Edna Bean

Funeral services for Edna “Jane” Bean, 83, Topeka, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Penwell-Gabel Southeast Chapel in Topeka. Cremation is to follow with private burial at Bethel Cemetery at a later date.
She died Saturday, May 30, 2009, at her home.
Mrs. Bean was born Jan. 28, 1926, in Tecumseh, the daughter of Henry and Edith Taylor Riley.
She graduated from Highland Park High School. She was a longtime volunteer for Senior Meal Services in Lecompton.
She married Arthur Bean on Jan. 12, 1947. He died Jan. 4, 1996.
Mrs. Bean also was preceded in death by two sisters, Henrietta Slusser and Laura Reed.
Survivors include two daughters, Susan Neuschafer and husband Lloyd, Tecumseh, and Janie Bean, Lenexa; a brother, Vernon Riley, Tecumseh; and a sister, Helen Gerisch, Overbrook.
Friends may call from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to Midland Hospice Care, 200 S.W. Frazier Circle, Topeka, KS 66606.
Online condolences may be sent at penwellgabel.com.