OBITUARIES

Funeral services for Darwin Keith Benton, 87, Midwest City, OK, formerly of Lawrence, will be held at 10:30 a.m., May 2, 2013 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.  Burial will follow at Graceland Cemetery in Burlington, KS at 3:00 p.m.  He died on Thursday, April 25, 2013 in Midwest City, OK. Darwin was born on December…

Graveside services for Eldridge H. Matthews, 84, Lawrence will be held at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Memorial Park Cemetery.  He died Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Eldridge was born on August 31, 1928 in Robertson County, TN, the son of John Henry and Lula Lorene (Truelove) Matthews. He was…

Makenna Rose Bartel-Heaney, formerly of Leawood, residing with her husband in Overland Park, passed peacefully in the early evening of April 22, 2013 at her home with loved ones surrounding her after a two year battle with cancer. Makenna was born October 19, 1984 and so began a lifelong passion for the arts, beginning at…

Graveside services for Virginia Powell Conard, 86, Lawrence, KS will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2013 at the Fairview Cemetery in Greensburg, KS.  The family will greet friends from 5-7 p.m. Friday, April 26, 2013 at the Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.  A Celebration of Life service in Lawrence will be announced later.…

Graveside services for Allan D. Bryant, 81, Gardner, KS, will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, April 25, 2013, at Highland Park Cemetery in Kansas City, KS.   He died on Monday, April 22, 2013 at Medicalodges Gardner. Allan was born on July 26, 1931 in Pittsburg, KS the son of William C. “Pete” and Margaret…

Graveside service for Eva Sue Wells, 66, Lawrence will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2013 at Rochester Cemetery in Topeka.    She died April 21, 2013 at the University of Kansas Medical Center.     Eva was born on December 26, 1946 in Kansas City, MO the daughter of Fred and Ida Mae…

A Mass of Christian Burial for Leslie Anne Riner will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Lawrence, KS.  Leslie died Saturday April 20, 2013 after a courageous five-year battle with cancer. Leslie Anne Wurdeman was born September 23, 1983 in Topeka, KS, the daughter of Tom…

A Mass of Christian Burial for James M. Heim, 69, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence, KS.  Graveside services will be held at noon Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at the St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Cemetery in Hoxie, Kansas.  He died…

Nancy E. (Turner) Richardson passed away April 19, 2013, after losing a third battle with cancer that she fought with great courage. Nancy spent her childhood in Texas, the daughter of Drexyle H. and Margaret (Reamer) Turner.  She was born on June 18, 1936 in Ft. Worth, rode her first horse in Midland, and delivered…

Carolyn Darrach Norton Brushwood, formerly of Lawrence, died April 16, 2013 in Houston.  She was born July 2, 1921 in Philadelphia to Eleanor Halsey and Paul T. Norton, Jr.  She was raised in Blacksburg, VA, graduated from Mary-Baldwin College and completed post graduate work at Columbia University.  On May 19, 1945 she married John S.…