Preston Marshall Ransone

Services for Preston Marshall Ransone, 69, Lawrence, will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Plymouth Congregational Church. Burial will be later in Arlington National Cemetery.Mr. Ransone died Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Rolling Hills Health Center in Topeka.Survivors include his wife, Patricia Diemont, of the home; three sons, Christopher Andrew Fox, Houston, David Eric Fox, Charleston, S.C., and Bart Daniel Ransone, Manhattan; two daughters, Claudine Sterling, Live Oaks, Texas, and Amine Nichole Bruce, Magnolia, Texas; and 10 grandchildren.The family will receive friends following the services Saturday at the church.The family suggests memorial contributions to Relay for Life or Plymouth Congregational Church, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.