Obituaries

Paul Holmes

Paul Roger Holmes, a dedicated public servant, loving husband, father, and grandfather, passed away on September 16, 2025. He was 92 years old. Born on August 8, 1933, to Ruth (Capellen) and Palmer Holmes, Paul was a man of great character, loyalty, and integrity. He grew up in the farming ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...