Derek D Denzler

1967 - 1988  (21 years)

• Name	Derek D Denzler
  Born	12 Jan 1967	Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Gender	Male
  Died	26 Aug 1988	Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Buried	30 Aug 1988	Memorial Park Cemetery (Penwell-Gabel Cemetery), Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas
  Person ID	I3376	Rossville
  Last Modified	20 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	Jerry L Denzler
  Mother	Sharon S Bicks Denzler
  Family ID	F1669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Died - 26 Aug 1988 - Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Documents

  Obituary- Denzler, Derek Derek D. Denzler SILVER LAKE — Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Northside Church of Christ in Topeka for Derek D. Denzler, 21, Silver Lake. Mr. Denzler died Friday, Aug. 26, 1988, at his home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to Dr. Robert D. Jensen, Shawnee County deputy district coroner. Mr. Denzler was employed by the Rolling Hills Health Center in Topeka. He was born Jan. 12, 1967, in Topeka, the son of Jerry L. and Sharon S. Bicks Denzler. He lived all his life in the Topeka and Silver Lake area. He is survived by his mother, Sharon Denzler, Topeka; his father and step-mother, Jerry and Patricia Denzler, Silver Lake; a sister, Heather Denzler, Topeka; a brother, Jerry L. Denzler Jr., Topeka; a step-sister, Chris Ferguson, Silver Lake; a stepbrother, Troy Ferguson, Larned; his grandmother and step-grandfather, Ruth and Orville Wege, Onaga; and his grandmother, Winifred “Winnie” Denzler, Topeka. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Topeka. Mr. Denzler will lie in state from 1 p.m. today until noon Tuesday at Newcomer-Diffenderfer Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to Suicide Prevention in care of the Shawnee Community Mental Health Center, 2401 S.W. 6th, Topeka, 66606. Gunshot victim on life-support system A 20-year-old man was on a life-support system at a local hospital Saturday after he suffered a gunshot wound to the head at Rossville, officials said. A Shawnee County sheriff’s dispatcher wouldn’t release the man’s name late Saturday. The shooting was still under investigation. Silver Lake man dies of self-inflicted gunshot A 21-year-old Silver Lake man committed suicide at his home on Friday, officials said. Dr. Robert D. Jensen, Shawnee County deputy district coroner, identified the man as Derek Denzler. He said an autopsy showed that Denzler died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.