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- Sidney Hedges Gabel
Sidney Hedges Gabel, 74, 2317 Butternut Lane, died Saturday, April 27, at the Stormont-Vail Regional Medical Center in Topeka.
She was born Nov. 23, 1921, at Chillicothe, Mo. She grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where she attended the local public schools and was a graduate of Southwest High School. She had also attended the University of Missouri and later the Conservatory of Music at Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Gael was a veteran of World War II, serving in the WACS. She served as a payroll clerk for almost two years at Camp Hood, Texas, and sang with the Special Services Dance Band for the Special Services Unit.
The married Rufus R. Gabel in 1957 in Kansas City, Mo. He preceded her in death in January.
Mrs. Bagel spent most of her life in the Kansas City area. She worked as a new business clerk for the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company for many years. She retired in 1990. She had been a resident of Manhattan since October 1995.
She was a former member of the Santa Fe Hill Baptist Church, Kansas City, where she had served as a pianist, substitute organist, Sunday school director, nursery coordinator, women’s missionary union director and a member of various committees. Since moving to Manhattan, she had become a member of the College Heights Baptist Church.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Gabel was preceded in death by a son, Paul Douglas Gabel, in 1995.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara Ann McGinness, Clinton, Mo., and Jan Slezinger, Johnston, Manhattan; two sons, Gregory Alan Slezinger, Kansas City, Mo., and John L. Slezinger III, Beaverton, Ore.; one sister, Esther Anderson, Pullman, Wash.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kansas. Monday, 29 April 1996.
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