Obituaries

Joyce Mullenix

Joyce Mullenix, of Lawrence, passed away September 16th surrounded by family. Joyce was born March 6, 1929, in McLouth, Kansas, to Earl and Mable Edmonds. She attended school in McLouth and graduated from Topeka High School and then attended Washburn University graduating from Stormont-Vail, ...

Cleon Musgrave

Cleon Gale Musgrave, 93, of Lawrence, Kansas, passed peacefully on September 12, 2025, surrounded by family. Born on March 1, 1932, in a snow-covered chicken coop in Oberlin, Kansas, Cleon was the youngest of three children welcomed by Mildred Mae and Kenneth Clair Musgrave. Legend has it that ...

Edward Martinko

Celebration of Life Services for Edward Allen Martinko, 80, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. He died September 16, 2025. rumsey-yost.com

Christopher Cross

Christopher P. Cross was born on October 25, 1951, in Lawrence, Kansas to Phyllis Green Cross and Phillip T. Cross. He weighed 9 pounds at birth thus his Gramps (B.A. Green) called him 'Champ.'He spent his early childhood in Lawrence, as an only child for nearly a decade, happy and carefree, ...

Martha Jane Kukuk

Martha Jane (Mings) Kukuk, lovingly known as MJ, passed away peacefully on September 11, 2025, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital with her daughter Nan by her side.Born on June 2, 1932, in Burlingame, Kansas, she was raised on land homesteaded by her great-grandparents, John and Sarah Mings, in ...

Myrle Leavitt

Memorial Services for Myrle Marie Leavitt, 95, Linwood, will be 10 am, Friday, September 19, 2025, at Tonganoxie Christian Church. rumsey-yost.com