Gladys Drescher Kinney

1. Full Name: Gladys Drescher Kinney Age: 94 Years Sex: F

2. Current address: Topeka

3. Date of death: Sunday , December 29, 2002

4 Place of death: Topeka retirement home

5. Cause of death:

6. Date of birth: June 15, 1908 Place of birth: Norton, Kansas

6.b. Parents: Lawrence Rich and Eunice Dell Gilder Allison

6.c. Years in current city/town:

7. Background: Mrs. Kinney lived in Norton, Kansas as a child. She lived in Gem, Kansas from 1917 until
moving to Topeka in 1945, She served as a custodian at the Rock Island Railroad depot in Gem for 5 years. After
coming to Topeka, she worked for the Kansas State Motor Vehicle Department for 17 years before retiring in 1973.
She was a member of the Baptist Church in Gem, where she taught Sunday School and sang in the choir. In
Topeka, she was a member of Oakland Presbyterian Church, where she taught Sunday School classes and sang in
the choir. She belonged to a Kansas State University Extension Home Demonstration Unit, and served as
president for 3 years. Following her retirement, she sang in the Starlite Senior Chorus.

8. Relatives: Married to: Reno Delray Drescher in 1926. They were divorced. She married Marion
Lotspeich in 1963. They divorced. She married Alvin Kinney in 1979. He died in 1983.

8.b. preceded in death by: Son, Charles Drescher in Nov., 1998.
8.c. Immediate survivors:
Daughter: Alice Tilton, Topeka
Son: George Drescher, Topeka, KS
Son: Rodney Drescher, Greenwood, MO
Son: Dale Drescher, Kansas City, KS
Brother: Lawrence Allison, Osage City, KS
Sister: Eunice Dodson, Bartlesville, OK
Sister: Marie Armstrong, Sharon Springs, KS
6: Grandchildren
5: Step-grandchildren
16: Great-grandchildren
4: Step-Great-grandchildren
9. Service time, day, date, place: Services will be at 11:00 am, Thursday, January 2, 2003 at Mt Hope
Chapel.

10. Burial: Mt. Hope Cemetery Topeka, Kansas

11. Visitation times, place: She will lie in state after 10:00 am at Mt. Hope Chapel.

12. Vigil, wake, rosary, other:

13. Memorial contributions, if any: American Diabetes Assn., 3625 SW 29th, 66614

14. Funeral home in charge: Newcomer Family Funeral Home, 4020 SW 6th Ave., Topeka, Kansas 66606
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