The Topeka Daily Capital Wednesday March 1, 1961 Close Services. Services for Mrs. Hattie H. CLOSE, 90, 915 Munson, will be at 4 p.m. today in the Penwell-Gabel Chapel with burial in Muscatine, Iowa. She died Thursday after a short illness. Born Oct. 12, 1870, in Illinois City, Ill., Mrs. Close came to Topeka in 1910, from Howard. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Howard. Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Ferris Akey, 911 Munson; one brother, Elbert McGreer of Illinois City; one grandson and two great-drandaughters.