Margaret E. Curtis
Dec 3, 2011
Margaret Elaine Curtis, 89, Topeka, passed away on Saturday, December 3, 2011 at Aldersgate Village.Margaret was born August 9, 1922 in Millerton, IA, the daughter of Grover C. and Viva B. (Carpenter) Milleson. She graduated from Russell High School in Russell, IA. She has been a Topeka resident since 1966 where she was a homemaker. She was a member of...
Dorothy Burris
Dec 2, 2011
Dorothy Jean Burris died Friday, December 2, 2011. She was a longtime resident of Topeka, and worked for many years as a registered nurse. Dorothy was born in 1927 at Emporia, Kansas. Mrs. Burris is survived by four children; Lucy Foxman, Debra Lane, Robert Burris, and Louis Burris. She is also survived by her sisters, Helen, Leila, and Maryalice, a...
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Dec 2, 2011
Elizabeth C. Zimmerman, 55, of Topeka, passed away on Friday, December 2, 2011 at Midland Hospice House. She was born June 12, 1956, the daughter of William and Beverly Zimmerman. She had resided at KNI in Topeka for several years and in 1999, took residency in the Topeka community through the ISS program.Survivors include her guardian, Roxie Watts, her very...
Melverne Morse
Nov 29, 2011
Melverne (Mel) Charles Morse, 93, passed away November 29, 2011 at Lexington Park Care Facility. Mel was born on December 5, 1917 in Salina, Kansas the eldest son of Joseph Jerome Morse and Dorothy Snyder Morse. Mel spent his childhood in Salina and attended Kansas State University. He married Jane Stark of California, Missouri on September 2, 1936. Jane passed...
Juan Manuel Ruiz-Nunez
Nov 28, 2011
Juan Manuel Ruiz-Nunez, 27, Topeka, died Monday, November 28, 2011.Juan was born January 30, 1984 in Ventura, CA, the son of Gustavo Ruiz Martinez; and Josefina Nunez Hernandez. Survivors include his parents; his wife, Guadalupe Alverado Vega; son, Francisco Javier Ruiz-Alverado; sister, Azucena Ruiz; and brothers, David and Jose Ruiz.Funeral services will be held in Santa Ana, Mexico with the...
Conrad Jacob Lauck
Nov 27, 2011
Conrad J. Lauck, 58, passed away peacefully on November 27, 2011 at Manor Care Health Services in Topeka, Kansas. He was born July 18, 1953 in Greeley, Colorado the son of Henry F. and Lorraine R. (Brittian) Lauck. He attended school in Greeley. Conrad was an over the road truck driver for many years. He had traveled to every state...
Edna Margarette Chapel
Nov 26, 2011
Edna Chapel, 97, Topeka, formerly of Salina, passed away Saturday, November 26, 2011. She was born September 16, 1914 in Delphos, Kansas to Charles Milton Allison and Minnie Eleanor Francis Allison. Edna owned and operated the Plaza Style Shop in the Sunset Plaza Shopping Center, Salina Kansas for over 20 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church...
Vera Cota-Clark
Nov 25, 2011
Vera I. Cota-Clark, also known as Jean Cota-Clark, 83, of Topeka, passed away Friday, November 25, 2011.She was born June 17, 1928 in Valparaiso, Indiana, to William George and Nannie (Jenkins) Blevins. She attended Valparaiso Schools up to the 8th grade and started working at the age of 16 at Farmer's Restaurant.She married Cameron D. Farrier at age 21 in...
Ronald Brooks
Nov 22, 2011
Ronald "Rick" Brooks, 64, of Topeka, passed away, November 22, 2011 at his daughter's home in Bradley, IL. He was born March 10, 1947 in Memphis, TN the son of Charles Richard and Ardell Brooks. He was in the first graduating class at Topeka West High School. While at Topeka West he lettered in Track. Following High School he became...
Rayven Leeann Miller
Nov 22, 2011
Rayven Leeann Miller, 2 months, of Topeka, passed away on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at her home. She was born on September 19, 2011 in Topeka, Kansas to Ryan Lee Miller and Amy Lynn Johnson. She is survived by parents; her brothers, Ryan Curtiss Lee Hause, Jacob Ryan Miller her sister, Hanna Rose Hause all of the home and a...
John P. Delain
Nov 22, 2011
John P. deLain, 68, of Topeka, passed away Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at his home. He was born March 20, 1943 in Topeka, the son of Paul O. and Frances I. Smith deLain. He graduated from Washburn Rural High School. John was a Navy veteran, serving as a machinist on the USS Becuma submarine. He was employed by Doug Mobile...
Orland Joseph Peterka
Nov 22, 2011
Orland Joseph Peterka, 92, of Manhattan, Kansas, passed away November 22, 2011. Father Peter O'Donnell will celebrate two memorial masses for his grandfather. A memorial mass will be held in the chapel at Meadowlark Hills, 2121 Meadowlark Rd, Manhattan, Kansas on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. A second mass will be held at St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 1321...
Russell L. Crawshaw
Nov 20, 2011
Russell L. Crawshaw, 53, of Topeka, formerly of Wichita, died Sunday, November 20, 2011. He was born August 5, 1958 in Paola, KS, the son of Billy A. and Grace E. (Shue) Crawshaw. Rusty graduated from Eldorado High School in 1976 and made his career as a Journeyman Electrician. He loved boating and fishing. Rusty is survived by his parents,...
Ida M.Anno Hall-Smith
Nov 18, 2011
Ida M. Anno Hall-Smith, 80, of Tecumseh, passed away on Friday, November 18, 2011 at a Topeka hospital. She was born July 25, 1931 in Topeka, the daughter of Claude D. and Elsie M. Beary Anno. She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1949. She lived in the Watson, Shawnee Heights and the Topeka area for all of her...
Xavi Onna Sims
Nov 17, 2011
Xavi'Onna Lamyia Marie Sims, infant daughter of Xavier Leron Sims and Brittney Nicole Swanson passed away Thursday November 17, 2011. Survivors include her parents, one sister, Xavi'Arrah Sims; one brother, Xa'Vion Sims; her grandparents, Millie and Joe Sims, Sr. and Greg and Sue Swanson; her great grandparents, Wanda and Dean Swanson; her aunts, Tara Sims, Anna Swanson and Megan Swanson;...
John H. Whightsil
Nov 17, 2011
John H. Whightsil, 89, of Topeka, died Thursday, November 17, 2011. He was born April 27, 1922 in Osawatomie, KS to Phillip and Florence Whightsil. John was a member of the "Greatest Generation". He served in the Pacific Theater with the US Army during WWII. Following his return from WWII, he married Harriet Livingston on January 1, 1946 in Garnett,...
Vernard Guyer
Nov 17, 2011
Vernard M. "Vern" Guyer, Jr., 87, of Topeka, passed away on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at a Topeka hospital. He was born April 3, 1924 in Topeka, the son of Vernard M. and Elizabeth C. Desch Guyer. He graduated from Capital Catholic High School and attended the University of Kansas. Vern then joined the Navy during WWII. After he was...
Edna Engler
Nov 17, 2011
Edna I. Engler, 84, passed away peacefully with her family by her side on November 17, 2011, in Topeka, KS. She was born June 3, 1927 in Angeline, MO, the daughter of William G. and Lula J. (Akers) Wilkins. Edna attended school in Shannon County, MO and later worked as an inventory clerk at Forbes Air Force Base. Edna was...
Katrena Dawn Lynn
Nov 14, 2011
Katrena Dawn Lynn, 40, Perry, Kansas, died November 14, 2011. She was born December 1, 1970 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, the daughter of Ernest P. and Eugenia S. (Shippey) Wooden, Jr. Surviving in addition to her parents are a brother and a grandmother. Memorial services are to be announced.
Joyce L. Freeman
Nov 14, 2011
Joyce Lavetta Freeman passed away November 14, 2011 at a Topeka hospital. She was born in Topeka, the daughter of Harvey and Alice Smith, on February 8, 1937. She married at 17 years of age and enjoyed a long successful marriage of 57 years with her husband C.L. "Duke" Freeman, who survives. This union brought forth three sons, Loren, Dewey...
