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8501
Obituary- Nadeau, David B.
Obituary- Nadeau, David B.
Findagrave.com information

David B. Nadeau was born November 10, 1860 in Michigan.

Son of Alexander Peter Nadeau and Madeline "Rebecca" Vieux.

David married Mary L. Bourassa, who was born about 1863 in Kansas.

David was listed in the U.S. Indian Census dated June 1900 as age 39, married to Mary B. Nadeau, and a member of the Pottawatomie Indian Tribe.

In 1900 and still in 1920, David and Mary were living with their children in Rossville, Kansas (Shawnee County) where David is farming.

David and Mary ultimately had 12 children, all born in Kansas:
John Joseph
Florence
Julia Ann
Benjamin
Josephine
James
Agnes
Merel
Isabella
Archie
Lewis
Paul  
 
8502
Obituary- Nadeau, Infant
Obituary- Nadeau, Infant
Nadeau Infant
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Nadeau, 1009 Fillmore, Topeka, died several hours after birth Thursday, May 8,1975 at a Topeka hospital.

Besides the parents, survivors include his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Strimple, Rossville, and Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Banta, Delia; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner and Mrs. Anna Strimple, all of Rossville, and Mrs. Helen Banta, Delia; and a great-great grandmother, Mrs. Bessie Baird, St. Marys.

Graveside services were at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Rossville Cemetery in Rossville.

Parker Mortuary had charge of arrangements.

Nadeau Infant
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Nadeau, 1009 Fillmore, died several hours after birth Thursday at a Topeka hospital.

Besides the parents, survivors include his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Strimple, Rossville, and Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Banta, Delia; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Turner and Mrs. Anna Strimple, all of Rossville, and Mrs. Helen Banta, Delia; and a great-great-grandmother, Mrs. Bessie Baird, St. Marys.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m.
Friday at the Rossville Cemetery, Rossville.
Parker Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
 
 
8503
Obituary- Nadeau, J.E.
Obituary- Nadeau, J.E.
Joe E. (Coe) Nadeau

J.E. (Coe) Nadeau of St. Marys, died Friday night in a Topeka hospital. He was 84 years old. Mr. Nadeau was a son of the late Eli Nadeau of the reservation and a pioneer of Jackson county.

He is survived by two daughters, Sister Rose Agnes and Mrs. Richard Holme both of Kansas City, Mo.; one son, J.E. Nadeau of Topeka, and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Immaculate Conception church in St. Marys with the Verschelden Funeral Home in charge of arrangement.

Burial was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery at St. Marys. 
 
8504
Obituary- Nadeau, Jordan 1
Obituary- Nadeau, Jordan 1
Jordan Nadeau
ROSSVILLE —Jordan David Nadeau, 22, Topeka, died Thursday, March 1,2001, at a Manhattan hospital from injuries he suffered in an automobile accident near Manhattan.

Mr. Nadeau had worked in the loss prevention division of Wal-Mart for six years. He also worked one year for Circuit City.

He was born Oct. 2, 1978, in Topeka, the son of David and Gay Strimple Nadeau. He was raised in Rossville and graduated from Rossville High School in 1997, where he played baseball for four years and basketball for three years. He was enrolled at Topeka Technical College at the time of his death.

Mr. Nadeau was a member of Rossville Christian Church and the Citizen Band of the Potawatomi Nation.

Survivors include his parents, David and Gay Nadeau. Rossville; a brother, Dylan Nadeau, Concordia; a sister, Anna Nadeau, Rossville; his fiance, Sherree Baker, Topeka; and grandparents, Orville and Jackie Strimple, Rossville, and Roxie Banta, Silver Lake.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Rossville Christian Church. Burial will be in the Rossville Cemetery. Mr. Nadeau will lie in state after 4 p.m. Sunday at the church, where visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Rossville Christian Church, 411 Spruce, Rossville, 66533; or to the Heritage Christian School Building Fund, 3102 N.W. Topeka, Blvd., Topeka, 66617.

Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys is in charge of arrangements.
 
 
8505
Obituary- Nadeau, Jordan 2
Obituary- Nadeau, Jordan 2
Jordan D. Nadeau
Jordan David Nadeau, 22, Topeka, died Thursday, March 1, 2001, in a vehicle accident south of Manhattan.

He was born October 2, 1978, in Topeka, the son of David and Gay Strimple Nadeau.

Jordan grew up in Rossville, and was graduated from Rossville High School in 1997, where he played baseball for four years, and basketball for three years. He was attending Topeka Technical College. He was employed by Walmart for six years, where he worked in the Loss Prevention Division, and for a year was employed by Circuit City. Jordan was a member of the Rossville Christian Church, and was a member of the Citizen Band of the Potawatomi Nation.

In addition to his parents, he is survived by a brother, Dylan Nadeau, Concordia; a sister, Anna Nadeau, Rossville; his fiancee, Sherree Baker, Topeka; his grandparents, Orville and Jackie Strimple, Rossville, and his grandmother, Roxie Banta, Silver Lake.

Jordan’s service was at 1:30 pm. Monday at the Rossville Christian Church. Burial was in the Rossville Cemetery. Visitation was Sunday evening at the church.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Rossville Christian Church, 411 Spruce, Rossville 66533, or to the Heritage Christian School Building Fund, 3102 North Topeka Boulevard, Topeka 66617.

Piper Funeral Chapel, Rossville, was in charge of arrangements.

2 die on icy roads
The Capital-Journal
Icy roadways were blamed for killing a man and a teen-age girl early Thursday in unrelated accidents five minutes apart.

A Topeka man died after he was ejected from a vehicle that rolled two times on a Geary County highway. The accident occurred at 7:25 a.m. about three miles south of Manhattan.

Jordan D. Nadeau, 22, was the passenger in a 1996 Mitsubishi traveling north on K-177 highway. The vehicle rolled after the driver lost control on the icy roadway, according to a report from the Kansas Highway



Morning wrecks
kill Topeka man,
Louisville teen.
Patrol. The vehicle came to rest on Lafayette Road.

Nadeau died at the scene.

The driver, Matthew W. Rieke, 25, of Sharon, was taken to Mercy Health Center in Manhattan, where a hospital spokeswoman said he was treated and released.

According to the report, Nadeau wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Rieke was wearing a seat belt.



In a separate accident, a 17-year- old girl died after she lost control of her vehicle on a Pottawatomie County highway at 7:20 a.m. about two miles north of Wamego.

Brandee E. Bastian, of Louisville, was driving south on K-99 highway when she tried to pass another southbound vehicle. She pulled back into her lane and lost control of her 1988 Subaru, according to a patrol report.

The vehicle slid into the path of a northbound truck. Bastian was ejected from her vehicle.

The driver of the northbound vehicle, Randall R. Weeks, 47, of Wamego, wasn’t injured. According to the report, Weeks wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Bastian was wearing a seat belt.

 
 
8506
Obituary- Nadeau, Joseph
Obituary- Nadeau, Joseph
Joseph E. Nadeau III
ST. MARYS — Mass of Christian burial will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church here for Joseph E. Nadeau III. 60, Hartford, Wis., a former Kansan, who died Sunday, Jan. 28, 1996,
at a hospital in Hartford, Wis.

He was born April 19, 1935, in Topeka, the son of Joseph E. and Christine Bushy Nadeau. He lived in Dayton, Ohio, before he moved to Hartford, Wis., in 1976. He was a salesman for General Mills.

He was a member of the Catholic Church, Daniel Boone Conservation Club and Alcoholics Anonymous in West Bend and Oconomowoc, Wis.

He was married to Bonnie Dubbe Dec. 5, 1958, in Sioux Falls, S.D. She
survives.

Other survivors include a son, Joseph E. Nadeau IV, Oshkosh, Wis.; two daughters, Lisa Girani, New York City, and Susan Bustamante, Chicago; a brother, Robert Nadeau, New Berlin, Wis.; two sisters, Nancy Walsh, Kansas City, Kan., and Mary Martha Lyons, St. Paul, Minn.; and four grandchildren.

Burial will be in Mount Calvary
Cemetery in St. Marys.

Memorial contributions may be made to Alcoholics Anonymous and sent in care of Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys.
 
 
8507
Obituary- Nadeau, Joseph
Obituary- Nadeau, Joseph
From findagrave.com 
 
8508
Obituary- Nadeau, Louis
Obituary- Nadeau, Louis
LEW NADEAU
Word was received in Rossville, Tuesday by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Cottle of the death of her brother, Lew Nadeau living near Tecumseh, Okla. His death followed a recent stroke of paralysis.

LOUIS NADEAU
Louis Nadeau, 66, passed away at Concho, Okla., Tuesday, November 3, following a five weeks’ illness. Burial was at Shawnee, Okla.

Mr. Nadeau was born in this community in 1876, on the farm known as the “Little Alec” Nadeau place, now owned by George Reser. He spent most of his early life in and around Rossville. Some years after his marriage to Laura Baylis, he moved to Oklahoma where, he lived on his wife’s allotment twelve miles southeast of Tecumseh.

To this union two children were born, a daughter, Mrs. Claude Hollingsworth, of Tecumseh, Okla., and a son, Dan, also of Tecumseh. Other survivors are three brothers, David Nadeau, of Topeka; Nock Nadeau of Soldier, Kans.; and Isadore, of Soldier, Kan., and one sister, Mrs. Rose Cottle of Rossville.

His wife died several years ago.
 
 
8509
Obituary- Nadeau, Madaline
Obituary- Nadeau, Madaline
Findagrave.com information
The funeral services of the late Mrs Madeline Nadeau were held last Friday in the Catholic Church at St. Marys and inerment made int he St Mary's Cemetery.
Mrs. Nadeau died at midnight Sunday from a hemorrage at the advaced age of eighty-six. For many months she has been a invalid requiring the constant care of her daughter, Mrs. Rose Cottle., with whom she lived. Shortly before she died she was attacked with a coughing spell which probably ruputured a blood vessel, and she died in a short time.
Mrs. Nadeau was a native of Iowa, born near the present cit of Council Bluffs, the daughter of Louis Vieux. She came to this country in the early days with her husband the late "Little Elex" Nadeau whose indian allotment along Cross Creek northwest of town is now owned by Zach Reser. Sometime after the death of her husband, the old home place was sold an she moved to Rossville and has lived here since.
The surviving members of her family are four sons, "Nock" of the reservation, Louis, of Maude, Olka, David of Rossville and Isadore of Salina; and one daughter Mrs. Rose Cottle, of Rossville. Two sisters Mrs. Sophie Johnson of Shawnee Okla. and Mrs. Rachel Thurber of Rossville.- Rossville Reporter

--St Marys Star 22 Aug 1918 p4 c5  
 
8510
Obituary- Nadeau, Martha
Obituary- Nadeau, Martha
From findagrave.com 
 
8511
Obituary- Nadeau, Paul 1
Obituary- Nadeau, Paul 1
"Chow" Nadeau dies suddenly
Paul Edward “Chow” Nadeau, 47 died Tuesday night at a Topeka hospital after a short illness. He was born August 26, 1910, at Emmett, Kansas. He was employed by Coe Seed Co., of Topeka.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Roxie Nadeau; four daughters, Jeanette, who is employed by the Topeka Board of Education, Jean, who is a student at Washburn University, Sally and Susan, of the home; three sons, Michael, David and Dennis, all of the home; his mother, Mrs. Mary Nadeau, Topeka; two sisters, Mrs. Merle Hart and Mrs. Julia McManus, both of Topeka; three brothers, Ben Nadeau of Mountview, Calif., Archie Nadeau of Kansas City. Mo., and John Nadeau of Duarte, Calif.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p. m. Friday in the Rossville Methodist Church. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery. Hurley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
 
 
8512
Obituary- Nadeau, Paul 2
Obituary- Nadeau, Paul 2
“Chow” Nadeau
Last week this community lost one of its citizens who will probably live in the minds of the community a long time. Paul Edward Nadeau or best known as “Chow” grew up in this community an ideal athlete. He can be remembered as being on the team as you like to see boys or men. He may or may not have been an outstanding player, but he was there, needed by his fellow men, and liked. He just did his job in a sportsman-like manner that led the team to the top.

Chow didn’t grow out of sports as some do. He was in there pitching until his dying day. If he was’nt coaching the team, he was always on the sidelines boosting for his team to win. Chow’s latest efforts were toward the town’s baseball teams that he helped promote, coach, umpire or just serve anywhere he could.

Probably to many citizens, Chow was a quiet mannered fellow. Many had never talked directly to him, but most everyone knew him. Few have heard him raise his voice in anger.

Yes, the community will miss Chow but when the spring baseball season opens and the grandstand is filled, if they will look up over the dust of the diamond toward the sky, he’ll be there watching in his quiet manner and boosting the little fellows toward victory.
 
 
8513
Obituary- Nadeau, Pearl
Obituary- Nadeau, Pearl
Word has been received here of the death of Mrs. Dan Nadeau of Oklahoma. She passed away November 24.

Findagrave.com info
Pearl Marion Nadeau
DOB 7/22/1892
DOD 11/24/1957

Buried in Tecumseh Cemetery
Tecumseh, OK 
 
8514
Obituary- Nagle, Sidney 1
Obituary- Nagle, Sidney 1
DEATHS.
The funeral of Mrs. Helen D. Nagles [sic Nagle], who committed suicide by hanging at the home her brother, Daniel Davis, Ogden, Utah, March 1st., was held in the Presbyterian Church in this city last Sunday. Mrs. Nagle formerly lived in this city and a large concourse of friends attended the funeral to pay a last token of respect to the dead.

Mrs. Nagle left four children to mourn her death - Mrs. Joe Taylor of Kiowa, Kan., Mrs. James VanOrsdol of Silver Lake, Laura, the youngest who makes her home with her sister at Kiowa and Carrie who is a High school student at Topeka.

Since leaving Rossville, Mrs. Nagle made her home with her children at Topeka until she went to visit her brother at Ogden about three months ago. The cause of her rash act is said to be sickness and despondency.

Her brother as well as all the children were here to attend the funeral.

The relatives have the sincerest sympathy of their many friends in their great sorrow.

[From The Shawnee County News, Friday, March 11, 1904] 
 
8515
Obituary- Nagle, Sidney 2
Obituary- Nagle, Sidney 2
Transcription in first image. 
 
8516
Obituary- Naill, Charlotte
Obituary- Naill, Charlotte

Mrs. Charlotte R. Naill
Mrs. Charlotte Rendle Naill, 95, formerly of 1244 Washburn, died Wednesday, Dec. 17, at a Topeka nursing home.

She was born Jan. 16, 1891, in Ottawa, Ill., the daughter of William and Charlotte Phillips Rendle. She moved to a farm north of Delia in Jackson County in 1897 and later moved to Topeka where she spent most of her life.

She was married to Harry Eberly Naill Feb. 15, 1911. He died Oct. 23, 1964. A daughter, Charlotte Ruth Naill, died in infancy.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Maurine Collins, Kansas City, Kan., and Mrs. Helen E. Holste, Topeka; a son, Harold E. Naill, Topeka; two brothers, William P. Rendle, Cottonwood Falls, and Lewis H. Rendle, Topeka; five grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Relatives and friends will meet after 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Central Congregational United Church of Christ, 1248 Buchanan, 66604.
 
 
8517
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 1
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 1
Obituary
Harriet Ruth Cowls, daughter of Julius and Elnora Cowls was born December 24th, 1855, at Belmont, Iowa, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ida May Stalker, of 1185 Clay street, Topeka, Kansas, July 2nd, 1914.

When about ten years of age she moved with her parents to Rockton, Ill., where her girlhood days were spent. In early life she was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church.

In 1879 she came with her parents to Kansas. She was married to Theodore F. Naill, Dec., 13, 1882. To this union were born eight children--five sons, three daughters, all of whom were at her bedside when the messenger of death came for her, except one son who died in infancy. She leaves to mourn her departure, a husband, seven children and three grand children, two sisters and one brother. Her children are, Walter Edward, of Fresno Texas, Harry Eberly, of Topeka, Kan. Ida Belle, Theodore F. jr., Jessie Vernon, Harriett Ruth and Nettie Mable, who are still at home with the father. Her sister, Mrs. Nettie A. Kent, lives in Beloit Wisconsin, Mrs. Ida May Stalker of Topeka Kan. and her brother Lucius J. Cowls in Kansas City, Kansas.

[From 2 Jul 1914]

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Mrs. Hattie Nail [sic]
Mrs. Hattie R. Nail, aged 58, of Delia, died last Thursday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. M.L. Stalker, at Topeka. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Delia and interment made in the Adrian cemetery. 
 
8518
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 2
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 2
Rev. Dr. Gregg, of Lawrence, had charge of the funeral services which were held in the Presbyterian church, at Delia, Kansas, of which she had been a faithful member for the past six years, her remains were laid to rest in the Adrian cemetery.

Mrs. Naill was a kind loving mother, a faithful wife and a true friend, loved by all who knew her. She was faithful to her church, always ready to do the work assigned to her, with a cheerful spirit, and a loving heart.

She served as superintendent and as teacher in the Sunday school, and as president of the Ladies Aid, and at the time of her death was the church treasurer.

She will be greatly missed in the church, and in the community, as well as in the home. We only know it is a part of God's great plan to take her from us. Faithful to her God and faithful to her friends, she has entered into the full and final reward, bestowed upon all the faithful.

May the mantle of her purity and her religious devotion fall on the members of her family, whom she leaves behind and may [her] religious example be followed by those who in the day of eternity shall rise up and call her blessed.

[Poem] 
 
8519
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 3
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 3
Obituary
Harriet Ruth Cowls, daughter of Julius and Elnora Cowls was born December 24th, 1855, at Belmont, Iowa, died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ida May Stalker, of 1185 Clay street, Topeka, Kansas, July 2nd, 1914.

When about ten years of age she moved with her parents to Rockton, Ill., where her girlhood days were spent. In early life she was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church.

In 1879 she came with her parents to Kansas. She was married to Theodore F. Naill, Dec., 13, 1882. To this union were born eight children--five sons, three daughters, all of whom were at her bedside when the messenger of death came for her, except one son who died in infancy. She leaves to mourn her departure, a husband, seven children and three grand children, two sisters and one brother. Her children are, Walter Edward, of Fresno Texas, Harry Eberly, of Topeka, Kan. Ida Belle, Theodore F. jr., Jessie Vernon, Harriett Ruth and Nettie Mable, who are still at home with the father. Her sister, Mrs. Nettie A. Kent, lives in Beloit Wisconsin, Mrs. Ida May Stalker of Topeka Kan. and her brother Lucius J. Cowls in Kansas City, Kansas.

Rev. Dr. Gregg, of Lawrence, had charge of the funeral services which were held in the Presbyterian church, at Delia, Kansas, of which she had been a faithful member for the past six years, her remains were laid to rest in the Adrian cemetery.

Mrs. Naill was a kind loving mother, a faithful wife and a true friend, loved by all who knew her. She was faithful to her church, always ready to do the work assigned to her, with a cheerful spirit, and a loving heart.

She served as superintendent and as teacher in the Sunday school, and as president of the Ladies Aid, and at the time of her death was the church treasurer.

She will be greatly missed in the church, and in the community, as well as in the home. We only know it is a part of God's great plan to take her from us. Faithful to her God and faithful to her friends, she has entered into the full and final reward, bestowed upon all the faithful.

May the mantle of her purity and her religious devotion fall on the members of her family, whom she leaves behind and may [her] religious example be followed by those who in the day of eternity shall rise up and call her blessed.

[Poem]
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Rev. Gregg of Lawrence held service at the church Sunday morning and in the afternoon preached the funeral sermon of Mrs. Hattie Naill, who died Thursday, July 2, at the home of her sister, Mrs. M.L. Stalker, of 1185 Clay St., Topeka. Mrs. Naill had been in poor health for some time, but her death came so suddenly and unexpected it was a great shock to her family and her many friends. The funeral was the largest ever held in Delia. She was laid to rest in the Adrian cemetery. She leaves to mourn her departure, her husband, four sons, three daughters, two sisters and one brother. We extend our deepest sympathy to all.
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Quite a number of our people attended the funeral of Mrs. Naill at Delia Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Nail had many friends in this community who are saddened by her death. "To know her was to love her." Her body was laid to rest in the Adrian cemetery.
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Mrs. Hattie Nail [sic]
Mrs. Hattie R. Nail, aged 58, of Delia, died last Thursday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. M.L. Stalker, at Topeka. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at Delia and interment made in the Adrian cemetery.
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Walter Naill of Fresno Texas, who came to attend his mothers, funeral expects to return to his home soon.
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Mrs. Harry Naill of Topeka, returned to her home Saturday after a weeks visit with relatives. Her mother, Mrs. Will Rendal accompanied her home.

Mrs. Nette A. Kent of Beloit, Wisconsin returned to her home after a brief visit with relatives and friends. She is a sister of Mrs. Hattie Naill, late deceased.
 
 
8520
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 4
Obituary- Naill, Harriet 4
Burial information from findagrave.com March 13, 2018 
 
8521
Obituary- Nash, Ava
Obituary- Nash, Ava

Ava A. Nash
Ava A. Nash, 83, Grantville, died Sunday, August 27, 1995, at the Rossville Valley Manor.

Mrs. Nash and her husband farmed near Grantville and operated an orchard and later the Grade A. Dairy Farm with their son, L. Clark Nash. During World War II, Mrs. Nash helped prepare bandages to be sent overseas. She also served at a Serviceman’s Club and was a Red Cross volunteer. She worked for Sears for 11 years.

She was born November 5, 1911, near Maple Hill, the daughter of Fred S. and Mabel Miller Clark. She attended school in Maple Hill. She had lived in Whitefish, Mont., and Calgary, Ontario, Canada, while her husband worked on the Al-Can High¬way. She first moved to Grantville in 1931.

Mrs. Nash was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, the Grantville Extension Homemakers Unit, a Bridge Club and the Grantville Flower Club. She also canvassed for and supported the American Cancer Society, the Heart Fund and the American Red Cross.

She married Lynne Brooke Nash on April 4, 1931. He preceded her in death. She also was preceded in death by her son, L. Clark Nash.

Survivors include a sister, Sybil Deiter, Topeka; a brother, Wayne Clark, Paxico; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Relatives and friends met from 7 to 8 Wednesday evening at Davidson Funeral Home. Her service was at 10:00 Thursday at Countryside Christian Church. Burial was in Grantville Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Countryside Christian Church, K-4 and N.E. 36th Terrace, Topeka 66617.
 
 
8522
Obituary- Nason, Blanche
Obituary- Nason, Blanche
Blanche Nason
Word was received in Rossville this week of the death of Miss Blanche Nason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nason of Wichita. She passed away Thursday, November 12 at the Seward general hospital at Valdez, Alaska.

Miss Nason was born on a farm northeast of Rossville forty-three years ago, and while a young girl moved with her parents to Topeka, where she grew to womanhood, completing her grade and high school education in the Topeka schools. Later she entered Kansas State College and completed her junior year and then finished her college work in the University of Washington. After twelve years of teaching in schools at Manhattan, Kansas, Colorado and Bellingham, Wash., she accepted a call to Sitka, Alaska, where she worked as supervisor in the Sheldon Jackson school for three years. She returned to Washington later and entered the Whitworth College at Spokane. Her church synod ordained her to the gospel ministry there and she returned to Alaska which she felt sure was God's appointed field of labor for her. Such scripture as Deut. 36:6; Isaiah 51:16 and Isaiah 55:11, were precious promises made vivid at that time.

Aboard ship she was told of the town of Valdez, and the need there, and upon urgent request decided to stop awhile, not dreaming that it was to be her permanent location.

Miss Nason was the founder of the Home for Homeless and Afflicted children at Valdez, Alaska, known as ElNathan Home. She had felt the call for children's home work since her conversion at the age of eleven years and her many years of teaching made a splendid background of experience for the work she engaged in. She made a complete consecration for full time service to God and took a year and a half in training for Christian Leadership in the Los Angeles Bible Institute.

Miss Nason leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Nason, and a brother, Earl of Wichita; her aunt, Mrs. Joe Shenk of this city and an uncle, Lew Nason of Topeka, and many other relatives.

No details have been received as to the cause of her death of funeral arrangements.

[From 19 Nov 1936] 
 
8523
Obituary- Nason, James
Obituary- Nason, James
Obituary.
Died, Wednesday, June 17th, 1891, James Nason, aged 64.

Funeral services were held at the house on Thursday afternoon. The discourse was given by the Rev. F.S. Allman, who took for his text Isaiah XXXIII:17: "Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off." He spoke of Christ in his days of humiliation and of the Christian during his pilgrimage, pointing out the fact that the toilsome road, wearisome as it may be, is a Royal road, leading to the New Jerusalem, where the King will be seen in his beauty. He testified to the Christian character of the deceased, and of the pious resignation that possessed him as his feet touched Jordan's brink. He told of the fervent manner in which the dying man grasped his hand last Sunday and assured him that he had no regret and no despair, though certain that his departure was at hand.

Mr. Nason was one of those men who do great good in the world. While frugal, industrious, and wise in the management of his temporal affairs, he kept before him, both in thought and action, the weighty things of eternity, thereby occupying the full sphere which God arranged for man.

The funeral procession was a very large one.

The pall bearers were: W.G. Gilbert, B. Swearingen, Daniel Wilt, T.J. Cox, Henry Miller, Geo. A. Weller.

[From The Rossville Times, Friday, June 19, 1891] 
 
8524
Obituary- Nason, Margaret d. 1916
Obituary- Nason, Margaret d. 1916
 
 
8525
Obituary- Nason, Margaret d. 1933
Obituary- Nason, Margaret d. 1933
The following relatives were in Rossville last Thursday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Nason: Frank Whearty, Mrs. Henry Whearty and children of Westmoreland; Harry Cooper and Ezra Cooper of Topeka.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed James of Topeka and Mrs. Vina McCoid and little daughter of Silver Lake, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Shenk last Friday, and attended the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Nason held at the Christian church.

Mrs. Nellie Hill and Mrs. Shriver of Topeka were in Rossville last Friday visiting at the Joe Shenk home and attended the funeral of Mrs. Margaret Nason. 
 
8526
Obituary- Nason, Martin
Obituary- Nason, Martin
Martin Nason

Martin E. Nason, aged 61, died last night at the Santa Fe hospital in Topeka following an operation for bladder trouble Tuesday of this week.

Mr. Nason had been a resident of Kansas for 55 years, coming to Rossville in 1872. He moved to Topeka in 1906. For the past 19 years he had been an employee of the Santa Fe railroad.

He is survived by his widow, three sons, William Henry Nason, Samuel Leland Nason and James William Nason, all of Topeka; two stepsons, Martin Whearty and Ed Whearty of Rossville; one brother, Lewis H. Nason of Topeka; two half brothers Lincoln Nason of Wichita and Herbert Nason of Spokane, Wash; and one half sister, Mrs. Ella Shenk of Rossville.

Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1 o'clcok from the home 421 Lake street and the body brought to Rossville cemetery where a service will be conducted. The family requests no flowers.

[From The Rossville Reporter, June 4, 1925] 
 
8527
Obituary- Nason, Robert
Obituary- Nason, Robert
Robert Nason Dead
Robert Nason died at his home at 715 Western avenue, Topeka last Saturday evening after an illness of many months. The funeral was held Tuesday morning at 11:30 from the home and interment made in the Topeka cemetery. Mr. Nason was for many years a resident of Silver Lake township while foreman on the Holden ranch and afterward of Rossville where he conducted the city hotel. Since leaving here he has resided at Esbon, Pauline and Topeka.

Mr. Nason had long been a member of the A. O. U. W. and M. W. A. lodges and the pall bearers were brother members of the Rossville lodges, the Workmen being represented by A. B. Jamieson, John Reid and Walter Worthington and the Woodmen by Dr. Pratt, Ira Hopkins and Henry Bond.

Friends from Rossville, Delia and other communities where Robert had spent the larger part of his life were at the funeral.

Mr. Nason was 55 years of age He is survived by his widow and three children, George, Nellie and Eber Nason and several brothers. The family have the sympathy of Rossville friends in their bereavement.

About 50 Rossville people were at Topeka Tuesday to attend the funeral of Robert Nason. Mrs. McCoy and Mrs. John Wilt sang for the services.
 
 
8528
Obituary- Navarre, Alice
Obituary- Navarre, Alice
Her Life Ended
Death Takes Alice Navarre After Brief Illness
Passed Away Thursday
Was Seriously Ill Only Since Last Sunday

Alice Navarre, only daughter of Mrs. Mary J. Navarre died at her home on Navarre Street at 7 o'clock Thursday morning. Miss Navarre, although never quite robust, was in her usual health until about August 14 when she became seriously ill. Since last Sunday she was compelled to remain in her bed and late last Wednesday night her mother realized the end was near. About six o'clock yesterday morning Miss Navarre began to grow weaker, and Dr. H.H. Miller was summoned. He reached the Navarre home a few minutes before the young woman died.

The funeral will be held in Rossville at Saint Stanislaus Church at nine o'clock Saturday morning and will be conducted either by Father Hill or Father Hough of St. Marys. The burial will be in Rossville cemetery.

[From The Rossville Reporter, August 23, 1912] 
 
8529
Obituary- Navarre, Charles
Obituary- Navarre, Charles
CHARLES E. NAVARRE
Charles E. Navarre, aged 60, died late Tuesday afternoon at his home 1215 West First street, Topeka. Beside his widow, Mrs. Ida Navarre, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.M. Short, Mrs. J.H. Jenkins and Mrs. C.H. Smith, of Topeka; a son, Dudley Navarre; two sisters, Mrs. William Hudson, of Topeka; Mrs. Mary Baker, of Rossville; a brother, Ed Navarre and four grandchildren all of Topeka.
Funeral services were held today at 3 o’clock from the home and interment made in Mount Hope cemetery Topeka.
The deceased gentleman and his family were for many years residence of Rossville.
 
 
8530
Obituary- Navarre, Charles E.
Obituary- Navarre, Charles E.
CHARLES E. ‘BUS’ NAVARRE
Charles E. “Bus” Navarre, 67, Topeka, died Thursday, August 14, 1980, at a Topeka hospital after a long illness. He had a heart ailment.
He was born June 25, 1913, in Rossville, the son of Edward J. and Nora Bush Navarre. He moved from Long Beach, Calif., to Topeka about five years ago.
Mr. Navarre was retired from the grocery business.
He was a former member of the Retail Clerks Union Local No. 324 in California.
He married Verona Burruss in 1938 in Los Angeles. She survives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Toni Bishop, Long Beach, Calif.; a brother, Robert Glenn Navarre, Long Beach, Calif.; and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Carder, Topeka.
Services were at 11 a.m. Saturday at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home. Burial was in Overbook Cemetery, Overbrook.
 
 
8531
Obituary- Navarre, Edward
Obituary- Navarre, Edward
ED NAVARRE
Edward Joseph Navarre, 61, a res¬ident of Topeka since 1917, and for¬mer resident of Rossville, died Sun¬day night in a Topeka hospital.
He was born October 19, 1873, in Monroe, Michigan, and came to Kan¬sas as a child, living until 1917 in Rossville.
He was a member of the carpen¬ter's union and an officer of the Kan¬sas Re-employment service.
His widow, Mrs. Nora Navarre, of the home address, 414 Park avenue, Topeka, four sons, Lloyd, Clyde and Charles, all of Topeka, and Glenn Navarre, Long Beach, Calif., two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Carder, Perry, Kan., and Mrs. Theodore Dean of Hoyt, Kan., and eight grandchild¬ren, survive him.
Funeral services will be held Saturday in Peebler’s funeral home, North Topeka, and the body brought to Rossville cemetery for burial.
 
 
8532
Obituary- Navarre, Esther 1
Obituary- Navarre, Esther 1
ESTHER M. NAVARRE
Esther M. Navarre, 85, Rossville, died Friday, July 3, 1981, at a nursing home in Rossville.
She was born May 9, 1896, at St. Marys, the daughter of David Lambert and Lilly Kemp Lambert.
She was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and the church altar society at Rossville.
She was married to Joseph Navarre August 16, 1920, in Topeka. He died November 10, 1980.
Survivors include a daughter, Joyce Brennan, Rossville; a son, Keith Navarre, El Paso, Tex.; a sister, Thelma Groves, Palos Verdes, Calif.; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Services were at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church. Rosary was at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Verschelden Funeral Home, St. Marys. Burial was in Rossville Cemetery.
 
 
8533
Obituary- Navarre, Esther 2
Obituary- Navarre, Esther 2


Esther M. Navarre
ROSSVILLE – Esther M. Navarre, 85, Rossville, died Friday at a nursing home here.
She was born May 9, 1896, at St. Marys, the daughter of David Lambert and Lilly Kemp Lambert.
She was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and the church altar society at Rossville.
She was married to Joseph Navarre Aug. 16, 1920, in Topeka. He died Nov. 10, 1980.
Survivors include a daughter, Joyce Brennan, Rossville; a son, Keith Na¬varre, El Paso, Texas; a sister, Thelma Groves, Palos Verdes, Calif.; five grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church. Rosary will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Verschelden Funeral Home, St. Marys. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery. Mrs. Navarre will lie in state after it) a.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
 
 
8534
Obituary- Navarre, Frank
Obituary- Navarre, Frank
FRANK (KACK) NAVARRE DIED THIS AFTERNOON
Frank Francis Navarre, 83, known to everyone as (Kack) died this (Thursday) afternoon about 4:30 o’clock at the State Hospital. He was the last of his generation of the Navarre family being survived only by a number of nephews and nieces, including the Reporter editor Joe Navarre, Mrs. John Martin, and Mrs. Henry Martin, of this com¬munity. The others are in other parts of the States.
He had been a resident of Ross¬ville community, until a few years ago, since 1866, coming here from his birthplace in South Bend, Ind., when all this part of the county was part of the Pottawatomie reserva¬tion.
Funeral services will be held Sat¬urday morning at the Catholic church at 9 o’clock with interment in Rossville cemetery.
 
 
8535
Obituary- Navarre, Gregory
Obituary- Navarre, Gregory
Gregory Navarre, of the first ward in G barracks, received a stroke of paralysis yesterday morning about 8 o'clock, and was transferred to the Fourth ward of the hospital. This is the second time he has been stricken that way. Navarre served in Co. H. 30th Michigan infantry. --Leavenworth Times. Mr. Navarre is well known to Rossville people. He left this city about a year ago and entered the National Military Home, Leavenworth.

Later, we learn from yesterday's Times that Mr. Navarre died last Monday from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. Particulars are unattainable at this time. He leaves a wife and six children, Peter, Joe and Alice reside in this city. Edith and Maggie are attending Haskell Institute, Lawrence, and Jerome has a position in Kansas City. 
 
8536
Obituary- Navarre, Jerome
Obituary- Navarre, Jerome
JEROME NAVARRE
Jerome (Polly) Navarre, as he was known to his Rossville boyhood friends, died at 1:30 o’clock, Wednes¬day morning at his home on Route 3, in Garfield Place, North Topeka. He had been practically bedfast since last Nov. 12, a victim of arterial sclerosis.
He had lived in Topeka for the past 40 years with the exception of a short residence in St. Louis, Mo. For about 35 years he had been an employ of the Santa Fe in their shops at one time having a record of 18 years service without missing a day.
For the last 19 years he was a machinist in the shops until being re¬tired a year ago this summer.
He was born in Rossville, Septem¬ber 14, 1872, being 61 years 1 month and 3 days old at the date of his death. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Charlotte Navarre, a son, Harold E. Navarre and two grandchildren, all of the home address; two brothers, Peter and Joseph of Rossville and his mother, Mrs. Mary Navarre of Rossville.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at Peebler’s funeral home, North Topeka. Burial will be in Topeka cemetery.
 
 
8537
Obituary- Navarre, John E.
Obituary- Navarre, John E.
Gone Home.

Little John Navarre has gone to sleep in Jesus February 6th 1912.

There's a pair of little hands laid to rest forevermore; There's two dimpled cheeks whose rich blossoming is o'er; death has sealed two little eyes which will not more smile nor weep tiny windows of the soul, Little John has gone to sleep. There's another Bud removed ere it felt the blight of sin; Through the door the Angles [sic] move, darling John has passed in, He has reached the Golden Shore crossed the river cold and deep; Angles [sic] bore him safely o'er Little John has gone to sleep. He will wake in fairer lands where the Angel band doth sing, there the Flower it will expand, There will all perfection bring far beyond the azure skies; Where the tiny star eyes peep from all earths cares, doubts or fears, Little Johns gone to sleep. Angels bore him safely home, so for him we will not weep. Gently to the doorway come; Little John has gone to sleep.

[From The Rossville Reporter, March 15, 1912] 
 
8538
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph
Joseph Navarre
Joseph Navarre, 85, Rossville, was dead on arrival Monday at a Topeka hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack.
He was born March 9, 1895, at Ross¬ville, the son of Gregory and Mary Baldan Navarre. Mr. Navarre was a rural mail carrier before he retired in 1962.
He was a member of Citizen Band Potawatomi Tribe and was an Army veteran of World War 1.
He was a 62-year charter member of Jimmy Lillard Post No. 31 of the Amer¬ican Legion and St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, both at Rossville. He also was a member of National Rural Letter Carriers Association and National As¬sociation of Retired Federal Employees. He was an honorary life member of Knights of Columbus Council No. 657, St. Marys, and was a member of the Fourth Degree. He formerly was a shortstop on the Rossville baseball team.
He was married to Esther M. Lamb¬ert Aug. 16, 1920, in Topeka. She sur¬vives.
Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Joyce Brennan, Rossville; a son, Keith Navarre, El Paso, Texas; and six grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church at Rossville. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery. Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Verschelden Funeral Home, St. Marys. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Sta¬nislaus Catholic Church and sent in care of the funeral home.
 
 
8539
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph d. 1912 1
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph d. 1912 1
Joseph Navarre Dead
The remains of Mr. Joseph Navarre, whose death occurred in Rossville, were brought to this city [St. Marys] Tuesday morning and burial took place in the Catholic cemetery.

Mr. Navarre passed away Sunday at the age of 84 years with catarrah of the stomach.

The deceased was a brother of Mrs. Joseph Beseau of this city, whose death occurred a few years ago.

Mr. Navarre leaves six children, four girls and two boys.

[From St. Marys Star, November 28, 1912] 
 
8540
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph d.1912 2
Obituary- Navarre, Joseph d.1912 2
Death of Mr. Navarre
Joseph Navarre, who came to Rossville in May, 1907, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Baker, November 24.

Death was caused by a stomach disease.

Mr. Navarre was 83 years old.

Br. Navarre was a member of the Roman Catholic Church since his childhood. He is survived by four daughters and two sons. They are:

Mrs. Mary Baker of this city, Mrs. Ellen McGuire of Belvue, Mrs. Kate Hudson of Willard, Mrs. Carry Jones, Oklahoma, Charles Navarre of Topeka, and Ed Navarre of this city.

Mr. Navarre made many friends since he came to Rossville, who describe him as a kind parent and a true friend. The funeral service was held from Saint Stanislaus Church in this city and conducted by Father Hoferer of St. Marys at 9 o'clock on the morning of November 26. 
 
8541
Obituary- Navarre, Keith 1
Obituary- Navarre, Keith 1
Keith Navarre
Keith J. Navarre, 76, El Paso, TX, died Tuesday, August 22, 2000, at an El Paso hospital.
He was born August 31, 1923, in Kansas City, MO., the son of Joe and Esther Navarre. He spent his childhood years in the Rossville and Delia communities.
He graduated from St. Joseph Military Academy in Hays, and lat¬er from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Mr. Navarre retired from the Army in 1974, at the rank of chief warrant officer four. He was a 31- year veteran of the service, and served in the European theater dur¬ing World War II. He also served in the Korean War, in the Occupa¬tion of Japan, and in Korea again during the Vietnam era. He later served 12 years in the Drug En¬forcement Administration before he retired in 1986. He was a citi¬zen of the Potawatomi Indian Band of Oklahoma.
Mr. Navarre was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor with oak leaf cluster, the Purple Heart with Oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Ser¬vice Medal, Commendation Med¬al with four oak leaf clusters, Good Conduct Medal, Combat Infantry Badge with Star, Navy Presidential Unit Citation, American Presiden¬tial Unit Citation (Army), Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the First French Army Commendation Medal.
Mr. Navarre was a member of the Disabled American Veterans Association, the Retired Officers Association, 75th Infantry Division Association, French Army “Rhine et Danube” Association, Kateri Tekakwitha Indian Conference and the Northern Indiana Historical Association.
Survivors include his wife, Shio Navarre, El Paso; a daughter, Nina M. Ahumada, El Paso; two step¬sons, James Y. Navarre, El Paso, and Yoshinori Shinoda, Atami, Ja¬pan; and four grandchildren.
His service was at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel No. 2, Fort Bliss. Burial with full military hon¬ors was in the Fort Bliss National Cemetery. A rosary was recited at 7 p.m. Tuesday at kaster, Maxon, Futrell Funeral Home in El Paso.
Contributions may be made to Potawatomi Memorial Scholarship Fund, in honor of Keith J. Navar¬re, 1601 Gordon Cooper Drive, Shawnee, OK 74801.
 
 
8542
Obituary- Navarre, Keith 2
Obituary- Navarre, Keith 2
Keith Navarre
EL PASO, Texas — Keith J. Navarre, 76, El Paso, died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2000, at an El Paso hospital.
Mr. Navarre retired from the Army in 1974 at the rank of chief warrant officer four. He was a 31 -year veteran of the service. He served in the European theater during World War II. He also served in the Korean War, in the Occupation of Japan and in Korea again during the Vietnam era. He later served 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration before he retired in 1986.
Mr. Navarre was decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor with oak leaf cluster, the Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster, Meritorious Ser¬vice Medal, Commendation Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Good Conduct Medal, Com¬bat Infantry Badge with Star, Navy Presidential Unit Citation, American Presidential Unit Cita¬tion (Army), Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the First French Army Commendation Medal.
He was born Aug. 31, 1923, in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated from St. Joseph Military Academy in Hays, and later from the Univer¬sity of Texas at El Paso. He was a citizen of the Potawatomi Indian Band of Oklahoma.
Mr. Navarre was a member of the Disabled American Veterans Association, the Retired Officers Association, 75th Infantry Division Association, French Army “Rhine et Danube” Association, Kateri Tekakwitha Indian Confer¬ence and the Northern Indiana Historical Association.
Survivors include his wife, Shio Navarre, El Paso; a daughter, Nina M. Ahumada, El Paso; two stepsons, James Y. Navarre, El Paso, and Yoshinori Shinoda, Atami, Japan; and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel No. 2 at Fort Bliss. Burial with full mili¬tary honors will be in Fort Bliss National Cem¬etery. A rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Tues¬day at Kaster, Wlaxon, Futrell Funeral Home in El Paso.
Contributions may be made to Potawatomi Memorial Scholarship Fund, in honor of Keith J. Navarre, 1601 Gordon Cooper Drive, Shaw¬nee, Okla. 74801.
 
 
8543
Obituary- Navarre, Maggie
Obituary- Navarre, Maggie
Maggie Navarre, daughter of Mrs. Mary Navarre, was born in Rossville, Oct. 24, 1888, and departed this life, Thursday morning, June 11, 1908. She was a victim of the dread disease, dry tuberculosis.
The funeral was held Friday af¬ternoon from the Catholic church, Rev. Fr. De Smedt officiating. The church was filled with sympa¬thizing friends of the family. The beautiful white casket was banked with flowers presented by her class mates and associates. The pall bearers were her girl friends, Mis¬ses Mabel Stewart, Ethel Binns, Anna Silvers, Edith Eddy, Nellie Binns and Bessie Navarre. The interment took place in the city cem¬etery.
Maggie was one of the bright and promising young ladies of Rossville. She had attended Haskell Institute at Lawrence since seven years of age and would have graduated at this term had death not inter¬vened. She had many accomplish¬ments and winsome ways that made her a favorite with all with whom she came in contact.
It is so strange and mysterious that one so young and about whose future are woven such glorified dreams and fond hopes should be called upon to yield it all to death. The sorrow is more keen and unconsolable when we consign to the tomb the life just blossoming into the fullness of its beauty and per-fection. “But the fiat of nature is inexorable. There is no appeal of relief from the great law which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and the flowers that bloom and wither in a day have not a frailer hold upon life than the mightiest mon¬arch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps.”
But all is well with Maggie. Her short life was good and devoted to the attainment of all that would fit her to enjoy the nobler things of this existence. These traits and ideals have not perished, for the grave is but the door opening into the glories and perfection of the immortal life beyond. While we shudder at the cold thought of the tomb, yet after all, death gives all there is of worth to life.
 
 
8544
Obituary- Navarre, Mary 1
Obituary- Navarre, Mary 1
MARY GENELLA NAVARRE
Mary Navarre, mother of the Reporter editor and Joe Navarre, Rossville's route carrier, passed away shortly before 6 o’clock Monday morning.
She had lived in this community and Shawnee county many more years, than any other citizen of Ross¬ville.
Born at Westport, Mo., now Kan¬sas City, February 14, 1854, the daughter of James and Martha Baldan, she inherited the rugged consti¬tution of her sturdy Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and while a petite woman through choice, up to less than a year ago lived in her little home alone.
Her mother died when she was little over three years old, and until her father married Mary Ann Rice, she was taken care of by an old French woman named Chumois, and reared in the old Clinton hotel, at Indianola, which ante-dated and rivaled the present city of Topeka as a townsite.
At that time Silver Lake, Rossville and all the territory southwest nearly to Paxico was in the Pottawatomie reservation.
Her stepmother, being of Indian ancestry, owned an allotment just west of Rossville, now known as the Clarence Emert farm. There mother was reared. A few oldtimers still remember the old double log house that was her home. What schooling she got was from the Mission school at St. Marys conducted by the Madames of the Sacred Heart who later turned their property to the Jesuits for the present St. Mary’s college.
Mother was never concerned over the fact she was living in an age that saw this section developed from a wilderness to its present state of de¬velopment. She married Gregory Navarre in 1871 and eleven children were born to them. Providence decreed that none of her daughters was to live to comfort her in her last years. Just two sons, your editor, her seventh, and Joe, her elev¬enth, remain.
In 1888 or 89 her father and family moved to Oklahoma. After her husband’s death in 1902, she devoted her life to rearing her remaining children, who one by one passed on.
We could fill another column of episodes of her girlhood days when the fawn west of town was the stop¬ping place for people from the East, pushing westward: some of them even to die there and be buried in the private cemetery just southwest of the old house; the arrival of the first train here; the stirring early history of Rossville community; the arrival of the Navarre family from South Bend, Indiana, in 1866, one of the sons a few years later to be¬come her husband. Her first son was named Henry Clay Navarre, and her second was Jerome, (Polly)) to you, who died 12 years ago.
It is told her father stood off the Kansas Pacific surveyors with a shotgun when they sought to establish their 400-foot right-of-way given in a federal land grant, through his farm. As a matter of fact he made good and when a few years ago they did establish their claim to that right-of-way it was found they had had to purchase the 100 feet they now use.
Mother and Dad moved into Ross¬ville before the town was established as a city of the third class, which was in 1881, and except for a brief residence in Topeka, this has been Mother’s home since.
 
 
8545
Obituary- Navarre, Mary 2
Obituary- Navarre, Mary 2
Besides ourself and Joe, her grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, she is survived by her half sister, Nora Baldan Moore, who lives at Wichita, many nephews and nieces and a host of friends to whom she always will be remembered as “Little Mary.”
Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 9:30 in St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, with a requiem Mass sung by the Rev. Fr. F.P. Clerkin, S.J.
The pallbearers were Messrs. Paul Martin, Reed Martin, Clarence Em¬ert, Dick Cantillon, Harold Cowan, and Louis Cowan.
Burial was in the family lot in Rossville Cemetery.
 
 
8546
Obituary- Navarre, Minnie
Obituary- Navarre, Minnie
Mrs. Minnie Navarre
ROSSVILLE— Mrs. Minnie Navarre, 82, Rossville, died Friday in a St. Marys rest home where she had been about three months.
She was born Dec. 14, 1888, at Westmoreland and lived in the Rossville community since 1913. Earlier, she lived at Beloit.
She was a member of the Christian Church, Royal Neighbors of America, and the Literary Society, all at Rossville.
She and her husband, Peter Navarre, co-owned and operated a newspaper, the Rossville Reporter, from 1913 until 1950 when they retired. He died Aug. 25, 1970.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Williamette N. Thomas, Enid, Okla., and Mrs. Peggy Jeanette Plantamura, West Long Branch, N.J.; a brother, Lawrence Massey, Wadsworth; and five grandchil¬dren.
Services will be 2 p.m. Monday in the Parker Mortuary Chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to the Rossville Christian Church Building Fund.


Mrs. Minnie Navarre
ROSSVILLE- Mrs. Minnie Navarre, 82, Rossville, died Friday in a St. Marys rest home where she had been about three months.
She was born Dec. 14, 1888, at Westmoreland and lived in the Rossville community since 1913. Earlier, she lived at Beloit.
She was a member of the Christian Church, Royal Neighbors of America, and the Literary Society, all at Rossville.
She and her husband, Peter Navarre, co-owned and operated a newspaper, the Rossville Reporter, from 1913 until 1950 when they retired. He died Aug. 25, 1970.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Williamette N. Thomas, Enid, Okla., and Mrs. Peggy Jeanette Plantamura, West Long Branch, N.J.; a brother, Lawrence Massey, Wadsworth; and five grandchil¬dren.
Parker Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery.
 
 
8547
Obituary- Navarre, Peter
Obituary- Navarre, Peter
Peter Navarre
ROSSVILLE - Peter Navarre, 86, Rossville, died at an Enid, Okla., hospital Tuesday. He had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Williamette Thomas, Enid.
He was born March 26, 1884. He was the first printer to graduate from Haskell Institute, Lawrence. He had worked for the St. Mary’s Star, the Ma¬nhattan Mercury, and the Beloit Call. He bought the Rossville Reporter in 1914 and ran it until he retired in 1955.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Minnie Navarre, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Peggy Janet Plantamura, Red Bank, N.J.; one brother, Joe Navarre, Rossville, and five grandchildren.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Parker Mortuary, Topeka. Burial will be in Rossville Cemetery.
 
 
8548
Obituary- Navarre, Pierre
Obituary- Navarre, Pierre
Famous Men in South Bend History

Pierre Navarre

The first white settler to settle in present-day St. Joseph County was Pierre Navarre. Mr. Navarre was of French descent, well educated, and moved to St. Joseph Country from Monroe, Michigan in 1820. At the time of this move, Mr. Navarre was an agent for the American Fur Company.[3] Prior to Mr. Navarre settling in St. Joseph County, he had trapped and traded furs among the Native Americans that lived in the area. But, in 1820 he decided to permanently reside in South Bend and open a standing trading post.

Pierre married a Potawatomi woman named Angelique and had six children, three sons and three daughters. Pierre and his new family built a log home, the first home to be erected in the county, on the east side of the St. Joseph River, now in South Bend.[4] Mr. Navarre located his home on a trail in which Native Americans traveled and traded every spring and fall to reach the other posts along the river, down to Lake Michigan. This brought Pierre huge amounts of furs, maple sugar, baskets, and other articles. He was very loyal to the Potawatomi tribe and when they were forcibly removed from the Michiana area, he traveled west with the tribe, but afterwards returned home. Pierre Navarre died in the home of his daughter on December 27, 1864. His body was buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery on the property of the University of Notre Dame. Navarre's cabin is still standing and has been moved to Leeper Park East in downtown South Bend, Indiana.  
 
8549
Obituary- Navarre, Robert
Obituary- Navarre, Robert
NAVARRE- On the 3rd last, of dysentery, Robert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Navarre, aged two years.

[From The Rossville News, Saturday, August 11, 1883] 
 
8550
Obituary- Naylor, Frank
Obituary- Naylor, Frank
FRANK NAYLOR, JR.
Frank E. Naylor, Jr., 62, Conway, Ark., died Monday, May 12, 1980, in a Conway hospital.

He was born April 27, 1918, in Topeka, Ks.

Mr. Naylor retired at the rank of Colonel from the Kansas National Guard and the U.S. Army Reserves, where he served with the military police.

He was employed by the Ward School Bus Company, Conway, as a mechanical engineer.

Mr. Naylor was married to Eva Davis on December 5, 1942, in Fort Sill. She survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Franla McCarty, Idaho Falls, Ida., and a sister, Mrs. Betty Skelton, 2227 Ohio, Topeka.

Military services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Parker-Price Chapel. Interment was in the Rossville Cemetery.
 
 

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