Souders services

Graveside services for Ella Marie Souders, 57, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Clinton Cemetery.

Mrs. Souders died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2003, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born Sept. 13, 1946, in Lawrence, the daughter of Elmer Eugene and Mary Ruth (Dressler) Holladay. She graduated from Lawrence High School in 1964.

Mrs. Souders worked for Honeywell and its predecessors — King Radio, Bendix-King and Allied Signal — for 30 years.

She married Charles H. Souders on March 13, 1964, in Lawrence. He survives of the home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Sondra Gillenwater, Lawrence; three brothers, Calvin Holladay, Eudora, and Willie Holladay and Ralph Holladay, both of Lawrence; five sisters, Betty Holladay, Osage City, Eugenia “Sissy” Mullins and Delores Guy, both of Lawrence, Freda Schmitt, Baldwin, and Clara Ann Anderson, Kansas City, Kan.; and two grandchildren.

A son, Jess Souders, died earlier.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon Friday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home, where family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.

The family suggests memorials to American Diabetes Assn., sent in care of the funeral home.

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