Schroeder services

Services for Margaret Loomis Schroeder, 87, Lawrence, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Schroeder died Friday, March 12, 2004, at Brandon Woods Retirement Community.

She was born Oct. 12, 1916, in Wichita, the daughter of Western C. and Myrtle (Windsor) Loomis.

Mrs. Schroeder was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta sorority and active in its chapters at William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., and Kansas University.

She married Sydney O. Schroeder on July 30, 1939, in Wichita. He died March 9, 2001.

Survivor include a son, William W. Schroeder, Holiday Island, Ark.; three daughters, Ann Porter, Grand Forks, N.D., Jane DeSouza, Brewster, N.Y., and Virginia Dowell, Ottawa; and seven grandchildren.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. to service time Thursday at the funeral home, where the family will receive them from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Public Library or Lawrence public schools library services, sent in care of the mortuary.

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