Linda D Westfall Rickson

1947 - 2011  (63 years)

• Name	Linda D Westfall Rickson
  Born	30 Aug 1947	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Gender	Female
  Died	10 Jul 2011	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	14 Jul 2011	Walnut Hill Cemetery, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I6027	Rossville
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2017

  
  

  Father	John Merritt Westfall, Jr.,   d. 25 Feb 1997
  Mother	Donna Elizabeth Spencer Westfall,   b. 8 Dec 1928, Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas ,   d. 11 Mar 2003, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas  (Age 74 years)
  Married	17 Oct 1948	Hoyt, Jackson County, Kansas
  Family ID	F5629	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jack Rickson
  Married	23 Nov 1966	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Divorced	YES
  Children	1. Wendi Rene Rickson Horak   2. James Earl Rickson
  Last Modified	6 Nov 2017 11:22:07
  Family ID	F3943	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Buried - 14 Jul 2011 - Walnut Hill Cemetery, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Rickson, Linda Linda D. Rickson Linda D. (Westfall) Rickson, 63, of Topeka, passed away July 10, 2011, in Topeka. She was born Aug. 30, 1947, in Topeka, the daughter of John W. and Donna (Spencer) Westfall. She graduated from Topeka High School. She married Jack Rickson Nov. 23, 1966 in Topeka; they divorced but remained friends. She worked for Southwestern Bell in Topeka as an equipment engineer manager, retiring after 26 years. Linda then attended Fort Scott Cosmetology School in 1994 and worked as a nail technician at Urban Salon in Topeka. She was a former member of the Mayetta Order of the Eastern Star and ABWA where she earned the Woman of the Year award. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers and also a member of the Citizen Band Potawatomie tribe. She is survived by a son, Jim Rickson and wife Darci; a daughter, Wendi Horak and husband Terry, two brothers, Samuel Westfall and Michael Westfall and his wife, Marcella, and a sister, Pamela Rohr and husband David, all of Topeka. She will be dearly missed by her seven grandchildren, Chelsea, Thatcher, Tucker, Dalton, Torrey, Davin and Tayson. Funeral services were July 14 at Silver Lake United Methodist Church. Interment was at the Walnut Hill Cemetery in Silver Lake. Memorials may be made to Midland Hospice Care or St. Francis Cancer Center.