Jan 2, 2021

Memorial services for Katherine “Kay” Lee Patterson, 35, Lawrence, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 15, 2021 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Kay passed away on Saturday, January 2, 2021 at her home. Please be aware that due to COVID-19 and safety precautions, we are asking her loved ones to please respect and comply with social distancing...

Jan 1, 2021

Dr. Christina Yates Parr (Retired)

Dr. Christina Yates Parr (retired) of Eudora, Kansas, formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, died on January 1, 2021. Christina was the daughter of Dr. Theodore M. Yates and Jean K. Yates who were both medical missionaries in China when Christina was born. Christina was born on October 20, 1926, in Anhwei (Anhui)...

Dec 30, 2020

Memorial services for Richard Carl Peters, 92, Lawrence, will be held at a later date. Richard passed away on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at his home.

Richard was born on March 20, 1928 in Frankfort, Kansas the son of Carl and Hazel (Cisne) Peters. His childhood was in part defined by the Great Depression and World War...

Dec 30, 2020

Robert G. Hilt, 96, passed away on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at LMH Health. A family graveside service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2021 at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, KS.

Robert was born on February 1, 1924 in Kansas City, Kansas to Alfred and Amphy Hilt. When Robert was...

Dec 29, 2020

Helen (Stringham) Fridblom, age 93 of Lawrence Kansas died on December 29, 2020, succumbing to complications from Covid 19.

Raised in Lawrence Helen Stringham graduated from University of Kansas in 1950, and married Arthur Fridblom that same year. They moved to Kansas City Kansas where Helen brought up her four children. Being active in the PTA, ultimately...

Dec 29, 2020

Helen M. (Stringham) Fridblom, age 93 of Lawrence Kansas, died on December 29, 2020, succumbing to complications from Covid 19. A memorial service is set for 3:00 p.m., Monday, September 20, 2021, at Worden Cornerstone Church, 298 E. 900 th Road, Baldwin City, KS 66066, with a visitation and dinner immediately following also at the church.

Raised...

Dec 27, 2020

Graveside services for Kirby Dean Ostrander, 62, Lawrence, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at Oak Hill Cemetery – Green Burial Section. He passed away Sunday, December 27, 2020 at Maple Heights Nursing & Rehabilitation in Hiawatha, KS.

Kirby was born on April 9, 1958 in Topeka, KS, the son of Charles Dean...

Dec 26, 2020

Memorial services for Richard Pedigo, 75, Lawrence will be private. He died December 26, 2020 at LMH Health. Inurnment will be at a later date in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Richard was born on September 9, 1945 in Seattle, Washington the son of Cleon and Clara (Hoffman) Pedigo.

Before retiring...

Dec 26, 2020

Don Walker, age 85, passed on peacefully at his home in Baldwin City, Kansas in the early morning hours of December 26th after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s Disease. Don was born in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota on February 1st, 1935. Don graduated from Williamsburg High School in Williamsburg, Kansas in 1953. After high school he worked on the...

Dec 26, 2020

Our Mom – chemist, botanist, biologist, teacher, expert in flower arrangement, judging and design, so incredibly intelligent, who teared up with the beauty of nature, passed away December 26, 2020 surrounded by her family’s love in her home.

Margy Kitley Carlsen (Kit to family and friends) is survived by daughters Karen Carlsen, Kathy (KC) Carlsen, and Kristi...

Dec 25, 2020

****Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, April 9, 2021 at the Higginsville Missouri Veteran’s Cemetery.

Patricia Lou Cary, formally of Blue Springs, Missouri passed away on December 25th, 2020 in Lawrence, Kansas. She suffered from Alzheimer’s for the last seven years and died while in hospice care at her son’s...

Dec 25, 2020

Family memorial services for Robert (Bob) Lawrence Hohn, 79, will be held on Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence, KS. Friends and family may watch a live-stream of the service at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday on Warren-McElwain Mortuary website. Interment will take place in Pioneer Cemetery in Lawrence, KS.

Bob died December 25, 2020...

Dec 24, 2020

Gertrude Jane (Toll) Hogle, age 101, died 12/24/2020. Mrs. Hogle was born 8/24/1919, the daughter of Harry & Alice Toll, in Berlin, WI. A graduate of St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Milwaukee, she served three years in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WW II. Her assignments included hospital ships and station hospitals in the Pacific theater. She...

Dec 22, 2020

Memorial visitation for Karen Sue Cook Frankenfield, 71, Lawrence will be held Monday, December, 28 from 3-5pm at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  She died Tuesday, December 22 at her home.  Mrs. Frankenfield had been a resident of Lawrence since 1979. She was born on October 4, 1938 in Independence, Kansas the daughter of Willard and Mable Cook. She married Richard Lindbergh...

Dec 22, 2020

Mass of Christian Burial for Samuel Jahn, 89, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 10:00 am Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at St. John’s the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery. Please be aware that due to COVID-19 and safety precautions, we are asking his loved ones to please respect and comply with...

Dec 22, 2020

Graveside Services for Lorna Lorene Lewis, 71, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 11:00 am Saturday, December 26, 2020 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. Please be aware that due to COVID-19 and safety precautions, we are asking her loved ones to please respect and comply with social distancing and must wear a mask.

Lorene passed...

Dec 22, 2020

Betty Denny Erickson, born July 14, 1932 in Omaha, NE passed away peacefully in her home on December 22, 2020. She was married on February 20, 1950 to Clarence “Swede” Erickson in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The couple lived in Lawrence, KS during their lifetime where they raised their children and enjoyed their grandchildren.

Betty owned her own...

Dec 22, 2020

Phyllis May Wertzberger McAdoo passed away on Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Phyllis was born on December 8, 1940 in Ottawa, Kansas, the daughter of Melvon and Pearl (Lindquist) Wertzberger.

Her family moved to Lawrence when she was still a babe, and she and her two brothers grew up at 905 Arkansas...

Dec 21, 2020

Memorial services for Kenneth E. McCartney, 93, will be held at a later date. Kenneth passed away on Monday, December 21, 2020 in Wichita, Kansas.

Dec 17, 2020

No formal services are planned for Richard “Dick” Brown, 76, Eudora. He passed away Thursday, December 17, 2020 at his home.

Richard was born on December 20, 1943 in Cottonwood Falls, KS the son of Keith William Brown and Marge B. Tarrant McCoy.

He was a member of the Eudora United Methodist Church. He was...