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Obituary- Bixby-Busey, Grace

Grace I. Bixby-Busey

Grace I. Bixby-Busey, 82, Topeka, died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, at Select Specialty Hospital. She was born Dec. 23, 1921, in Rossville, the daughter of Charles and Hattie Denton Bixby. She grew up in Rossville and moved to Topeka in the 1940s. She married Otis Busey. He preceded her in death on Dec. 26, 1971. She worked at Seymour's, the state of Kansas, and later retired in 1982 from McCrite Care Home as head housekeeper. She was a member of the Citizen Band of Pottawatomie Indians of Oklahoma. Grace loved to play bingo. She is survived by her companion of 23 years, Kenneth Akins; daughter, Grace Degand and her husband, Mike; her son, Alva “Al” Busey and his wife, Cheryl; three granddaughters, Shelly Pfeffer and her husband, Rob, Michelle Degand-Lopez and her husband, Dean, and Terri Wells and her husband, Bobby; three grandsons, Michael Degand III, Patrick Busey and Craig Busey, all of Topeka; 13 great-grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; her sister, Edna Mae Taylor, Topeka; and her brother, Don Bixby, Rossville. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Davidson Funeral Home in Topeka. Interment will be in Rossville Cemetery. She will lie in state from 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, where the family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association in care of the funeral home.
Published in Topeka Capital-Journal from January 15 to January 16, 2004

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