Celebration of Life Services for Donna Jean (Hemelrick) Strom, 47, Lawrence, will happen at a later date. She died January 5, 2026, at the University of Kansas Hospital. rumsey-yost.com

Celebration of Life Services will be 11 am, Saturday, January 24, 2025, at Lecompton United Methodist Church. Jack passed away peacefully in Midland, Texas, on November 8 at the age of 89. rumsey-yost.com

Stephen Knowlton Ferrier passed away on December 19 after a long illness. He was born in San Francisco, California on August 29, 1946 to Philip K. Ferrier and Esther Christopher Ferrier. He was the first of four sons. His family soon relocated to Berkeley, California where he spent his ...

Visitation for Julie Abel will begin at 1pm Fri., Jan. 16, 2026 at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Services will follow at 2pm. Burial will be at Reno Cemetery. To read the full obituary, visit Rumsey-Yost.com.

Graveside Services for Clarence Fowler, age 97 of Linwood, will be 2PM, Wednesday, Memorial Park Cemetery of Lawrence. Visitation will be 6PM to 8PM, Tuesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home of Lawrence.

Mary M. Thompson Welch, 84, of Lawrence, formerly of Perry, KS, died Sunday, January 4, 2026 at Bridge Haven Memory Care Village in Lawrence. Mary was born April 21, 1941 at Topeka, KS, the daughter of Eli Hartfield and Flossie Lee McMaster Elmore. Mary was a 1959 graduate of Perry Rural High ...