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    1. [KSShawnee] Obituary: Mrs. Harold CONE..
    2. Jim Laird
    3. The Topeka Daily Capital Tuesday November 1, 1960 Mrs. Cone, 67, Dies; Services Will Be Today. Services will be at 11 a.m. today for Mrs. Harold CONE, 67, 1620 W. 15th, at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary. She died Friday at Branson, Mo., while en-route to her home after a trip through the South with her brother, E.R. Johnson of Mill Valley, Calif. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today in Greenwood Cemetery at Eureka. The body will lie in state at the mortuary until 10 a.m. today. The daughter of pioneers from Illinois, Mrs. Cone was born May 6, 1893, at Fredonia. She was graduated at Eureka High School in 1910 and at Washburn College in 1914. While at Washburn, she was a member of Beta (now Alpha Phi) social sorority. She attended Harvard University summer school in 1915 and then taught two years at Eureka High School. Mr. and Mrs. Cone lived in Seattle, Wash., until 1921. They then lived in Eureka, until moving to Topeka in 1937. Mrs. Cone was a member of Central Congregational Church and the board of trustees of the Shawnee County Historical Society, editor of the historical society's Bulletin, state chairman of the public relations committee of the Daughters of American Colonists, a past regent of the Topeka Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, former vice-president of the Woman's Club, a charter member of the FI Chapter of PEO and former president fo the Junior Louvre Art Club, Nautilus Club and Colony No. 106 of the National Society of New England Women. She was a life member of Kansas State Historial Society. She was also a memer of the Women's Knife and Fork Club, Huguenot Society of Kansas, Washburn Alumni Assn. and Alpha Phi Alumnae Chapter of Topeka. Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Paul L. Lentz, and two grandsons, all of Greenbelt, Md.; and her brother, R.E. Johnson. The family suggests any contributions in memory of Mrs. Cone be made to a memorial fund established for her at the Shawnee County Historical Society.

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