT PACKARD FOR TWENTY YEARS. ON HIS RETIREMENT, HE RETURNED TO HIS UNIVERSITY AND BIOLOGY ROOTS AT URI WHERE HE WORKED WITH THE CEEC, LECTURED IN THE MASTER GARDENER CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AND EARNED A PLACE IN THE URI MASTER GARDENER HALL OF FAME. DAVID WAS A RENAISSANCE MAN- A TRAVELER, MUSICIAN, AMATEUR ASTRONOMER, MODEL RAILROAD BUFF, GARDENER, CHEF, TEACHER, MENTOR AND BELOVED FRIEND. JONES Name: PATTI MAGATHAN PATTI MAGATHAN PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON JUNE 23, 2012 AT MIDLAND CARE HOSPICE IN TOPEKA, AFTER A SHORT BATTLE WITH CANCER. PATTI HAS BEEN CREMATED. PATTI ENTERED THIS WORLD IN SAN ANTONIO, TX ON JANUARY 31, 1946 TO PARENTS SCOTT DEAN JONES AND MABLE ESTELLE TAYLOR JONES. SHE SPENT HER EARLY YEARS IN TEXAS AND FLORIDA. THE FAMILY LIVED IN WICHITA TWO YEARS PRIOR TO MOVING TO TOPEKA. PATTI GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY. SHE WORKED MOST OF HER CAREER FOR SOUTHWESTERN BELL, RETIRING IN 1998. PATTI WAS A MEMBER OF TELEPHONE PIONEERS, SHAWNEE COUNTY EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS, TAKING STOCK (A WOMEN’S INVESTMENT GROUP), AS WELL AS SERVING IN VARIOUS OTHER VOLUNTEER CAPACITIES. IN HER SPARE TIME, SHE ALSO OWNED HER OWN COMPUTER BUSINESS AND WORKED IN THE I.T. DEPARTMENT AT THE STATE CAPITOL WHILE THE LEGISLATURE WAS IN SESSION. PATTI IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTER JENNIFER MAGATHAN SANDERS (TOMMY), GRANDCHILDREN MORGAN AND TREY, ALL OF GAINESVILLE GA, HER SISTER SHARON JONES MEYER (MARK) OF WESTERVILLE, OH, AND BY SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. KNOLL BARBARA RAPOZA, 66, OF OSAGE CITY, LEFT THIS WORLD ON NOVEMBER 30, 2012 AT STORMONT-VAIL HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN ON JULY 18, 1946 IN QUINTER, KANSAS, THE ELDEST DAUGHTER OF GEORGE AUGUST AND EDNA MARIE (SCHECK) KNOLL. BARBARA WAS A HOMEMAKER. SHE ENJOYED READING, ESPECIALLY THE BIBLE, DOING CROSSWORD PUZZLES, PLAYING CARDS, KNITTING, CROCHETING AND COOKING. BARBARA WAS A LOVING WIFE, SISTER AND MOST OF ALL A LOVING MOTHER. SHE MARRIED EDWARD JUNIOR RAPOZA IN TOPEKA. HE SURVIVES. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER CHILDREN, KEVIN, MARLA, MICHELLE AND THERESA, HER STEPCHILDREN, BUDDY, CHAD AND RENEE, A SISTER, MARY ORTEGA, AND A BROTHER, GEORGE KNOLL. SHE WAS ALSO A LOVING GRANDMOTHER TO 11 GRANDCHILDREN AND 6 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. SHE WILL BE MISSED IMMENSELY. PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON DECEMBER 2, 2012 KOELLING Name: LARRY KOELLING SURF CITY, NC -- LARRY ALLEN KOELLING, 59, OF SURF CITY, DIED SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2006 AT ONSLOW MEMORIAL HOSPITAL IN JACKSONVILLE, NC. AT HIS REQUEST, THERE WILL BE NO MEMORIAL SERVICES. LARRY WORKED FOR GOODYEAR TIRE CO. FOR 32 YEARS BEFORE RETIRING AND FULFILLING HIS DREAM OF LIVING AT AND ENJOYING THE BEACH AND OCEAN IN SURF CITY, NC. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER, HARRY KOELLING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, KAREN KOELLING; ONE DAUGHTER, HEATHER SMITH OF BERRYTON, KS; HIS MOTHER, MARLETA MOORE OF MURPHY, NC; ONE BROTHER, JOE KOELLING OF MURPHY, NC; ONE GRANDDAUGHTER, KOELL SMITH OF BERRYTON, KS; ONE GRANDSON, STEELE SMITH OF BERRYTON, KS; TWO STEP-DAUGHTERS, STEPHENY AMBROSE AND HER SON, MAX, OF TOPEKA, KS AND KRISTY DROEGEMEIER AND HER DAUGHTER, KATELYN, OF BURLINGAME, KS. INSTEAD OF SENDING FLOWERS, LARRY WOULD HAVE PREFERRED YOU TO REMEMBER HIM WITH HAPPINESS AND SHARING WITH YOUR FAVORITE CHARITY. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY JONES FUNERAL HOME, HOLLY RIDGE, N.C. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL FROM 9/20/2006 - 9/24/2006 MELLIES Name: DONALD MELLIES FROM LYLA ACCARDI: WRHS ALUMS, I JUST RECEIVED THIS FROM A DEAR FRIEND WHO KNOWS THAT I KNOW DON MELLIES, WRHS 1964. DON HAD SEVERE ELEPISY ALL HIS LIFE, AND FOR SEVERAL YEARS HAD MANY HEART PROBLEMS. THE TOPEKA PAPER DID A STORY ABOUT DON AND HIS COMPANION DOG A FEW YEARS AGO. DON HAD LIVED AT DRURY PLACE FOR NINE YEARS. DON HAD MADE MANY INTERNET FRIENDS OVER THE YEARS, AND WE HAD STAYED IN TOUCH FOR THE PAST 15 OR SO YEARS TOO. DON WAS A NICE MAN. PS I DID CONFIRM THIS WITH THE MGR AT DRURY PLACE. THE FOLLOWING IS A NOTE RECEIVED BY LYLA: MY MOTHER JUST TOLD ME THAT DON (YOUR CLASSMATE?) WHO LIVED AND WORKED AT DRURY PLACE WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS APARTMENT SUNDAY MORNING. HE HAD BEEN OUT OF THE APARTMENT EARLIER AND TAKEN HIS DOG JACK OUTSIDE. THE DOG, A DARLING DACHSHUND WHO WAS A TRAINED COMPANION DOG FOR SOMEONE WITH DON'S MEDICAL PROBLEM, STARTED BARKING FURIOUSLY MIDMORNING AND THEY WENT RIGHT IN AND FOUND DON. THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THIS. MUTUAL Name: CANDY MUTUAL OMAN Name: BRADLEY OMAN BRADLEY E. “BRAD” OMAN, 63, OF ALTAMONT, KANSAS, PASSED AWAY WITH HIS FAMILY BY HIS SIDE AT 10:45 P.M., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010, AFTER A SHORT BATTLE WITH CANCER. HE WAS BORN MAY 8, 1946, IN TOPEKA, KS, TO VINCENT AND ALICE (YOUNGBLOM) OMAN. IN 1964, HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN TOPEKA, KS. HE RECEIVED A BS IN WOOD TECHNOLOGY FROM PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURG, KS, IN 1972. BRAD WAS MARRIED TO JULIE HESS ON AUGUST 26, 1967. THE COUPLE LIVED IN PITTSBURG BEFORE MOVING TO ALTAMONT IN 1968 WHERE THEY HAVE SINCE LIVED. FROM 1967 TO 1971, HE SERVED IN THE U.S. NAVY ABOARD THE USS CORAL SEA AIRCRAFT CARRIER CV-43 AND WAS A LIFETIME MEMBER OF THE VFW. FOLLOWING HIS DISCHARGE FROM THE NAVY, BRAD WORKED FOR BOB DIVINE IN PARSONS AND THEN TAUGHT BUILDING AND TRADES AT LCHS IN ALTAMONT FROM 1973 TO 1976. AFTER TEACHING, HE STARTED OMAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BUILDING HOUSES AND DOING REMODELING, RETIRING IN 2007. HE WAS VERY INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING THE ALTAMONT JAYCEES. LATER HE JOINED THE MASONIC LODGE IN ALTAMONT. BRAD WAS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO HIS FAMILY, PARTICULARLY HIS THREE GRANDCHILDREN WHO HE WAS VERY PROUD OF. HE ENJOYED HUNTING, FISHING AND CAMPING THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE. HE LOVED TO BE OUTDOORS AND WAS AN AVID BIRD WATCHER. PLANTING A GARDEN WAS THE FIRST THING HE DID IN THE SPRING. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE JULIE, TWO DAUGHTERS, JENNIFER RUSSELL AND HUSBAND, RAY, OF PITTSBURG, KS; AND JANA INGRAM AND HUSBAND, RYAN, OF CHENEY, KS; THREE GRANDCHILDREN, TATUM, KINSLEE AND BRODY INGRAM; AND HIS BROTHER, BRENT OMAN, AND WIFE, TWILLA, OF HOUSTON, TX . HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, VINCENT AND ALICE, AND STEPFATHER, MELVIN SWAN. BURIAL WAS IN MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY IN ALTAMONT. RANKIN Name: JOHN RANKIN SALLEY Name: EILEEN SALLEY SPOKANE, WASHINGTON ~ EILEEN SALLEY, 57, SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2003. EILEEN WAS A 1964 GRADUATED OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. SHE WAS BORN JANUARY 13, 1946, IN TAMPA, FLORIDA. SHE WAS MARRIED TO JIM FIORITO IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, IN 2003. HE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON IN HOUSTON, TEXAS; HER MOTHER, MRS. DOROTHY DESHONG, FLORIDA; A BROTHER, BILL DESHONG, SPOKANE; HER SISTER, KATHY, AT THE TIME SERVING ON A NAVEL SHIP IN THE PERSIAN GULF; AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN. MEMORIAL SERVICES WERE HELD IN SPOKANE ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2003. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL 9/30/2003 THRASHER Name: RONNIE THRASHER WILLOUGHBY Name: MARTINA (MARTI) MILLER MARTINA M. MILLER, 63, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2009 AT HER HOME. SHE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 15, 1945 IN MUNICH, GERMANY THE DAUGHTER OF IMFRIED AND MARTINA (WIMMER) WOEHRL. MARTINA WAS EMPLOYED AT JOANN FABRICS FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS BEFORE SHE RETIRED. IT WAS AT JOANNS SHE WAS ABLE TO SHARE HER LOVE OF SEWING WITH OTHERS. SHE ALSO ENJOYED GARDENING AND CATS. SHE WAS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH. MARTINA WAS MARRIED TO JOHN P. MILLER ON OCTOBER 6, 1964 IN AUBURN. HE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ON DECEMBER 19, 2002. SURVIVORS INCLUDE; TWO BROTHERS, GERHART WOEHRL OF MUNICH, GERMANY AND HARTMUT FRED WOEHRL OF GRANITE CITY, IL, ONE SISTER, HELGARD KEMNITZER OF MUNICH, GERMANY AND THREE NIECES, CHRISTINE FAIRCHILD OF ST. LOUIS, MO, MELISSA CLEVENSTINE OF ST. LOUIS, MO AND SANDY ROBERTSON OF TAMPA BAY, FL. THREE GREAT NIECES ALSO SURVIVE. MARTINA WAS CREMATED. AT HER REQUEST NO SERVICES WILL BE HELD. MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE MADE TO THE HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY AND SENT IN CARE OF THE BRENNAN-MATHENA FUNERAL HOME, 800 SW 6TH AVE., TOPEKA, KS 66603.
CAVINESS Name: KATHLEEN RUEDIGER CONROY Name: RONALD CONROY COOK Name: GORDON COOK CURRY KATHIE ANN CURRY, 66, OF BILLINGS, QUIETLY PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013, FROM A HEART ATTACK SHE HAD SUFFERED THE PREVIOUS AFTERNOON. KATHIE WAS BORN DEC. 8, 1946, IN PITTSBURGH, PA., THE FIRST CHILD TO ROBERT AND MABEL CURRY. KATHIE HEATHER Name: GEORGE HEATHER GEORGE E. HEATHER, 60, FORMERLY OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 2007 AT A LAWRENCE, KS HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 21, 1946 IN BOONVILLE, MO, THE SON OF ROY E. AND GENEVA L. SIECKMANN HEATHER. HE ATTENDED WASHBURN RURAL AND TOPEKA WEST HIGH SCHOOLS. GEORGE WAS A MARINE VETERAN. SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE DAUGHTER, DOVIAN WHITTAKER OF CARBONDALE, ONE SON, JONATHAN E. HEATHER OF OLATHE, FIVE GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO SISTERS, GAIL BABB OF TOPEKA AND JUDY LUBENESKY OF BATH, PA. GEORGE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE BROTHER, JIM HEATHER AND ONE SISTER, BECKY WARTA. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 11:00 A.M. MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2007 AT NEWCOMER FAMILY FUNERAL HOME. CREMATION IS PLANNED. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 8/17/2007 MOREHEAD Name: ILA MOREHEAD ILA DIED FROM CANCER IN 2003 RANKIN Name: SCOTT RANKIN
BRUNTON MICHAEL F. BRUNTON MICHAEL FRED BRUNTON, TOPEKA BANKRUPTCY ATTORNEY AND LIFELONG RESIDENT, PASSED AWAY MARCH 24, 2011, WHILE WORKING IN HIS LAW OFFICE. HE WAS BORN ON SEPT. 15, 1948, TO CHARLES RAY BRUNTON AND MARGARET JANE BRUNTON SMITH. MICHAEL ATTENDED SUNNY ELEVATION GRADE SCHOOL AND WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATING FROM TOPEKA WEST HIGH SCHOOL IN 1966. HE ENLISTED IN THE U.S. ARMY IN 1969 AND WAS STATIONED IN OKINAWA, JAPAN, DURING THE VIETNAM WAR BEFORE BEING HONORABLY DISCHARGED IN 1972. AFTER FINISHING HIS MILITARY SERVICE, HE EARNED A BACHELOR HINDSLEY Name: JONE HARRIS RHONE Name: TIMOTHY RHONE STONE Name: KEN STONE TOMSON Name: JOHN TOMSON LENEXA- JOHN S. TOMSON, 60, OF LENEXA, KANSAS, PASSED AWAY DECEMBER 12, 2008, AT MEDICALODGES OF GARDNER. GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE AT 10:00 AM MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2008, AT SHAWNEE CENTER CEMETERY, WAKARUSA, KS. SURVIVORS INCLUDE 2 BROTHERS, JAMES G. TOMSON III AND HIS WIFE CHERYL AND THOMAS K. TOMSON, ALL OF LENEXA, KS. JOHN GRADUATED FROM ST. JOHN'S MILITARY SCHOOL IN SALINA, KS, WITH HONORS AND FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL TEAM. HE WAS A MEMBER OF NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY. JOHN ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS WHERE HE WAS A MEMBER OF PHI GAMMA DELTA FRATERNITY AND PLAYED ON THE KU BASKETBALL TEAM.
DOMME Name: CHARLES DOMME VANDYKE Name: BRUCE VANDYKE BRUCE E. "BEETLE" VANDYKE BRUCE E. "BEETLE" VANDYKE, 58, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007 AT MIDLAND HOSPICE HOUSE IN TOPEKA. HE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 6, 1949 IN RURAL VALLEY, PENN., THE SON OF WARREN C. AND MARGUERITE C. DOWDY VANDYKE. HE LIVED MOST OF HIS LIFE IN TOPEKA. HE WAS AN ARMY VETERAN AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE KANSAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD RESERVE. BEETLE WAS EMPLOYED BY ALLIS CHALMERS AND LATER BECAME A LETTER CARRIER FOR THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE FOR 25 YEARS BEFORE RETIRING. BEETLE MARRIED DEBORAH L. HAYBARKER ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1974 IN TOPEKA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO DAUGHTERS, NICOLE E. VANDYKE AND JACQUELYN S. VANDYKE BOTH OF TOPEKA, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, ANDREW, ARYONNA, GEIVONNII AND KOBI, HIS MOTHER, MARGUERITE C. "PEGGY" VANDYKE BROWN OF TOPEKA, TWO BROTHERS, JOSEPH S. VANDYKE AND MICHAEL C. VANDYKE AND WIFE, DONNA ALL OF TOPEKA AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 1:00 P.M. THURSDAY AT PENWELL-GABEL MID TOWN CHAPEL. CREMATION WILL FOLLOW AND PRIVATE INURNMENT WILL TAKE PLACE AT A LATER DATE. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 12/4/2007.
CADY Name: DAVID CADY DYKES Name: DON DYKES GRIST Name: LINDA GRIST HUHS Name: RONALD HUHS RONALD EDWARD HUHS, 54, TOPEKA, DIED WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2005, AT HIS HOME. HE WAS BORN NOV. 9, 1950, IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF IVAN F. AND BERNADENE M. BIEGERT HUHS. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. HE SERVED IN THE NAVY FROM 1969 TO 1972. FOLLOWING HIS DISCHARGE, HE ENTERED THE CONSTRUCTION TRADE IN TOPEKA, AND LATER JOINED TWC CONSTRUCTION CO. OF WILLMAR, MINN. HE RETURNED TO TOPEKA IN 2004. IN 1975 HE MARRIED CYNTHIA F. GREER, WHERE TOGETHER THEY HAD A SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS. THEY LATER DIVORCED AND HE MARRIED BONNIE LYN SWITHCH OF SUDBURY, ONTARIO, CANADA, ON OCT. 21, 2000, IN MINNESOTA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS SON, BENJAMIN JACOB HUHS AND HIS WIFE, DANIELLE, HUTCHINSON; TWO DAUGHTERS, JESSICA RENEE HUHS, MIAMI, MO., AND KELLI JEAN HUHS, ST. LOUIS; HIS MON=THER, BERNADENE FAQUA, TOPEKA; TWO SISTERS, DIANNE MUSSO AND EILEEN BOYD, BOTH OF TOPEKA; AND FOUR GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SISTER, JUDITH E. GRIGGS, ON MAY 29, 2001. A FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE AT 11 A.M. SATURDAY AT PENWELL-GABLE MID TOWN CHAPEL, 1321 S.W. 10TH AVE., TOPEKA. TOPEKA-CAPITAL-JOURNAL LIVGREN Name: LINDA LIVGREN MELLIES Name: RICHARD MELLIES NICKERSON Name: SUE HENDRIX SMITH Name: ANNETTE CONNER FROM ANNETTE'S DAUGHTER, MARIE, ANNETTE DIED ON 11/16/86 IN ROSSVILLE, KANSAS FROM OVARIAN CANCER. TETER Name: PAULA TETER PAULA A. TETER, 53, WAKARUSA, DIED WEDNESDAY, 2/19/2003, AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL. SHE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1968. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER MOTHER, VELMA TETER, WAKARUSA; 2 SISTERS, PATRICIA RICHARDSOTETERJR.N, DEERING, ALASKA, AND PEGGY BEASTERFIELD, HARVEYVILLE; AND A BROTHER, JOHN TETER, JR. , OHIO. SERVICES ARE TO BE AT 1 P.M. SATURDAY AT PENWELL-GABEL MID-TOWN CHAPEL. BURIAL WAS AT SHAWNEE CENTER CEMETERY AT WAKARUSA. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL
BAKER Name: LARRY BAKER BEHNER Name: BOB BEHNER COLE Name: BELINDA COLE RUTHERFORD Name: DANNY RUTHERFORD DANIEL EDWARD RUTHERFORD, 42, TOPEKA, DIED FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1994, AFTER HE WAS SHOT WHILE WORKING AT A TOPEKA NIGHTCLUB WHERE HE WAS A DOORMAN. HE ALSO WAS A SOUND AND LIGHTING ENGINEER AND HAD WORKED FOR SEVERAL CIRCUS AND BROADWAY THEATER COMPANIES AND VARIOUS ROCK AND ROLL BANDS. HE WAS BORN MAY 29, 1951, IN SPRINGFIELD, MO., THE SON OF J. EDWARD AND HAZEL COMPTON RUTHERFORD. HE MOVED TO MIDLAND, TEXAS, WITH HIS FAMILY WHEN HE WAS 1-YEAR-OLD AND HAD LIVED IN TOPEKA SINCE JULY 1955. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1969, AND ATTENDED THE ELECTRONIC INSTITUTE IN KANSAS CITY ON A SCHOLARSHIP. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS MOTHER, HAZEL RUTHERFORD, AUBURN; A BROTHER, MARK RUTHERFORD, AUBURN, AND TWO NEPHEWS, JESS AND JAKE RUTHERFORD, BOTH OF AUBURN.
COLE GARY DEAN COLE, 53, TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY MON., JUNE 26, 2006 AT HIS HOME. HE WAS BORN OCT. 24, 1952, AT NEODESHA, THE SON OF FRANCIS W. AND CECILE M. (HUMMEL) COLE. IN 1953, THE COLE FAMILY MOVED TO TOPEKA, WHERE GARY GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. GARY WORKED AT FALLEYS-FOOD 4 LESS FOR 16 YEARS; MILLERS PRODUCE; AND ADAMS. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND A SISTER, BELINDA. SURVIVING ARE A BROTHER: JIMMIE L. OF TOPEKA; AND 3 SISTERS: CATHERINE THOMPSON OF WICHITA, CHERYL LINDBURG OF TOPEKA, AND JOAN BELL OF WICHITA. INTERMENT WAS AT PENWELL-GABEL CEMETERY AND MAUSOLEUM. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 6/28/2006.
MEWHINNEY RON C. MEWHINNEY, 51, TOPEKA DIED THRUSDAY, MARCH 18, 2004, AT THE VA HOSPITAL IN LEAVENWORTH. HE WAS BORN JANUARY 13, 1953, IN OTTAWA, THE SON OF CECIL C. AND JACQULINE ABNEY MEWHINNEY. RON GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. RON WORKED IN PAINT SALES IN LAS VEGAS, NEV., AND AS A SELF-EMPLOYEED PAINTER. AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A GERIATRIC AIDE FOR COLMERY O’NEIL VETERANS HOSPITAL NURSING HOME IN TOPEKA. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS. HE MARRIED PIPER RAYL IN 1972, THE DIVORCED. HE MARRIED BRENDA VAUGN IN 1979. THEY DIVORCED. RON IS SURVIVED BY HIS SISTER, SHARON HOTCHKISS AND HER HUSBAND, GARY BLITSCH, TOPEKA; HIS NEICE, NATALIE HOTCHKISS, GRANADA, SPAIN; AND A NEPHEW, NEAL HOTCHKISS AND HIS WIFE, SHAWNA AND THEIR CHILDREN, ASHLEY, HAYDEN AND EMORY HOTCHKISS, TOPEKA.
COPP DAVID M. COPP, 51, AUBURN, WENT TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS LORD AND SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST, ON SUNDAY DECEMBER 4, 2005. HE WAS BORN IN TOPEKA, JANUARY 19, 1954, THE SON OF CHARLES E. “PETE” AND ROMONA N. ORNDOFF COPP. HE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1972, BUTTLER COUNTY JUNIOR COLLEGE IN 1974, AND RECEIVED HIS BACHELOR’’S DEGREE FROM FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1978. HE WAS A PRESSMAN FOR COPY CENTER OF TOPEKA, AND OPERATED A LAWN-MOWING AND FIREWOOD SERVICE. DAVID WAS A MEMBER OF AUBURN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WHERE HE TAUGHT THE YOUNG ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS. HE WAS A SPORTS ENTHUSIAST WHO ENJOYED LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING, BASKETBALL, FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, AND SOFTBALL. HE HAD A PASSION FOR NATURE AND TRAVEL. HE MARRIED LOA IRENE BURGER ON JULY 31, 1976 IN HAYS, KANSAS. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE A SON, CHRISTOPHER COPP AND WIFE JESSICA, AUBURN; A GRANDSON, MICHA COPP, AUBURN; HIS PARENTS, PETE AND ROMONA COPP, AUBURN; HIS MOTHER-IN-LAW, HELEN BURGER, AUBURN; THREE BROTHERS, WAYNE COPP AND HIS WIFE JULIE, AUBURN, CHUCK COPP AND WIFE PAULA, TOPEKA, AND DALE COPP AND WIFE SANDY, GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND. DAVID WAS WELL KNOWN FOR HIS KIND AND GENEROUS SPIRIT AND HIS SPIRITUAL WISDOM.
PALENSKE Name: ALBERT PALENSKE ALBERT P. PALENSKE, 56, OF TOPEKA, DIED NOVEMBER 8, 2013 AT ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL. HE WAS BORN IN TOPEKA, KANSAS ON JULY 24, 1957, THE SON OF MELVIN BUSTER AND LILLIAN MAE (BODELL) PALENSKE. ALBERT RECEIVED HIS BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM WASHBURN UNIVERSITY. HE WAS A CEMENT MASON FOR 20 YEARS BEFORE HE BECAME A PROFESSIONAL TRUCK DRIVER FOR SHAWNEE COUNTY REFUSE DEPARTMENT. HE ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH HIS FAMILY, ATTENDING SPORTING EVENTS AND PARTICIPATING IN VARIOUS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. HE LOVED NASCAR AND ATTENDING HEARTLAND PARK DRAG RACES. HE ALWAYS SAID, WHEN YOU'RE RACING YOU DON'T NEED BRAKES. BUT WHAT HE TREASURED THE MOST IN LIFE WERE HIS SONS. ALBERT MARRIED MARY VAUGHN IN TOPEKA IN 1988. THEY LATER DIVORCED. HE IS SURVIVED BY TWO SONS, NICKOLAS AND DYLAN, BOTH OF TOPEKA, TWO BROTHERS, TOM PALENSKE OF OSAGE CITY AND FRED PALENSKE (PAM) OF AUBURN, AND A SISTER, PAT GROS OF TOPEKA. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS. CJONLINE
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LOWERY ROBERT A. LOWERY DIED SUNDAY, AUG. 24, 2003 AT THE VETERANS HOSPITAL IN TOPEKA. ROBERT WAS BORN MARCH 19, 1963, IN SALINA, THE SON OF WAYNE LOWRY AND SANDRA BARRETT LOWRY. HE WAS A GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1981. ROBERT ENLISTED AND SERVED IN THE US AIR FORCE FROM 1988 TO 1995. HE MARRIED MARY HOMEWOOD ON OCT. 20, 1985, AND LATER DIVORCED. SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO SONS, MATTHEW R. LOWRY AND JOSHUA R. LOWRY, BOTH OF OVERBROOK; MOTHER SANDY FRISBIE; FATHER, WAYNE LOWRY; AND BROTHER, GILES SCOTT LOWRY. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHER DOUGLAS WAYNE LOWRY, ON CHRISTMAS 1995.
SHREVE CYNTHIA SHREVE GODDARD, 38, DIED MONDAY, NOV. 10, 2003 AT A SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, HOSPICE. SHE WAS BORN MAY 1, 1965 IN AKRON, OHIO, THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND PEGGY SHREVE. SHE GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN TOPEKA IN 1983 AND CAMERON UNIVERSITY IN LAWTON, OKLA., WHERE SHE RECEIVED HER DEGREE IN NURSING. CYNTHIA WORKED AS A REGISTERED NURSE FOR 13 YEARS, AT HOSPITALS IN OKLAHOMA AND TEXAS, WITH A SPECIALTY IN THE ICU AND NEONATAL ICU. SHE MARRIED DAVID GODDARD IN NOVEMBER 2002 IN SAN ANTONIO. HE SURVIVES. CYNTHIA ALSO IS SURVIVED BY HER THREE SONS, CARY MILLER, MICHAEL MILLER, AND MATTHEW MILLER AND A STEPSON TYLER GODDARD; HER PARENTS, JOHN AND PEGGY SHREVE, PALM COAST, FLA.; HER SISTER, SHERRY HUNSICKER AND HER HUSBAND, SCOTT, TOPEKA; AND HER BROTHER, J. MARK SHREVE AND HIS WIFE, KERI, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.; THREE NEPHEWS, AND A NIECE.
GLOTZBACH DIED MARCH 30, 2003
MURRAY Name: CHRISTOPHER MURRAY CHRISTOPHER DEAN MURRAY JR., 26, FORMERLY OF TOPEKA, DIED TUESDAY, AUG. 6, 2002, AT A KANSAS CITY, KAN., HOSPITAL FROM BURNS HE SUFFERED IN AN ACCIDENT IN APRIL. MR. MURRAY HAD BEEN A DESIGN ENGINEER FOR INFRA-RED TECHNOLOGIES AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE MID-WEST OUTLAW LIGHTNING SPRINTS FOR THREE YEARS. HE WAS BORN FEB. 22, 1976, IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF CHRISTOPHER DEAN MURRAY AND CAROL DIANE PROBUSKY. HE ATTENDED SEAMAN HIGH SCHOOL AS A FRESHMAN AND SOPHOMORE AND GRADUATED WITH HIGH HONORS FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL IN 1994. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY AND EARNED THE PRESIDENTIAL ACADEMIC AWARD. HE EARNED A BACKELOR'S DEGREE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IN 1998, WHERE HE WAS A TEAM LEADER FOR THE FABRICATION OF THE FORMULA VEE CAR. HE MOVED TO KANSAS CITY, MO., FROM LAWRENCE IN 1998. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS FATHER AND STEPMOTHER, CHRISTOPHER DEAN AND GAYLA A. CHANCELLOR MURRAY SR., TOPEKA; HIS MOTHER AND STEPFATHER, CAROL DIANE AND HAL GRAY, TOPEKA; TWO HALF BROTHERS, ADAME KANE CHANCELLOR AND SHAWN TYLER GRAY, BOTH OF TOPEKA; TWO STEPBROTHERS, JOSHUA WILLIAM AND JARED ANDREW GRAY, BOTH OF KANSAS CITY, KAN.; TWO HALF SISTERS, APRIL ANN CHANCELLOR AND ASHLEY LORRAINE GRAY, BOTH OF TOPEKA; A STEPSISTER, MARTINA MARIE GRAY, DENVER; GRANDPARENTS, RUTH LORRAINE AND EDWARD G. PORUBSKY, PATRICIA LEE MURRAY AND FRANK HENRY MURRAY, ALL OF TOPEKA; AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS, FRANK AND LORETTA MURRAY, TOPEKA. BURIAL WAS AT WEST LAWN MEMORIAL GARDENS. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL 8/11/2002.
LANGFORD Name: DAVID LANGFORD DAVID J. LANGFORD, 66, OF OVERLAND PARK, KS, PASSED AWAY THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 AT ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL IN KANSAS CITY, MO. DAVE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 15, 1944 IN ST. DAVID, ARIZONA, TO FLOYD J. AND IRENE MCRAE LANGFORD. HE MARRIED NANCY ANN BAKER ON JUNE 8, 1968 IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. DAVE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS. DAVE GRADUATED FROM KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY WITH A BACHELOR AND MASTER DEGREES IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING. HE WAS A 3-YEAR STARTER ON THE KANSAS STATE OFFENSIVE-LINE IN FOOTBALL AND ALSO LETTERED IN TRACK. DAVE BECAME A PROJECT MANAGER IN THE POWER DIVISION OF BURNS & MCDONNELL AND RETIRED IN DECEMBER 2006. HE TRAVELED DUE TO HIS JOB TO AUSTRALIA, SAUDI ARABIA, JAPAN, ENGLAND, GERMANY, UTAH, TEXAS, VIRGINIA, AND MANY OTHER STATES. DAVE LOVED TO READ AND COLLECT BOOKS. DAVE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER. SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, NANCY, OF THE HOME; 4 SONS: DOUGLAS ROY (NATALIE) LANGFORD, OF EVANS, GA, JEFFERSON ROBERT (MICHELLE) LANGFORD, OF HENDERSON, NV, MATTHEW MICHAEL (MICHELLE) LANGFORD, OF SAGINAW, TX, STEPHEN FLOYD LANGFORD, OF OVERLAND PARK, KS; 10 GRANDCHILDREN: ALISON, DEREK DOUGLAS, JOHN DAVID, JOSHUA ROY OF EVANS, GA; JEFFERSON CHASE, GRACIE KATHLEEN, JACKMAN KEITH, GRETA MICHELLE OF HENDERSON NV; AIDEN SAMUEL, ELSIE ANN OF SAGINAW, TX; 5 BROTHERS: RICHARD (JOLENE) LANGFORD, OF KAYSVILLE, UT, LARRY (TEVERLY) LANGFORD, OF MONTICELLO, UT, MICHAEL (CATHERINE) LANGFORD, OF LOOMIS, CA, RONALD (ANNE) LANGFORD, OF AZTEC, NM, LEONARD (HELENA) LANGFORD, OF KAYSVILLE, UT; 4 SISTERS: FRANCENE LANGFORD, OF WASHINGTON, UT, KATHLEEN (STEVE) RALPH, OF KENT, WASHINGTON, MAYRENE (WAYNE) STEWART, OF ST. GEORGE, UT, DARLENE LANGFORD, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UT; AND MANY NIECES AND NEPHEWS. PUBLISHED IN KANSAS CITY STAR ON JUNE 12, 2011
NUSBAUM Name: HELEN NUSBAUM HELEN C. NUSBAUM, 81, TOPEKA, DIED FRIDAY, OCT. 18, 2002, AT A TOPEKA NURSING HOME. MRS. NUSBAUM HAD WORKED AT WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND RETIRED AS A TITLE I READING AIDE AT OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. SHE WAS BORN FEB. 4, 1921, IN DENVER, THE DAUGHTER OF TRUMAN AND GOLDIE STRATTON MARN. SHE GRADUATED FROM HIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL IN 1938. MRS. NUSBAUM WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF TOPEKA REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. SHE WAS A VOLUNTEER CUB SCOUT DEN MOTHER AND A VOLUNTEER FOR THE COLMERY-O'NEIL VA MEDICAL CENTER. SHE ALSO VOLUNTEERED AT THE TOPEKA AND SHAWNEE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY. SHE WAS PAST PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S AUXILIARY TO PHILIP BILLARD POST NO. 1650 OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS. SHE WAS ACTIVE IN WASHBURN UNIVERSITY WALKERS. SHE MARRIED NED A. NUSBAUM ON AUG. 3, 1940, IN ATCHISON. HE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE SONS, NED A. NUSBAUM JR., TOPEKA, PAUL W. NUSBAUM, PLATTE CITY, MO., AND MARK NUSBAUM, LUBBOCK, TEXAS; A DAUGHTER, BEVERLY NUSBAUM JOHNSON, SAN RAFAEL, CALIF.; TWO BROTHERS, WILBUR MARN, TECUMSEH, AND CHARLES MARN, MARSHALL, MO.; A SISTER, SARA CUSTER, TOPEKA; AND 11 GRANDCHILDREN. BURIAL WAS IN MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL OCTOBER 2002 STALLARD Name: BRYCE STALLARD DR. BRYCE D. STALLARD, 79, TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2006 AT MIDLAND HOSPICE HOUSE. BRYCE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 17, 1926 IN TOPEKA, THE SON OF HOBART MCKINLEY AND LOTTIE GERTRUDE STALLARD. HE GRADUATED FROM LIBERTY MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL IN LAWRENCE IN 1944. BRYCE SERVED IN THE U.S. NAVY DURING WORLD WAR II. HE RECEIVED A BACHELORS DEGREE FROM BAKER UNIVERSITY IN 1950, AND A MASTERS IN EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS IN 1960, AND LATER HIS DOCTOR OF EDUCATION FROM OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1971. BRYCE TAUGHT MATHEMATICS AND COACHED HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL AT VARIOUS SCHOOLS AND WAS NAMED THE KANSAS STATE COACH OF THE YEAR IN 1960 WHEN HIS WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM WON THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. HE SERVED AS A HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AT GOODLAND AND OLATHE AND A SUPERINTENDENT IN WICHITA, NORTON, SATANTA, OMAHA, NEBRASKA AND FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. HE RETIRED IN 1991. AFTER RETIRING, HE CONTINUED TO SUBSTITUTE TEACH IN THE TOPEKA 501 SCHOOL DISTRICT UNTIL FEBRUARY 2006. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 400 IN TOPEKA, THE LIONS, ROTARY, OPTIMIST AND KIWANIS CLUBS, AND WAS A 32ND DEGREE MASON. BRYCE MARRIED LOIS M. JONES ON JUNE 5, 1949 IN FRANKFORT. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE THEIR CHILDREN; SHERYL MATHIS AND SONDRA BLESSING, BOTH OF LAWRENCE, MARK STALLARD, OVERLAND PARK AND PENNY HELMICK, TOPEKA; 7 GRANDCHILDREN AND 2 BROTHERS; ALVIS STALLARD, TOPEKA AND DAVID STALLARD, DERBY. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY 2 SISTERS; JEAN EVANS AND RUTH STALLARD. A FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT 10:30 A.M. ON SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006 AT FIRST SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH IN TOPEKA. BURIAL WILL BE IN THE UNDERWOOD CEMETERY IN WILLIAMSTOWN. PUBLISHED IN THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON 3/3/2006.
BEASON Name: STEVEN BEASON STEVEN B. BEASON, 47, TOPEKA, DIED FRIDAY, AUG. 9, 2002, AT A TOPEKA HOSPICE HOUSE. HE HAD AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS, ALSO KNOWN AS LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE. MR. BEASON TAUGHT AND COACHED AT QUIVIRA HEIGHTS HIGH SCHOOL IN BUSHTON FOR THREE YEARS AND THEN IN WHITTIER, CALIF., FOR TWO YEARS HE WAS HEAD COACH OF THE MEN'S BASKETBALL PROGRAM AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY IN SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF., FOR 10 YEARS AND HE HAD TAUGHT AND WAS HEAD COACH OF BOY'S BASKETBALL AT WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL FOR THREE YEARS. HE WAS BORN JUNE 1, 1955, IN SAN DIEGO, THE SON OF STEVE CASS AND JOAN MULLEN BEASON. HE WAS REARED IN CALIFORNIA AND EARNED A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND A MASTER'S DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE AT EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY. HE HAD LIVED IN TOPEKA FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS. HE MARRIED DENISE BEASON ON JUNE 25TH, 1983, IN EMPORIA. SHE SURVIVES. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE TWO DAUGHTERS, ASHLEY D. BEASON AND LAURA B. BEASON, BOTH AT HOME; HIS FATHER, STEVE CASS BEASON, MANHATTAN; HIS MOTHER AND STEPFATHER, JOAN AND WERNER SITZ, CENTERVILLE, VA; AND THREE SISTERS, STACE NUNZ, MISSION VIEJO, CALIF., CANDANCE BEASON, LACANADA, CALIF., AND PAIGE WESLEY, IN MARYLAND. MR. BEASON WAS CREMATED. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL 8/11/2002. BUTLER Name: MARGARET WOODS MARGARET L. MAMO WOODS, 88, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 AT MIDLAND HOSPICE HOUSE IN TOPEKA. SHE WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 28, 1922 IN DARLINGTON, MO, THE DAUGHTER OF ELDA H. AND GOLDA V. FRY BUTLER. SHE GRADUATED FROM TOPEKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1940 AND ATTENDED CLARKS BUSINESS SCHOOL. MARGARET WAS EMPLOYED AS A COOK FOR WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL FROM 1957-1968 AND AS A RECEPTIONIST FOR DR. GENE NELSON FROM 1969-1985 AND FOR DR. MIKE SMITH FROM 1985-1988. IN 1947, SHE BECAME AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF SEABROOK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST WHERE SHE HELD SEVERAL OFFICES, WHICH LATER BECAME FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, SERVED AS A FOSTER GRANDPARENT FOR KNI THREE YEARS, WAS A MEMBER OF THE MOOSE LODGE WHERE SHE SERVED AS SENIOR OFFICE REGENT, THE V.F.W. AUXILIARY AND SERVED ON THE BOARD AT BREWSTER PLACE AND FOXRIDGE CONDOMINIUMS. MARGARET MARRIED CARL M. WOODS ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1942 IN TOPEKA. HE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ON JANUARY 27, 1991. SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER GRANDDAUGHTER, LESLIE RICHARDS, HER GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER, SHELBY RICHARDS AND STEP-GRANDDAUGHTER, TERRI SMITH. SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE DAUGHTER; CAROL S. (KEN) TRIMBLE OF TOPEKA, CARL M. BUTCH WOODS, JR. OF WEST PALM BEACH, FL, FOUR GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR STEP-GRANDCHILDREN, TWO GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTERS, ELEVEN STEP-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND NINE STEP-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. PUBLISHED IN TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL ON MAY 25, 2010 COOKSON JONES Name: CAROLYN JONES PEEL Name: ROBERT (BOB) PEEL BOB PEEL, A FORMER FOOTBALL AND TRACK COACH AT WASHBURN RURAL, DIED IN JUNEAU, ALASKA, ON JUNE 17 AT THE AGE OF 73 AFTER A BOUT WITH CANCER. PEEL COACHED AT RURAL FROM 1954-1965 AND COMPILED A 57-40-1 RECORD AS THE JUNIOR BLUES' FOOTBALL COACH. HE HAD A STRETCH OF SEVEN WINNING SEASONS IN EIGHT YEARS, INCLUDING TWO PERFECT 9-0 SEASONS. PEEL WAS ALSO ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH FOR RURAL'S STATE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM IN 1959-1960. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL PIPER Name: WILMER PIPER WILMER RENWICK PIPER WAS BORN ON MAY 25TH, 1914 IN OAKDALE, ILLINOIS THE SIXTH OF SEVEN CHILDREN. HE PASSED AWAY ON JULY 30TH, 2011 AT AGE 97. HE ATTENDED A ONE-ROOM GRADE SCHOOL IN OAKDALE, ILLINOIS AND WORKED ON HIS FAMILYS FARM AND TAUGHT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DURING THE DEPRESSION. HE ATTENDED SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOR THREE YEARS AND GRADUATED FROM GENEVA COLLEGE IN BEAVER FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA IN 1937. THERE HE MET, AND LATER MARRIED, KATHERYN LATHOM ON JUNE 1ST, 1939. JUNE 2011, THEY CELEBRATED THEIR 72ND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. IN COLLEGE, HE LETTERED IN TRACK ALL FOUR YEARS AND RAN AGAINST JESSE OWEN IN 1935. RUNNING JUST ONE MORE LAP TAUGHT HIM A LIFE LESSON IN PERSEVERANCE. AFTER WORLD WAR II, HE AND KATHERYN MOVED TO STREATOR, ILLINOIS WHERE HE TAUGHT IN THE HIGH SCHOOL. IN 1948, THEY MOVED TO TOPEKA AND HE BEGAN TEACHING HISTORY AT WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL WHERE HE TAUGHT UNTIL HE RETIRED IN 1979. AFTER HE RETIRED HE TUTORED INMATES HELPING THEM GAIN THEIR GEDS. HE ALSO LED BIBLE STUDIES AT RETIREMENT HOMES INTO HIS 90S. WILMER LOVED HIS BIG VEGETABLE GARDEN AND WON FIRST PLACE FOR HIS GARDEN IN TOPEKA WHEN HE WAS 88. HE WAS STILL PLANTING 90 TOMATO PLANTS WHEN HE WAS 92. WILMER WAS A LIFE-LONG MEMBER OF THE TOPEKA REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WHERE HE WAS ALSO AN ORDAINED ELDER FOR MANY YEARS. HE CONSIDERED THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH HIS SECOND FAMILY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE, KATHERYN, AND FOUR CHILDREN, JUDIE RELF (JIM), DONALD PIPER (BONI), ROSALIE BEAN (LARRY), AND DAVID PIPER (JOLENE). HIS GRANDCHILDREN ARE JULIE, JANA, JAIME, AARON, KARLI, SARAH, EARL, AND MEGAN. WILMER ALSO HAD FIFTEEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL CJONLINE.COM SLOOP STOLL WALLACE Name: SHARLYN WALLACE SHARLYN TOD WALLACE, AGE 71, OF TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2009 IN TOPEKA FOLLOWING A STRUGGLE WITH CANCER. SHE WAS BORN JULY 31, 1937 IN TOPEKA THE DAUGHTER OF ERNEST AND VIRGINIA JENKINS LESSER. AS A CHILD SHE LIVED IN THE JAY STREET COMMUNITY OF NORTH TOPEKA WHERE SHE ATTENDED LYMAN GRADE SCHOOL THROUGH THE EIGHTH GRADE. AS A STUDENT AT LYMAN SHE PLAYED BASKETBALL AND SOFTBALL COUNTY WIDE AS WELL AS PLAYING ON OTHER COMMUNITY TEAMS. SHE PLAYED BASKETBALL FOR SEVERAL YEARS FOR THE SANTA FE STREAMLINERS AND SOFTBALL FOR THE D-X JUNIORS AND LATER FOR THE OHSE MEATS WOMANS TEAM. SHARLYN STARTED HIGH SCHOOL AT SEAMAN. IN HER SENIOR YEAR, SHE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE STUDENT COUNCIL, EDITOR OF THE SCHOOL NEWSPAPER (THE CLIPPER) AND GRADUATED AS SALUTATORIAN OF THE CLASS OF 1955. IN THE FALL OF 1955, SHE ENROLLED AT EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY AND RECEIVED HER BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN EDUCATION IN 1959. ON JUNE 21, 1959, SHE MARRIED DANIEL LEE WALLACE OF HONGA, MARYLAND. SHE WAS A TEACHER AT WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND JAY SNIVELER JR. HIGH SCHOOL. IN 1965 SHE LEFT TEACHING TO JOIN HER HUSBAND IN THEIR PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS, WALLACE PHOTOGRAPHY. INTERMENT WILL BE AT THE ROCHESTER CEMETERY.
BERRY THEA ALETA CRABTREE, 89, TOPEKA, PASSED AWAY SATURDAY, DEC. 27, 2003, AT TOPEKA, PRESBYTERIAN MANOR. SHE WAS BORN SEPT. 27, 1914, IN TOPEKA, THE DAUGHTER OF ALLEN AND ELVIA (MAY) BERRY. SHE WAS A GRADUATE OF WASHBURN HIGH SCHOOL. MRS. CRABTREE WAS A HOMEMAKER AND AN ACTIVE VOLUNTEER AT SUMNER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. THEA WAS A MEMBER OF FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH. SHE MARRIED ORION FRANKLIN CRABTREE ON JUNE 22, 1935, AT FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD IN TOPEKA. HE PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ON JUNE 2, 2001. SHE ALSO WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER BROTHERS, ELTON, ROY, AND JOHN BERRY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE THREE SONS, LEONARD CRABTREE, PARIRIE GROVE, ARK., AND STEVEN CRABTREE AND RICK CRABTREE, BOTH OF TOPEKA; TWO DAUGHTERS, SHERYL STAFFORD, TECUMSEH, AND CAROL MUNOZ, TOPEKA; TWO BROTHERS, CLETUS BERRY, TOPEKA, AND THE REV. WILLIS BERRY, LOVELAND, COLO.; 11 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 9 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. PITTSENBARGER KYLE DAVID PITTSENBARGER, 30, TOPEKA, DIED SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2005. KYLE WAS BORN DECEMBER 11, 1974, IN THOUSAND OAKS, CALIFORNIA, THE SON OF JOYCE ILENE HURSH BILLINGS AND CLIFFORD MARION PITTSENBARGER. HE WAS A GRADUATE OF WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL AND KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMUNITY COLLEGE WITH AN ASSOCIATES DEGREE IN FIRE SICENCE. HE COMPLETED EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECNICIAN AT WASHBURN UNIVERSITY AND HE HAD COMPLETED PARAMEDIC SCHOOL AT COFFEYVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE. HIS INSTRUCTOR WAS KACI ADAMS. HE BEGAN HIS FIREFIGHTING CAREER AS A VOUNTEER WITH MISSION TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT FOLLOWED BY VOLUNTEERING WITH KENSINGTON, MARYLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY THE TOPEKA FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSIGNED TO ENGINE #1. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS, LOCAL 83. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS MOTHER, JOYCE BILLINGS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BILLINGS, CARBONDALE, KANSAS, HIS FATHER CLIFFORD PITTSENBERGER AND HIS WIFE, CYNTHIA, LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO, TWO SISTERS, KALA PITTSENBARGER & HER COMPANION, ERIC VAN DYKE, THEIR DAUGHTER MADISON RYLEA, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, KENDRA JACOBS & HER HUSBAND, DANIEL JACOBS, THEIR DAUGHTER MCKENZIE ILENE, SCRANTON, KANSAS, TWO AUNTS MARGE SOUTHERLAND, HER HUSBAND RED, LEROY, KANSAS AND JEANIE ABENDROTH, HER HUSBAND JIM, CARBONDALE, KANSAS, HIS SIGNIFICANT OTHER, JAMIE MCATEE, TOPEKA, AND MANY COUSINS AND FRIENDS. STILSON TARA LEE STILSON LYMAN, 26, TOPEKA, DIED TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 2004, AT A TOPEKA HOSPITAL FOLLOWING COMPLICATIONS OF THE FLU AND PNEUMONIA. SHE WAS BORN SEPT. 5, 1977, IN TOPEKA, THE DAUGHTER OF TERRY AND CONNIE NORWOOD STILSON. SHE ATTENDED FAITH BAPTIST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, CAIR PARAVEL LATIN SCHOOL, AND GRADUATED FROM WASHBURN RURAL HIGH SCHOOL. SHE THEN ATTENDED ALLEN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN IOLA. TARA HAD WORKED FOR WAL-MART IN IOLA AND TOPEKA, AND CURRENTLY WAS EMPLOYED AT TARGET IN TOPEKA. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF SOUTHWEST TOPEKA BIBLE CHURCH. SHE MARRIED AARON SCOTT LYMAN ON SEPT. 23, 2000, IN TOPEKA. HE SURVIVES AT HOME WITH THEIR TWO SONS, TRENT DAVID, AGE 5, AND NICHOLAS ROBERT, AGE 3. OTHER SURVIVORS INCLUDE HER PARENTS, TERRY AND CONNIE STILSON, OF TOPEKA; TWO BROTHERS, JOHN STILSON AND WIFE, JACKIE, OF TOPEKA, AND PFC ZACH STILSON AND WIFE, JAMIE, OF FORT RIELY;