Sharon Belair 1967-2016
Sharon L. Belair, Kno-Key-Shuck-Kwe, 49, Delia, died Friday, Oct. 28, 2016, at Midland Hospice House in Topeka.
She was born July 12, 1967, in Topeka, the daughter of Albert Francis Masqua and Evelyn Jackson.
Mrs. Belair was a homemaker.
She was a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and the Drum Religion.
She married Virgil Shopteese Jr. He survives.
Other survivors include her mother and stepfather, Evelyn and Rusty Seymour, Topeka; a son, Albert Francis Belair, Manhattan; two daughters, Sarah Jane Hurt, Topeka, and Theresa Ann Belair, of the home; three sisters, Stephanie Belair, Topeka, Deanna Roberts, in Oklahoma, and Marlena Jordan, Mayetta; a stepsister, Tricia Seymour, Topeka; a brother, Joseph Seymour, Denver, Colo.; a stepbrother, Allan Seymour, Topeka; four granddaughters, Louisa Reyna, Octavia Hurt, Liza Frances Belair and Dena Rochelle Jones, and numerous nieces and nephews, including Michelle Belair. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Elizabeth F. Belair; and an aunt, Roberta Jackson.
Mrs. Belair will lie in state until 3 p.m. Wednesday at Chapel Oaks Funeral Home in Hoyt, where family and friends will meet from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. A supper will be held Wednesday evening at the Dance Ground west of Mayetta. Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in Jessepe Cemetery on the Kickapoo Reservation at Horton.
Memorial contributions may be made to Midland Hospice, sent in care of Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, P.O. Box 280, Hoyt, KS 66440.
