Obituaries

A graveside service for Mary M. Matthews, 73, Lawrence, will be 10am Friday at Oak Hill Cemetery. Mary Magdalene Mathews passed peacefully at LMH Health on early Saturday morning, August 17th, 2019 at the... continue reading

A celebration remembering the life of W. Lynn Watney, who passed away on July 9, 2019, will be held on Saturday, September 7, 2019, at the Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania Street, Lawrence Kansas. The... continue reading

A Celebration of Life for Zella Vesta “Sally” Boydston will be at the Big Springs United Methodist Church on Friday August 23 at 11am. Sally passed peacefully Thursday August 15, 2019 at Bridge Haven... continue reading

On Friday, August 9, 2019, Fred George Rau Jr., loving father of five children, eleven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren passed away at the age of 79. We rejoice that he is now in heaven... continue reading

Graveside services for Charles Wilson Tucker, 71, Lawrence, will be 10am Monday at Oak Hill Cemetery. Mr. Tucker died August 4, 2019, at his home. He was born June 25, 1948, in Lawrence, the... continue reading

A memorial service for John Larry Scruggs, 63, Baldwin City, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Mr. Scruggs died August 5, 2019, at LMH Health. He was born September 6, 1955,... continue reading

A Visitation for James (Jimmy) Hedden, 76, Lawrence, will be 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. At later date there will be a personal service at his daughter Shelly Nichols residence. Mr. Hedden... continue reading

Vernon Eugene Haid, age 62, died Wednesday, July 31, 2019, at Select Specialty Hospital, in Kansas City, KS. Vernon was born July 12, 1957 in Topeka, KS, the son of Rex and Lois Haid.... continue reading

Paul Bennett Hartsock, 78, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Lawrence, Kan. Born in Deepwater, Mo., on Nov. 5, 1940 — the same day, he proudly told anyone who’d listen, Franklin D. Roosevelt was... continue reading

Memorial Mass for Mark David Avery, 26, Lawrence, 11 am, Monday, August 12, 2019, at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Lawrence, KS. A Visitation will be from 6-8 pm, Sunday August 11, 2019,... continue reading

A Visitation for Clara Westphal, 90, Lawrence, will be from 5-7 pm, Friday, August 9, 2019, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Clara Westphal passed away peacefully at Lawrence Memorial Hospital on August 2, 2019, surrounded... continue reading

Services for Gabriel F. Sosman-Bernhardt, 25, Tonganoxie, will be 7 pm, Thursday, August 8, 2019, at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. A visitation will be from 6-7 pm. He died July 28, 2019. continue reading

Nancy Fike Muma died Monday, July 29, 2019, at her daughter’s home in Lawrence Kansas. She was born on June 25, 1932 in Confluence, PA, the daughter of Paul Everett Coffman Fike and Eva... continue reading

Memorial services for Elizabeth Ruth Wilks, 75, Lawrence, will be 10:00a.m. Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Mrs. Wilks died July 27, 2019, at Baldwin Healthcare & Rehab in Baldwin City, Kansas. She was born... continue reading

Lawrence (“Larry”) Samuel Wrightsman, Jr., was born in Houston, Texas on Halloween of 1931, son of a schoolteacher and a petroleum engineer, and was raised in the River Oaks neighborhood. At Southern Methodist University,... continue reading

Services for Barbara Sue Ireland, 68, Ozawkie, will be 2pm Thursday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. A visitation will be from 1-2pm Thursday at the funeral home. Mrs. Ireland died July 27, 2019 at the... continue reading

“Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” for the life of Harry Dean Neufeld (84) 9-13-34 to 7-24-2019, born in a farm house in the Sand Hills near Inman, KS to Abe and Agnes (Doerksen)... continue reading

Services for Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Bunce, 90, will be on Thursday, July 25th at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home in Lawrence, Kansas with family visitation beginning at 1:00 p.m. and memorial service at 2:00 p.m. Betty... continue reading

Funeral services for Jayion Christian Harris-Jordan, 13, Lawrence, will be 10 am Thurs. July 25, 2019, at Christ Community Church, 1100 Kasold Drive, Lawrence, KS 66049. A visitation will be Wednesday from 6-8 pm... continue reading

Services for William “Bill” Huckabey will be held at 12pm on July 23, 2019, at First Pentecostal Church of Kansas City. A visitation will be from 10 am to service time. Bill went on... continue reading