Ruby Francis Arnold

Graveside services for Ruby Francis Arnold, 77, Lawrence, will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Arnold died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at Olathe Medical Center.She was born April 8, 1931, in Polo, Mo., the daughter of Elzie and Edith Starcher. She was a resident of Polo, Mo., Kansas City, Kan., Tonganoxie, De Soto and Lawrence.Mrs. Arnold was a homemaker and a former member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary.She married Joseph Arnold on Aug. 27, 1973, in Miami, Okla. He died Feb. 25, 2000.Survivors include two sons, Thomas and William Arnold; seven daughters, Evelyn Laurence, Sharon Cutburth, Cathy Purcell, Fran Bousselot, Mary Glenn, Sue Marshall and Paula Wagner; and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.The family suggests memorials to Hospice of Olathe Medical Center, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.Online condolences can be sent at www.warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Arnold.