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Obituary- Doty, Earl

Earl E. Doty
Earl E. Doty, 81, Topeka, died Monday, Aug. 9, 1993, at a Topeka nursing home.

Mr. Doty was head of maintenance for 40 years at Thompson Dehydrating before he retired in 1976. He previously farmed in the Rossville area from 1932 to 1942.

He was born Aug. 3, 1912, on a farm near Wamego, the son of Henry and Ethel Lee Edwards Doty. He moved to Rossville in 1932.

Mr. Doty was a member and elder of Eastminster Presbyterian Church and a member and past president of East Topeka Senior Citizens Group No. 2.
He was married to Margaret Reser Jan. 30, 1934, at Rossville. She died July 13, 1975. His second wife, Mrs. Edna M. Erwin Doty, survives. A daughter, Margaret Ann Doty, died in October 1965.

Other survivors include four daughters, Beverly Enyart, Shell Knob, Mo., Earleen Constantino, Beach Park, Ill., and Betty Jo Slater and Monte Kay Prentiss, both of Topeka; six sons, James Williams Doty, Larry Doty, Robert Doty and Rodney L. Doty, all of Topeka, Gary Doty, St. Marys, and Donald Doty, Tecumseh; three stepdaughters, Elsie Flynn and Lois Taylor, both of Perry, and Georgia Myers, Raymore, Mo.; two stepsons, Leon Erwin, Topeka and Flynn Erwin, Kansas City, Mo.; a sister, Genevieve Marie Doty-Beseau, Topeka; 27 grandchildren; 17 stepgrandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home. Cremation is planned to follow services and inurnment is pending. Mr. Doty will lie in state after noon today at the funeral home where family and friends will meet from 7 until 8 p.m. Thursday. Memorial contributions may be made to the Center for Basic Cancer Research, Division of Biology, Ackert Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, 66506; or to Eastminster Presbyterian Church, 3168 S.E. 6th, 66607.

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