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1863 - 2002



Weeks, Lawrence Charles

The funeral for Lawrence Charles Weeks, 91, a resident of the Vintage Manor, was Jan. 26, 2002, in the Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Vance Veazey of the Americus Southern Baptist Church conducted the service. Burial was in Americus Cemetery at Americus. Memorial contributions to the Americus Southern Baptist Church may be sent to the funeral home. Mr. Weeks died Jan. 22, 2002, at Colmery-O'Neil Veterans Administration Medical Center in Topeka. He was a meat cutter in Missoula, Mont., for 35 years before he retired 25 years He was a Navy Veteran.

Lawrence Charles Weeks, the son of Bailey and Milinda Belt Weeks, was born March 10, 1910, in Chase County. He married Della Gravity at Missoula, Mont. They were divorced. He married Dorothy McGuire-Lane on Sept 28, 1974 at Emporia.

Mr Weeks was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980 and American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5 in Emporia and the Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge in Missoula, Mont.

He is survived by his wife; two sons, Robert F Weeks, whose address is unavailable, and Charles C Weeks of Ottawa; three stepsons, Michael V Lane of Topeka, George E Lane of Crystal Lake, Ill., and Charles A Lane of Warsaw, Mo.; a stepdaughter, Lila R. Pepe of Albuquerque, NM.; three brothers, Dale Weeks of Emporia, Oral Weeks of Council Grove and Jesse Weeks of Hutchinson, three sisters, Venita Kunzey of Americus, Louise Stiles of Alta Vista and Geneive Herreman of Olympia, Was.; two grand-children; 15 stepgrandchildren; and 16 stepgreat-grandchildren. Two brothers, Eldon B. Weeks and Lloyd Weeks; and a sister Juanita Hammer, died earlier.

Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kans., Jan. 31, 2002





Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant and Chase County Leader Newspapers
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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