Funeral services for Ruth Becker Pelsor, 92, Lawrence, will be 10 a.m. Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Burial will be in Johnson County Memorial Gardens.
Mrs. Pelsor died March 3, 2019, at LMH Health, in Lawrence, Kansas.
She was born January 20, 1927, in Lavoy, Wyoming, the daughter of Fred and Ethel Gates Becker. She graduated from Neodesha High School, in Neodesha, Kansas.
Mrs. Pelsor worked at Deluxe Check Printers in Lenexa, Kansas, Intercollegiate Press in Iola, Kansas, Anderson County Hospital in Garnett, Kansas, and was a real estate broker for Century 21 in Ottawa, Kansas. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, making wine, refurbishing old furniture, and knitting.
She married John Chester Pelsor, May 26, 1946, in Kansas City, Kansas. He survives of the home.
Other survivors include four children, Gary Pelsor and wife Linda of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ronald Pelsor and wife Kimberly of Ottawa, Kansas, Patricia Haid and husband Vernon of Eudora, Kansas, Debra Rossman of Lawrence, Kansas; a brother, Fred Becker and wife Dinah of Jenks, Oklahoma; 12 grandchildren; 30+ great grandchildren; and several great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, Bruce Pelsor; sisters, Carma Elam, and Norma Norris.
The family suggests memorial contributions to Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, PO Box 1260, Lawrence, KS 66044.
It’s not the same with out you here ….it’s mother’s day and the #1 mother of our family, our glue isn’t with us. I can’t begin to even try to put in words how much I miss you grandma….
Thoughts and prayers are with your family.
Rest Easy my sweet angel…you will be greatly missed.