Arthur L. Kuhnert

Combined memorial services for Arthur L. Kuhnert, 78, Lawrence, and Darlien W. Kuhnert will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Private inurnment will be at a later date in Memorial Park Cemetery.Mr. Kuhnert died Thursday, April 24, 2008, at his home. He was born Nov. 15, 1929, in Bendena, the son of Henery T. and Clara Spencer Kuhnert. He attended schools in Denton. He and his wife lived in Atchison and Gardner and moved to Lawrence in 1994.Mr. Kuhnert worked in maintenance for the city of Gardner and retired in 1991. He later worked in security at Babcock Place for more than 10 years.He married Darlien W. McNett on Nov. 19, 1949, in Morrill. She died Jan. 17, 2006.Survivors include three sons, Philip, Lawrence, Steve, Oklahoma City, and Billy, Keithville, La.; two daughters, Beverly Beaver, Lawrence, and Becky Mills, Eudora; three brothers, Harold, Atchison, George, Pea Ridge, Ark., and Vernon, Bartlesville, Okla; four sisters, Fern Meyer and Alice Williams, both of Blue Springs, Mo., Anabelle Leonard, Philamath, Ore., and Betty Lipscomb, Springfield, Mo.; 17 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.The family will receive friends at the funeral home after the services.The family suggests memorials to Heart of America Hospice, sent in care of the funeral home.Online condolences may be sent at www.rumsey-yost.com.