The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-16
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heusekeeper, Monday submitted by
which a aquart of her blood was trans
feTTed to the arteries of her employer
The operation seemed to have ia
Vera BILE effect for a time, but Mr.. Pen
well has not regained consciousness.
Mrs. Gustafson, after the opera tion
spent the day in the hospital: and re-
turned Monday night to APenwell
home. Holland Wright, wards of Mr.
Renwe1l, has offeredsto give HIS blood
in a similar operation. but it has not
yet been found advisable to perform
the. second operation So
Pernicious anemia and diabetes, in
combination, are the diseases which
are threatening the life>of the popular
Topeka man. Rrs =
Married in 1888.
Mr. Penwen married Miss Mary E
Maston. efsMount Hope KAN, august
IS, 1888. Mrs. .Penwell diea eight
years agessseThere were no $ehildren
born to the union. but Mr.. PenHe1l has
I Grover Wright and of Mrs. Portia
Staples, who have come to regard him
with the same affection which they
| would offer TO a parent.
In his professional capacity Mr..
PenwelI has stood in the forefront
rank of the undertakers of the United
| States. For eighteen years he was
| secretary of the Kansas Funeral Di-
! recters' association, from 1897 to 1915.
In 1916 he was elected president of
the association. He was elected presi-
| dent of the National Funeral Di-
reetors' Association at st. Louis, in
1904.
Pioneer I'm Modern Burials.
| He was a pioneer in the modern
manifestations of the undertakes pro-
fession in this country. In 1S94 at the
time he constructed and furnished his
present building, undertakers believed
/ that the time would never come when
and the accommodations which he had
installed, would be required or justi-
fled.
Mr.. Penwen has been an honorary
member and active and honorary drum
major of Marshall's bandy for the las
twenty years of the band. He was re
elected to the office CT honorary drum
4 major only last Sunday
Colonel on Governors Staff
He was a representative from tn,
Topeka district, in the state legisla
ture, during the term of 1909-10, ant
served two years on the staff of Gov
ernor Hodges, and four years on thu
staff of Governor Arthur Capper, will
the honorary rank of colonel
| Mr.. Penwell took a leading part II
the reorganization of the Fair asso
citation, which resulted in the givin,
to the state of the Kansas State Ere
Fair. and is still president of the fair
He was a director of the Chan1be
of Commerce, of the Prudential Trus
company, the Shawnee Building an
: Loan Association, and of the Kansa
/ Life Insurance company.
/ Mr.. Penwell was more than one
: president of the Topeka board of ed
ucation, and was a prominent mem
5 Der of the First Christian church.
: A Prominent Mason.
Among some of the offices an
: memberships which Mr.. Penwen ha
held, are membership. and usually of
fices, in every Masonic orsanizatio
. in the city.
He was Past Master of Topeka Blu
Lodge, No. II; a member of Topek
] chapter No. 5, of the Royal Are
Masons; a member of Zabud Counc
!. No. 4, select Master Masens; Pas
I Eminent Commander of Topeka Com
mandery No. 5, Knights Tempiar
r Past Patron of the Order of the East
E ern Star, Beulah chapter No. SO
: Past Master in the four ceerdinat
T bodies of the Ancient and Acceptab l
Scottish Rite of Masonry; Chief Office
in the st. Augustine chapter of the Re
Cross of Constantine; Past Potential
| of Abdullah Temple of the Order c
+, the Mystic Shrine; an executive office
i of the Ancient Toltec Rite, and too
: his thirty-third degree in Masonry i
| washington, D. e. in 1911.
In addition to his membership /
Masonic orders, Mr.. Penweil was Pas
| Exalted Ruler of the B. p. o. E. NJ
2o4, of Topeka; head of the Ioce
chapter of the U. C. t.; member G
Upehurch lodge No. PA, of the !
o. U. w; a member of the Woodnie
of the World; the Modern Woodme
of American the Mystic Workers q
the World; the Knight and Ladies c
Security; thu Fraternal Brotherhood
| and the Royal Neighbors of Americs
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