OBIT: Shawnee County, KS; WORBOYS, Mark R., 1939 http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/obits/worboysmr.txt From : "James Laird" To : KS-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject :[KS-FOOT]Obit: WORBOYS; May 19, 1939; Shawnee Date : Thu, 17 Oct 2002 added to the archives: Monday, October 21, 2002 see copyright notice at end of file. =================================================== The Topeka Daily Capital Friday May 19, 1939 Mark R. Worboys. Funeral services for Mark R. WORBOYS, 73, superintendent of the Union Pacific water plant in North Topeka, who died Thursday in a local hospital, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Peebler's Funeral Home, with interment in Prairie Home Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the funeral home until the time of service. He was born November 15, 1865, in Pennsylvania, came to Junction City in 1871 and moved to Topeka twenty-seven years ago. Since his employment by the railroad in 1914, he had been foreman of the bridge building department and recently superintendent of the water plant. WORBOYS served on the North Topeka drainage board and was a member of the Security Benefit Association. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary WORBOYS of the home, 2012 North Monroe Street; three stepchildren, Mrs. Nellie MARTIN, route 6, North Topeka; John WARD, living in Washington, and Frank WARD in Colorado; eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. =================================================== Contributed for use by the USGenWeb Archive Project (http://www.usgenweb.org) and by the KSGenWeb USGenWeb Archive Project USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.