OBITUARIES

Mass of Christian Burial for Ramon E. Romero, Sr., 88, Lawrence will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 27, 2009 at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.  Military Honors will follow in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.  He died February 23, 2009 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was born July 15, 1920 in Lawrence,…

Mass of Christian Burial for Richard L. Hopson, 69, Eudora will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, February 21, 2009 at Holy Family Catholic Church.  Military Graveside service will follow in Holy Family Cemetery.     He died Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.   He was born January 2, 1940 in Lafayette, LA the…

Mass of Christian Burial for James R. “Jim” Ellena, 61, Cathedral City, CA will be at 10 a.m. Monday, February 23, 2009 at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Lawrence.  Burial will follow in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.  He died on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at his home in California. He was born…

Funeral services for Ruth Norman, 82, of Eudora, Kansas will be held 2 p.m., Friday, February 20, 2009 at the First Southern Baptist Church in Eudora.  Burial will be in the Eudora Cemetery.  Mrs. Norman died Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at her home in Eudora, Kansas.   She was born March 12, 1926 in Newnada, Arkansas,…

Private graveside services for Betty Miller Schulte, 89, Lawrence, KS, will be held at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence.  She died on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community in Lawrence.   Mrs. Schulte was born on February 8, 1920 in St. Louis, MO, the daughter of Albin Hjalmar & Viola Gerhard Miller.  …

Memorial Mass for Larry J. Schmitz, 64, Lawrence, KS will be 10:30 a.m., Saturday, February 14, 2009, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.  A reception will follow in the Church basement.  He died February 12, 2009, Lawrence, KS. He was born October 30, 1944, in Marytown, WI, the son of Leo, Sr. and LaBella…