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Lucille Marie Lumley

January 5, 1920 — December 23, 2011

LUCILLE LUMLEY, EMPORIA, KANSAS, PASSED AWAY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2011 AT OLATHE MEDICAL CENTER, OLATHE, KANSAS. SHE WAS 91.

SERVICES FOR MRS. LUMLEY WILL BE CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2011 AT SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH, EMPORIA, WITH THE ROSARY RECITED AT 10:00 A.M. AND THE MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL CELEBRATED AT 10:30. SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED BY FATHER RICHARD WARSNAK, OF THE CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE IN MEMORIAL LAWN CEMETERY, EMPORIA.

LUCILLE MARIE BRINKMAN WAS BORN ON THE FAMILY FARM WEST OF OLPE, KANSAS ON JANUARY 5, 1920, THE DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH AND ANNA FLADUNG BRINKMAN. SHE MARRIED RICHARD S. LUMLEY ON AUGUST 31, 1941 IN EMPORIA. HE DIED MARCH 1, 1989.

MRS. LUMLEY ATTENDED SCHOOL IN OLPE, KANSAS AT SAINT JOSEPH GRADE AND HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATING IN 1938. SHE ATTENDED BEAUTY ACADEMY IN EMPORIA IN 1940, THEN WORKED AT KELLS CURL SHOP FOR TWO YEARS. IN 1942, DURNG WORLD WAR II, SHE MOVED TO OLPE, KANSAS WITH HER PARENTS FOR THREE YEARS WHILE HER HUSBAND WAS OVERSEAS. FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II SHE AND HER HUSBAND LIVED IN SOLOMON, KANSAS FOR 21 YEARS, RETURNING TO EMPORIA IN 1966.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH, EMPORIA, THE ALTER SOCIETY OF THE CHURCH, THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY, THE FORMER SAINT MARY’S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY (OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 6 YEARS), THE BETHEL HOME DEMONSTRATION UNIT, FLEUR DE LIS GARDEN CLUB, AND WAS A READER FOR CHILDREN AT SACRED HEART SCHOOL.

SURVIVING HER ARE SONS, RICHARD “DAN” LUMLEY, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, DOUG LUMLEY, OLATHE, KANSAS, AND DAVID LUMLEY, OLPE, KANSAS; SISTER, BERNADINE STARR, WICHITA, KANSAS; GRANDCHILDREN, KRISTA CARSON, BRIAN LUMLEY, MAGGIE ZIEGLAR, AND MICHAEL LUMLEY; AND FIVE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

SHE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHERS, PAUL AND NORMAN BRINKMAN, AND SISTER, IRENE BROWN.

A MEMORIAL HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED WITH SACRED HEART SCHOOL, CONTRIBUTIONS MAY BE SENT TO ROBERTS-BLUE-BARNETT FUNERAL HOME. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Lucille Marie Lumley, please visit our flower store.

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