OBITUARIES

A Celebration of Life will be held on Saturday, June 18th for Clinton and Billie Laughlin at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. The family will greet guests from 10 – 11:30 a.m.; a Memorial Service will be at 11:30 a.m. with double inurnment following at Oak Hill Cemetery. Clinton Laughlin was born to Woodie and Freda…

Dr. Deron L. McGee, Ph.D., 50, passed away at his home in Lawrence, Kan., May 28, 2015, after a long battle with brain cancer. Deron was exceptional in many ways, including his fight with cancer. His full life was blessed with work that he loved, and people he cherished. He was born in Kimball, Neb.,…

Funeral services for Linda A. Flowers, 60, De Soto, KS, will be Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 11:00 a.m., De Soto Baptist Church. Burial will follow at the De Soto Cemetery. Linda died May 27, 2015 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Linda, daughter of R.D. Fisher and Rosetta Nelson, was born June 30, 1954, in Hawthorne,…

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…