The Topeka Daily Capital Sunday April 2, 1961 Rev. C. A. Richard Is Dead Here at 80. The Rev. Charles A. RICHARD, former minister of the First Christian Churches of Topeka, Manhattan and Lawrence, died in a Topeka hospital Saturday after a short illness. He was 80. He lived in Topeka 16 years after coming here from Seneca, where he was minister of the Congregational Church. He also served pastorates at Circleville and Goff. Born Aug. 21, 1880, at Holton, he was past president of the Topeka Council of Churches, past grand-chaplin of the Grand Masonic Lodge of Kansas and a state senator for two terms. For many years he was chaplain and later superintendent of the Kansas State Reformatory at Hutchinson. In 1927 as a result of his prominence as minister, educator and lecturer, he was chose to join the Sherwood Eddy European Seminary. After retirement, he represented Kansas farm organizations in the Legislature and was retained in an advisory capacity by the Kansas Farmers Union. He attended Larkingburg schools and was a graduate of Campbell College at Holton in 1905. He married Lulu Ford in 1902. She died in 1954. In 1960, he was married to Emily Scrafford Magill, his surviving widow of the Town House Apartments. Following graduation from college, he taught school several years and then attended Chicago University. At Lawrence he was president of the Kansas Christian Missionary Society. In Topeka he taught the Loyal Berean Sunday School Class. He and his twin brother, the Rev. Frank Richard of Hutchinson, observed thier 80th birthday in the pulpit in 1960. Survivors other than his widow and brother are three sons, Glenn Richard of Alexandria, Va., Quentin Richard of Santa Barbara, Calif., and Charles Richard, Jr., of Minneapolis, Minn.; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the First Christian Church with the Rev. David M. Bryan officiating. Burial will be at 1 p.m. in the Seneca Cemetery. The body will be at the Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home from 4 p.m. today until 9 a.m. Tuesday.