[ OBITUARIES ]

Topeka Capital-Journal, The, Jun 13, 2002 by Capital-Journal

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1315 S.W. Arrowhead Road, Topeka, 66604; or to Catholic Charities, 306 S.W. Van Buren, Topeka, 66603.

Col. Sue Kuhlmeier

Lance Workman

Russell Brockhoff

HIAWATHA --- Russell I. Brockhoff, 83, Hiawatha, died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at a Hiawatha hospital.

Mr. Brockhoff worked in his parents' grocery store in Fairview as a young man. He later was a Watkins Products representative for many years, and he owned and operated Brockhoff Feed Store for several years. He later worked for the Atchison Co-op in Huron and for Meyer Lumber Co. in Fairview for 14 years before he retired in 1982. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II and was discharged at the rank of sergeant in 1945.

He was born Oct. 18, 1918, in Morrill, the son of Franklin Ernest and Dorothea Elise Kruse Brockhoff. He graduated from Hamlin High School in Fairview in 1938 and was a lifelong Brown County resident.

Mr. Brockhoff was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Hiawatha.

He married Ethel May Buckley on March 27, 1948, in Hiawatha. She died Sept. 19, 1999.

Survivors include two daughters, Joyce Myers, Altamont, and Vivian Constable, Hiawatha; two sons, Lyle Brockhoff, Meriden, and Bruce Brockhoff, Hiawatha; a sister, Irene Knickerbocker King, Maryville, Mo.; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and one stepgreat- grandchild.

Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church in Hiawatha. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery in Hiawatha. Mr. Brockhoff will lie in state after noon today at Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hiawatha, where visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Zion Lutheran Church Memorial Fund and sent in care of the funeral home.

Randall Conrad

LAWRENCE --- Randall E. Conrad, 49, formerly of Lawrence, died Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at an Overland Park hospital.

Services will be announced by Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.

Elizabeth Craven

VALLEY FALLS --- Elizabeth Mildred Craven, 86, Valley Falls, died Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at a Nortonville care facility.

Mrs. Craven taught elementary school in Olathe from 1955 to 1981. She also had taught in rural schools in Johnson and Miami counties from 1935 to 1955.

She was born Nov. 21, 1915, near Altoona, the daughter of John and Frances Lewis Funk. She moved to Olathe with her family in 1920 and graduated from Olathe High School in 1933. She earned a teaching certificate at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia in 1935 and a bachelor's degree in education from Ottawa University in 1961. She moved to Valley Falls in 1986.

Mrs. Craven was a member of the Valley Falls United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, the PEO Sisterhood in Valley Falls, Delta Kappa Gamma, the National Education Association, Kansas Education Association and the Johnson County Retired Teachers Association.

She married Kenneth Craven on June 30, 1938, in Muncie. He died in 1964. Mrs. Craven also was preceded in death by a daughter, Nancy Hazelwood, on June 25, 1993.