Neil Fritz

Neil Fritz
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Parker -
Price Mortuary for Walter "Neil" Fritz, 64 I who died
Saturday, Sept.14, 2002, at his home on Mission
Creek west of Topeka. He had cancer.
He was born Apri128, 1938, in Topeka, to Walter
Allen and Grace Chadwick Fritz. He attended grade
school in Silver Lake and gtaduated from Dover
High School. He attended Kansas State UnNersity in
Manhattan He worked at the Santa Fe Railway
shops in Topeka for eight years and for Robert
Meek Custom Homes for seven years. He was a
tfarmer in the Mission Creek community and near
;lEskridge from 1976 to 1991. He owned and oper-
~,ated the Mission Creek Fishing and Hunting Cabins.
.A son, Franklin Fritz, died in 1964.
Survivors include his fiancee, Jud'j Shively I Car-
bondale; three sons, Howard S. Fritz, Harveyville,
and Russell L. Fritz and Kenton Fritz, both in Tope-
ka; a daughter, Laura A. Ogle, Topeka; a stepson,
Roy Ijams, Emporia; a stepdaughter, Wendy Gar-
rett, Kansas City, Mo.; his mother, Grace Fritz,
Rossville; a brother, D41e Fritz, Olathe; and 10
grandchildren.
Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr.
Fritz will lie in state after 3 p.m. today at the mortu-
ary, where relatives and friends will meet from 6:30
to7.30,.p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Stoimont-Vail Hospice Care, 2252 W.1Oth, 66604