Ann Catherine Wagner Shobe

A Mass of Christian Burial for Ann Catherine Wagner Shobe, 82, Lawrence, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Lawrence.
Mrs. Shobe died Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor.
She was born April 12, 1929, in Denver, the daughter of William B. and Nora Ellen Ryan Wagner.
She and her husband made their home in Oberlin and moved to Lawrence in 1997 from Garnett. They had also previously lived in Ottawa.
Mrs. Shobe was a homemaker.
While in Oberlin, she worked as a dispatcher in the city and county law enforcement, operated an H&R Block tax preparation office, and with her husband, owned and operated the Daylight Donut Shop. Also in Oberlin, she was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Altar Society, the Cosmopolitan Club, was a Lioness in the Lion’s Club and served as a Girl Scout leader. In Lawrence, she was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church. Her hobbies included crocheting, reading, and playing cards, and she enjoyed spending time with her family.
She married Roy L. Shobe Jr. on June 26, 1949, in Denver. He survives, of the home.
Other survivors include five daughters; Cindy Whiteley and husband Don, Lawrence, Becky Cooper and husband Wayne, Edmond, Okla., Debby Gunselman and husband Terry, Lawrence, Sandy Rush and husband Terry, Oberlin, and Christy Shobe, Baldwin City; four sons, Ken Shobe and wife Janice, Oberlin, Don Shobe and wife Ellen, Lawrence, Joe Shobe and wife Marie, Wichita, and Andy Shobe and wife Marcia, Fayetteville, Ark.; 16 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Emily Shobe, and a great-grandson, Alex Whiteley.
A parish rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. The family will greet friends until 9 p.m.
The family suggests memorials to St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, the Emily Shobe Memorial Art Scholarship, or to the Good Samaritan Fund at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor, sent in care of the mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., Lawrence, KS 66044.
Online condolences may be sent at warrenmcelwain.com.