David D. Shreves

Memorial services for David D. Shreves, 53, Emporia, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Lawrence. Cremation is planned.

Mr. Shreves died Monday, Jan. 12, 2004, at his home.

He was born Jan. 4, 1951, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Gordon C. and Celia Elaine (Moss) Shreves. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1969. He received a legal assistant degree from Wichita State University and a Bachelor of Arts from Washburn University in 1981. He moved to Emporia in November 1998.

Mr. Shreves served for two years in the U.S. Air Force in Aviano, Italy. He was discharged in 1973 at the rank of first lieutenant. He worked in the retirement payment division of the Navy from 1981 to 1988 and in the Marine Corps retirement pay division from 1988 to 1991.

Survivors include his parents, Lawrence; a son, Scott Douglas, of the home; two sisters, Dixie Shreves, Rapid City, S.D., and Debra Shreves, Lawrence; and two brothers, Dennis, Hot Springs, S.D., and Douglas, Rapid City, S.D.

The family suggests memorials to a fund that will be designated later, sent in care of Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia 66801.