1934 - 1996 (61 years)
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Name |
Larry G Morford |
Suffix |
Sr. |
Born |
3 Aug 1934 |
Delia, Jackson County, Kansas |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
15 Jan 1996 |
Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas |
Buried |
Memorial Park Cemetery (Penwell-Gabel Cemetery), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas |
Person ID |
I5137 |
Rossville |
Last Modified |
7 Mar 2018 |
Father |
Arthur C Morford, d. 18 Aug 1952 |
Mother |
Josie Althena Clouse Morford, b. 23 Apr 1894, Jonesville, Lee County, Virginia , d. 5 Apr 1992, Westmoreland, Pottawatomie County, Kansas (Age 97 years) |
Married |
29 Apr 1914 |
Holton, Jackson County, Kansas |
Family ID |
F6693 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Married - 21 Dec 1966 - Lyndon, Osage County, Kansas |
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Documents |
| Obituary- Morford, Larry Larry G. Morford Sr.
Larry G. Morford Sr., 61, Topeka, died Monday, Jan. 15, 1996, at a Topeka hospital. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Morford worked in the Property Valuation Department for the state of Kansas from 1957 to 1968 and worked for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Chicago in 1968. He was director of property taxes for the Santa Fe Railroad in Topeka until he retired in 1995.
He was born Aug. 3, 1934, at Delia, the son of Arthur C. and Josie A. “Clouse" Morford. He was graduated from Emmett High School in 1952 and from Kansas State University in 1956. He earned a master’s degree from Baker University. He lived at Flossmoor, III., for 20 years and had lived in Topeka since 1988.
Mr. Morford was a member and past president of the National Association of Railway Tax Commissioners.
He was married to Marilyn K. Levett on Dec. 21, 1966, at Lyndon. She survives.
Other survivors include two sons, Thomas O. Morford and Larry G. Morford Jr., both at home; two brothers, Arthur W. Morford, Topeka, and Rey E. Morford, Delia; and three sisters, Alice E. Pitney, Albuquerque, N.M., Edith E. Davison, Topeka, and Louise E. Sedlacek, Frankfort.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Penwell-Gabel Chapel. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Morford will lie in state after noon today at the funeral home where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Ronald McDonald House, 825 S.W. Buchanan, Topeka, 66606, or to the charity of the donor’s choice.
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