Obituaries
Jaye Ann "Jann" Higginbotham 1955 - 2005 Lawrence
Inurnment services for Jaye Ann "Jann" Higginbotham, 50, Lawrence, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens in Olathe. Miss Higginbotham died Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005, at her home, of ovarian cancer.She was born Sept. 21, 1955, in Dallas, the daughter of George William and Mary Jane "Janie" Hulings Higginbotham. She graduated from Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City, Kan., in 1973. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice from Washburn University in Topeka in 1978 and an Associate of Arts degree in physical therapy from Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City, Mo. She moved from Olathe to Lawrence in 1995.Miss Higginbotham worked as a physical therapy assistant at University of Kansas Medical Center for 10 years and was a member of the Physical Therapy Assistants Assn. She previously worked with young people in the criminal justice field. Survivors include her partner, Ann Alexander, Lawrence; her father, Olathe; two brothers, George Higginbotham Jr., Olathe, and Jaren Higginbotham, Shawnee; and two sisters, Jill Britton, Sterling, and Jenny Leiker, Olathe.The family suggests memorials to the Jane Higginbotham Memorial Fund for the Physical Therapy Department at the University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160 or sent in care of Lawrence Funeral Chapel.
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