Carolyn Sue Root, 78, died Thursday, December 17, 2009, at Stormont-Vail Healthcare in Topeka after a brief illness. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 31, 1931. Carolyn was the daughter of Delbert and Lerah Lacey, who preceded her in death. She married Chester A. "Chet" Root, on May 19, 1955. Chet passed away in 1992. She is...

Donald J. Culley, 85, of Topeka, passed away on Thursday, December 17, 2009 at Midland Hospice House in Topeka. He was born on May 24, 1924 in Lexington, MO, the son of Charles and Elizabeth M. Parks Culley. After graduating from high school in Lexington, Don served as a Corporal in the Marine Corps during WWII. He obtained a Bachelors...

Ethel "Lorena" Harden, 94, of Topeka, passed away Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at Lexington Park. She was born September 3, 1915, in Valley Falls, the daughter of Walter and Edna (Arnold) Miller. She is a 1933 graduate of Valley Falls High School. Lorena married E. Wade Harden on October 2, 1937, in Valley Falls. He preceded her in death on...

Mary Edith Gall, 71, of Leawood, KS passed away peacefully on Monday, December 14, 2009, after battling a reaction to arthritis medication for several months. Mary was born November 16, 1938 in Topeka, the daughter of Lincoln and Edith (Pierce) Norris.She graduated from Topeka High School in 1956 and attended Washburn University. She was a member of Alpha Phi Sorority.Mary...

Phyllis Wachsnicht, 76, of Topeka, passed away at her residence on Dec. 15, 2009. She was born on March 31, 1933, in Manchester, KS, the daughter of Herman and Edith Elsasser. On August 5, 1951, in Clay Center, KS, she married Harlan Wachsnicht. He survives.Phyllis was a 1951 graduate of Clay County Community High School. She and Harlan moved to...

Andra K. "Sandy" Pucek, 62, Topeka, passed away on Sunday, December 13, 2009 at Midland Hospice House.Sandy was born October 25, 1947 in Coffeyville, the daughter of Donald and Irma (Shipman) Brummond. She graduated from Campus High School in Wichita in 1965.She worked for Key Bank in Binghamton, NY and then U.S. Bank in Topeka for over 20 years, retiring...

Ethel "Lucile" McKnight Beam, 84, of Topeka, passed away Sunday, December 13, 2009. She was born August 23, 1925 in Hall Summit, KS, the daughter of Gilbert and Vanina (Wagaman) Proctor. She worked as a waitress at several cafes in Emporia and Topeka, and Jostens, retiring in 1979. Lucile married Harold Beam on September 1, 1993 in Topeka. He preceded...

Elnora Louise Deal, 96 of Auburn, passed away Saturday, December 12, 2009 at Midland Hospice. She was born on October 23, 1913 in Ogden, Kansas to Earl Monroe Marston and Gladys Marston. Elnora graduated from Osage City High School in Osage City, Kansas. On April 20, 1946, she married Frank Deal in Kansas City, Kansas. Frank and Elnora were the...

Hubert E. "Wally" Wallace, 87, of Topeka, passed away Thursday, December 10, 2009.He was born October 14, 1922 on a farm about 30 miles outside Garden City, KS, the son of Arthur and Velma (Downs) Wallace. He was a graduate of Garden City High School. He served in the U.S. Navy during WW II as a gunnery instructor. After the...

Kathryn Alice (Newman) Georgia was born on November 20, 1933 in Topeka Kansas. She was the youngest of five children born to Hazel and Arthur Newman. She graduated from Topeka High School and attended Washburn University. She married Alvin James Georgia on July 20, 1952.Kathryn was a life-long member of St. John A.M.E. Church where she served as Secretary of...

Duane A. Touslee, 83, Garden City, formerly of Topeka, passed away on Dec. 8, 2009, at Garden Valley Retirement Village. He was born July 25, 1926, in Levant, KS, the son of S.E. (Rust) and Leona Dryden Touslee. Duane was a 1944 graduate of Colby High School and earned his Bachelor's Degree from Kansas Wesleyan in 1951. He was a...

Otho "Norbert" Greene, Jr., 78, of Topeka, passed away December 7, 2009, at a local hospital. Born in Pike County, Indiana to Aline and Otho Greene on March 9, 1931. Norbert married Jean Emery in 1955. He was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene. He was a carpenter and a member of Local 1445 for 32 years....

Edith H. Weekley, 88, of Topeka, passed away on Monday, December 7, 2009 at Midland Hospice Care. She was born on December 29, 1920 in Silver Lake, MO to Roymantus and Theresa Marie (Pridemore) Duvall. On April 25, 1937 she married Edman James Weekley, Sr. in Potosi, MO, he preceded her in death. She retired from American Yearbook Company, later...

Christopher Charles Brown, 43, of Topeka, passed away Monday, December 7, 2009.He was born November 3, 1966 in Topeka, the son of Charles F. and Judy A. (DeWitt) Brown. He was employed by Mike Bell, a contractor for Reser's Foods in Topeka.Survivors include his son, Tanner Brown of Topeka; his mother and step-father, Judy and Jerry McMorris of Meriden; a...

Richard C. (Rick) Starkey, 52, of Topeka, passed away Sunday, December 6, 2009, at his home, after a courageous five month battle with an aggressive lung cancer. He was born June 9, 1957, the son of J. Wayne and Dora Starkey.Rick was a graduate of Topeka West High School; attended colleges in Alamogordo, N.M. and Emporia, and vocational schools in...

Vesta S. Burbridge, 92, Topeka, formerly of Troy, Kansas, died December 6, 2009, at a local hospital. She was born on December 15, 1916, to Collins and Rena Rapp Schuler, near Wathena, Kansas. Following her graduation, she married Francis Burbridge and they settled in Troy. A homemaker, she was an active member of the Troy United Methodist Church and numerous...

Florence E. Stone, 100, of Topeka, passed away on Friday, December 4, 2009 at a Topeka hospital. She was born on April 28, 1909 in the Coal Creek community north of Onaga, KS, the daughter of Jule Auguste and Alice Angeline Becker Jeanneret. Florence attended College Hill and Edgewood schools. She lived most of her life in Topeka and was...

Michael Lynn Bundy, 47, of Topeka, passed away on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at his home. He was born on February 12, 1962 in Topeka, the son of Lawrence N. and Marjorie K. Bahner Bundy. He was preceded in death by his father in December of 1970. Survivors include his mother, Marjorie Bundy of Topeka, two brothers, Larry (Barbara) Bundy...

Sylvester "Sonny" Stadler, 81, of Topeka, passed away on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at Select Specialty Hospital at St. Francis. He was born on April 1, 1928 in Rossville, the son of Nicholas and Barbara Weler Stadler. He was an Army veteran during the Korean War. Sonny was employed as a car foreman supervisor for the Santa Fe Shops for...

Marianna Grant, 86, Topeka, died Thursday, December 3, 2009 at Midland Hospice House.She was born August 27, 1923 in Paola, the daughter of Vernon W. and Helen B. (Hoover) Dunaway. Marianna had lived in Topeka since 1953 and worked as a deputy city clerk for the City of Topeka for 30 years before retiring on September 18, 1985.She married Henry...