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Dorothy Becker
Dorothy M. Becker, 78, Rossville, died Monday, September 27, 2004, at her rural Rossville home.

She was born December 5,1925, in Rea, MO, the daughter of Cecil and Ollie Morgan Jenkins.

She had lived in the Rossville community since 1955.

She spent her early years in Savannah, MO and moved to Kansas City where she was valedictorian of the class of 1943 at Center High School. She attended Central Missouri State College at Warrensburg.

She had been a legal secretary for Ascough and Bausch Law Firm for 23 years, and for Doherty and Benfer Law Firm for seven years. At the conception of the State Appeals Court, she became one of the court’s first legal secretaries and had worked for the chief judge of the court. She retired in January 1983.

She was a member of the Rossville United Methodist Church.

She married William “Bill” Becker on March 7, 1953, at the Central Park Christian Church, Topeka. He survives. Her parents and a brother, Donald Jenkins, preceded her in death.

Survivors include two daughters, Kathy Billings, Topeka, and Patty McQueen, College Station, TX; a son, Stephen Becker, Denver, CO; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Her service was at 10 a.m. Friday at the Rossville United Methodist Church. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Topeka. The family received friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Piper Funeral Home, St. Marys.

Contributions may be made to UMCOR Relief Fund for national disasters and sent in care of Piper Funeral Home, 714 Maple Street, St. Marys 66536.

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