Topeka — Memorial services for the Rev. Tommy E. Smith, 72, Topeka, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Davidson Funeral Home, Topeka. Cremation has taken place.
Rev. Smith died Friday, Aug. 24, 2001, at his home.
He was born May 26, 1929, in Camden Point, Mo., the son of Arthur William and Eva Elizabeth (Pyle) Smith. He had lived in Topeka since 1954. He graduated from Rushville (Mo.) High School and attended Midwestern Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo.
He served in the U.S. Navy. He also was pastor at Seaman Baptist Church in Topeka from 1958 to 1989 and from 1994 to 1996. He sat for five years on the board of directors for the Shawnee County Mental Health Department.
He married Loretta L. Poage July 30, 1950, in Halls, Mo. She died Oct. 23, 1987. He married Pat R. Kirkpatrick Oct. 9, 1994, in Topeka. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include four sons, Stephen, Topeka, Thomas, Lawrence, Jeff, Meriden, and Mike Massek, Edwardsport, Ind.; five daughters, Rebecca Minor, Spearville, Mari Jaquith, Topeka, Julie Hundley, Bonifay, Fla., Melinda Smith, Topeka, and Sue Massek, Willisburg, Ky.; two brothers, Jimmy, Wenatchee, Wash., and Robert, Topeka; a sister, Velma Spinner, LaVeta, Colo.; 13 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to Seaman Baptist Church, sent in care of Davidson Funeral Home, 1035 N. Kansas, Topeka 66608.
Charles Fredric Lanning
Raleigh, N.C. Services for Charles Fredric Lanning, 58, Raleigh, were Saturday at North Raleigh United Methodist Church. Burial was in Pine Forest Memorial Gardens, Wake Forrest, N.C.
Dr. Lanning died Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2001, at Duke University Medical Center.
He was born Feb. 20, 1943, in Sheffield, Ala., the son of Charles and Harriette (Charlesworth) Lanning. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1961 and Kansas University in 1965. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha and Phi Gamma Delta.
He finished his residency at Duke University in anesthesiology in 1975 and served as a physician in Poland with Project Hope. He also pioneered the heart program at Wake Forest Medical Center in Raleigh.
Dr. Lanning married Mary Kay Dunlap, who survives of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, Chuck, Raleigh, David, Willmar, Minn., and Todd, Cary, N.C.; a brother, Edward, Overland Park; three sisters, Mary Ruth Benson, Potomac, Md., Martha McMillen, Eugene, Ore., and Doris Avalos, El Sobrante, Calif.; his mother, Overland Park; and two grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Adult Bone Marrow Clinic at Duke University Medical Center.
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