Rose Hummer
A. Rose Hummer, 85, Topeka, died Monday, March 24, 2003, at a Topeka retirement home.
She was born Feb. 27, 1918, in Topeka, to Joseph Franklin and Nettie Lucy Kidder Martz. She was a riveter at the Lockheed Aircraft plant in California during World War II. She worked at the Morrell Packing Plant in Topeka and later for the Fleming Co., in the packing division for 22 years.
She was a former member of Order of the Eastern Star and Ladies of the Shrine, and a life member of auxiliaries to North Post No. 400 of the American Legion and Billard Post No. 1650 of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
She married Joseph Ray Hopper on Oct. 28, 1939, in Oskaloosa. He died Nov. 13, 1968. She married Wilbert George Herman on Feb. 27, 1970, in Topeka. He died Dec. 8, 1992. She married George B. Hummer on March 23, 1998, in Las Vegas. He survives.
A daughter, Diana Schultz, Topeka; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild also survive.
Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Rochester Cemetery. Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the chapel at Atria Hearthstone West, 3515 S.W. 6th. Mrs. Hummer will lie in state after 2 p.m. Friday at Parker-Price Mortuary, where relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8 p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Children's Hospitals and sent in care of Arab Shrine, 1305 S. Kansas Ave., 66612; or the Brody Lolley College Education Fund and sent in care of Kaw Valley Bank and Trust, P.O. Box 8009, 66608.