OBITUARIES

Memorial Mass for Patsy S. “Pat” Rinke, 74, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, April 12, 2014 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church. She passed away Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Pat was born December 13, 1939 in Melbourne, AR the daughter of George Berry and Wanda Reeves. She was raised…

Memorial Mass for Joseph Francis Ostronic, III, 68, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church. Private burial will be held at a later date at the Ft. Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, KS. Joseph was born August 30, 1945 in Omaha, NE the son of Joseph F.…

Funeral service for Alberto “Al” Amon, Jr, 60, Eudora will be held 12:00 p.m. Saturday, April 12, 2014 at Kaw Prairie Community Church 9421 South Meadowview Dr. Lenexa, KS 66227. Burial will follow at Concord Cemetery in Bates City, MO. He died April 8, 2014. Al was born on July 22, 1953 in Kansas City,…

Harold Hirst, loving father and grandfather, 87, Lawrence passed away Monday, April 7, 2014 at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 11, 2014 at the First Church of the Nazarene in Lawrence. Burial with Military Honors will follow at Worden Cemetery, SW of Lawrence. Harold was born November…

Mike Browning of Lawrence died April 5, 2014 at the age of 68. Mike was born January 31, 1946 in Pittsburg, Kansas. He was the son of Arthur and Katheryn Browning. As a student at Lawrence High School, he played football, basketball and baseball. He graduated from LHS in 1964. He received a Bachelor of…

A memorial service for Donald Dean Schaake, 86, will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, April 19, 2014 at the Warren McElwain Mortuary. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. Don died Saturday, April 5, 2014 of natural causes at home with family. Don was born December 5, 1927 in Lawrence, son of Clarence…

Bill F. Mayer of Lawrence died April 3, 2014 at the age of 88. Bill was born April 11, 1925 in Kansas City, Kansas, attending schools there and graduating from Wyandotte High School in 1943. He served in the Army Air Corps in WWII as a 20 year-old-navigator on B-24 bombers in the European Theater…

Graveside services for Clarice Morriss, 84, Eudora will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at Eudora Cemetery. She died Friday, April 4, 2014 at Medicalodges Eudora. Clarice was born April 13, 1929 in Marysville, KS the daughter of Phillip E. and Effie E. Bartley. She was a member of the Eudora…

Barbara Joanne Rogge, 59, of Overland Park, KS passed away April 3, 2014. A funeral service will be held at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence, KS on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. Barbara was born in Massillon, Ohio on October 4, 1954, the daughter of Phylas & Jack Lose. She attended Shawnee Mission West…