OBITUARIES

Graveside services for Coral Jean Sheppard, 88, Lawrence will be held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, November 28, 2011 at Memorial Park Cemetery.  She died Friday, November 18, 2011 at her home. She was born February 8, 1923 in Baldwin City, KS the daughter of George Dewey and Grace (Keller) Schmitendorf. She attended Liberty Memorial High…

A Mass of Christian Burial for Dean Burkhead, 80, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, November 21, 2011 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence.  Burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence. Dean passed away on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at his home. Dean was born on April 27, 1931…

Andrew Rodgman – Obituary Born October 30th, 1985, one day before his father’s birthday of October 31st in Ottawa, Ontario, from the get go Andrew was always doing his own thing. He was 26 years old.  The son of Dr. Graeme and Dr. Susan Rodgman (Mowat) and brother of Dr. Christopher Rodgman of New Orleans,…

Clara Sieve, 100, passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family on November 15, 2011. Her parents, Gottfried and Mary (Herbers) Sieve, and her brothers and sisters Elizabeth Sieve, Frank Sieve, Leo Sieve, Josephine Schroers, Albert Sieve, and Olivia Beaubien preceded her in death. She is survived by a sister, Matilda Petesch, a brother, Lawrence…

Private graveside services for Madelyn Ronnie Jenks, 92, Lawrence will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died November 10, 2011 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Madelyn was born on July 15, 1919 in Starbuck, MN the daughter of Carl and Esther Engebretson Ronnie.   She was a graduate of Minnesota School of Business and attended…

Private inurnment for Edna Lucella Rigg, 97, Lawrence will be held December 3, 2011 at the Texhoma Cemetery in Texhoma, Texas. “Lucella” was born on February 15, 1914 near Griggs in Cimmaron County, OK the daughter of Lorenzo and Edna Williams Fitzgerald. She married Clarence Rigg on December 7, 1933. She worked for the Rock…

Private family services for Olga Fisher Black, 96, Eudora, formerly of Grandview, MO will be held at a later date.  She died November 9, 2011 at her home in Eudora. Olga was born on May 5, 1915 in Chicago, IL the daughter of Steve and Elizabeth (Danyi) Fisher. They had immigrated from Hungry in the…

Private memorial services and inurnment for Viola A. “Babs” Murphy, 92, of Lawrence, KS will be at a later date.  She died on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 at Brandon Woods at Alvamar in Lawrence. She was born on September 28, 1919 in Wayside, KS, the daughter of Oscar & Susan Beard Maupin. Mrs. Murphy was…

Marjory Ruth Hermes passed out of this world peacefully, in the early hours Monday November 7th after a long graceful journey through lung cancer.  She was born June 28th 1931 in Caldwell Kansas and was the only child of Truman and Ruth Brown.  Her life was an adventure that included growing up between her parents…

Irene Edith Stein was born on March 4, 1910, in LaPlata, Missouri, the daughter of Paul William Kroggel, a blacksmith, and Eda Louise Kroggel (nee Fennel). Of German ancestry, she had one older brother, Raymond. The family moved to Moberly, Missouri where her father became part of the Fennel Auto Works. Irene attended Moberly High…