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- Topeka Capital-Journal, Kansas, Tuesday, March 20, 1990
James Edward Albert
James Edward Albert, 70, Topeka, died Sunday, March 18, 1990, at a Topeka hospital.
Mr. Albert worked for the Army Corps of Engineers at Lake Perry from 1969 until he retired in 1984.
He served 21 years in the Army and Air Force and had seen duty at Pearl Harbor in 1941. He was honorably discharged in 1966.
He was born April 26, 1919, at Blythewood, Richland County, S.C., the son of James Dalton and Maggie I. Mattox Albert.
Mr. Albert was a member of Terra Heights Baptist Church where he served as senior deacon, trustee, vice moderator and sang in the choir.
He also was a member of Topeka Lodge No. 17, AF&AM, Scottish Rite bodies, Capitol Post No. 1 of the American Legion and the Air Force Sergeants Association which he served as chaplain.
He married Sarah Pearle Bass Nov. 11, 1945. She survives.
Other survivors include two daughters, JoAnn Smith, Marion, Ohio, and Gayle Frances Montgomery, Topeka; three sons, Edward Dalton Albert and Terry William Albert, both of Topeka, and Jerry Kalvin Albert, Lenexa; a sister, Daisy A. Roland, Lexington, S.C.; a brother, Clarence L. Albert, Blythewood, S.C.; seven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Penwell-Gabel Funeral Home. A Whiteman Air Force Base detail will conduct graveside services at Mount Hope Cemetery. Relatives and friends will meet from 7 to 8:30 today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Francis Hospital Volunteer Services, American Lung Association or American Heart Association and sent in care of Highland Park Bank and Trust, 2100 E. 29th, 66605.
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1919 - 1990 (70 years)
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