Childers services
Graveside services for James Lowman Childers, 76, Lawrence, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Oak Hill Cemetery. A wake for friends and family will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday at the home of John Childers, 516 Brentwood Drive.
Mr. Childers died Friday, Nov. 21, 2003, at his home.
He was born Aug. 18, 1927, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Clara Amelia and James Reade Childers. He graduated from Argentine High School in Kansas City. He received a degree in English education from Kansas University in 1952.
Mr. Childers served in the Navy during World War II as a hospital corpsman at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Newport, R.I. He taught in public high schools in Norwich and Belle Plaine before beginning a 28-year career with the U.S. Postal Service in Lawrence.
He married Merl M. Rousseau on Aug. 15, 1955, in Belle Plaine. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include three sons, James David and John, both of Lawrence, and Leonard, Red Bluff, Calif.; two brothers, Floyd and Lester; two sisters, Bernice Jordan and Clara Ethel Westphal; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Friends may call from noon to 9 p.m. today at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, where the family will receive them from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. today.
The family suggests memorials to Douglas County Visiting Nurses Assn. or Hospice Care in Douglas County, sent in care of the funeral home.