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