Helena Kopmanis, Lawrence

Private family graveside services for Helena Kopmanis, 90, Lawrence, will take place at Oak Hill Cemetery.

She died Saturday, Feb. 19, 2005, at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor.

She was born April 2, 1914, in Riga, Latvia, the daughter of Nikolajs and Johanna (Druva) Bugovics.

Mrs. Kopmanis moved to Wichita in 1951 and then to Lawrence in 2004. She worked in the bookkeeping department at the First National Bank in Wichita for more than 50 years.

Survivors include two daughters, Marina Samples, Leawood, and Anita Collister, Lawrence; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church in Wichita, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary, Lawrence.