Obituaries

Clarence A. Carpenter

Clarence A. Carpenter

Clarence A. "Clete" Carpenter, 60, of Topeka, passed away on Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at a Topeka hospital. He was born on May 19, 1944 in Topeka, the son of Albert E. and Thelma Duvall Carpenter. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1962 and attended Washburn University. He was a director in Information Systems for the Santa Fe Railway...

William Holt

William Holt

William "Keith" Holt 76 of Topeka, died April 4, 2005 at Midland Hospice House. He was born Feb. 5, 1929 in Topeka. The son of William Clarke and Gladys Kortz Holt.He graduated from Topeka High School in 1947 and attended Pittsburgh State University.He served in the U.S. Army in the Korean Conflict 1951-1953. He married Shirley Boies on Feb. 14,...

Clara Groggs

Clara Groggs

Clara Jane Groggs, 72, of Topeka, passed away, Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at Stormont-Vail Hospital. She was born December 27, 1932 in Topeka the daughter of Walter Wayman and Selma Harvey Smith. Mrs. Groggs was an office assistant for Lincoln Center OB GYN twenty four years. She is survived by two daughters, Toni G. Wash, Topeka, KS; Kelli D. Benning,...

Clara Groggs

Clara Groggs

Clara Jane Groggs, 72, of Topeka, passed away, Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at Stormont-Vail Hospital. She was born December 27, 1932 in Topeka the daughter of Walter Harvey and Selma Harvey Smith. Mrs. Groggs was an office assistant for Lincoln Center OB GYN twenty four years. She is survived by two daughters, Toni G. Wash, Topeka, KS; Kelli D. Benning,...

John Mendonca

John Mendonca

John M. Mendonca, 80. Topeka, passed away, Thursday, March 31, 2005 at the Topeka V.A. Hospital.Mr. Mendonca served in the United States Navy during World War II. He was a life member of the V.F.W..He is survived by a daughter Margaret Reposa.He will lie in state after 12:00 noon Sunday at the Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel. Graveside services with military...

Marvin Robinson

Marvin Robinson

Marvin K. Robinson, 79, Topeka, passed away on Monday, April 4, 2005 at a local hospital.Marvin was born February 1, 1926, the son of Albert and Agnes McCorkle Robinson on a farm North of Valley Falls. He attended a one room school through the eighth grade and graduated from Nortonville High School in 1943.After graduation he worked for the Sante...

Maxine Percifield-Hotchkiss

Maxine Percifield-Hotchkiss

Maxine N. Percifield-Hotchkiss, 90, of Wichita formerly of Topeka died Sunday, April 3, 2005 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice House in Wichita. She was born March 8, 1915 in Kansas City, KS the daughter of Clyde Mitchell and Edna Brennenstull Neal.Maxine graduated from Topeka High School in 1932. She worked for Hallmark Card Company as a supervisor.She was preceded in...

Helen Bengtson

Helen Bengtson

Helen M. Bengtson, 96, died at Brewster Place Retirement Home in Topeka early Saturday, April 2, 2005. Prior to moving to Topeka in 2003, she had been a resident of Ponca, Neb. Mrs. Bengston was born Feb. 3, 1909, in Laurel, Neb., the daughter of Moses T. and Elizabeth Ann Sullivan. She and Harald B. Bengtson eloped and were married...

Ida May Willson

Ida May Willson

Ida May Willson, 84 Topeka, died Saturday, April 2, 2005, at Midland Hospice House. She was born January 7, 1921 in Dorrance, the daughter of Floyd and Ida Grace Ruby Willson. Ida May had lived in Topeka 59 years. She graduated from Asbury School of Nursing in Salina in 1943. She was a World War II Navy Nurse from 1944...

Ruth Marie Fromme

Ruth Marie Fromme

Ruth Marie Fromme, 87, of Topeka, passed away, Thursday, March 31, 2005 at Brewster Place Medical Center. She was born November 10, 1917 in Overbrook, Kansas the daughter of Joel Andrew and Eva Platt Kesler. Ruth Marie was raised in Overbrook, Kansas. She and was a graduate of Park College and Washburn University. She married Alexander Morgan Fromme September 16,...

Eleanor Murphy

Eleanor Murphy

Eleanor Nadine Murphy, 84, of Topeka, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at Golden Keys Nursing Home in Neodesha, Kansas.Mrs. Murphy was born March 6, 1921 in Nickerson, the daughter of Harry A. and Anna May Murray Thompson.She graduated from the Coldwater High School and graduated from the Grace Hospital School of Nursing in Hutchinson in 1944 as a...

Orel Anderson

Orel Anderson

Orel Vivian Anderson, 89, of Topeka, passed away on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005 at Midland Hospice House.Mrs. Anderson was born January 22, 1916 in Mooreland, OK, the daughter of Tilton and Stella Johnson Elwood. She married Errol Ray Anderson on June 25, 1935. They moved to Topeka in 1943. He preceded her in death in 1972.She was a member...

Randy Boileau

Randy Boileau

Randy A. Boileau, 47 Topeka, died Monday, March 28, 2005 at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center. He was born Aug. 30, 1957 in Topeka the son of Lewis D. and Betty D. Allen Boileau.He attended Topeka public Schools. He was a licensed as a certified technician for Chalet Apartments.He was preceded in death by his father Lewis and brother Ronnie Boileau.He...

Pauline Butler

Pauline Butler

Pauline M. Butler, 85, of Topeka, went to be with the Lord on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005.Pauline was born on December 28, 1919 in Ada, OK., the daughter of Charles M. and Maude White Jackson. She married Dr. Raymond L. Butler on August 2, 1941 in Cleveland, OK. He died in 1990. They moved to Topeka in 1955 after...

Tommy Adcock

Tommy Adcock

Tommy G. Adcock, 52, of Topeka, passed away Easter Sunday, March 27 at Colmery- O'Neil Veteran's Hospital.He was born August 29, 1952 in Ottawa, the son of William H. Adcock and Wynona Adcock Stewart.He attended Ottawa public schools until he decided to enlist in the U.S. Navy. He was honorably discharged after three years of service due to a service...

Leona Bauman

Leona Bauman

Leona Hilda Koepke Bauman, 91 of Topeka, died Sunday, March 27, 2005 at Rolling Hills Nursing Center. She was born Oct. 30, 1913 in Hoskins, NE, the daughter of William and Caroline Beagle Koepke.Mrs. Bauman left the farm at age 12 to work in Norfolk, NE, where she was able to complete high school at age 16. She then taught...

Dr. Harry Cook, Jr.

Dr. Harry Cook, Jr.

Dr. Harry H. Cook, Jr., 92, passed away Easter Sunday, March 27, 2005 at a Topeka nursing home.He was born June 10, 1912 in Haven, Kansas the son of Dr. Harry H. and Nell M. Griffitts Cook.He attended Topeka Public Schools and was a graduate of Washburn University. He was graduated from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, School...

Hazel Rouse

Hazel Rouse

Hazel Mildred Rouse,92, Meriden, passed away on Saturday, March 26, 2005 at a Topeka Hospice House.Ms. Rouse was born March 6, 1913 in Meriden, the duaghter of Albert F. and Anna Larson Palmberg.After graduating from Meriden High School, she lived and worked in Salina until moving back to Meriden in 1960, where she worked for the U.S. Postal Service until...

Margaret Ragsdale

Margaret Ragsdale

Mrs. Ragsdale was head bookkeeper for the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, State Historical Society and the Masonic Grand Lodge. She retired as proofreader and engrosser for the State Revisor of Statutes. During two years in Japan Mrs. Ragsdale served as president of the Navy Officers Wives Club, made and sold oil paintings, graduated from courses in Chinese cookery and...

Relma Houston

Relma Houston

Relma Maxine Houston, 80, of Portland, OR., passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2005.She was born October 30, 1924 in Frankfort, KS., the daughter of James P. and Susan B. Tudor Houston.Miss Houston graduated from Washburn Rural High School and attended Prairie Bible Institute in Canada and graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in nursing. She worked...

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