Lawrence Crook
Lawrence L. Crook, 92, Topeka died Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at his home.He was born July 29, 1912 in Allen County, KS, the son of Walter and Bertha Peck Crook.Mr. Crook was co-founder, co-owner, and operator of Lawrence Freight Line and BC&R Storage, from which he retired in 1980. He attended Grace Bible Church.Mr. Crook was preceded in death by...
Nan Long
Nan Rebecca Long, 67, Topeka, died Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at her home.She was born Dec. 24, 1937 in Augusta, Georgia, the daughter of William A. and Ludie E. Mims Wade. She graduated from Richmond Academy, Augusta, in 1956.Mrs. Long lived in Wellington from 1958 until coming to Topeka in 1962. She worked as a layout operator for Jostens for...
Emily Stevens
Emily M. Stevens, 78, of St. Joseph, MO, passed away Monday, March 21 at a St. Joseph hospital.She was born April 6, 1926 in Pleasant Hill, M0., the daughter of Russel C. and Margaret Watson Skidmore.She attended schools in Windsor and Eldon Missouri, and graduated from Jamesport High School in Jamesport,MO. in 1944. She then attended the Chillicothe Business College...
Freda Beam
Freda A. Beam, 100, of Topeka, passed away Wednesday, March 23 at Midland Hospice House.She was born March 18, 1905 in Carr Creek Township, Mitchell County, the daughter of Louise K. (Haseltine) and Ralph Leslie Norton.She graduated from Cawker City High School in 1923. After high school, she married R. Howard Beam on June 14, 1925 in Carr Creek, Mitchell...
Marybelle Bass
Marybelle Bass, 89, Topeka, died Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at Midland Hospice House. She was born in Atchison, KS the daughter of Floyd W. and Nancy Pitts Draper.She graduated from Topeka High School. Mrs. Bass was a member of West Side Christian Church where she served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Sunday School Department, served as a Sunday School Teacher, C.W.F....
Roberta A. Clark
Roberta A. "Bobbe" Clark, 81, Topeka, died Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at Midland Hospice House. She was born Oct. 19, 1923 in Delia, the daughter of Robert and Almina Redmon Keller, the youngest of ten children. She attended school at Blanden, a one-room school house on the Pottawatomie Indian reservation, west of Mayetta. At the age of nine, the family...
David Gooch
David Lee Gooch, 72, Guthrie, OK. Died Thursday, March 17, 2005, at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, KS. He was born April 9, 1932 in Chanute, Kansas, son of Norman and Eva Gooch.He spent his early life in the Madison, Kansas area. He graduated from Russell High School, in 1950, Russell, Kansas. He attended Sterling College two years before joining...
Ralph Nolder
Ralph Dean Nolder, 57, Atlanta, Georgia, died Monday, March 14, 2005 in Atlanta.Mr. Nolder was born October 19, 1947 in Topeka, the son of George O. and Helen Newell Nolder. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1965. He received his BS from Washburn University in Topeka and his MEd from Georgia State University. He was a member of Alpha...
Walter Netson
Walter Ivan Netson, 87, Topeka, died Friday, March 18, 2005 at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center.He was born Aug. 9, 1917 in Cleburne, KS the son of William Allen and Ethel Pretz Netson.Walter attended Cleburne Schools in Cleburne, KS. He went to U.S. Army Quartermaster Schools, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College in Leavenworth. Walter enlisted in the U.S. Army...
Emmadell Jones
Emmadell Goodall Jones, 81, of Topeka, passed away, Thursday, March 17, 2005 at Midland Hospice. She was born May 13, 1923 in Amarillo, TX the daughter of John W. and Nettie McAboy Goodall. She had worked in the truck lines and later as a child care provider. Emmadell was a member of Oakland Christian Church. She was married to Arthur...
Ruth Gleason
Ruth D. Gleason, 93, of Topeka, died, Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at Brewster Place. She was born August 20, 1911 in Scranton, Kansas the daughter of Joseph and Emily Buttler Dangerfield. Ruth has resided in Topeka since 1917. She was a 1933 graduate of Washburn University. Ruth had been employed as a librarian with the Kansas State Historical Society. She...
Robert Way
Robert James Way, 80, Topeka, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at a local hospice house.Mr. Way was born October 6, 1924 in Elmdale, Kansas, the son of James Walter and Agusta Elizabeth Dicker Way. He was employed by the U.S. Postal Service for over 30 years and retired in 1988.He was an elder and an active member of...
Patricia Blackman
Patricia L. Blackman, 48, of Topeka, passed away Wednesday, March 16 at Midland Hospice House.She was born December 11, 1956 in Topeka, the daughter of Duane and Inez Hamilton.She graduated from Topeka West High School in 1974. She attended Kaw Valley Vocational/ Technical School and Washburn University. She was a dedicated employee of Prudential Insurance for 26 years. She then...
Aleda Anderson
Aleda Henrietta Anderson, 95, Topeka, passed away on Monday, March 14, 2005 at the Peggy Kelly House. Mrs. Anderson was born March 1, 1910 in Kansas City, Kansas, the daughter of Anton Peter Marius Sorensen and Henrietta Hansini Brillo Sorensen. She was the youngest of two brothers and four sisters.She graduated from Maccochaque grade school and Rosedale HS and worked...
Gerald K. Barker
Gerald K. Barker, 90, Topeka, died Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at Midland Hospice House.He was born April 20, 1914 in Ottawa, KS, the only son of Guy K. and Sarah Ann Butterton Barker. He graduated from Ottawa High School, where he was an all-state basketball player. He then graduated from Ottawa University, receiving all-state basketball and football recognition. In 1988,...
Walter Mcfarland
Walter W. McFarland, 82, of Topeka, passed away suddenly, Monday, March 14, 2005 at his home. He was born October 30, 1922 in Coblenz, Germany the son of E.W. and Barbara Wagner McFarland. He graduated from Topeka High School in 1941 then immediately left for military service in the United States Army. He married Doris G. Patterson in 1943. After...
Roy Stane
Roy A. Stane, 92, Topeka passed away, Saturday,March 12 at St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. He was born May 12, 1912 in El Paso, TX the son of Roy and Villa Ardoin Stane.In the early 1940's, Roy went to work for the A.T.& S.F. Railroad and before coming to Topeka was promoted to Construction Engineer for the West Coast lines....
Claude Stafford
Claude E. "Doc" Stafford, 77, of Topeka passed away Saturday, March 12 at a local hospital.He was born July 10, 1927 in Topeka, the son of William Edward and Elsie Stafford.He attended Topeka High School. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps where in his first year he flew 129 combat missions over Europe. He then re-enlisted and was assigned...
Dorothy Smith
Dorothy S. Byers Smith, 88, of Topeka, died March 10, 2005 at Midland Hospice House, Topeka, Kansas. She was eleven days shy of her 89th birthday. She had been in failing health since 1990, following the first of three heart attacks and open heart surgery. In February, 2005, she suffered a small stroke, and came to stay at hospice. Her...
Melva Lane
Melva R. Lane, 82, of Topeka, died Friday, March 11, 2005 at Stormont-Vail Hospital, Topeka. She was born January 4, 1923 in Topeka, KS the daughter of Hiram Davis and Bertha Rowena Bowman Sturm. Melva was a graduate of Topeka High School and attended Strickler's Business College.She had worked as a medical transcriber retiring from the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Administration Hospital....
