1. Full Name: Agnes Marie Pine Strobel Age: 94 Years Sex: F
2. Current address: Topeka
3. Date of death: Friday , March 14, 2003
4 Place of death: Topeka retirement home
5. Cause of death:
6. Date of birth: February 10, 1909 Place of birth: Lawrence, Kansas
6.b. Parents: Clarence E. and Gertrude Epley Pine
6.c. Years in current city/town:
7. Background: Mrs. Strobel graduated from Lawrence High School and attended the University of Kansas.
She received her Bachelor of Education degree from Washburn University in 1959 and her Master of Education
degree from Washburn in 1968. She came to Topeka from Eudora, Kansas in 1946. Mrs. Strobel taught rural
schools in Jefferson and Douglas Counties for 6 years prior to her marriage. She started the Kindergarten program
in the Pauline schools and taught there for 19 years before retiring in 1974. She was a member of Grace United
Methodist Church, and served as president of the United Methodist Women and the Downtown Opti Mrs. Club.
She was a Life member of the Washburn Auimni Association, and was a member of the national, state and local
NEA. She was a member of the Topeka Association for Retarded Citizens and Sheltered Living, Inc. She was also
a member of the Evangeline Chapter #162, OES in Baldwin City.
. Relatives: Married to: Vernon B. Strobel, March 18, 1934 in Lawrence, Kansas
8.b. preceded in death by: Mr. Strobel died Jan. 7, 1998
8.c. Immediate survivors:
Daughter: Laurel Lynn Bowen, Lawrence, Ks
2: Grandchildren
9. Service time, day, date, place: Services will be at 11:00 am, Saturday, March 22, 2003 at Penwell-Gabel
Mid Town Chapel.
10. Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery Topeka, Kansas
11. Visitation times, place: Mrs. Strobel will lie in state after 9 am Friday at the funeral home.
12. Vigil, wake, rosary, other:
13. Memorial contributions, if any: Aldersgate Village Employee Fund, 7220 SW Asbury Dr., Topeka
66614 or to Midland Hospice Care, 200 SW Frazier Circle, Topeka 66606
14. Funeral home in charge: Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel, 1321 SW 10th Ave., Topeka, Kansas
66604
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