Funeral for Victor Carlton.

Obituary:

Victor N. “Cricket” Carlton, 17, of Topeka, passed away Tuesday, October 10, 2023. He was born March 20, 2006, in Leavenworth, Kansas, the son of Chad Carlton and Michelle Scarbrough. He attended Topeka West High School. Survivors include his father and step-mother, Chad and Hannah Carlton; mother, Michelle Scarbrough; six siblings, Jalon Stringfellow, Telena Jackson, Tatiana Jackson, Kole Carlton, John Carlton, and Eva Carlton; grandparents, Russell and Eva Hall; aunts, Lisa Carbon, Yolanda Glockner, Tabatha Hall and Kimberly Schwartz; uncles, Ronnie Stouder, Joshua Hall, and John Salisbury; and cousins, Christopher Carbon and Emily Ann Tipton. He was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, DB and Eva Koehler, Rose Carlton, and Judy and Everett Salsbury; grandfather, Victor Carlton; grandmother, Susan Mahaffey; great-uncles, David Koehler and Bud Koehler; great-aunt, Jean (Koehler) Schott; and uncle, Paul Crider. Victor enjoyed spending time with his siblings, family and friends. He enjoyed martial arts and wrestling; and was a member of the Topeka Blue Thunder Wrestler team. He liked to read, enjoying anything from Sherlock Holmes to mythology. He loved music, played the trumpet, was an awesome video gamer, and strong in his faith.

————- Memories I will hold on to

A million questions of the existential kind

Bible questions outside his age range

Love for the small things

He could talk to anyone

cricket sounds that got the bunkhouse laughing

no matter how hard I tried my wife was always his favorite camp counselor

two weeks ago I came across a box of old keepsakes. V* _

1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 KJV 1900

But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.