Stephen Thomas Lange

Services for Stephen Thomas Lange, 55, Desoto, Texas, were Monday, Nov. 14, at Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Cedar Hill, Texas. Private services also were held in Lawrence and overseas.Mr. Lange died Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005, in Desoto, Texas.He was born Sept. 16, 1950, in Oklahoma City, the son of Jack Franklin and Olive Ethel Voss Lange. He received an engineering degree in 1973 from Kansas University, where he was a member of Theta Chi fraternity.Mr. Lange was an engineer at ATMOS Energy in Texas.He married Carlene Hadl. They divorced. He married Raylene Pennell. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include two sons, Jason T. Lange, Lawrence, and Joshua R. Lange, overseas; two stepsons, Sean Pennell, and Shannon Gilliland; a brother, David Lange; a grandchild; and four stepgrandchildren.His surviving family in Lawrence suggests memorials to the American Heart Assn., 6800 W. 93rd St., Overland Park 66212, or American Diabetes Assn., 10580 Barkley, Suite 400, Overland Park 66202.