Services for Donald Henderson, 82, of Route 9, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the Auburn Presbyterian Church with burial in Auburn Cemetery. He will lie in state at the Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary until 11 a.m. Wednesday. He died Sunday in a Topeka hospital.
He was born Feb. 26, 1877, at Newton, Scotland and was a resident of the Auburn community 74 years. He was a retired farmer and was a long time member of the Auburn Presbyterian Church and the Prairie Grange.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha A. Henderson of the home; a daughter, Mrs. Aileen Bundy of Auburn; a son, Clinton Henderson of Route 9; seven children; four great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs Mary Whitten and Miss Janette Henderson, both of Route 9.
(As printed in the Topeka State Journal – July 13, 1959 p. 24)