Brizendine services

Mr. Brizendine died Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002, at the Center for Long Term Care, Bonner Springs.

He was born April 23, 1921, in Cambridge, the son of Iliff and Mary Opal (Fearing) Brizendine. He moved to Lawrence as a child and graduated from Lawrence High School.

Mr. Brizendine served in the U.S. Army in the last cavalry unit and then fought in World War II in the tank division. He was captured in Germany during the Battle of the Bulge and was a prisoner of war until liberation in 1945. He returned to Lawrence and graduated from Kansas City Barber School. He was a barber in Lawrence for 20 years before he moved to Bonner Springs in 1964, where he was a barber until 1986. He was a leader in Boys Scouts of America, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of Church of Christ, where he served on the benevolence committee and as a song leader.

He married Jean Davis on Oct. 18, 1947, in Olathe. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include four sons, Gary, Omaha, Neb., Roger, Kansas City, Mo., Jeff, Merriam, and Aaron, Bonner Springs; two daughters, Carol Brizendine Jordan, Kansas City, Mo., and Terri Brizendine Fredenburg, Fremont, Neb.; 12 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer’s Assn., sent in care of the funeral home.

Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.