Chase County Obituaries
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Maloney, Laura
Laura Maloney
Taken In Death
Strong City Resident 55 Years
Was Retired Santa Fe Office
Worker, Services Here Friday.
Miss Laura Maloney, 72, of Strong
City and Newton, died this Wednesday morning in the Santa Fe hospital, Topeka, where she had been a
patient for the last three weeks.
Funeral services will be held at
9 a.m, Friday at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Strong City with the
Rev. Father Joseph V. Tockert officiating. Recitation of the Rosary is
scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday evening at the Brown Funeral Home in
Cottonwood Falls. Burial will be in
St. Anthony's Cemetery, Strong
City.
Laura A. Maloney was born December 17, 1889 at Nickerson, Kans.,
and had resided in Strong City the
past 55 years. She had been a clerk
for the Santa Fe Railway Company
at Strong City and Newton from
1917 until 1959 when she retired.
The last 28 years of her employment
with the Santa Fe Miss Maloney
had served as assistant cashier of the
freight office at Newton.
Surviving her are two brothers,
Edward Maloney, Emporia, and
Joseph F. Maloney, Strong City;
five sisters, Miss Frances Maloney,
Strong City; Mrs, George Nesladek
and Mrs. Walter Teat, Topeka; Mrs.
Vern L. Stocker, Cherokee, Kans.,
and Mrs, T. J. Davis, Newton; several nieces and nephews. She was
preceded in death by her parents
and one sister, Mrs. Mae Kraft.
Miss Maloney was a member of
St. Anthony's Catholic Church and
the Sacred Heart Altar Society of
the church; the Newton Daughters
of Isabella, and the Newton Railway
Clerks.
ChaseCounty Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jun 20, 1962