Lidia Elizabeth Hurst, 21, of Topeka, KS passed away on July 9, 2021.
She was born October 16, 1999, in Colby, KS to Jared Hurst and Tiffany
(Fletcher) Hurst.
Lidia attended Rawlins County High School and received her high school
diploma from the Thomas County Learning Center in 2018. She attended
Paul Mitchell School of Cosmetology in Wichita, KS. She was currently
continuing her education taking online courses from Central Christian
College of Kansas majoring in psychology.
Lidia loved and cherished her family and friends above all else and
enjoyed spending time with them creating memories they will forever
cherish. She was a stunningly beautiful and kind young lady with a
contagious smile that loved to travel and made lifelong friends
everywhere she went. She had an outgoing, bubbly, silly personality
(cows go meep!) that had the ability to make the people around her
smile.
Lidia who also went by Wiea, Squidia, Lider and Liea, loved creating and
using nicknames for those she loved such as Her Monsters (Maci and
Callen, after they outgrew being called the babies), Tafferin or Baby K
(Kathryn), Guppy (Callen), Maci Moo Moo. Samiososa (Samuel). She would
also often refer to her parents as Merm and Paco.
She is survived by her parents Jared and Jennifer Hurst and Tiffany
(Fletcher) Hurst; her siblings, Matthew Hanzlick, Kathleen (Jeremiah)
Taulborg, Samuel, Kathryn, Maci and Callen Hurst; her grandparents,
Lynda and Sylvester Hurst, Deb Smethers, Bobby and Donna Fletcher, Don
Johnson and Beth Johnson; great grandparents Ted and Gertie Kastens;
numerous aunts, uncles and cousins; and her fur baby Lucian Lokie.
She was preceded in death by her great grandparents Francis and Florine Hurst.
Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday July 15, 2021, at Baalmann
Mortuary, Atwood. Funeral service will be at 10:00 a.m. on Friday July
16, 2021, at the United Methodist Church, Atwood, with burial in
Achilles Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Lidia Hurst Memorial,
to be designated by the family later, and may be sent in care of
Baalmann Mortuary, PO Box 391, Colby, KS 67701. For information or
condolences visit www.baalmannmortuary.com