THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Davidson-Duff Funeral Home for Lauren B. Whiteman, 60, 1239 Oakley, who was declared dead at the scene of a fire Thursday at 223 Fillmore.
Topeka Fire Department officials said Mr. Whiteman was overcome by smoke and collapsed in a kitchen.
Dr. Wilks Scamman, deputy district coroner, said an autopsy revealed Mr. Whiteman died as the result of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide.
Mr. Whiteman was born July 23, 1921, at Topeka, the son of Fred L. and Myrtle I. (Bills) Whiteman. He lived in Topeka all his life.
Mr. Whiteman was a truck driver and construction worker.
He was a member of Phillip Billard Post No. 1650 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and attended Holy Name Catholic Church. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survisors include a daughter, Mrs. Connie Noyes, Broken Arrow, Okla.; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Giltman, Flint, Mich.; two brothers, Dean Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo., and Ernest Whiteman, 4829 N.W. 17th; and three grandchildren.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Phillip Billard Post No. 1650, VFW, in Prairie Home Cemetery, northwest of Topeka. The casket will remain closed. Friends may call until service time at the funeral home where a rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. today.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Davidson-Duff Funeral Home for Lauren B. Whiteman, 60, 1239 Oakley, who was declared dead at the scene of a fire Thursday at 223 Fillmore.
Topeka Fire Department officials said Mr. Whiteman was overcome by smoke and collapsed in a kitchen.
Dr. Wilks Scamman, deputy district coroner, said an autopsy revealed Mr. Whiteman died as the result of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide.
Mr. Whiteman was born July 23, 1921, at Topeka, the son of Fred L. and Myrtle I. (Bills) Whiteman. He lived in Topeka all his life.
Mr. Whiteman was a truck driver and construction worker.
He was a member of Phillip Billard Post No. 1650 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and attended Holy Name Catholic Church. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survisors include a daughter, Mrs. Connie Noyes, Broken Arrow, Okla.; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Giltman, Flint, Mich.; two brothers, Dean Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo., and Ernest Whiteman, 4829 N.W. 17th; and three grandchildren.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Phillip Billard Post No. 1650, VFW, in Prairie Home Cemetery, northwest of Topeka. The casket will remain closed. Friends may call until service time at the funeral home where a rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. today.
THE TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL - SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1982
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Davidson-Duff Funeral Home for Lauren B. Whiteman, 60, 1239 Oakley, who was declared dead at the scene of a fire Thursday at 223 Fillmore.
Topeka Fire Department officials said Mr. Whiteman was overcome by smoke and collapsed in a kitchen.
Dr. Wilks Scamman, deputy district coroner, said an autopsy revealed Mr. Whiteman died as the result of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide.
Mr. Whiteman was born July 23, 1921, at Topeka, the son of Fred L. and Myrtle I. (Bills) Whiteman. He lived in Topeka all his life.
Mr. Whiteman was a truck driver and construction worker.
He was a member of Phillip Billard Post No. 1650 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and attended Holy Name Catholic Church. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survisors include a daughter, Mrs. Connie Noyes, Broken Arrow, Okla.; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Giltman, Flint, Mich.; two brothers, Dean Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo., and Ernest Whiteman, 4829 N.W. 17th; and three grandchildren.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Phillip Billard Post No. 1650, VFW, in Prairie Home Cemetery, northwest of Topeka. The casket will remain closed. Friends may call until service time at the funeral home where a rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. today.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Davidson-Duff Funeral Home for Lauren B. Whiteman, 60, 1239 Oakley, who was declared dead at the scene of a fire Thursday at 223 Fillmore.
Topeka Fire Department officials said Mr. Whiteman was overcome by smoke and collapsed in a kitchen.
Dr. Wilks Scamman, deputy district coroner, said an autopsy revealed Mr. Whiteman died as the result of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide.
Mr. Whiteman was born July 23, 1921, at Topeka, the son of Fred L. and Myrtle I. (Bills) Whiteman. He lived in Topeka all his life.
Mr. Whiteman was a truck driver and construction worker.
He was a member of Phillip Billard Post No. 1650 of Veterans of Foreign Wars and attended Holy Name Catholic Church. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Survisors include a daughter, Mrs. Connie Noyes, Broken Arrow, Okla.; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Mrs. Vivian Giltman, Flint, Mich.; two brothers, Dean Whiteman, Fort Collins, Colo., and Ernest Whiteman, 4829 N.W. 17th; and three grandchildren.
Military graveside services will be conducted by Phillip Billard Post No. 1650, VFW, in Prairie Home Cemetery, northwest of Topeka. The casket will remain closed. Friends may call until service time at the funeral home where a rosary will be recited at 3 p.m. today.
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