Floyd F. Semans

Celebration of life for Floyd F. Semans, 89, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mustard Seed Christian Fellowship. Burial will be in Lake View Cemetery in Penn Yan, N.Y.

Mr. Semans died Saturday, May 22, 2004, at Pioneer Ridge Retirement Community.

He was born Feb. 8, 1915, in Antrim, Pa., the son of Floyd F. and Rhoda R. Dewey Semans. He grew up in Penn Yan and graduated from Penn Yan High School. He moved to Lawrence in 1985 from Fremont, Calif.

Mr. Semans worked for the New York Central Railroad for 35 years until he retired in 1977. He was a member of Mustard Seed Christian Fellowship, Odd Fellows Lodge No. 149 in New York and Niagara River Lodge No. 785.

He married Persis Wortman in 1940 in Penn Yan. She died in 1994.

Survivors include a son, Bruce, Pisgah Forest, N.C.; a daughter, Elizabeth Zeh, Lawrence; and four grandchildren.

The family will receive friends immediately after the service.

The family suggests memorials to Mustard Seed Christian Fellowship or Hospice Care in Douglas County, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

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