Obituaries

Jul 23, 2015

Graveside services for Dorothy Darlene Cassity, 83, Lawrence will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday, August 1, 2015 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. She passed away Thursday, July 23, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Dorothy was born August 17, 1932 in Atchison, KS the daughter of Henry Watts and Mae McNemee Watts.

She attended...

Jul 22, 2015

Memorial services for Howard Earl Sanford, 86, Lecompton will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Lecompton United Methodist Church. Private family burial will be at a later date at Maple Grove Cemetery. Earl passed away Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at his home.

Earl was born June 26, 1929 in Lecompton, KS the son...

Jul 21, 2015

A Celebration of Life for Wilma “Jane” Massey, 77, Eudora will be held from 1 – 3 p.m. Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary – Eudora Chapel in Eudora. Attire is casual. Jane passed away Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Jane was born July 13, 1938 in Lamar, MO the daughter of Herbert...

Jul 20, 2015

Carlos Jose Gomez Fries, 73, Lawrence passed away July 20, 2015. Memorial Mass will be Tuesday, July 28, at 10 am at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Lawrence.

Jul 18, 2015

Memorial service for Carl Eugene Ryan, 77, Lawrence will be held 6:00 pm Monday, July 20, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Inurnment will be held at a later date in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. He died July 18, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Carl was born in 1937 in Lawrence, Kansas the son of Timothy and Minnie...

Jul 18, 2015

Tribute service for Sonia Lynn (Cook) Stielow, 37, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 25, 2015 at First Christian Church. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Sonia passed away Saturday, July 18, 2015 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO.

Sonia was born December 27, 1977 in Lawrence the daughter of Harold...

Jul 17, 2015

Dorothy Darlene Gruber was born on a farm near Salina, Kansas, Christmas Day 1929.

She was born the sixth of seven children to Joseph and Mabel (Andrews) Gruber. Both sets of her grandparents moved to the Salina, Kansas area in the 1870’s, migrating from the Pennsylvania Dutch Country of east central Pennsylvania where their families had earlier...

Jul 16, 2015

Dorothy Mae McGregor was born December 7, 1918 in Lawrence, Kansas, the daughter of Oscar and Ursula Nuffer. She graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1936. She married Ronald L. McGregor February 13, 1942. Dorothy passed away on July 16, 2015 at Neuvant House surrounded by family.

Dorothy graduated from Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia...

Jul 16, 2015

Funeral Service and Burial for Clarice Darlene Broz of Lawrence, KS, will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont Street at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday August 1 st , 2015. Burial at Oak Hill cemetery, Lawrence, KS, will follow the service.

Mrs. Broz died on July 16 th , 2015, at St. Luke’s hospital...

Jul 15, 2015

Memorial services for Bridget Fae Hedman, 31, Lawrence will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 26, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Bridget passed away Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Bridget was born June 5, 1984 in Lawrence, KS the daughter of Gordon F. Hedman and Marjorie “Chloe” A. Mason.

She...

Jul 12, 2015

A Celebration of Life for Shirley Ann Higgins, 76, Lawrence will be held from 2 – 5 p.m. Sunday, August 23, 2015 at the Smith Center at Brandon Woods 4730 Brandon Woods Terrace in Lawrence. Inurnment will also be at a later date at Riverside Cemetery in Mammoth Spring, AR. Shirley passed away Sunday, July 12, 2015 at Brandon...

Jul 10, 2015

Janiece (Boling) Baker was born on May 1, 1932, in Duncan’s Creek, Missouri. She and her identical twin sister, Janelle, were the fourth and fifth children born to Philip and Hazel Boling. Her older siblings, Ellen, Philip, and Henry are now deceased. She and her family later relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from Northeast High School...

Jul 8, 2015

Joyce Williams Radtke died Wednesday, July 8th of congestive heart failure. Joyce was born in Diamond, Ohio on September 8 th , 1932 to Orwell and Inez Williams. She grew up on a family farm in rural Ohio, but saw more of the world than most people do in two lifetimes. She married William Paul Radtke (LTC. Army retired)...

Jul 6, 2015

Memorial services for Warren James Bell, 86, Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, July 10, 2015 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence, KS. There will also be a memorial service at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 11, 2015 at Burr United Methodist Church in Burr, NE. Inurnment will follow at Wilcox Cemetery in Burr, NE. Warren passed away...

Jul 3, 2015

Memorial services for James Daniel Hutson, 75, Parkville, MO will be held at 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 10, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence, KS. James passed away Friday, July 3, 2015 at Medicalodges Eudora.

He was born September 3, 1939 in Waco, TX the son of Shelby Ralph and Ida A. (Landers) Hutson.

He...

Jul 2, 2015

Vera Belle Martin De Mott, formerly executive secretary at Kansas City’s regional public relations office of General Motors, died Thursday, July 2, 2015.

She was born September 9, 1925 at Parsons, Kansas. She grew up in Kansas City and was a 1942 graduate of Manual High and Vocational School. In 1945, she was married to John De...

Jul 2, 2015

Memorial services for Gay Anne Galbraith Doudoroff, 74, Lawrence, will be held at 10 AM on Friday, July 10, at Trinity Episcopal Church. Gay passed away Thursday, July 2, 2015 at her home.

She was born October 6, 1940 in Hollywood, CA the daughter of Harold W. and Frances Berenice (Smith) Galbraith.

Gay graduated from...

Jun 29, 2015

No formal services for Donald E. Watson MD, 80 of Lawrence are planned. He died Monday, June 29, 2015 at his home.

DONALD EUGENE WATSON

Date of Birth: May 12, 1935 Place of Birth: Wichita, Kansas

Spouse: Betty Watson

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Jun 29, 2015

William Lane “Bill” Woods, 80, passed away at home on the evening of Monday, June 29th, 2015.

Bill was born June 20, 1935 to Robert and Mildred (Lane) Woods in Kansas City, MO. He grew up in Arkansas City, KS, where his family owned and operated a 3rd generation Woods Lumberyard. Bill grew up learning and loving...

Jun 28, 2015

Funeral services for Helen Louise Edwards, 81, Bonner Springs will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, July 2, 2015 at De Soto Baptist Church in De Soto. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. She passed away Sunday, June 28, 2015 at her home.

Helen was born December 26, 1933 in Milo, Iowa, the daughter...