OBITUARIES

A visitation for Donald Dean Cole, 82, Lawrence, will be held from 6 – 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Donald passed away Monday, February 10, 2020 at LMH Health. Donald was born on August 18, 1937 in Kansas City, MO, the son of Irving and Pauline (Mitchell) Cole. He…

Funeral services for Eugene A. “Westie” Westerhouse, 92, Eudora, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, February 15, 2020 at Eudora United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at the Eudora Cemetery. Eugene passed away Sunday, February 9, 2020 at Medicalodges Eudora. Eugene was born on August 15, 1927 in Eudora, KS, the son of Amos…

Herman Hallberg passed in Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, February 7th with family at his side. He was born in 1920 to H.T. and Esther Hallberg. He and Evelyn M. Hallberg were married on July 18, 1945. Evelyn died in 2015. Herman served in World War II and was a Purple Heart recipient and a POW…

Benita Selma Ravanes Tankersley, 98, was called home by our Lord on February 2, 2020 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with her children by her bedside. She was born on March 21, 1921 in Tunkop, Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines and was the daughter of Eusebia Sason Ravanes and Patricia Selma. Bennie graduated from Cebu City High School…

** UPDATED** The Celebration of Life Service for David C. Schwartzburg, 84, Lawrence, has been postponed and will be announced at a later date.   Inurnment will take place in Winchester, Wisconsin. David passed away Friday, January 31, 2020 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community. David was born on January 5, 1936 in Miami Beach, FL,…

Warren O. (Blue) Barrand, 97 Lawrence KS, died Saturday February 1st at Monterey Village Arbors Memory Care. Blue was born January 11, 1923 in Leona, KS, the son of Ralph and Edith Hazen Barrand. After graduating from Powhattan HS in 1941, he studied aircraft mechanics in Wichita and worked for Beechcraft. He enlisted in 1943…

Memorial visitation for Martha Nell Buller, 83, Lawrence, will be held from 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Saturday, March 7, 2020 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Inurnment will be at a later date in Vinland Cemetery. Martha passed away Saturday, February 1, 2020 at Garden Terrace in Overland Park, KS. Martha was born on December 9,…

Earl Arthur Nehring, 99, died on January 31, 2020 at Presbyterian Manor of Lawrence. He was born in Gildford, Montana on May 28, 1920, the son of Arthur and Myrtle (Burfield) Nehring. He graduated from Gildford High School in 1936. He attended Northern Montana College from 1936 – 1938 and the University of Montana, Missoula,…

Margaret “Hodgie” Bricke, who retired as University of Kansas Assistant Vice Provost for International Programs in 2012, died Sunday, January 19, 2020 in her Lawrence, Kansas, home. She was 80. Dr. Bricke, who was known by all as “Hodgie,” (a name she selected for herself as a child), had a life-long passion for international education,…

Donna Sue Gelvin, 93, of Lawrence, Kansas, passed away on Monday, January 27, 2020. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. on Thursday, February 6, 2020, at First Christian Church, 1100 Kentucky, Lawrence, KS. Funeral services will be held in the sanctuary after the visitation. Interment will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. Donna Sue…