Wolfe services

Mr. Wolfe died Monday, April 19, 2004, at his home.

He was born March 14, 1928, near Uniontown, the son of Herbert Clark and Ivy May Ramsey Wolf. He attended Fort Scott Junior College and graduated from Yakima Valley Public Junior College in 1947 and from Kansas State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949. He received a doctorate in genetics in 1960 from Kansas University.

Mr. Wolfe taught at Easton High School for two years and worked for the Department of the Army at Fort Leavenworth for five years before attending KU. He was associate staff scientist at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, from 1960 to 1963, when he returned to Lawrence to become an assistant professor at KU. He retired in 1994 as a professor of physiology and cell biology.

He was author of more than 35 scientific articles and contributed chapters to two books. He was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa and the Society of Sigma Xi. He was a member of several scientific societies, including Genetics Society of America and Society for Developmental Biology. He was a visiting scientist for the Worchester Foundation for Experimental Biology in Shrewsbury, Mass., and was a National Institutes of Health senior fellow at the MRC Radiology Unit in Harwell, England.

He married Betty Maxine Cheasbro on June 4, 1950, in Baldwin. She died May 27, 1996.

Survivors include a son, Richard Charles, Lawrence; two daughters, Cynthia Marie Preston, Overland Park, and Pamela Sue Wolfe, State College, Pa.; a brother, Wayne Lee Wolf, Leavenworth; a sister, Cleta Maxine Van Horn, Gainesville, Fla.; and five grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to American Cancer Society or Hospice Care of Douglas County, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Wolfe.