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THE RETIREMENT TEAM retiretopeka.com
The independent firm started in the mid-1990s by Roger Shumaker focuses on educating and advising clients on ways to achieve their financial goals in retirement. Strategies may include lowering taxes, maximizing their estate, avoiding market downturns and creating retirement income plans. First runner-up: Azura Wealth Management Second runner-up: Edward Jones BEST FUN ERA L H OME/ C REMATO RY
PENWELL-GABEL CREMATIONS, FUNERALS & RECEPTIONS
penwellgabeltopeka.com A stalwart of the Topeka community since 1893, Penwell-Gabel provides personalized funeral
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and mulching. For the hardscape: fireplaces, patios, pergolas and retaining walls. The result: a more beautiful and valuable property.
services that honor a loved one's life and comfort the griefstricken. It offers reception facilities and food service at its four funeral homes and Mount Hope Cemetery, Funeral Chapel & Reception Center. The business also owns Penwell-Gabel Cemetery & Mausoleum.
First runner-up: Topeka Landscape Second runner-up: Armour Lawn Care B EST P EST CONTROL COMPANY
First runner-up: Kevin Brennan Family Funeral Home Second runner-up: Dove Cremations & Funerals BEST LAU N D RY/ D RY C LEA N E R
SCOTCH FABRIC CARE SERVICES scotchcleaners.com
Styles of clothing and the techniques used to clean them have changed during the nearly 140-year history of this drop-off, same-day-service dry-cleaning business. Shirt cleaning and pressing still reign, but environmentally friendly equipment and cleaning agents score big points with consumers.
SCHENDEL PEST SERVICES
First runner-up: Village Cleaners Second runner-up: Hygienic Dry Cleaners B EST L AW N CAR E
SCHENDEL LAWN & LANDSCAPE mycreativelawn.com
More than a mowing service, Schendel offers a groundswell of residential and commercial lawn and landscape services. For the lawn: fertilization, overseeding, aeration and irrigation. For the landscape: weed removal, color planting
schendelpest.com
When destructive insects, rodents and wildlife threaten your home or business, Schendel will come in and take care of the pest problem. Mice, bed bugs, termites, moles, mosquitos — all goners. Schendel offers free inspections, and the company’s service technicians are happy to answer questions about pesky home invaders. First runner-up: Ozark Integrated Pest Services Inc. Second runner-up: Wheatland Pest Control