Memorial services in Wichita for Alma Louise Horton Gillispie, 83, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory.
Mrs. Gillispie died Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor. She is the mother of Patricia Miller of Lawrence.
Memorial services for Barbara Elaine Morton, 71, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced at a later date.
Mrs. Morton died Sunday, February 20, 2011 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
A celebration of life for Jere Jay Neibarger, 80, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 12, 2011, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS. Private inurnment will be held at Hubbel Hill Cemetery in Tonganoxie, KS at a later date for both Jere and his wife June, who preceded him in death. They will be buried together.
Jere died Sunday, February 20, 2011. The body was cremated.
He was born September 28, 1930, in Tonganoxie. He was one of five children born to Walter and Tresa (Hukill) Neibarger. He grew up in Tonganoxie, Valley Falls, and Burlington, KS.
He married G. June Lesser Neibarger on January 9, 1965, at the Congregational Church in Tonganoxie. She died on December 5, 2010.
Jere served four years in the U.S. Marines including two years with the occupation forces in Japan. While in Japan he served six months in Tokyo with an honorary Military Police Unit for General Douglas McArthur. He also served one year during the Korean War. He later became a licensed pilot and FAA-certified master mechanic and was employed by Trans World Airlines and Boeing Airplane Company before joining Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, KS as a Technical Writer and then as Service Information Administrator for several years.
Jere later owned and edited three area newspaper and printing businesses over a fifteen-year period, including the Tonganoxie Mirror, the DeSoto News, and the Overbrook Citizen.
He worked for 18 years at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and retired as a Communications Technician in 1995.
Jere was a fifty-year member of the Albert Pike Masonic Lodge #303 in Wichita and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Lawrence.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, and one brother.
He is survived by two daughters, Katrina Rodriquez, husband Jose, and son Marcus of Greenwood, IN, and Anna White, husband John, and daughter Amanda and son Ethan, of Lawrence; one son, Derek, wife Christine, and son Forrest and daughter Ashley Beiter of Lawrence; one brother, John E. of Clinton, MO; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, March 11, 2011, at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to the Albert Pike Masonic Lodge #303, in care of the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Graveside services for Franklin C. Bidinger, 84, Clinton, will be at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Clinton Cemetery, with the Rev. Steve Bubna officiating, and Dr. Dan Neuenswander, vocalist.
Mr. Bidinger died Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011, at his home.
He was born June 1, 1926, in Stull, Kan., the son of Frank A. and Edith Gibler Bidinger. He graduated from Liberty Memorial High School.
Mr. Bidinger began working at a young age as a farmer and a body man for Winter Chevrolet, specializing in renovating totaled cars. He was a welder and machinist. He worked for the American Walnut Company, cutting and shipping logs to Kentucky and Louisiana. He traveled as a demonstrator for Dale Babbitt Electric Welding Alloys. He spent 20 years, including serving as supervisor, in the inside shop at the City of Lawrence Water Dept, followed by 12 years as Shop Foreman and Supervisor of Steam at the University of Kansas.
He began playing fast pitch softball at the age of 12. He had a sneaky fast ball and a dazzling knuckler. With him pitching and his father catching, they formed the rare father-son battery combination. The Clinton teams played in state tournament play for four years, ending in 1958. In 1955, the team won fourth place in the state competition. He later played competitively for numerous sponsored teams, including the Metzger’s, who made a bid for a national title in 1968 in Clearwater, Fla. He had a myriad of hobbies over the years, none of which he invested in lightly. Some of his hobbies include coon hunting, breeding angel fish, raising and selling minks, gardening, and encouraging the environmental use of purple martins. He was known as the Bird Man, and established the Purple Martin Sanctuary in Clinton with his wife, Betty. During his best year of housing martins, he counted over 300 pairs of martins, many of which returned the next year.
He married June Tate in 1953. They later divorced. He married Bethany Louise “Betty” Neuenswander on Dec. 27, 1978, in Colony, Kan. She survives of the home
Other survivors include a son, Kit Bidinger, Topeka; six step sons, John Oehlert and wife DeVonna, Paul Oehlert and wife Kris, and Luke Oehlert and wife Sheri, all of Lawrence, Mike Oehlert and wife Robbye, Round Rock, Tex., William Oehlert and wife Paula, La Porte, Tex., and Dan Oehlert, Eudora; four step daughters, Janie Landau and husband Rex, Lawrence, Mary Oehlert, Kansas City, Kan., Beth Sherman and husband Roy, McPherson, and Pat Oehlert, Hutchinson; a sister, Rita Harrison, Clinton; two grandchildren, Misty Stofer and Leslee Kennedy; 22 step grandchildren, two great grandchildren, 20 step-great grandchildren, two nephews, Dana and Curt, and three nieces, Tina, Denise, and Diana.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and a son, Michael in 2009.
Friends may call from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, where the family will receive them from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. A procession to the cemetery will follow the visitation.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Clinton Historical Society, for the establishment of a bird aviary in Mr. Bidinger’s memory, in care of the funeral home, 601 Ind., Lawrence, KS, 66044.
Memorial services for Wesley “Wes” Harvey Grammer, Sr., 83, Lawrence, will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Mr. Grammer died Monday, February 14, 2011 at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka.
He was born January 24, 1928, in Lone Star, the son of Walter Harvey and Ruby Elizabeth Rist Grammer.
Mr. Grammer was in the Air Force during WWII he then worked at FMC in Lawrence. He enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, his dogs, and in his younger years building up engines in cars.
He married Dorothy Bingham in 1950, in Lawrence, she died in 2000. He then married Donna Johnson Wingert in 2001, she died in 2005.
Survivors include 2 sons, Wesley Grammer, Jr., and wife Judy, Lawrence, Rodney Grammer, Reno, NV; 3 daughters, Mary Cron, St. Louis, MO, Wanda Haider and husband David, Denver, CO, Brenda Mabary, Pittsburg, KS; 2 brothers, Darrel Grammer and Gerald Grammer and wife Virginia, Lawrence; 3 sisters, Beulah Anderson and Wilma Stone, Lawrence, Shirley Harris, McLouth; 12 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and Ruby; wives, Dorothy and Donna; brothers, Alfred Grammer, Wilford Grammer, Howard Grammer; and sister Phyllis Wood.
Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, the family will receive them from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday.
The family suggests memorials to the Wes Grammer Memorial Fund, sent in care of the funeral home.
Funeral services for Alvin E. Daniels, 90, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Central United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Maria Campbell officiating. Burial will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery, Lecompton.
Mr. Daniels died Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born Sept. 13, 1920, in Lexington, Okla., the son of Levi and Lucy Newville Daniels. He graduated from Liberty Memorial High School, and later served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Mr. Daniels was an automotive parts salesman for Pippert’s Auto Parts for 45 years, retiring in 1982. He was a member of Central United Methodist Church, and a lifetime member of the Lecompton Historical Society. He enjoyed bowling, sports, following his nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews in sports, and restoring and painting old cars.
He married Dorothy Lee Sanford on June 1, 1951, in Lawrence. She preceded him in death on Mar. 13, 2009. He was also preceded in death by two daughters, Marsha and Beverly, a granddaughter, Joi Mitchell, two brothers, Levi and Clarence, and three sisters, Mildred Weibel, Darlene Wingert, and Virginia Hadl.
Survivors include three brothers, Norman Daniels, Lecompton, and Robert and Don Daniels, both of Lawrence; five grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.
Friend may call from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, where the family will receive them from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the church, in care of the funeral home, 601 Ind., Lawrence, KS, 66044.
No services will be held for Anna Maria “Sunny” Zimmerman, 96, Lawrence. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Zimmerman died Saturday, February 12, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
She was born December 27, 1914 in Cokato, Minnesota, the daughter of Albert and Katie A. Taurainen Salmela. She grew up in attended public school in Minneapolis. She then went on to Nurse Training in Kansas City, Kansas at the Florence Cook School of Nursing for a year, and graduated from KU Medical Center in 1957.
Anna Maria lived in Minnesota for 21 years, then lived in Illinois, Colorado, and settled in Lawrence. She worked at Lawrence Memorial Hospital for three and a half years, then at Dr. Zimmer’s office, and at the Samaritan Lodge before retiring in 1985. She was a member of the Autumn Club, Travel Club, and AARP.
She married Joseph Alvin Zimmerman, September 3, 1960 in Lawrence, he died in 1986.
Survivors include a daughter, Renee Ann Reese, Cheyenne, Wyoming; and a brother Roy Marvin Salmela, Topeka; and two grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and brother Harold.
Services for Steven H. White, 52, Fayetteville, Arkansas, will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.
Mr. White died Friday, February 11, 2011 at his home in Fayetteville.
He was born July 5, 1958, the son of Donald Howard White and Juanita H. Carr Bailey. He graduated from Emporia High School in 1976, and went on to attend the University of Kansas.
Mr. White worked as a carpenter and painter. He enjoyed riding his custom motorcycle, playing the guitar as he was a gifted musician, going on charity motorcycle rides, working on fellow riders bikes, spending time outdoors, was a Chicago Cubs fan, watching football,white water rafting, and camping. He was a “free spirit” in every sense of the word. He was a loving father and son, and loved his family dearly.
He is survived by a daughter, Madeline Chase White, Lawrence; mother, Juanita C. Bailey, Topeka; and a sister, Donna Grainger and husband Gene, Excelsior Springs, MO; 1 niece, Ashleigh Stokes; and 3 nephews, James Stokes, Wade Grainger, and Nathan Grainger.
He was preceded in death by his father.
Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials to Bikers for Babies, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home and Crematory, 601 Indiana Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044.
Graveside services for Carlene Ann Passell, 62, Lawrence, will be at 11:00 a.m. Friday, February 11, 2011, at Oak Hill Cemetery. Carlene died Saturday, February 5, 2011 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Carlene was born in 1948 in Cheyenne County, Kansas. The daughter of Samuel Carr Passell and Signa Joyce Passell.
Carlene is survived by long time companion David Davis of the home; 2 sons, Chad Wahrman and his wife Amy of Laurens, Iowa, and Christopher Chisholm and his wife Amber of Pratt, Kansas; 2 sisters, Patricia Crabtree and her husband Dale of St. Francis, Kansas, and Sue Ellen Stimbert and her husband Troy, of Hays, Kansas; 4 grandchildren, Steven, Paige, and Samantha Wharman, and Caiden Chisholm; 2 nephews and a niece, Derek Crabtree, Ashlee Rhea, and Trent Stimbert; and 1 great niece, Kaylee Sue Rhea.
Carlene was preceded in death by both of her parents.
Carlene graduated high school in 1966 in St. Francis, Kansas. She moved to Colby, Kansas where she received her degree as a registered nurse. She worked many years as an RN in area hospitals and nursing homes.
In 1999 she moved to Lawrence, Kansas.
Carlene never met a stranger. She had a special way of making you feel like you had known her forever. She truly enjoyed people of all ages. She made many many friends throughout her life. Carlene enjoyed cooking, reading, and keeping in touch with phone calls and e-mails to friends and relatives.
Carlene had developed many health issues in the last several years of her life, which kept her close to home.
She will be missed by many special friends and relatives.
Friends may call from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home where the family will recieve friends from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Thursday.
The family suggest memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana St., Lawrence, KS 66044.
Graveside services for Mary Louise Bowden, 85, Lawrence, will be at 11am Thursday at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mrs. Bowden died Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011, at the home of her daughter in rural Douglas County.
She was born May 4, 1925, in Allyn, Wash., the daughter of John and Louise Olsen West. She attended schools in Allyn.
Mrs. Bowden was a Navy-certified welder. She was a homemaker.
She married William Shrives Van Horn. They later divorced
She married Clarence J. Bowden. They later divorced.
Survivors include a son, Michael and wife Robin, DeSoto; a daughter, Katherine DePriest, Lawrence; two brothers, John West, Loma Lynda, Calif., and Larry West, Northern; sister, Martha Darlion, Pacorma, Calif., five grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to Douglas County Meals on Wheels, in care of the Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Ind., Lawrence, KS, 66044
Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com
