Melvin Gentry

A Celebration of Life memorial service for Melvin Gentry, 72, Topeka, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Chapel Oaks. Cremation is planned. Burial will follow at Pleasant View Cemetery, Oskaloosa.
Mr. Gentry died Friday, March 4, 2011, at his home.
He was born March 10, 1938, in Oskaloosa, the son of Edgar Leland and Frieda Louise Killinger Gentry. He graduated from Oskaloosa High School in 1956.
Mr. Gentry worked as a designer in the sample department for Lawrence Paper Company for many years. He was owner and operator of Gentry Enterprises for the past 25 years.
He was a member of the Lawrence Jaycees and the Lawrence Elks Lodge.
He married Mary C. Fulcher in 1960. They later divorced.
Survivors include a son, Jon Melvin, Lawrence; a daughter, Kristi Gentry, Oskaloosa; two sisters, Marlene L. Williams, Perry, and Margaret A. Elliot, Denver; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Humane Society, sent in care of the funeral home, 3821 W. Sixth St., Lawrence, KS 66049.
Online condolences may be sent at barnettchapeloaks.com.