OBITUARIES

Memorial services for Marjorie Smith, 88, Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Marjorie passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at Olathe Hospice House. Marjorie was born April 13, 1927 in Dexter, MO the daughter of Dwight and Florence (Chils) Colbert. She received her Bachelor’s Degree…

Memorial service for Roy Arthur Coker, 63, Lawrence will be held Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence at 3:00 in the afternoon. A private family inurnment will follow at the DeSoto Cemetery at a later date. He died August 7, 2015 at his home in Lawrence surrounded by his wife, Dodie, and…

Graveside services for Donald Francis Cobb, 76, Eudora will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 14, 2015 at Eudora Cemetery. Donald passed away Monday, August 10, 2015 at Medicalodges Eudora. Donald was born March 24, 1939 in Junction City, KS the son of Ruth (Dowdell) Foland. He served his country in the National Guard.…

Norman O. Pedersen, Lawrence, KS, died August 7th at the age of 101. He was born November 17, 1913 to Thor and Olena Olson Pedersen in Atchison Co., KS. He graduated at 16 from Horton High School in 1930 as class president. He received an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, passing all tests except…

Funeral services for Helen W. Goff, 89 Eudora will be held at 1:30 Thursday, August 13, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary – Eudora Chapel. Burial follow at Eudora Cemetery. Helen died August 10, 2015 at Brookdale Senior Living in Overland Park, KS. She was born on June 6, 1926 in Cave City, Arkansas the daughter of…

James F. (Jim) Schubert of Lawrence died August 5, 2015 at the age of 100 years. He was born on February 19, 1915 at his family’s farmhouse to Victor and Mary Ellen Price Schubert. The farm was located near the small German settlement of Schubert, MO. Jim was the first-born of five children. He attended…

Velma A. (Cobb) Harlan 1923-2015 Funeral services for Velma Harlan, Plano, TX (formerly of Lawrence, KS) will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, August 20, 2015, at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Her burial celebrating her life will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. The family will greet friends at noon, one hour prior to the…

Nita Wyatt Sundbye Sewell passed away Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at the Neuvant House for Memory Care, Lawrence, Kansas. Nita was born in Calico Rock, Arkansas, February 28, 1932, to Ewell C. Wyatt and Eltha Sears. Nita graduated from high school at the age of fifteen having been advanced several times at the urging of…