OBITUARIES

Memorial service for Leonard Edwin Dodson, Sr., 90, Lawrence will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, March 13, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  He died February 15, 2010 at his home.  He was born on March 1, 1919 in McCloud, OK the oldest son of Lillian Couch and Thomas E. Dodson.  He graduated from the University of…

Memorial service for Edward “Skip” R. Speich, Sr., 65, Lawrence will be held 6 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2010 at Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church.  Mr. Speich died on February 15, 2010 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born on January 5, 1945 in Kansas City the son of Robert Walter and Ruth Louise Speich.  Mr.…

A memorial mass for Daniel J. “Tucker” Blewitt, 60, Ft. Worth, TX will be held at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 10, 2010 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence, KS.  Private inurnment will be at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.  He died on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at the James L. West Center…

Memorial Mass for Dr. Nobleza Castro Asuncion-Landé, Lawrence, will be held at 10:00 a.m. February 27, 2010 at St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center in Lawrence.  (The Memorial Mass will be preceded by the Praying of the Rosary at 9:00 a.m..)   Inurnment will follow the mass in Pioneer Cemetery.  She died February 13, 2010 at her…

Private graveside services for LaVesta A. (Tess) Banning, 81, Lawrence, KS will be held at the Washington Creek Cemetery in SW Douglas County, Kansas.  She died on Saturday evening, February 13, 2010 at the Hillside Village of DeSoto, KS. She was born on November 27, 1928 in Lawrence, the daughter of James R. & Alberta…

The funeral service for Austin Lee Clover, 16, Baldwin City, KS, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence, KS.  Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.  He died on Thursday, February 11th at his home near Baldwin. He was born on January 10, 1994…

Graveside  service for Charles W. “Bill” Lawrence, Sr., 74, formerly of Lawrence, will be  held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 13, 2010  at Oak Hill Cemetery. A Celebration of Life will follow the service at the residence of Michael Lawrence.   Mr. Lawrence died February 10, 2010 at Brookside Retirement Community in Overbrook, Kansas.    He…

    Funeral services for Wilma Aileen Alter Weinberg, 91, 0f Lawrence, Kansas will be held 11:00 a.m., Saturday, February 13, 2010 at Ford Wulf Burns Chapel in Coffeyville, Kansas. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Coffeyville, Kansas. Wilma died Monday, February 8, 2010 at the Brandon Woods Retirement Center at Alvamar in Lawrence.…

Funeral service for Susie R. Budd, 91, Lawrence, KS, will be held 2 p.m. Monday, February 15, 2010 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.  She died Sunday February 7, 2010 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community.  Mrs. Budd was born August 11, 1918 in the Brown Community, northeast of McLouth, in Leavenworth…

Funeral services for Letha L. Wulfkuhle, 90, Baldwin City, will be held  at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 11, 2010  at the Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Burial will follow in Zion Cemetery in Shawnee County, Kansas.  She died February 7, 2010 at Vintage Park in Baldwin City, KS. She was born January 22, 1920 in Stull, Kansas…