Graveside services for Mildred M. Tryon, 92, Lawrence, will be at 11 am Monday at Oak Hill Cemetery, with Mary Gremminger officiating. She will lie in state Sunday from 9 am to 8 pm.
Mrs. Tryon passed away Sunday, August 15, 2021, at LMH Health.
Her husband Harry Lee Tryon preceded her in death in 2002.
Among other talents, Mildred was a caterer and created wonderful wedding cakes.
A private inurnment will take place at a later date for Marjorie Ruth Tuckel Schmitt, 94, Lawrence, who passed away Monday, August 16, 2021, at her home. Cremation is planned.
Marjorie Ruth Tuckel Schmitt was born September 22, 1926, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. She started this life as a ‘preemie baby’ but grew into a strong, healthy, determined woman. She was the oldest of 5 children born to Harry W. and Matilda N. (Bahnmaier) Tuckel. She was of German decent and her ancestors (the Bahnmaier and Zeeb families) were some of the first farmers to settle in the Lecompton and Stull Kansas communities prior to the Civil War. Two of her ancestors, the Klaus brothers, were killed in Quantrill’s Raid in Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863, and in the 1870;s her great grandfather Herman Tuckel was a tailor in a small shop at 8th & Massachusetts St. in downtown Lawrence.
Marjorie enjoyed history and could tell you about many old Lawrence families, businesses downtown, and families and farms in the Clinton and Bloomington communities and the Lone Star area. She had a love for the houses in Old West Lawrence where she lived. She loved the outdoors and would tell stories of her life on the farm with her four younger brothers growing a garden and caring for animals. She knew many old farmer sayings and old weather proverbs. Marjorie was frugal and remembered the Great Depression and ‘the dirty thirties.’ Her father was the sexton of the Clinton Cemetery for many years and she would tell of helping him care for the grounds.
She worked her way throught high school caring for families with children including the Paul Harnar family. She graduated from Liberty Memorial High School in 1946. Every weekend Marge could be found at the roller skating rink on New Hampshire St. She was very athletic and loved to roller skate. Later in life she was an avid bowler on several teams.
Marjorie married a handsome young man named Jerry W. Schmitt from Lecompton on August 24, 1956. Blessed to this union was their son Robert W. Schmitt born July 21, 1960. Jerry, Robert, and Marge traveled to every state and enjoyed fishing and camping. Jerry preceded her in death in 2007 and her son Robert died in 2019.
She was a self-employed housekeeper and caretaker with quite a variety and lengthy list of clients. Folds just knew to call marge. As a trusted and dependable woman she possessed they keys to many homes. Always wanting to help, Marge was a problem solver who looked for a workable solution. A hard worker and never afraid to tackle a job, she was a head of her time as a ‘fix-it’ woman. She helped her uncle, Melvin Percival, refurbish old houses and apartments. For several years she and her friend Berdene Hird delivered papers for the Lawrence Journal World. She also helped her brother Lester Tuckel on his small farm.
She loved senior tours, dining out, and maintaining a social life.
Marjorie was a lifetime member of the Lecompton Historical Society. A generous person, she always gave happily from her heart.
Her love of animals grew throughout her life. She loved her little Dachshunds and always fed her wild birds. All of the wildlife knew they could get something to eat and a clean drink of water at Marge’s house. She kept a clean bowl of water out by the sidewalk in front of her house so the dogs walking by could stop for a cool drink.
In later years she developed macular degeneration but never complained. She loved to read. A curious thinker with a knowledge of current events, she would read her paper and listen to KLWN daily. She wanted to maintain her health so she would eat healthy, take her vitamins, drank plenty of water, was in bed before 10 pm, and kept active. She was a wise soul and knew something about everything. She always said ‘if something is meant to be, it will happen, and if it does not happen, it wasn’t meant to be.’
Marge was preceded in death by her parents, husband, son, and brothers Lester Tuckel and Kerwin Tuckel.
Left to grieve her death are her brothers Glenn (Delores) Tuckel, Emmett (Sherry) Tuckel, close cousins Paul Bahnmaier, Elsie Middleton, Beverly Van Dyke, Roger Tuckel, Cheryl Percival, and several other cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends. Marjorie will be sadly missed by all, especially her very close backyard friend ‘Mrs. Turtle Dove.’
God Bless you, Marjorie. Rest in Peace.
Mitch went home to begin his heavenly life August 16, 2021. He was born on September 9, 1959, to Harold and Joyce Massey in Lawrence, Kansas.
Mitch graduated from Eudora High School in 1977. Mitch met the love of his life, Cathy Schanowski, in the mountains of Colorado, working at a summer camp for boys and girls. He married Cathy on August 8, 1987. After they married they resided in Lawrence, raising their two children, David and Lauren.
Growing up, Mitch was an avid Cub Scout and Boy Scout. He enjoyed many campouts at Camp Naish in Bonner Springs. He formed a great work ethic that he learned from his father. His first job as a teen was at Howard’s Super Saver in Eudora. He worked at various jobs over the years, with his last job being at the City of Lawrence, where he retired earlier this year. Throughout his lifetime, Mitch exhibited leadership, dependability, and integrity in the workplace and it was well respected.
Mitch will always be remembered for his sense of humor. His magnetic smile and ability to light up a room with laughter, will be greatly missed by all those who love him. His kids were his pride and joy and he would stop at nothing to support them. One of his greatest joys was learning the game of softball with his daughter, Lauren, and following her from an elementary age through college-level play.
Mitch is survived by his wife, Cathy, son, David, daughter, Lauren, mother, Joyce, sister, Shari, and many uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his father, Harold, maternal grandparents, Francis and Betha McConkey, and paternal grandparents, Lester and Eula Massey.
Visitation will be on Friday, August 20th, from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home in Lawrence. Funeral services will be on Saturday, August 21st at 1:00pm at Rev City Church in Lawrence. Graveside service will follow at Eudora City Cemetery.
Services for Jeffrey Curtis, 65, Lawrence, will be Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 10:00 am at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, Lawrence. Burial will be at 12:30 pm at Floral Hills Cemetery, 7000 Blue Ridge Blvd., Kansas City, MO.
Jeffrey Curtis died August 16, 2021, at Medicalodges Eudora.
He was born April 1956, the son of D. Leon and Ardith Curtis. He attended schools in Independence, MO, Cadillac, MI, Helena, MT, and Paris, TN, where he graduated from Henry County High School.
Jeffrey Curtis earned a double degree in Computer Science and Math from Graceland College (now Graceland University) in Lamoni, IA. Later he earned a bachelor’s degree in African and African American Studies from University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
Jeffrey Curtis was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the US Air Force in November 1978.
He was a member of the University Community of Christ Church, Lawrence.
Jeffrey had lifelong passions for learning, sports, and music. He was serious about fairness, order, and accuracy. He loved to tell jokes and often was laughing his way to the punchline. As a child, he loved trains, even walking down by himself as a preschooler to the railroad crossing to watch and wave to the trains as they passed.
Growing up, Jeffrey had a passion for sports and sports statistics. He played youth league baseball as both a shortstop and a catcher. He played football and ran cross-country in high school and in college, including running three marathons in the Drake University Marathon.
Jeffrey had a life-long love of music, particularly Ragtime, especially by composer Scott Joplin. Jeff had played the violin in grade school, but his real love was piano. As part of his graduation completion in college, he presented a concert of Scott Joplin’s music.
Jeffrey refereed basketball, football and volleyball, and umpired baseball, men’s, and women’s softball for the Kansas high school area sports for 21 years. When he was no longer able to do those activities, he kept statistics for the games at Holcomb Parks and Recreation. For his long years of service refereeing and umpiring, the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department recognized him with an award.
Jeffrey was a champion for the rights of people with disabilities and disadvantages. He worked through the Bert Nash Center in Lawrence. He gave a speech upholding the rights of the disadvantaged and wrote a Letter to the Editor of the Lawrence Journal-World on this subject.
He volunteered every year to ring bells for the Salvation Army. Even while in hospital, he was trying to ensure he was on the list to ring the bells this coming season. He was generous in his donations and lived a life of frugality for himself.
Jeffrey Curtis was preceded in death by his father, D. Leon Curtis. He is survived by his mother, Ardith Curtis, two sisters: Rebecca (Kevin) Giles and Lianna (Tim) Corteville; two brothers: Phillip and Randall (Karan); nieces and nephews as well as great-nieces and great-nephews.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to https://centralusa.salvationarmy.org/douglascounty/ or https://bertnash.org/donate/ or University Community of Christ, c/o Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.
Lillian Rose Woods Arnold passed away from respiratory failure at the age of 37 in Columbia, MO on Sunday, August 15 2021 surrounded by members of her loving family.
Lillian was born in Dallas, Texas December 27, 1983 to Shannon Rose (Woods) and CPL. USMC (Ret.) John Musgrave. Recognized as a Duke Scholar in middle school in Dallas, she moved with her mother and sister to Baldwin City, KS at the age of 14, where she attended Baldwin High School, and, later, Baker University with an interest in Art and Art History. After high school, Lillian completed nurse aide training and worked as a CNA at Baldwin Care Center before joining the United States Navy in October 2002, completing boot camp at Great Lakes Recruit Training Command as a member of the Great Lakes Navy Flag Team. After training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX, she later served as Master At Arms (Navy Law Enforcement) at Camp Kadena in Okinawa, Japan.
Lillian is survived by her parents of Baldwin City, KS, beloved grandparents Lt. Col USA (Ret.) Andrew D. Woods, Jr. and Patricia Rose (Hansen) Woods of Baldwin City, her siblings Madeline Roger of Lawrence, KS, Daniel Musgrave (Stephanie) of Miami, FL, Rye Musgrave of Lawrence, Prabha Gosler (Grant) of Texas, and Bhama Roget of Washington, Uncle Col. USA (Ret.) Jeffrey Woods (Aunt Melenie) of MD, Uncle Kenneth Musgrave of MO, niece Elsie Rose Ward of Lawrence, cousins Jason and Sean Woods of MD, Kendra Musgrave of MO, and Robert Musgrave of MO.
She was predeceased by her great-grandmothers Elsie (Loshbaugh) Hansen and Elizabeth (Bullard) Dendy, great-grandfather Andrew D. Woods, Sr., Great-Aunt Barbara Duncan, Great-Uncles Michael Hansen and Harrell Moore, grandparents Wilda and Robert Musgrave, Aunt Barbara Musgrave, Fiancé Jamie Purl, and her beloved cat Oculis and pet rat Yolandi.
An unparalleled free spirit, Lillian was also an artist, poet, writer, singer, voracious reader, traveler, seeker of knowledge, militant animal lover, and die-hard Texan. She was funny, quick-witted, selfless, generous to a fault, always ready to help, brilliant, restless, curious, and very much beloved by friends and family. Lillian Rose was, indeed, her own person. She was our sunshine from her first breath.
Lillian will reside at Leavenworth National Cemetery where she was buried with military honors.
Deep gratitude to Alouette, Mayer, MSW, LMSW, Truman VA of Columbia, MO, and to Linda Q., RN, and Christine White, DO of University Hospital ICU in Columbia, MO. We will never forget your kindness and expertise.
Memorials may go to the Lawrence Humane Society, Lawrence, Kansas, where so many beautiful animals await their forever families.
Fair Winds and Following Seas, Sweet Lillian
Janice “Kay” Jenista was born on the family ranch south of Medicine Lodge, KS, on November 14, 1940, and she passed from this life surrounded by her family at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS, on the morning of Sunday, August 8, at the age of 80. She was the daughter of Vernon and Juanita (Pope) Lytle, the second born of their four children.
Kay grew up in Cowley County, KS, and graduated from Winfield High School in 1958. She attended Southwestern College in Winfield for one year before transferring to the University of Kansas. While at KU, she met her husband, Dwain Allen Jenista, and they were married on April 15, 1961, at Grace Episcopal Church in Winfield. Kay and Dwain became the parents of three children: Heather, born in 1962 in Lawrence, KS; Geoffrey, born in 1965 in Norwich, NY; and Christopher, born in 1967 in Larned, KS.
Kay left KU at the end of the fall semester in January, 1962, because she was not allowed to complete her student teaching requirements while pregnant (with Heather). She later finished her first degree, a B.S. in Music Education, at the University of South Dakota at Springfield, in August, 1972. She shared her love of music while teaching band and choir to K-12 students in Colome, SD, and Sheldon, MO.
In 1977, Kay left teaching and returned to school to embark on a new career path. She graduated in May, 1979, from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, KS, with a B.S. in Nursing. Kay’s beloved husband Dwain died in January 1979, at the start of her final semester in nursing school, and soon after graduation, Kay moved herself and the kids to Lawrence, KS.
Kay worked for many healthcare agencies during her career, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Douglas County Visiting Nurses, The Reed Medical Group, several area long-term care facilities, and VA Medical Centers in Leavenworth, KS; Topeka, KS; and Denver, CO. While in Denver, Kay earned her M.S. in Nursing from Regis University in December 1993. Later, after returning to Lawrence again, she was able to combine her first love of teaching with her nursing career, working for The Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka, KS, and Neosho County Community College in Ottawa, KS. She completed her 30-year nursing career when she retired from the Landon Center on Aging at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS. In retirement, she worked as a financial planner and was a Regional Leader for Primerica.
Kay was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church and the Lawrence Breakfast Optimists Club. She always enjoyed local plays, musicals and attending Concert in the Park. She loved a warm cup of tea, a bit of dark chocolate, classical music, a trip to Theatre Lawrence with her sister and a good medical drama on TV. Most of all, she loved her family unconditionally and cherished her many friends and colleagues.
In addition to her children and their spouses (Heather and Ross Thomas, Lawrence, KS; Geoff and Heather Jenista, Olathe, KS; and Chris Jenista and Angie Reetz, Westchester, IL), Kay is survived by her three siblings: Wayne Lytle (Joann) of Smith Center, KS; Donita Ingenthron of Meriden, KS; and Arnold Lytle (Jennifer) of Tacoma, WA. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren: Greyson Jenista, Houston, TX; Emily Guffey (Nick), Lawrence, KS; Molly Thomas (Jarrod Mason), Seattle, WA; Christopher Jenista (Julie), Leavenworth, KS; Geoffrey Scott Jenista, Wilmington, NC; Erica Mitchell (Ricky), Gladstone, MO; and Michael, Reagan, Thatcher, Bode, Hank and Matthew Jenista, all of Olathe, KS. She is also survived by four great-grandchildren: Whitney, Allana, Vincent and Christopher Jenista, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family will meet friends of Kay at a visitation at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, 601 Indiana Street, Lawrence, KS, on Thursday, August 12 from 6-7 p.m. A private family memorial service will be held later this fall when her and Dwain’s ashes are interred together at Mount Calvary, Newman Cemetery in Perry, KS.
Kay considered herself fortunate to be able to remain living at home in her final years. She was interested in many social and political causes and gave generously to many organizations and charities which served those who were less fortunate than her. Her family requests that in lieu of flowers, you please make a donation to the charity of your choice in her honor.
Memorial services for James Louis (Jim) Haller, Sr., 81, Lawrence, will be 10 am, Monday, August 16, 2021, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. A visitation will be Sunday, August 15, 2021 from 3-4 pm.
He died Saturday, August 7, 2021, at LMH Health.
Jim was born on October 27, 1939 in Lawrence, KS. He was the son of John Henry Haller & Virginia Ellen Connett-Haller. His siblings were John Arthur Haller and Barbara Ellen Haller.
Jim graduated from Lawrence High School in 1958 & married Willadean Ball. In 1962 he became a Lawrence Police Officer & served as a Patrol Officer, A Detective, & then a Sergeant when he retired in 1994.
He is survived by his wife of 63 years Willadean, Daughter Robin Evans (Dan), Son James Jr. (Patricia), Gransons: Robert Walters (Angela), John Haller (Julianna), & Michael Walters (Contessa), Granddaughters: Tiffany Dixon (John) & Andrea Haller (KC), Great Grandchildren: Madison, Owen, Alexis, Dakota, Jensen, Christian, DeAnthony, Matyce, Toby, & Simon
His passions were Photography, Leather Craft, Wood Working, Horseshoe Pitching, Hunting, Fishing, & Darts
Memorial contributions may be made to the Fraternal Order of Police (F.O.P), sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, P.O. Box 1260, Lawrence, Kansas 66044.
Mark Abel, 62, died Thursday, August 6, 2021 at home in Baldwin City after a long battle with prostate cancer.
Visitation will be held from 6pm-8pm at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home on Monday, August 9th. Graveside services for Mark will be held at 10am on Tuesday, August 10th at Oakwood Cemetery in Baldwin City.
He was born May 6, 1959 in Lawrence, KS, the son of Robert and May Abel. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1977. He retired from the City of Lawrence after 20 years. He then joined USD 348 as the Head Custodian to spend time with his grandchildren.
He married Veronica Gorton on September 22, 1984 and together they have four children, Amie Hessling (Paul) of Falls Church, VA, Ashlea Troth (Brandon) of Baldwin City, Alli Abel (Nathan Sudja) of Baldwin City, and Chase Abel of Plattsburg, MO.
Other survivors include four grandchildren, Gwendalyn Troth, Daegan Sudja, Telsea Sudja, and Railynne Sudja.
Mark enjoyed camping and boating with his wife and friends but his biggest joy was spending time with his grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to, Mark Abel Memorial Fund and send in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, PO Box 1260, Lawrence KS 66044.
A Celebration of Life for John Michael ‘Johnny’ Brooks, 44, Lawrence, will be announced at a later date. Johnny passed away Thursday, August 5, 2021, at his home.
He was a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.
Private family services for Karlie Anne Faye Hunt, Lawrence, will take place at a later date.
She was born at rest on July 24, 2021, at LMH Health.
Karlie is the daughter of Destiny Capton and Caden Hunt.
