OBITUARIES

Memorial services for Eleanor Burt Allen, 98, Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at Plymouth Congregational Church in Lawrence. Private family burial will take place at a later date in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Allen died November 27th in Lawrence. She was born June 5, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts the…

Gilbert Ross Holle, 84, passed away November 25, 2013, at Good Samaritan Center in Olathe, Kansas. Visitation will be 11 a.m. Saturday, November 30, followed by a funeral service at 1 p.m. at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, 120 W. 13th Street, Lawrence, Kansas. Private burial at a later date. Gil was born January 29, 1929, in Herkimer,…

Funeral services for Patricia S. LaShier,78, Sioux Falls, SD, will be held Saturday, 11:00 a.m. at First United Methodist Church in Lawrence. Private inurnment will be at Pioneer Cemetery. Pat LaShier died Sunday, November 24 at Sanford Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD. Pat was born October 23, 1935, the daughter of Lloyd T. and Willie P.…

Service for Vicente “Vic” Bugtong Balawen, 82, Lawrence will be private. He died November 22, 2013 at his home. Vic was born on May 8, 1931 in Ilocos Sur, Philippines the son of Balawen and Aquilina (Lipes) Bugtong. He worked as a drilling superintendent for Lepanto Mines and Diamond Drilling Corporation in the Philippines until…

Funeral Services for Shaterika Nicole “Nicky” Doleman, 16, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, November 29, 2013 at the First Regular Missionary Baptist Church in Lawrence, KS. A private family burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. She died Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,…

John B. Studdard, 82, died Monday Nov. 18, 2013 at his home in Lawrence KS from a difficult bout with autoimmune interstitial lung disease. Services will be Saturday Nov. 23, 2013 at 2 PM at University Community of Christ Church, 1700 University Drive. He donated his body to KUMedical Center for research and teaching. John…

Adeline “Addie” Geiger, 90, Lawrence, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, November 19, 2013 at Presbyterian Manor. She was born on 29 October 1923 in Saunders County, Nebraska. The first of four children born to Joseph and Mary (Houdek) Petrzilka, she spent much of her youth on the family farm near Loma, Nebraska,…

Juanita Ryse Hunter, beloved matriarch of five generations of strong women, died November 19, 2013, in Lawrence, Kansas. Juanita was born May 3, 1917 in St. Joseph, Missouri the first child of Bessie Wilcox and Louis Ryse. Juanita was an independent woman who lived her 96 years with gusto and style. Until very recently she…

Funeral service for Harry Maurice Buchholz, Jr., 65, Lawrence, KS will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. He died November 17, 2013 at his home. Harry was born on February 18, 1948 the son of Harry Maurice and Sarah Naomi (Mason)…