Obituaries

Graveside services for Christine E. Hird Isern, 81, Lawrence, will be at 2 pm Tuesday at Memorial Park Cemetery. A visitation will be held Monday from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.... continue reading

Funeral services for John Wesley Clark Jr. will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Clark died Tuesday, October 9, 2018, at Lawrence Memorial... continue reading

Celebration of Life services with military honors for Danny Eugene “Gene” Conner, 65, Humboldt, will be 2 pm, Sunday, October 14th, 2018, at Restoration Fellowship Church 716 Bridge St. Humboldt, KS. He was taken... continue reading

Funeral services for Brenda Sue Rice, 72, rural Baldwin, will be at 10 am Saturday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, with Dave Olmstead officiating. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Brenda died Wednesday, Oct.... continue reading

Graveside memorial services for Jane Elaine Platt, 57, Lawrence, will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 12 at Oak Hill Cemetery. Jane Platt died Saturday, October 6, 2018, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She was born... continue reading

Marilyn Flory Gibbs, 72, Suwanee, Georgia, formerly of Lone Star, Kansas died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community, Lawrence, KS. At Marilyn’s request, no public services are planned. In lieu of... continue reading

Graveside memorial services for Christopher A. Finkbiner, 48, Lawrence, will be held at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Clifton, Kan. and will be announced at a later date. Chris died Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, at... continue reading

Christopher ‘Scott’ Martin of Lawrence Kansas passed away on Thursday, September 27th at the age of 50. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas on June 22, 1968. Scott was a cook at various Lawrence... continue reading

NOTICE: The graveside services originally scheduled for Tuesday have been moved to Thursday at 11 am at Union Cemetery. A procession will leave Worden United Methodist Church at 10:30. Betty Lou Cobb (Martin, Butler),... continue reading

No services are planned for Jeanne Ellermeier, who died September 16, 2018, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community. She was born August 15, 1925, in Holton, Kansas, the daughter of Nathan W. and Marguerite Gohlke... continue reading

Private family services for Dorothy Lois (Settles) Stumbo, 97, Lawrence, will happen at a later date. She died Tuesday, September 25, 2018, at Brandon Woods at Alvamar. Dorothy was born November 17, 1920, near... continue reading

Gene Orie Cobb, 87, formerly of Baldwin City, Kansas and Lawrence, Kansas, passed away on September 20, 2018. Gene suffered many years from Alzheimer’s. Born in Oklahoma to Willard and Edna Cobb, he was... continue reading

Robert “Bob” Monroe Sykes, Sr., 80, Lawrence, died Saturday, September 15, 2018, at Pioneer Ridge Assisted Living. He was born July 30, 1938, in Brandon, Mississippi, the son of Tobie and Frances (Kahn) Sykes.... continue reading

Private family services for Shirley Ann McGlinn, 84, Lawrence, will take place at a later date. She died Monday, September 17, 2018, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Shirley was born October 11, 1933, in Neodesha,... continue reading

Funeral services for June Lederer Pine, 91, Lawrence, will be at 1 pm Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, with the Rev. Steve Koberlein officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Pine died... continue reading

Services for Charles W. ‘Chuck’ Bevens, 60, Lyndon, will be at 10 am Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial with military honors will follow at Eudora City Cemetery. Chuck died Friday, September 14, 2018,... continue reading

A memorial service for Donald Charles “Don” Hall, 69, Lawrence, will be at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, September 20th at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Mr. Hall died Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at his home. He was... continue reading

Memorial services for Serenity Marie Mersman, infant daughter of Monique Mersman, will be at 4 pm Saturday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory. Serenity passed away Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, at Children’s Mercy Hospital... continue reading

A Celebration of Life service for Tanner Patrick Smith, 21, Lawrence, will take place on Saturday, September 15th, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St, Lawrence, KS. Tanner was a... continue reading

With his family at his side, Albia “Al” Arron DeMaranville Jr. passed away in the early morning hours of September 8, 2018, at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor where he resided with his wife and love... continue reading