OBITUARIES

Graveside services for Lula Margaret Jennings Trowbridge, 92, will be held at Sutton Cemetery, Baldwin City, KS, on May 9, 2009, at 3:00 pm.  Mrs. Trowbridge died on April 25, 2009, at Seneca House in Seneca, MO. She was born on January 16, 1917, in Lawrence, KS, and lived in the Lawrence and Baldwin area…

A Memorial Mass for Loretta Komma, 68, Lawrence, will be 10 a.m. Monday, April 27, 2009, at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Lawrence.  Inurnment will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died April 23, 2009, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born March 8, 1941 in Lawrence, KS, to Herman and Helen Considine Stiglmire.…

Funeral service for Wilbur Rothwell, 86, Lawrence, will be 2 p.m. Monday, April 27, 2009, at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.  He died April 22, 2008, at his home.  He was born July 19, 1922, in Jefferson County, KS, the son of Thurman Allen and Mable Florence Carr Rothwell.  He was…

Funeral service for Leander Edwards, 53, Lawrence, will be 9:00 a.m. Friday, April 24, 2009 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Interment will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery at 11 a.m. with Military Honors.  Mr. Edwards died April 20, 2009, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born on August 25, 1955, in Glen Allen, Mississippi the son of…

Funeral services for Marvin E. Flory, 85, Baldwin City, KS will be held 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Willow Springs Old German Baptist Brethren Church.  Interment will follow at Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Pleasant Grove, KS.   Mr. Flory died on Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor.  He was born on…

Graveside inurnment services for Charlotte J. Hamilton, 93,  of Kansas City, Kansas will be held 2 p.m. Friday, April 24, 2009, at McLouth Cemetery in McLouth, Kansas. Mrs. Hamilton died Friday, April 17, 2009, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Center in Lawrence.  She was born November 1, 1915, in McLouth, Kansas, the daughter of Earl and…

Private family funeral services for Charles Patrick LaClair, of Yorktown, Va. were held Saturday, April 18, 2009 at Corpus Christi Catholic church.  Burial was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Charles, son of Charles H. and Audrey J. (Waymaster) LaClair, was stillborn Thursday, April 16, 2009 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence. He is survived by his…

No formal services are planned for Valorie Marie Blasingame, 56, of Topeka.  She died on April 16, 2009 at Stormont -Vail HealthCare in Topeka, KS.  She was born on March 19, 1953 in California the daughter of Thomas and Mavis Barreth Kinder. She worked as a custodian for the University of Kansas and also for…

Memorial services for Myra M. Traetow (formerly Trowbridge), 69, Lawrence will be at 10 a.m. Monday,  April 20, 2008 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.  Inurnment will follow in Sutton Cemetery, rural Baldwin, KS. Ms. Traetow died at her home on April 15, 2009. Myra  was born October 31, 1939 in Stuttgart, Arkansas, the daughter of Herman and…

A Memorial Mass for Charles “Charlie” F.  Steinbacher, 70, Lawrence, KS,  will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 18, 2009 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence, KS.  Inurnment will be at a later date at the Great Bend Cemetery in Great Bend, KS.  Mr. Steinbacher died on Tuesday, April 14, 2009…