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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Kirk, Dorothy Leone Conley Dorothy Leone Kirk, 79,
died Oct. 3, 2002, at Holiday
Resort in Emporia. Funeral
services were Oct. 7, 2002, at
the Brown-Bennett-Alexander
Chapel, in Cottonwood Falls
with Pastor James Kegin of
Victory Fellowship officiating.
Interment was at Matfield
Green Cemetery.
Dorothy Leone Conley,
daughter of Joe C. and Mattie
J. Lindenmuth Conley, was
born Dec. 30, 1922, at Beverly.
She came to Chase County
from Salina where she attend-
ed school at Baker and Chase
County High School. She grad-
uated from Matfield Green
High School in 1940.
She mar-
ried Harold H. Talkington Dec.
20, 1941, at Wichita. He died
in March, 1980. She married
Robert Kirk July 12, 1987, at
Emporia. She was a homemak-
er/farmer in Chase County and
was a former member of the
Matfield Community Church,
serving on the church board for
18 1/2 years before resigning.
Sixteen of those years, she
taught children's Sunday
School class. She moved to
Emporia in 1980 where she
worked at Econo Foods and
Newman Hospital before retir-
ing in 1987. She was a mem-
ber of Victory Fellowship, the
Antique Car Club, and Retired
Railroad Group.
She is survived by her hus-
band, of the home; two sons,
Ken Talkington of Emporia
and Doyle Talkington of
Sterling, Va.; four stepsons,
Alan Kirk of Wilmington, Del.,
Norman Kirk of Houston,
Texas, Lauren Kirk of El Paso,
Texas and J.W. Sidler of Strong
City; three stepdaughters,
Janet Lobel of Topeka, Kay
Kleinsorge of Fort Worth,
Texas and Paula Sidler of
Houston, Texas; one brother,
Doyle Conley of RR 3 Emporia;
20 grandchildren; and 11
great-grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by her hus-
band, Harold, her parents and
a sister, Dulie Coplen.
Memorial contributions to
Matfield Community Church
or Hand-in Hand Hospice may
be sent in care of the funeral
home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood
Falls, KS 66845.
Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Oct 10, 2002
by Lorna Marvin
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