1909 - 1990 (81 years)
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Obituary- Graham, Elmer
Elmer D. ‘Bud’ Graham Jr.
Elmer David “Bud” Graham Jr., 81, Topeka, died Thursday, Sept. 27, 1990, at a Topeka nursing home.
Mr. Graham farmed in western Kansas from 1929 until 1937. He then moved to Byers, Colo., where he farmed and was a heavy equipment operator several years. He came to Topeka in 1955 where he worked at Kansas Neurological Institute from 1957 until he retired in July 1974.
He was born Jan. 7. 1909, at Rossville, the son of Elmer David Graham Sr. and Mrs. Margaret Eleanor Quirk Graham. He built a home in Lyndon in 1975, then in August 1987 returned to Topeka for health reasons.
He was married to Alice P. Steele March 25, 1933, at Leoti. She survives.
Other survivors include two daughters, Eleanor Martin, De Soto, Texas, and Darlene Dozier, Topeka; a son, Charles Graham, Aurora, Colo.; two sisters, Alice Kendall, Kansas City, Kan., and Lois Flowers, Topeka; seven grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Parker-Price Mortuary. Burial will be in Maple Hill Cemetery. Mr. Graham will lie in state after 2 p.m. Sunday at the mortuary. Memorial contributions may be made to American Red Cross, Kansas Capital Area
Chapter, 1221 S.W. 17th, 66604.
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