Roxy Nightengale

We invite your presence in celebrating our Roxy, a warm, engaging and loving shining star. Roxy’s family will greet friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 6, at Kevin Brennan Family Funeral Home, 2801 SW Urish Road, Topeka KS 66614, followed by Roxy’s Celebration of Life at 10:30 a.m. Her Celebration will be livestreamed on the funeral home Facebook page. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Roxy Lee Nightengale was born August 11, 1945, in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Andrew and Margaret McRae Lineberry. She attended Topeka High School and graduated from Hayden High School in 1963. On April 15, 1967, Roxy and Laurin Nightengale were united in marriage at Holy Name Catholic Church, enjoying 56 years together. Roxy attended Stewart’s Beauty Academy which launched her career as a beautician. She was a hairdresser for many years at Menninger’s and was beloved and appreciated by her clients. She had a business in her home offering wedding invitations for sale. When her success made it difficult to meet those demands, she helped another woman start her own business. That was Roxy, always ready to encourage and lend a hand. Roxy was an avid bicycle enthusiast and could be seen heading to Potwin Elementary School to volunteer in the library, doing her grocery shopping, or going to work. As a child she had a rooster which she loved and would carry him around in her bicycle basket. Roxy enjoyed attending Zumba classes at the YMCA and was a member of a wonderful Bunco group who met for decades. She moved to Texas from 1996 to 2010, and on her return they were delighted to enthusiastically welcome her back. Grateful to have shared her life are her husband, Laurin; daughter, Kelly Nightengale; sister, Gale Elliott; brother, Steve Lineberry, mother-in-law, Marcella G. Nightengale; and many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews. Roxy was preceded in death by her parents, her son, Brian September 17, 1988, and her stepmother, Veronica Mulcahy Lineberry. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, sent in care of the funeral home. Condolences may be sent online to www.kevinbrennanfamily.com.

Roxy Nightengale

August 11, 1945 - June 29, 2023