The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday July 9, 1939 Mrs. Ed Skinner. Word was received in Topeka of the death of Mrs. Ed SKINNER, 70, at her home in Emmett, Idaho, Friday. Mrs. SKINNER formerly lived in Topeka, where Mr. SKINNER, was associated with the Mail and Breeze. He is now owner and editor of the Emmett Index. Surviving are one daughter, three sons, four brothers, and one niece, Mrs. J.R. SMITH, Topeka.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday July 9, 1939 Lute J. Cowles. Word has been received of the death of Lute J. COWLES, 70, Friday at the home of his son, Lynne C. COWLES, Kansas City, Mo. Mr. COWLES was a former resident of Topeka and was a brother of Mrs. Marion L. STALKER, of Mayetta, formerly of Topeka. Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the Freeman Mortuary in Kansas City. Interment will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Kansas City.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday July 9, 1939 Mrs. Gertrude Carpenter. Mrs. Gertrude L. CARPENTER, 30, of Route 6, died Friday night in a Topeka hospital. She was born January 16, 1909, in Valparaiso, Ind., and had been a resident of Topeka for fourteen years. She was an active member of the Seaman Community Church. She is survived by her husband, Raymond CARPENTER, of the home; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence HANSFORD, Topeka; and a brother, Curtis HANSFORD, Topeka. Funeral services will be held at the Seaman Community Church at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Rochester Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home of her parents on Route 4 from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Tuesday.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday July 9, 1939 Mrs. G.L. Hooper. Mrs. Garfield L. HOOPER, 50, prominent Topeka clubwoman, died Saturday morning following a heart attack at her home, 1200 College Avenue. The family physician was called, but Mrs. Hooper had died before he arrived. She was the wife of Garfiled L. Hooper, Topeka businessman and theater owner. She was born at Holton, Kansas., June 19, 1889, and as a member of the Methodist Church, the Eastern Star, and Toltec Rite. For many years she was engaged in many society and club activities in Topeka. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Miss Althea L. Hooper, of the home, and Mrs. John B. CROW, Jr., of Washington, D.C., a half sister, and two half brothers. Funeral services will be at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Abbey.

The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday July 8, 1939 H.L. Moore. H.L. MOORE, former resident of Topeka, died Thursday in Fremont, Neb., according to word received in Topeka. He is survived by his wife, one sister, two brothers, and several nieces and nephews. The body will be brought to Topeka and funeral services will be 10 o'clock Monday morning at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, with interment in Rochester Cemetery.

The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday July 8, 1939 Huffman Rites Today. Funeral services for Philip Howard HUFFMAN, who died Thursday night in a local hospital, will be held Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, with interment in Memorial Park Cemetery. Sunflower Camp No. 536, Modern Woodmen of America, will attend the services in a body. Two forestry drill teams, one of men and one of women, will attend in full uniform. There will be a Woodmen service at the graveside. All uniformed members will meet at the home, 204 Elmwood Avenue, at 4:15 o'clock. A chartered bus will take them to the cemetery.

Good Morning, Who was that contacted me the other day about obituary postings that they were saving for historical society in Osage County? There is no problem about it, but I didn't save who it was doing that, which is a good idea, and maybe can help out more in that area. So.. contact me, please. Have a good one!! Jim.

The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday July 8, 1939 Mrs. Mary Waltmire. Mrs. Mary Jane WALTMIRE, 90, resident of Kansas sixty-seven years, died Friday at her home northwest of Carbondale. She was born October 29, 1848, in New Diggins, Wis., and moved to Illinois with her parents when she was a child. She moved to Kansas in 1872 and had made her home on the same farm in Osage County since 1874. She was a member of the Christian Church. She is survived by a son, Charles WALTMIRE of the home address; a daugther, Mrs. Ada J. ROBBINS, Carbondale; two half-sisters, Mrs. Louise J. ROBBINS, Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Maude BOWMAN, Canada; three granddaughters, Mrs. LaVerne FOX, Towner, Colo.; Mrs. Lola McKIBBEN, Carbondale, and Mrs. Louise CONLEY, Topeka, and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home, with interment in Burlingame Cemetery.

The Topeka Daily Capital Friday June 2, 1939 Samuel C. McCall. Samuel C. McCALL, 35, of Ozawkie, died Thursday in a local hospital. He is ssurved by one sister, Mrs. Herbert PALMER, Topeka. The body was taken to Conwell's Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 Burial In Topeka. The body of H.L. BAKER, 66, former Topekan who died May 27 at his home in Bentonville, Ark., was buried in a Topeka Cemetery Monday afternoon.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 Mrs. Alice Redd. Mrs. Alice REDD, former Topekan, died Friday in Atchison, according to word received here. While in Topeka, Mrs. REDD lived at 1285 Monroe Street and was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church. She moved to Atchison seven years ago. Funeral services will be Monday at 3 p.m., at the Zion Baptist Church in Atchison. Burial will be in Atchison.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 Andrew Jackson May. Andrew Jackson MAY, 54, died Saturday afternoon at his home, 1205 Chandler Street. He was born May 10, 1885, in Yellow Bush, Miss., and had been a resident of Topeka since July 1922. He was deacon of the Antioch Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Florence MAY, and one daughter, Miss Josephine MAY, both of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Esther McNEAL, Topeka, and Mrs. Lulu HORN, Conway, Ark.; one brother, Alonzo MAY, Tulsa, Okla., and one aunt, Mrs. Luvenia CONWAY, Kansas City, Mo. The body has been taken to Gaines and Son's Funeral Home, pending funeral arrangements.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 Mrs. Annie M. Eaton. Mrs. Annie M. EATON, 79, died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.C. DIFFENDERFER, 100 North Broadmoor Avenue. Mrs. Eaton had been ill only a short time. She was born May 31, 1860, in Ogdesburg, N.Y., and came to Kansas sixty years ago. She was a Topeka resident for twenty-six years. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Carrie LANG, Miss Myrtle EATON, Mrs. DIFFENDERFER, Mrs. W. H. LEE, and Mrs. W.O. GROUT, all of Topeka; two sons, A.B. EATON of Kansas City, Mo., and Ray A. EATON, of Glendale, Calif.; one sister, Miss Charlotte GODDEN, Jackson, Mich.; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral announcements will be made later.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 Green D. Sutton. Green D. SUTTON, 77, died Saturday night at his home, 400 Locust Street. He was born June 9, 1861, in Garnett, Kan., and had been a Kansas resident all of his life. He was a retired farmer and had lived in Topeka for the past eighteen years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Hattie SUTTON, of the home; six daughters, Miss Ruth SUTTON, of the home; Mrs. Bertha GRANT, of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Bessie BIGGS, of Allen, Kan.; and Mrs. Nellie SWAIN, Mrs. Frances ALUMBAUGH and Mrs. Grace DINKLE, all of Topeka; one sister, Mrs. Lou McBRIDE, of Kansas City, Mo.; one brother, Ben SUTTON, of Tahlequah, Okla., and eighteen grandchildren. The body was taken to the Penwell Funeral Home, pending funeral arrangements.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 George P. Gilman. George P. GILMAN, 60, former Topekan, died Thursday in Albuquerque, N.M., according to word received in Topeka. He was born November 26, 1878, in North Topeka, and was a resident of this city until January, 1938 when he moved to Albuquerque. he was employed by the Santa Fe Railroad for more than twenty years and was a member of the A.O.U.W. Lodge, No. 244, Topeka. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ellen GILMAN, of the home; one daughter, Mrs. William A. LEWIS, Jr., Topeka; two brothers, E.W. GILMAN and Forrest GILMAN, both of Gilman's Hot Springs, Calif.; two granddaughters, Lorraine and Delores GILMAN, both of Topeka, and several neices and nephews. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary. Burial will be in Rochester Cemetery. The body will lie in sate at the mortuary from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. Sunday.

The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday June 4, 1939 D.S. Farley Funeral Monday Morning. Funeral services for D.S. FARLEY, retired assistant general manager of the Santa Fe Eastern Lines, who died Friday, will be Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary. Burial will be Monday afternoon in Forrest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Mo. The body will lie in sate until 9 o'clock Sunday night. Active pallbearers will be R.H. DOWNES, A.J. DELANEY, G.R. BUSH, C.F. HUTTON, R.D. CLOUSING, and S. GREENWOOD. Honorary pallbearers will be F.A. LEHMAN, A. EWING, J.A. GILLIES, H.B. FINK, J.J. BRENNAN, J.M. NICHOLSON, Bruce HURD, R.D. MONTGOMERY, S.C. NICHOLS, H.C. PRIBBLE, Glenn EDDIE, G.K. THOMAS, H.W. WAGNER, M.L. BISHOFF, A.L. SOULE, J.C. BURNETT, Dr. W.J. WALKER, T.A. ALDEN, R.G. MERRICK, H.E. RAY, H.H. STEPHENS, Frank WOOD, G.O. BROPHY, A.L. SCHULTZ, J.F. JARRELL, C.O. CLARK, O.B. DAVIS, D.W. FULLER, A.R. MULHOLLAND, J.L. STARTKIE, Frank HELM, and W.G. HUNT.

The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday June 3, 1939 John Peter Artzer. Funeral services for John Peter ARTZER, 65, retired Santa Fe employe, who died Thursday in a local hospital, will be Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock at the Sacred Heart Church. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the home, 640 Grattan, from 10 o'clock Saturday morning until the funeral service. Artzer had been a resident of Topeka for sixty-two years and was a retired employe of the Santa Fe water and service department. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lena ARTZER; one son, Charles ARTZER; seven daughters, Florence and Marie ARTZER of the home; Mrs. Adam STADLER, Mrs. John DEGAN, Mrs. John DEITZ, Mrs. Paul SCHWARTZ, all of Topeka, and Mrs. William J. STECKMAN, of Chicago, Ill.; two brothers, Adam ARTZER and Albert ARTZER, both of Topeka; four sisters, Mrs. Ed OLFERMAN, Mrs. Arthur WRIGHT and Mrs. Andrew DESCH of Topeka, and Mrs. Brady SAYLER, Kansas City; twenty-three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday June 3, 1939 D.S. Farley, Retired Santa Fe Man, Dead. Had Been in Failing Health For Several Months. D.S. FARLEY, retired assistant general manager of the Santa Fe eastern lines, died Friday afternon in the Santa Fe Hospital, following a long illness. He had been in failing health for several months but his condition did not become serious until a few days ago. Farley had been an employe of the Santa Fe for fifty-one years, before retiring July 1, 1938. on his retirement as assistant general manager of the eastern lines, he was succeeded by J.A. Gillies, who came to Toppeka from LaJunta, Colo. In recent months he and Mrs. Farley had traveled, making their home at the Hotel Jayhawk. His death was a shock to all the Santa Fe employes, not only in Topeka, but all over the entire system. Mr. Farley was born in Albion, Mich., in 1870, a city to which his grandfather came in a prairie schooner. A few years later his parents took him to Denver, Colo., where they made their home. As a young man he worked part time for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad as a messenger. he resigned to accept a similar job with the Santa Fe, October 15, 1887, and received a salary of $20 a month. Promoted Rapidly. Ambitious, fired with enthusiasm in his work for the railroad, he was promoted rapidly, held every job in the Denver office. Farley was transferred to Pueblo as chief clerk when the Santa Fe consolidated with the Colorado Southern in 1899. His next appointment was a position of chief cleark at Kansas City in 1900. Seven years later he was appointed agent and superintendent at Kansas City, under F.C. Cox, then general manager. He was transferred to Amarillo, Texas, July 1, 1915, to become superintendent of the territory now known as the Plains and Slayton divisions, a job that required pioneering and stamina. Two years later A. Ewing, now Topeka Santa Fe official, was appointed superintendent of the Slayton Division. June 20, 1917, Farley made superintendent at Dodge City and in 1921 he was appointed assistant general manager of western lines at Topeka, succeeding R.J. Parker of Amarillo, at Parker's death. He was known and loved widely over the entire Santa Fe System. Topekan knew him as one of the best-liked Topeka Santa Fe officials. Elaborate Dinner. An elaborate dinner was prepared for him at the Hotel Jayhawk on the even of this fifieth anniversary with the Santa Fe, October 15, 1937. Officials from all over the system attended the dinner. He and Mrs. Farley made their home in Topeka for many years at 1216 Fillmore Street. Besides his wife he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J.E. CHALINOR, Kansas City, and one son, Nelson I. Farley, Detroit, Mich. Funeral services will be Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, with interment in Forrest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Mo. The body will lie in state at the mortuary from Saturday afteroon at 4 o'clock until 9 p.m., Sunday.

The Topeka Daily Capital Friday June 2, 1939 George Gilman. George GILMAN, former resident of Topeka, died Thursday in Albuquerque, N.M., according to workd received in Topeka. The body will be brought here for burial.

The Topeka Daily Capital Friday June 2, 1939 Samuel C. McCall. Samuel C. McCALL, 35, of Ozawkie, died Thursday in a local hospital. He is ssurved by one sister, Mrs. Herbert PALMER, Topeka. The body was taken to Conwell's Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.