OBITUARIES

Funeral services for Mildred “Lorene” Richardson, 83, Eudora will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, September 9, 2012 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary – Eudora Chapel.  Private family interment will be held Monday at Eudora Cemetery.  Mrs. Richardson died September 6, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born on April 16, 1929 in Newnata, AR the…

Memorial services for Margery Ivy “Marge” Nevius, 84, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at First United Methodist Church in downtown Lawrence.  Private inurnment will be at a later date at Wagstaff Cemetery in rural Miami County, KS.  She passed away on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial…

Funeral services for Bertha K. Beguelin, 104, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 8, 2012 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lawrence.  Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in Lawrence. Bertha was born on October 21, 1907…

Private graveside services for Barbara Creel Learned, 83, Lawrence, KS, will be held at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community. Barbara was born on July 8, 1929 in Hutchinson, KS the daughter of Claude and Julia (Jones) Creel. She graduated from Hutchinson High School…

Memorial services for Harvey Jay Brown, 88, Eudora, KS, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 8, 2012 at St. Paul   United Church of Christ in Eudora.  He died on Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. He donated his body to the University of Kansas School of Medicine. Harvey was…

Thomas E. Nelson, 62, of Lawrence, died Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012, at his home. He fought pancreatic cancer for a year. He was born Oct. 18, 1949, in Tokyo, Japan, to Edward G. and Mildred Nelson, who were working as missionaries. When he was two, the family moved to Taiwan. They returned to the United…

Funeral services for Tonya Denise Turner, 63, Lawrence will be held 1:00 p.m. Friday, September 7, 2012 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.  Burial will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died September 1, 2012 at her home in Lawrence. She was born on June 26, 1949 in Lawrence, KS the daughter of Henry…

Graveside services for Marjorie Knight will be held at 3 p.m. on September 7, 2012 at Vinland Cemetery, Vinland, KS.  The graveside service will be conducted by Rev. Judy O’Neal, cousin of Steve Graves. Marjorie was born on August 16, 1920 in Lawrence, daughter of Andrew John & Mary (Hammond) White.  She was preceded in…

A Mass of Christian Burial for Jane Riley Pendry, 82, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, August 31, 2012 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence.  Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, KS.  She died on Monday, August 27, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.  Jane was born on April…

A Memorial Gathering for James E. Putthoff, 79, Lawrence, KS will be held from 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Thursday, August 30, 2012 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Rev. Jerry Kazmaier will be the officiant.  Private inurnment will be held at a later date at Antioch Cemetery southwest of Ottawa, KS.  He died on Sunday,…