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Virginia Josephine <I>Baker</I> Bruce

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Virginia Josephine Baker Bruce

Birth
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
Death
18 Oct 1968 (aged 48)
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA
Burial
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Add to Map
Plot
Vesper, Lot 142, Grave 1
Memorial ID
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Link to parents, middle & maiden name sent by Cameron Disney (#47173342)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
Virginia Bruce
lot owner: Charles E. Bruce
Lot 142, Vesper, Grave 1
born: Aug. 14, 1920, Topeka, Kansas
died: Oct. 18, 1968 (different from date on stone)
buried: Oct. 22, 1968
late residence: 814 East 34th
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer

Topeka Capital-Journal, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1968, page 45:
Virginia Bruce Dies After Hospital Stay

Mrs. Virginia Josephine Bruce, 48, 814 E. 34th, died Friday in a Topeka hospital where she had been readmitted August 16. She had been a hospital patient from August 2-15. She had cancer.

She was born August 14, 1920, in Topeka, and spent all but 15 years of her life in Topeka. She was a graduate of Meriden High School and attended Calvary Bible College at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Bruce was a member of Topeka Bible Church and the auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Survivors include her husband, Charles E. Bruce, at home; a daughter, Ruth Charlene Bruce, at home; her mother, Mrs. Edith Bell Baker, 1505 Campbell; four sisters, Mrs. Betty DeWitt, 616 E. 34th, Mrs. Margaret Riddle, 3311 Pennsylvania, Mrs. Dorothy Chacey, Overland Park, and Mrs. June Thorp, 739 Garfield; and two brothers, Lawrence Baker, 1837 W. 2nd, and Harold Baker, LaGrande, Ore.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Topeka Bible Church. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Topeka Bible Church Memorial Fund. Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Link to parents, middle & maiden name sent by Cameron Disney (#47173342)
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Microfilmed cemetery records at the Kansas State Archives:
Virginia Bruce
lot owner: Charles E. Bruce
Lot 142, Vesper, Grave 1
born: Aug. 14, 1920, Topeka, Kansas
died: Oct. 18, 1968 (different from date on stone)
buried: Oct. 22, 1968
late residence: 814 East 34th
funeral director: Wall-Diffenderfer

Topeka Capital-Journal, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1968, page 45:
Virginia Bruce Dies After Hospital Stay

Mrs. Virginia Josephine Bruce, 48, 814 E. 34th, died Friday in a Topeka hospital where she had been readmitted August 16. She had been a hospital patient from August 2-15. She had cancer.

She was born August 14, 1920, in Topeka, and spent all but 15 years of her life in Topeka. She was a graduate of Meriden High School and attended Calvary Bible College at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Bruce was a member of Topeka Bible Church and the auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Survivors include her husband, Charles E. Bruce, at home; a daughter, Ruth Charlene Bruce, at home; her mother, Mrs. Edith Bell Baker, 1505 Campbell; four sisters, Mrs. Betty DeWitt, 616 E. 34th, Mrs. Margaret Riddle, 3311 Pennsylvania, Mrs. Dorothy Chacey, Overland Park, and Mrs. June Thorp, 739 Garfield; and two brothers, Lawrence Baker, 1837 W. 2nd, and Harold Baker, LaGrande, Ore.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Topeka Bible Church. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Topeka Bible Church Memorial Fund. Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.


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