Esther Ruth Ott Combest, Eudora

Memorial services for Esther Ruth Ott Combest, 84, Eudora, will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. A gathering to celebrate her life will follow at 6:30 p.m. at 2726 Belle Haven Drive.

Mrs. Combest died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005, at Eudora Nursing Center.

She was born Jan. 7, 1921, in the Belleview area, the daughter of George and Maude Freese Ott. She graduated from Eudora High School. Mrs. Combest worked in school food service in Cumberland, Md., and Pomona, Calif., and at West Junior High School, Central Junior High School and Lawrence High School. She was a member of Eudora United Methodist Church.

She married Norman R. Combest on March 7, 1940, in Lawrence. He survives.

Other survivors include two sons, Michael and James, Lawrence; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer’s Assn., sent in care of the funeral home.