Mary Elizabeth Metz

Private services for Mary Elizabeth Metz, 45, Lawrence, formerly of LeMars, Iowa, will be conducted by her family. She was cremated.

Mrs. Metz died Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

She was born May 19, 1958, in Sac City, Iowa, the daughter of Everett Wall and Hazel (Phillips) Wall.

Mrs. Metz was a homemaker.

She married William Metz in Sac City. He survives of the home.

Other survivors include a son, William Metz Jr., Lawrence; three daughters, Amy Lyn Whiteside, Maggie Anne Metz and Nichole Jeanne Metz, all of Lawrence; a brother, Keith Allen Wall, Paulina, Iowa; and a sister, Judith Ann Corrin, LeMars.

The family suggests memorials to the Mary E. Metz Memorial Fund, which will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation and St. Luke’s Hospital Cancer Research Foundation, sent in care of Lawrence Funeral Chapel.