William Lee Sanders

Baldwin City – Private family services for William Lee Sanders, 69, Baldwin City, will be in Illinois at a later date. Mr. Sanders died Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, at his home.He was born March 4, 1938, in Winchester, Ill., the son of Edward Lee and Anna S. Kessinger Sanders. Mr. Sanders served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He was a retired carpenter. He attended St. Ives Chapel in Baldwin City.He married Bonnie Lacher on March 4, 2007, in Warsaw, Mo. She survives, of the home.Other survivors include three daughters, Deborah Hughes, Arenzville, Ill., Amanda Smith, Lee’s Summit, Mo., and Abby Homer, Norwood, Mo.; two brothers; Wayne, Meredosia, Ill., and Carl, Jacksonville, Ill.; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to Midland Hospice Care, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary. Online condolences may be sent at www.warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Sanders.