Walter Abmeyer

Full Name: Walter Abmeyer Age: 88 Years Sex: M

Current address: Topeka, Kansas

Date of death: Sunday, March 2, 2003

Place of death: At Midland Hospice House

Date of birth: June 9, 1914 Place of birth: Grantville, KS

Parents: Berthold Friedrich and Caroline Wilhelmina Felske Abmeyer

Years in current city/town: In the area most of his life

Background: Graduated from Seaman High School. Graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in Agronomy in 1938. Was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture as a soil and water conservationist for 40 years. He received the honorary service award from the Kansas Soil and Water Conservation Society in 2002 for life-time service. He retired on December 29, 1978. He was a member of Masonic Lodge Siloam #225, the Arab Shrine, York Rite Bodies, Provost Guard, and the Moose Lodge, all of Topeka. Past Worthy Patron, Order of the Eastern Star in Effingham, Kansas. Member of Central Presbyterian Church and was a former Elder and Clerk of Session.

Relatives: Married to: Mary Lucille Meade, on December 24, 1936 in Topeka, Kansas

preceded in death by: his wife, Lucille Abmeyer died on September 9, 1992.
Immediate survivors:
2 Daughters: Marcia S. Schaper, Sarasota, FL
Beverly J. Wood, Orlando, FL
Grandchildren: 4
Great-grandchildren: 3

Service time, day, date, place: Services will be at 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 7, 2003 at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel.

Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery Topeka, Kansas

Visitation times, place: Walter Abmeyer will lie in state at Penwell-Gabel Mid Town Chapel from 1:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Thursday, March 6, 2003

Memorial contributions, if any: The Mary Lucille and Walter Abmeyer Scholarship, KSU Foundation Center, 2323 Anderson Ave. Suite 500, Manhattan, KS 66502; Or The Arab Shrine Childrens' Travel Fund, 1305 S. Kansas, Topeka, KS 66612-1332 ; Or Central Presybterian Church, 920 Huntoon, Topeka, KS 66604