Audrey Satomi Sommer

The family of Audrey Satomi Sommer, 72, Lawrence, will receive friends from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Cremation is planned.

Mrs. Sommer died Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2004, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community.

She was born Dec. 16, 1931, in Wallins Creek, Ky., the daughter of Jesse J.P.R. and Mary M. (Vaughn) Crigger.

Mrs. Sommer was a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home in Ottawa and at an adult day-care center in Peoria, Ill.

She married Oliver F. Sommer on Sept. 26, 1988. He died in 1998.

Two sons, Randy J. Lester and Freddie Lester, also died earlier.

Survivors include two sons, Keith Satomi, Overland Park, and Ian Satomi, Hays; five daughters, Joyce Gorst, Glendale, Ariz., Cindy Archer, Tulsa, Okla., Audanell “Chee” Lester, Ottawa, Tina Satomi, Lawrence, and Heather Satomi, Wichita; three brothers, Harry Crigger, Longview, Wash., Verlin Crigger, Kansas City, Mo., and Jesse Crigger Jr., Kansas City, Kan.; a sister, Geneva Williams, Prescott; 41 grandchildren; and 39 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer’s Assn., sent in care of the funeral home.

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