All Obituaries

Luther Joseph Kelly ,78 passed away on 5/19/19. in Eudora, Ks. He was born 6/21/1940 in Carlisle, Pa. to Marne Kelly. Luther grew up in Carlisle, Pa. He graduated from Carlisle High School in 1958. At 19 Luther began working for Carlisle Tire & Rubber Company until he retired in 2001. He started in the factory in Carlisle and worked his way to national sales manager and retirement in Augusta, Ga. after 42 years. His sales job had him living in Carlisle, Pa. to Mount Vernon, Ohio back to...

Terry Lynn Davenport, 60, passed away on June 16, 2019 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas.  He was born on March 27, 1959 in Lawrence, Kansas to Charles Davenport and Mildred Gentry  He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas where he attended school and  graduated from  Lawrence High School in  1978.  Shortly after High School, Terry joined the Army National Guard and Army Reserves where he served for twenty one years.  He was honorably...

Edythe Bernice Miller, age 54, passed away on April 7, 2019 in Lawrence KS. She was born on November 9, 1964 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital to Roffle and Ella Miller. She was native of Lawrence KS. She graduated from Lawrence High School in 1983. She graduated from Kansas City Kansas Community College with a degree in early childhood education. Her children, Alyssa Mae and Jason Andrew, were the joy of her life. She loved decorating her home, biking, gardening, nature-lover, and...

Lorene Ann Glover, 66 passed away on February 15th 2019 at her home in Lawrence,KS. She was born on June 22nd 1952 in Claremore, OK to Benny L and Wilhelmina Cry Butler. After High School she attended Haskell University and later became certified as an executive assistant from Lawrence Career College. During Lorene and William Glover's 44 years together they were married on March 30th 1996. She was a very kind, loving and a devoted wife to William Glover, Sr. And her four children,...

Michael Otis “Mike” Sampson, age 60, passed away at his home in Lawrence on December 30, 2018, following a battle with cancer. Mike was born on February 18, 1958, in Stafford, TX, to Howard Alvin Sampson and Dorothy Jean Browning. Mike lived in Texas as a young child before moving to Kansas in 1971. As a child and young man, Mike lived in Parsons, Topeka, Medicine Lodge, Larned and Norton, Kansas. In 1988 he moved to Topeka, where he received services from the Kansas Neurological...

  Gloria Jean Glover was born in Arcola, Mississippi on August 17, 1950 to Jessie and Zeddie Glover. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, three sisters Willa Rhodes, Jessie Stafford, Vinnie Dunigan, and one brother Charles Glover. Gloria began her spiritual life early at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church. She was baptized under the leadership of the Reverend C.L. Cody in Grace, Mississippi. In 1970 Gloria graduated Henry Weather High School in Rolling Fork, Mississippi with...

Eric was born in Wichita, Kansas to Donna E. (Whitwam) and Theodore L. “Tex” Roembach. He lived in Norwich, Kansas until the accidental and untilely death of his father in 1961. His family then moved to Newton, Kansas, where he came of age and graduated from Newton High School. Those were years of basketball, fast cars, as well as a bit of mischief with his older brother, Dan.   He attended the University of Kansas, but was drawn to flying. In 1969, he followed his...

Gwendolyn Marie Miller, 64, passed away on August 24, 2018 at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, KS surrounded by her family. She was born on May 24, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan to Florence Howard Lovett and raised by Walter and Hattie Mason. Gwendolyn grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Ecorse Community High School in Ecorse, Michigan in 1972. She worked in health insurance and accounting, ultimately retiring from Protection One. She loved Zumba, gardening, watching any and all...

Carlaton P Shepard Brown, 48, passed away on Monday, August 20, 2018 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.  He was born on November 11, 1969 In Red Bank. New Jersey.  His parents are Bill and Alcenia (Shang) Shepard of Lawrence.  Carl was the son of a military family and attended schools in California and Texas before settling in Lawrence, Kansas and graduating from Lawrence High School in 1988.  He worked as a Certified Nurses Assistant for several years...