OBITUARIES

Memorial service for Rev. Robert E. Lewis, 52, Lawrence, will be held 10 a.m. Monday, January 4, 2010, at First Regular Missionary Baptist Church.  Inurnment will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery.  He died December 28, 2009 at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS. He was born July 9, 1957, in Kansas City,…

No services will be held for Neva Marie Blair, 83, Lawrence.  She died December 27, 2009 at her home. She was born on January 19, 1926 in Erie, Kansas She was a supervisor at the University of Kansas where she retired.  She enjoyed her friends, their music and dancing.  In her earlier years, she played…

Mass of Christian Burial for Mary (Mellott) Corcoran, 83, Lawrence will be held 9:45 a.m. Saturday, January 2, 2010, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence.  Interment will follow at Corinith Cemetery in Prairie Village, KS.  She died December 26, 2009, at her home. She was born on November 3, 1926, in Kansas…

Funeral services for Douglas Kent Williams, 33, Manhattan, KS, (formerly of Eudora, KS) will be held 11:00 a.m. Thursday, December 31, 2009 at Eudora Baptist Church in Eudora.  Burial will be in Eudora Cemetery.  He died on Saturday, December 26, 2009 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. He was born on March 30,…

Funeral services for Marjorie Jean Tate, 85, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence.  Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery.  She died December 26, 2009 at Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Richmond, Kansas. She was born May 22, 1924 in Perry, Kansas the daughter…

A memorial gathering for Tyson Lee Proffitt, infant son of Richard and Sherri (Corbett) Proffitt will be held at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, December 29, 2009 at First Southern Baptist Church in Eudora.  He was born on December 22, 2009 and died December 24, 2009 at Overland Park Regional Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas. Survivors include…

Memorial service for Robert E. Broholm, 90, Lawrence, will be held at a future date at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Ferguson, Missouri.  Mr. Broholm died on December 24, 2009, at Brandon Woods. He was born on January 29, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Raymond and Ruby Hansen Broholm. He was a chemist…

Memorial visitation for Karen Sue Cook Frankenfield, 71, Lawrence will be held Monday, December, 28 from 3-5pm at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  She died Tuesday, December 22 at her home.  Mrs. Frankenfield had been a resident of Lawrence since 1979. She was born on October 4, 1938 in Independence, Kansas the daughter of Willard and Mable Cook.…

The funeral service for Elizabeth “Betty” M. Crabb, 83, formerly of Moundridge, KS, will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday, December 23, 2009, at Eden Mennonite Church, Moundridge, KS.  Interment will follow at Eden Mennonite Cemetery.  She died December 21, 2009, at Presbyterian Manor, Lawrence. The youngest of sixteen children, she was born February 10, 1926,…

Memorial services for Teresa K. Brown, 55, Lawrence will be held at a later date.  Miss Brown died December 21, 2009 at Tonganoxie Nursing Center in Tonganoxie, Kansas. She was born March 5, 1954 in Lawrence, KS the daughter of Richard A. and Justyn Elliott Brown.  Miss Brown attended Lawrence Public Schools and had worked…