OBITUARIES

Memorial services for Waletta Joy Medlock, 63, Lawrence, will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 26, 2020 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Lawrence. Private family burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. Waletta passed away Tuesday, June 17, 2020 at her home. Waletta was the definition of a free spirit; independent, strong, and willful.…

Graveside services for Willis Ray Moten, 80, Lawrence, will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. Willis passed away Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at his home. Willis was born on May 23, 1940 in Ottawa, KS, the son of Clyde Lewis and Tessie Rosetta (Vann) Moten.…

David D. Pike died at LMH hospital on June 16, 2020 in Lawrence, KS. He was 71. He had an earlier brush with Death in 2014 when hospitalized for 6 weeks with multiple illnesses including lymphoma, or, as he liked to say “The Big C.” Dave wasn’t ready to go yet and he convinced Death…

Mass of Christian Burial for Francis G. Weigel, 86, Lawrence, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, June 20, 2020 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Clinton Cemetery with military honors. Mr. Weigel passed away, Sunday, June 14, 2020 at his home. He was born August 20, 1933…

Mark Martinez, 75, of Baldwin City, Kansas, went home to be with his Lord on Thursday, June 11, 2020. He passed away at his home, surrounded by his family. Born in Garden City, Kansas on February 27, 1945, he was the son of J.E. and Ruth (Ascencio) Martinez. Mark married Sherrill (Koehn) Martinez on September…

Came in a pandemic… left in a pandemic. Anna Margaret Walker Bricker left us peacefully on June 10. What she saw in that lifetime! World War I was still being fought. The Spanish flu was just beginning. Her teenage years were the Depression. She married on Christmas Day since Clark could only get three days…

John C. Gingerich, Lawrence, KS passed away peacefully at Brandon Woods on June 5, 2020. During his 98 years with us, he was a United Methodist minister, social justice activist, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. During his lifelong fight for social justice, he never became a cynic. He was, at heart, an optimist who understood…

Funeral services for Ruby Maxine Lickteig, 91, of Lawrence will be at 10:00 a.m., Friday, June 12, 2020 at Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence, KS. Burial will take place at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, KS. Due to Covid-19, please be mindful of social distancing guidelines if planning to attend services. Ruby…