Irene Elizabeth Noonan

Mass of Christian Burial for Irene Elizabeth Noonan, 87, Lawrence, will be at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Lisle, Ill. Burial will follow in the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Ill.

Mrs. Noonan died Monday, July 5, 2004, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community.

She was born Jan. 18, 1917, in Chicago. She was adopted and raised by Margaret Dolan Redmond. She graduated from Sandwich (Ill.) High School in 1935.

Mrs. Noonan was a homemaker. She also worked as a secretary at St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Ill., and as a sales clerk for Carson Perry Scott department store. She moved to Lawrence in 1998.

She was a member of St. Lawrence Center on the Kansas University campus. While living in Illinois, she was a member of the Divine Infant Jesus Church in Westchester and its Ladies Guild.

She married John T. Noonan on May 11, 1946, in Chicago. He died June 19, 1982. An infant daughter, Rita, died in 1953.

Survivors include a son, Dennis J. Noonan, Lisle, Ill.; two daughters, Janice Margaret Pelcher, Aiken, S.C., and Mary Ann Willette, Lawrence; and five grandchildren.

Lawrence Funeral Chapel is in charge of local arrangements.