Julie Anne Eshleman, 53, of Topeka, Kan., formerly of North Platte, died Dec. 12, 2011, at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka. Julie was born on Feb. 10, 1958, to Larry Duane and Marlene Joan Goedert ...

Julie Eshelman and her husband conceived their 2-year-old daughter through in vitro fertilization and kept their frozen embryos in storage, hoping to keep available a vital option for growing ...

Other participants included Julie Eshelman, founder and CEO of the Building Military Families Network, who used IVF to start her family; Christopher Yarnell, president of BattleBorne; and Drs.