Shawnee County KS Archives Obituaries.....BRAYMAN, Edwin E. April 13, 1947 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jim Laird jlaird@bellsouth.net July 20, 2005, 8:50 am The Topeka Daily Capital. Sunday April 13, 1947 Edwin B. Brayman, Veteran Railway Express Agent, Dies. Edwin E. BRAYMAN, 71, former general agent for the Railway Express Company in Topeka, died very suddenly at his home, 1418 Buchanan, at 9:30 Saturday morning. Mr. Brayman suffered a heart attack while working in the rose garden in the yard of his home. Mr. Brayman retired as general agent of the Railway Express on January 1 of this year, after 51 years of continous service with the company. Long one of Topeka's leading civic workers, Ed Brayman was active in the First Congregational Church and in the Rotary Club. He held one of the longest terms of service in express work of anyone in the country. Saw Long Service. He began work as a deliveryman for the express company during the Christmas rush of 1895, at the time when deliveries were made by horse and wagon, and when the express companies and railroad frieght offered almost the only way of long-distance hauling. Brayman went to Pittsburg to Girard, then to Oklahoma City, and later back to Pittsburg as agent. He also worked for the company in Wichita and Kansas City and since 1918 had been the general agent in Topeka. He served for 15 years as superintendent of the Sunday school in First Congregational Church, and had been chairman of the board of trustess for a number of years. Mr. Brayman had taken an active interest in the church's building program, meeting regularly with the committees in charge of the plans. He was a long-time member of the Chamber of Commerce and a member and past president of the Rotary Club. He was also a member of the Traffic Club, Scottish Rite and Siloam No. 225 Blue Lodge. Wanted to Go Fishing. At the meeting of the Rotary Club last Thursday Mr. Brayman introduced C.W. Ashbaugh as his successor as express agent and a new member of the club. Durning the past week he had helped confer degrees in the Scottish Rite bodies. In the best of sprits and looking forward to years of leisure, which he never had enjoyed, Mr. Brayman told friends of his plant to "get my yard in good shape and then go fishing." Surviving are his wife; one daughter, Mr. H.L. BLACKWELL of Kansas City, Mo.; and a grandson, James D. Blackwell of Kansas City, and two sisters, Miss Nettie Brayman and Mrs. J.N. ATKINSON, both of Pawnee City, Neb. Funeral arrangements will be made by Wall-Diffenderfer. ==== KS-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/obits/b/brayman533gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb