The Topeka Daily Capital Tuesday October 5, 1965 James P. O'Brien. Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church for James P. O'Brien, 70, formerly of 900 Tyler, who died Monday at a Topeka hospital after a long illness. He was born March 23, 1895, at Jersey City, N.J. He attended Pace University of Accounting at New York City. He had lived in Topeka since 1949. He served in the Marines in France during World War I. He was a treasurer of the Creole Petroleum Corporation of Venezuela from 1927 until he retirned in 1949. He was a member of Most Pure Heart of Mary Catholic Church. His wife, Mrs. Kathleen Sullivan O'Brien, died Nov. 30, 1931. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Kathleen L. DODSON, 1135 Wanamaker Road, and Mrs. Maurita STRIMPLE, Rocky River, Ohio; a son, James P. O'Brien, Phoenix, Ariz.; a sister, Loretta T. O'Brien, Jersey City, N.J.; a brother, Frank A. O'Brien, Los Angeles, Calif., and eight grandchildren. Graveside services will be at noon Wednesday at Mount St. Marys Cemetery at Kansas City. Mr. O'Brien will lie in state until 9 a.m. Wednesday at Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary where parish rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. today.