OBITUARIES

Bret Olsen (53) died Saturday May 23rd, 2015 at his home in Lawrence, KS. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 30th at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 3615 W. 10th Street, at 11:00am. Bret Curtis Olsen, son of Robert “Bob” and June (Curtis) Olsen, was born December 6, 1961 in…

  ***Celebration of Life will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday August 22, 2015 at Arbor Ct. Retirement Community 1510 St. Andrews Dr. Lawrence, KS. Marie Houston died on May 25, 2015 in Lawrence, KS at the age of 95. She was born February 26, 1920 in Highland, New York to Mabel and Byron Brown.…

Memorial services for Vera Marie Sparks, 92, Lawrence, previously of St. Josephs, MO, will be held at a later date. Vera died May 24, 2015 at the Golden Living Center in Springhill, KS. Vera was born February 14, 1923, in Skidmore, MO, the daughter of Rudolph C. and Rachel S. (Morse) Michaelis. She moved to…

A Celebration of Life for Richard E. Folks, 91, Eudora will be held 7:00 p.m. Friday, May 29, 2015 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary –Eudora Chapel. Inurnment will take place at Oak Hill Cemetery at a later date. He died May 24, 2015 at Medicalodges Eudora. Richard was born on September 26, 1923 in Lawrence, KS the…

Funeral services for Lowry “Andy” Anderson, 93, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday May 27, at First United Methodist Church, Lawrence. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9:00 a.m. until the time of service at the church. Lowry died May 23, 2015. Lowry was born in Elsmore,…

Visitation for Joan A. (Scott) Floyd, 77, Pryor, Oklahoma will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from 6:00 p.m.to 8:00 p.m. at Stephens-Key Funeral & Cremation Care. A funeral service will be held on Friday, May 29, 2015, 10:00 a.m. at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, Lawrence. Burial will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Kansas.…

Mary Estelle Jamieson Wallace passed away on April 26, 2015. Mary was born April 20, 1937, to Clark and Marion Jamieson of Wayne, MI. She was a valedictorian at Wayne Memorial High School in 1955. A 1959 graduate of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA., she was managing editor of the weekly…

Graveside services for William “Bill” K. Wray, 70, Lawrence will be held at 1:00 p.m. Friday, May 29, 2015 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. He passed away May 20, 2015 at his home. Bill was born December 7, 1944 in Winchester, KS the son of James Perry and Velma (Orr) Wray. He served…

Martha “Marty” Ann Strait of Lawrence, Kansas passed away Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at her home surrounded by her family. Marty was born March 23, 1948 in Hutchinson, KS the daughter of George G. and Loraine (Chrisman) Dwyer. She married Ronald “Ron” Strait January 20, 1968 in Hutchinson. He survives of the home. She attended…

Funeral services for Paulett Gibson, 64, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Warren-McElwain in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. She passed away May 20, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Paulett was born January 31, 1951 in Lawrence, KS the daughter of Paul Robert and Betty Rose…