OBITUARIES

** Friends, family, and community members are invited to a celebration of Randy Weseman’s life at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2022, at the Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive, Lawrence, KS 66045. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m. for those who wish to visit memory tables in the lobby prior to the ceremony in the…

Beverly B. Bahnmaier Van Dyke 93 died February 18, 2022, at Brookside Retirement Community in Overbrook, KS. The only child of George M. and Vesta (Slavens) Bahnmaier, she was born February 26, 1928, in Lawrence, KS. She grew up on a farm with no running water or electricity west of Lecompton. A 1946 graduate of…

Jean Dirks was a compassionate, vibrant, intelligent woman who found purpose in her work with the courts, mental health and child welfare clients, and in raising her three children, Matthew, Jeffrey, and Rebecca. Jean Dirks was born in Washington, DC in 1949 and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Her father, Frederick Dirks, worked for the International…

A Celebration of Life service for Antonette Louise Brecheisen, 92, Eudora, will be held at 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2022 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary – Eudora Chapel in Eudora, KS. Private family inurnment will be held at a later date in St. John Cemetery in Worden, KS. Antonette passed away on Sunday, February…

Justin Kogl passed away on Saturday, February 12, 2022 after a brief but courageous disagreement with Esophageal Cancer. He apparently finally lost a bet. He can confirm Cancer Sucks! Justin made his presence known on April 11, 1968 in Atwood, KS, to Ronald John and Ella Grace (Seitz) Kogl. As always, he made a grand…

Graveside services for Charlotte Marie Gibler Muckey, 86, Lawrence, KS will be at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, February 21, 2022, at Clinton Cemetery in Clinton, KS. Charlotte passed away on Monday, February 14, 2022, at her home. Charlotte was born on May 7, 1935, in Lawrence, the daughter of Ivan William Giblerand Goldie Marie (Schrable)…

William “Bill” Eugene Riley, age 71, passed away on February 4, 2022, at the Hospice House of Olathe after battling brain cancer. Bill was born in Nowata, Oklahoma on August 27, 1950. He was one of fifteen children. Bill moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he met his wife, Gloria Ramirez. They were married on January 27,…