Cecilia Esther Koehler was born on the family farm outside Tecumseh, Kansas, on Thursday, July 27, 1911, to Frank Gibson Koehler and Mary Anderson. She was the oldest of four children. She graduated from Topeka Catholic High School on June 11, 1929. To get to school, she and her sister, Frances, rode a horse to the intersection of what is now old Highway 40 and Shawnee Heights Road where they caught a commercial bus which took them to Topeka. Her senior year, on April 3, 1929, she won first prize in the State Chemistry Essay Contest for which she received a twenty-dollar gold piece, a certificate, and participation in the National Contest. The title of her essay was “Chemistry and Its Relation to Health and Disease.”
After graduating from high school, she attended Clark’s School of Business in Topeka. She worked for the National Bank of Topeka for Myers Commission Company, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, for eight years. After that she took a civil service test and decided to see something of the world and moved to Washington, D.C. There she worked as a secretary-stenographer for an IBM executive in the Industry Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.
She met her husband, Henry Charles Eugene Marsolais, while delivering a watch for him to repair for her boss. They had six children, the first three were born in Maryland and the last three in Kansas. They moved from Maryland to Golden and Black Hawk, Colorado, in September 1947 after their third child was born. After Colorado, the family lived in Tecumseh, Leavenworth, and Topeka. While in Leavenworth Cecilia and her husband worked at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth where Cecilia was secretary to General Coutts.
In Topeka, after her last child began school she went back to work. She retired August 1, 1976, as a supervisor for the Motor Vehicle Department for the Kansas State Highway Department. After retirement, she was active in genealogy research.
On election day, November 4, 1986, she and her husband entered Rossville Valley Manor where she died of congestive heart failure on December 27, 1994. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband in 1986; her brothers, William Hugh Koehler and Matthew Clarence Koehler; and her sister, Georgia Frances Donahue.
Survivors include four daughters, Cecilia B. Jones, Bothell, Wash., Theresa M. Wilson, Manhattan, Lorraine F. Marsolais, South Bend, Ind., and Loretta E. Rocha, Berryton; two sons, Henry E. Marsolais, Columbus, Ind., and Claude E. Marsolais, Granger, Ind.; and eight grandchildren.
A rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. Dec. 29 at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, December 30, 1994, at the Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Big Springs.
After graduating from high school, she attended Clark’s School of Business in Topeka. She worked for the National Bank of Topeka for Myers Commission Company, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, for eight years. After that she took a civil service test and decided to see something of the world and moved to Washington, D.C. There she worked as a secretary-stenographer for an IBM executive in the Industry Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.
She met her husband, Henry Charles Eugene Marsolais, while delivering a watch for him to repair for her boss. They had six children, the first three were born in Maryland and the last three in Kansas. They moved from Maryland to Golden and Black Hawk, Colorado, in September 1947 after their third child was born. After Colorado, the family lived in Tecumseh, Leavenworth, and Topeka. While in Leavenworth Cecilia and her husband worked at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth where Cecilia was secretary to General Coutts.
In Topeka, after her last child began school she went back to work. She retired August 1, 1976, as a supervisor for the Motor Vehicle Department for the Kansas State Highway Department. After retirement, she was active in genealogy research.
On election day, November 4, 1986, she and her husband entered Rossville Valley Manor where she died of congestive heart failure on December 27, 1994. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband in 1986; her brothers, William Hugh Koehler and Matthew Clarence Koehler; and her sister, Georgia Frances Donahue.
Survivors include four daughters, Cecilia B. Jones, Bothell, Wash., Theresa M. Wilson, Manhattan, Lorraine F. Marsolais, South Bend, Ind., and Loretta E. Rocha, Berryton; two sons, Henry E. Marsolais, Columbus, Ind., and Claude E. Marsolais, Granger, Ind.; and eight grandchildren.
A rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. Dec. 29 at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, December 30, 1994, at the Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Big Springs.
Cecilia Esther Koehler was born on the family farm outside Tecumseh, Kansas, on Thursday, July 27, 1911, to Frank Gibson Koehler and Mary Anderson. She was the oldest of four children. She graduated from Topeka Catholic High School on June 11, 1929. To get to school, she and her sister, Frances, rode a horse to the intersection of what is now old Highway 40 and Shawnee Heights Road where they caught a commercial bus which took them to Topeka. Her senior year, on April 3, 1929, she won first prize in the State Chemistry Essay Contest for which she received a twenty-dollar gold piece, a certificate, and participation in the National Contest. The title of her essay was “Chemistry and Its Relation to Health and Disease.”
After graduating from high school, she attended Clark’s School of Business in Topeka. She worked for the National Bank of Topeka for Myers Commission Company, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, for eight years. After that she took a civil service test and decided to see something of the world and moved to Washington, D.C. There she worked as a secretary-stenographer for an IBM executive in the Industry Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.
She met her husband, Henry Charles Eugene Marsolais, while delivering a watch for him to repair for her boss. They had six children, the first three were born in Maryland and the last three in Kansas. They moved from Maryland to Golden and Black Hawk, Colorado, in September 1947 after their third child was born. After Colorado, the family lived in Tecumseh, Leavenworth, and Topeka. While in Leavenworth Cecilia and her husband worked at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth where Cecilia was secretary to General Coutts.
In Topeka, after her last child began school she went back to work. She retired August 1, 1976, as a supervisor for the Motor Vehicle Department for the Kansas State Highway Department. After retirement, she was active in genealogy research.
On election day, November 4, 1986, she and her husband entered Rossville Valley Manor where she died of congestive heart failure on December 27, 1994. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband in 1986; her brothers, William Hugh Koehler and Matthew Clarence Koehler; and her sister, Georgia Frances Donahue.
Survivors include four daughters, Cecilia B. Jones, Bothell, Wash., Theresa M. Wilson, Manhattan, Lorraine F. Marsolais, South Bend, Ind., and Loretta E. Rocha, Berryton; two sons, Henry E. Marsolais, Columbus, Ind., and Claude E. Marsolais, Granger, Ind.; and eight grandchildren.
A rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. Dec. 29 at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, December 30, 1994, at the Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Big Springs.
After graduating from high school, she attended Clark’s School of Business in Topeka. She worked for the National Bank of Topeka for Myers Commission Company, a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, for eight years. After that she took a civil service test and decided to see something of the world and moved to Washington, D.C. There she worked as a secretary-stenographer for an IBM executive in the Industry Advisory Committee of the War Production Board.
She met her husband, Henry Charles Eugene Marsolais, while delivering a watch for him to repair for her boss. They had six children, the first three were born in Maryland and the last three in Kansas. They moved from Maryland to Golden and Black Hawk, Colorado, in September 1947 after their third child was born. After Colorado, the family lived in Tecumseh, Leavenworth, and Topeka. While in Leavenworth Cecilia and her husband worked at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth where Cecilia was secretary to General Coutts.
In Topeka, after her last child began school she went back to work. She retired August 1, 1976, as a supervisor for the Motor Vehicle Department for the Kansas State Highway Department. After retirement, she was active in genealogy research.
On election day, November 4, 1986, she and her husband entered Rossville Valley Manor where she died of congestive heart failure on December 27, 1994. She was predeceased by her parents; her husband in 1986; her brothers, William Hugh Koehler and Matthew Clarence Koehler; and her sister, Georgia Frances Donahue.
Survivors include four daughters, Cecilia B. Jones, Bothell, Wash., Theresa M. Wilson, Manhattan, Lorraine F. Marsolais, South Bend, Ind., and Loretta E. Rocha, Berryton; two sons, Henry E. Marsolais, Columbus, Ind., and Claude E. Marsolais, Granger, Ind.; and eight grandchildren.
A rosary will be recited at 4 p.m. Dec. 29 at the funeral home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, December 30, 1994, at the Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Burial will be in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Big Springs.
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