Mary E. Shaffer Brinkman, Olpe
The memorial service for Mary Eileen Brinkman of Olpe will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the First United Methodist Church at Emporia. The Rev. Mindy Johnson of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church will conduct the service. Mrs. Brinkman was cremated.
Memorial contributions to The Farm to help with foster children may be sent in care of the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS 66801.
Mrs. Brinkman died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007, at her home in Olpe. She was 47.
She was a computer specialist at the Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station at Burlington for 25 years.
The daughter of William B. and Bessie West Shaffer, she was born Aug. 9, 1959, at Scott City. She graduated from Dighton High School and later, from Emporia State University.
She married John A. Brinkman on Sept. 16, 1989, at the United Methodist Church in Dighton. He survives.
Mrs. Brinkman was a member of the Ebenezer United Methodist Church, west of Olpe. She was a past president of Kappa Delta in Emporia.
She is also survived by two sons, Kyle L. Brinkman and Jacob A. “Jake” Brinkman of the home; her parents of Dighton; two brothers, Richard Shaffer and Darrel Shaffer, both of Dighton; and seven sisters, Anne Martin and Carol Dalke, both of Garden City, Marie Speer and Roberta Seifried, both of Dighton, Sherlynn Bailey and Helen O’Bleness, both of Scott City, and June Phelps of Ransom.