OBITUARIES

A  graveside service for Ruby Sifferman Baker, 95, Lawrence, KS,  will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, November 21, 2009, at Rock Prairie Cemetery in Halltown, MO.  She died Tuesday, November 17, 2009, at Brandon Woods in Lawrence, KS.   She spent most of her adult life in Springfield, MO. She was born November 22, 1913, in…

  A Memorial Mass for Gail Heim, 63, Lawrence, will be held 10 a.m. Friday, November 20, 2009, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.  Private inurnment will be at a later date.  She died November 17, 2009, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born June 18, 1946, in Wichita, KS, the daughter of Thomas…

A memorial service for Joan Joseph (Jan) Williams, 81, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at Plymouth Congregational Church. She donated her body to the KU Medical Center, Department of Anatomy. Private inurnment will occur at a later date in Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence. She died Monday, November…

  A celebration of life service for Philip Strong Humphrey, 83, will be held 2 p.m. Monday, November 16, 2009, at Plymouth Congregational Church. Inurnment will be in Pioneer Cemetery.  Mr. Humphrey died Friday, November 13, 2009, at Brandon Woods at Alvamar. He was born February 26, 1926, in Hibbing, MN the son of Watts…

  Memorial service for Sam Brooks McNatt, 90, Lawrence will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Mr. McNatt died on November 10, 2009 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was a former resident of Wichita, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Houston, Texas and Pagosa Springs, Colorado.  Then he moved to Lawrence in 2006. He…

  Memorial service for Amy Louise Summers, 82, formerly of Lawrence will be held 7 p.m. Friday, November 13, 2009 at The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Lawrence.  Interment will be held Friday at 11 am in Memorial Park Cemetery, Lawrence.  Mrs. Summers died November 7, 2009 at Tonganoxie Nursing Center.  She was born…

  A private memorial service for Virginia S. Adams, 92, Lawrence, Ks. will be held Thursday, November 12, 2009, at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  She died November 5, 2009, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born October 30, 1917, in Madisonville, KY the daughter of Forrest and Katie (Orr) Stevens. Ms. Adams moved to Lawrence 11 years…