OBITUARIES

 Mass of Christian burial for Leon “Lee” L. Carter, 91, Lawrence, KS will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 29, 2010 at Our Lady of the Wayside Church in Arlington Heights, IL.  Burial will be in Memory Gardens in Arlington Heights, IL.  He died July 24, 2010 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in Lawrence,…

A Memorial Gathering for Richard “Rick” Lee Morris, 70, Lawrence,  will be Monday, July 26, 2010, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Mr. Morris died Friday, July 23, 2010 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.  He was born March 17, 1940 in Poplar Bluff, MO, the son of James and Wilma Morrison Morris. He served his…

A Memorial Service for J. Hammond McNish, 93, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, July 29, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.  Private inurnment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.  He died Thursday, July 22, 2010 at his home. He was born January 11, 1917 in Omaha, Nebraska the son…

Funeral Services for Birdie Mae Wilburn, 94, Lawrence, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 29, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, Lawrence.  Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.  Visitation will be held prior to the services from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. She died Thursday, July 22, 2010 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Wilburn was born…

Graveside services for Edward Mark Larson, 77, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 24, 2010 at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, KS.  A Celebration of Life will be held at a future date.  Mr. Larson died July 21, 2010 at Stormont-Vail in Topeka, KS. He was born August 23, 1932 in Belleville,…

Dr. Bernard Russell “Bernie” Hawley, pastor emeritus of First Presbyterian Church of Salina, died quietly in his sleep on July 19, 2010 at the Presbyterian Manor in Lawrence, Kansas from complications of Parkinson’s disease. Bernard was born November 22, 1926 in Ludlow, Massachusetts to Dr. Charles A. Hawley and Barbara Dickinson Kimball Hawley.  At a…

A memorial gathering for Denzil “Dale” Davidson, Jr., 66, , will be held 7 – 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 23, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary, Lawrence.  He died July, 18, 2010 at his home. He was born on September 18, 1943 in Neosho, Missouri the son of Denzel D., Sr. and Francis (Culkin) Davidson. He graduated…

Don Robert Miller, M.D. died quietly in the company of his family on July 15 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Don R. Miller was born on July 6, 1925 in Highland, KS to Pleasant V. Miller and Lucyanna Hammond Miller, and grew up in Kansas City, KS, where he graduated with honors from Wyandotte High School. …

No formal service is planned for Sonia Stofkooper, 83, Lawrence. Ms. Stofkooper died July 13, 2010 at her home after a battle with cancer.    She was born on June 18, 1927 in Brussels, Belgium the daughter of Isidore and Barbara (Swalens) Stofkooper.  She later married and came to the United States after World War II…

Graveside inurnment for Marlon James Lewis, 52, Lawrence, KS will be at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 24, 2010 at Maple Grove Cemetery, North Lawrence.  He died Monday, July 12, 2010 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born August 26, 1957 in Lawrence, Kansas, the son of Dwane Lewis, Sr. and Lorna Lewis Brown.  Marlon…