Edwin E. Margheim

Memorial services for Edwin E. Margheim, 64, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church. Inurnment will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Wakeeney.

Mr. Margheim died Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003, at his home.

He was born Jan. 28, 1939, in Wakeeney, the son of Edwin F. and Theresa L. (Jefferies) Margheim. He graduated from Trego Community High School in 1957 and from Fort Hays State University in 1962. He had lived in Lawrence since 1989. Previously he lived in Breckenridge, Colo., and Baldwin.

Mr. Margheim served in the U.S. Army Reserves from 1962 to 1968. He was a private investigator for 35 years for Equifax and ChoicePoint before he retired in 1997. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

He married Shara S. Bomgardner on Aug. 28, 1960, in Hays. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include three sons, Jeffrey E., Dallas, Lance E., Euless, Texas, and Bart F., Duxbury, Mass.; and five grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

The family suggests memorials to Hospice Care in Douglas County, Trinity Lutheran Church or Zion Lutheran Church in Wakeeney, sent in care of the mortuary.