Obituaries

Helen Lukia Kahele Shepard was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 14,1933 to Joseph E. and Josephine Kahele. She would spend her childhood there experiencing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 at the age of 8. She would recall how the enemy’s planes were flying so low that she was able to look directly into the pilots faces....

A Private Family Graveside Service will be scheduled at a later date for Mary Elizabeth (Roberts) Migchelbrink, 94, at Atwood Cemetery in Atwood, Kansas.

Survivors Daughter Mary Ann Ice Debbie and Derrick Ice Pam husband Shawn,and Hailey, Brock Budke Son Jim Roberts and wife Jean Terri,husband Lee and Amanda Munsell

Memorial Contributions may be made...

Services are pending.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.

Margaret Ann Miller Dixon was born January 16, 1926 during a heavy snowstorm in the family farmhouse outside of Delavan, Kansas. She was the third child and only daughter born to Oliver Lowell Miller and Margaret Ann Tischauser Miller. Her brother Harry was 14 at the time and Lowell was 7.

Her elementary school years were spent...

Services are pending.

** The Coggins and Westerbeke families will host a public joint Celebration of Life for both George Cameron Coggins and William Edward Westerbeke, colleagues and friends for 45 years, on November 8th at the Union Depot, 402 N 2nd St. from 4:00-6:00. **

George Cameron Coggins was born on January 27,1941 in Pontiac,...

Bernita Louise Perry was born April 10, 1926, at 333 East 16 th in Concordia, Kansas, to Carl Seth and Josephine Elizabeth Thoman. She grew up delivering milk with her brother, Delmer, for the family dairy and worked as a telephone operator during WW II and beyond in Concordia and Denver, Colorado, monitoring the local gossip.

After...

Russell D. Hilton, a Lawrence resident for 25 years, passed away peacefully following a yearlong struggle against cancer. He was born in Chanute, Kansas, on July 15, 1943, to Dean and Virginia Hilton who preceded him in death. He leaves behind his wife of 54 years, Jackie, his daughter Jill LaPoint (Mark), and grandchildren Caitlin Todd (Evan), Sophia, and...

Nellie Mae Murrell, 75, Lawrence, was born the fourth child of 11 children to the late Georgia Mae Sanders and the late Herman Robinson November 3, 1944 in Leland, MS.

She attended school in Onwood, MS and was later called and baptized at the age of 23 years old at Mt. Zion Baptist Church under the leadership...

Full obituary coming soon.

David Emery Boyd, the second child of Russell H and Barbara A Boyd (nee Wilkinson), was born September 12, 1947 at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The family, including his older brother Russell Jr., lived on Marlboro Street. The second floor had no heat, except what came from the oil stove in the downstairs kitchen. The water in...

Services will be held at a later date.

Ruth Helen Gennrich was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 25, 1936, to Alfred and Dorothy (Weiss) Gennrich.

She graduated from Northwestern University in 1958 with a Bachelors degree in Theater and Speech Education. She worked in all phases of theater production in San Francisco and Actor’s Workshop and in New York City at Lincoln Center and...

Memorial Mass for Marianne Kessler, 100, Lawrence will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, November 26, 2021 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence. Inurnment will be held at a later date at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.

Marianne was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 10, 1921, the daughter of Henry and Anna...

Jane “Nane” E. Eisenbart, 75, Lawrence passed away peacefully at home with her loving husband Ken and daughter Lisa by her side.

Jane was born on December 29, 1945 in Huntington Beach, CA. The daughter of James Jr. “Jimmy” Leming and Norma (Anderson) O’Neal.

Jane married Ken Eisenbart on March 9, 1971 in Topeka, KS...

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Jean Dirks was a compassionate, vibrant, intelligent woman who found purpose in her work with the courts, mental health and child welfare clients, and in raising her three children, Matthew, Jeffrey, and Rebecca.

Jean Dirks was born in Washington, DC in 1949 and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father, Frederick Dirks, worked for the International Monetary Fund,...

Jerry was born on November 20, 1959 to parents Calvin Bryant and Betty (Higgins) Roberts in Lawrence, Kansas. He and his two brothers, Thomas and Ellis, grew up in Rosedale, among other places in the Kansas City area. When Calvin later married Margaret Turnbull, it blended two families and brought brother Tony into his life. Jerry graduated from J.C....