Mar 11, 2015

Memorial services for Bill J. Brooks, 84, will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday, March 16 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1245 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence, Kansas.

Mr. Brooks was born on August 16, 1930 in Ottawa, Kansas, the son of Bill and Alice Brooks. He graduated from Ottawa High School in 1948, and from the University of Kansas...

Mar 10, 2015

C.R. “Roy” Sipes, 82, passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at his daughter’s home in Lawrence, Kansas. A private service will be held on Sunday, March 15.

Mr. Sipes was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 27, 1932 and spent most of his childhood in Franklinton, Louisiana.

He served his country in the...

Mar 9, 2015

Memorial services for Ella Mary Yoe, 90, of Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, March 23, 2015 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Pioneer Cemetery. She passed away Monday, March 9, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Ella Mary was born July 30, 1924 in St. Joseph, MO, the daughter of Wesley...

Mar 8, 2015

Beloved and admired wife, mother, sister, daughter, aunt, and friend Linda Rose (Farhart) Varberg showed grace, courage, and determination in her three-year battle with breast cancer, which ended on March 8, 2015. She was born on May 9, 1960 in Stanley, North Dakota. She married John Bruce Varberg on June 6, 1981 in Ross, North Dakota. A graduate of...

Mar 8, 2015

Funeral services for Kay Francis Nash, 61, Lawrence will be held at11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 14, 2015 at First Regular Missionary Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. She passed away Sunday, March 8, 2015 at her home.

Kay was born November 27, 1953 in Parsons, KS the daughter of Delmar Nash (deceased) and Odessa...

Mar 8, 2015

A Mass of Christian Burial for Dorothy T. A’Hearn, 96, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 16, 2015 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. She passed away peacefully on Sunday, March 8, 2015 at Medicalodges Eudora.

Dorothy was born October 12, 1918 in New York, NY. She was...

Mar 6, 2015

Mass of Christian Burial for Ronald A. Willis, 79, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 10 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence. A private family inurnment will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence. A celebration of his life will be held in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre on Saturday, March 14, at 3pm.

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Mar 6, 2015

Graveside services at Memorial Park Cemetery will be held for Michael “Mickey” McClure on Monday, March 16, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. He died at his home in Topeka on March 6, 2015.

Mickey was born on December 14, 1953 in Lawrence, KS, the third child of Dr. Rensselaer and Mary Anne McClure.

Mickey attended Sunset...

Mar 4, 2015

Funeral services for Janet Schrock, 80, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 9, 2015 at Lawrence Free Methodist Church. Burial will be at Union Valley Cemetery, rural Scandia, KS on Tuesday, March 10. She went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at Medicalodges in Eudora, Kansas after...

Mar 2, 2015

Funeral services for Albert Lee Brooks, 90, Lawrence will be held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, March 7, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. He passed away Monday, March 2, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Lee was born February 17, 1925 in Winfield, KS the son of Paul and Data (Miles) Brooks. He was their second child with...

Mar 2, 2015

Roy Elliott Gridley passed away March 2, 2015. He was born March 24, 1935, the son of Lawrence Ellis Gridley and Gladys Elliott Gridley of Oakley. He attended schools in Oakley, Lenora and Oberlin, and the University of Kansas, where he married Marilyn Leidig in 1956. They had two fine sons, Karl and Mark.

At age fifteen,...

Feb 27, 2015

Marilyn Rose “Sash” Jessepe-LaCour went to meet the Lord on Feb. 27, 2015. She was born June 7, 1959 in Horton, KS.

She is survived by her husband, Steve “Apayett” LaCour of thirty-five years, two sons Stephen Jr. “K-no-wass” and Evan “Chaulko” LaCour, two brothers Wayne “Tab” and Kenneth “Shawn” Jessepe, one sister Nora “Wasjawin” Pemma Parker....

Feb 26, 2015

Memorial services for Archie Lee Coleman, 79, Eudora, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 21, 2015 at St. Paul United Church of Christ in Eudora. Burial will follow at Eudora Cemetery with Military Honors. He passed away Thursday, February 26, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Archie was born September 13, 1935 in McDunn, West Virginia,...

Feb 21, 2015

Mass of Christian Burial for June Utako Newell, 85, Lawrence will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 27, 2015 at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center in Lawrence, KS. Burial will follow in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Tonganoxie, KS. She passed away Saturday, February 21, 2015 at her daughter’s home.

June was born May 22, 1929 in Tokyo,...

Feb 17, 2015

Memorial services for world-renowned bronze sculptor Elden Cecil Tefft, 95, Lawrence will be held 2:00 p.m. Monday, February 23, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Private inurnment will be at a later date. He died Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Born December 22, 1919 in Hartford, KS, Elden was the son of Cecil Elden...

Feb 16, 2015

Mass of Christian Burial for Charles R. “Chuck” Harris, 88, Eudora will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 20, 2015 at Holy Family Catholic Church in Eudora, KS. Burial will follow at Mount Olivet in Kansas City, MO. He passed away Monday, February 16, 2015 at Medicalodges Eudora.

Charles was born April 13, 1926 in Winchester,...

Feb 15, 2015

Private inurnment for Fred Sylvester Washburn, 89, Lawrence, KS, formally of Oswego, NY, will be at a later date in Fairview Cemetery in Carthage, NY. He passed away Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community.

Fred was born June 6, 1925 in Champion, NY the son of Clark and Hazel (Hotis) Washburn.

He...

Feb 15, 2015

Celebration of Life for Anthony Joseph “Joe” Poe, 58, Lawrence will be held from 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the Lawrence Public Library Auditorium. He passed away Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Midland Care Hospice House in Topeka, KS.

Joe was born October 22, 1956 in Kansas City, MO the son of Robert...

Feb 15, 2015

Memorial service for Phyllis A. Burkhart, 84, CA will be 1:30 p.m. Thurs., March 19th at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. She died February 15, 2015 in California.

Feb 14, 2015

Rebecca Ann “Becky” Lamoreaux Coan, 90, died on February 14, 2015, in Lawrence.

She was born December 30, 1923, in Waterville, Kansas to Iva Knudsen and Henry Lamoreaux. Becky graduated from Waterville High School in 1942 and Kansas State University in 1948. She taught school in Wellington, Kans. and studied French at the University of Kansas. Becky...