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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Lacey, Charles Evans Charles Evans Lacey, 79 of Lawrence, died Feb 21, 2002, at the Eudora Nursing Center, Eudora.
He is survived by his wife, Ruthanne, of the home; two sons, Phil Lacey of McPherson, and Bruce Lacey
of San Anselmo, Calif; one daughter, Jean Pollock of Middleboro, Mass.; and 11 grandchildren.
Mr. Lacey was preceded in death by a daughter, Marilyn Pendleton on Nov. 3, 1994.
Charles Evans Lacey was
born in rural Republic County on June 18, 1922, to Charles Philip Lacey and Mary (Evans) Lacey. He
attended Republic County schools and graduated from Belleville High School in 1939. He started his college
Education at Kansas State. It was interrupted by three years of active duty as an officer in the US Army during
World War II. He received radar training at Harvard-MIT and was then stationed in the Philippines
with a coast artillery truck company. After the war, he completed his education at Kansas State, receiving
a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1947.
He and Ruthanne met at Kansas State and were
married in Cottonwood Falls in August, 1947. He served briefly as a draftsman for Black and Veatch in
Kansas City, Mo., and then as an instructor in the engineering department at KU. in Lawrence. In 1948 he
joined Centron Corporation, a Lawrence motion picture production company, as sound recording engineer and
film editor.
He was with Centron producing educational and business films for 36 years, retiring in 1984. He served
Centron in various production and management capacities as a director, writer, actor and as an officer and stockholder in
the corporation.
He was a member of First Presbyterian Church for over 50 years, serving as Sunday School teacher, trustee and
Elder. He was also a 50 plus year member of the Lawrence Noon Kiwanis Club, which he served as president in 1966.
He played the piano at club meetings for many years and always helped produce Kiwanis Radio Day. He also served at Lawrence
Memorial Hospital and with Meals on Wheels and Lifeline.
Funeral services will be held at 1:pm on March 1, 2002, at
the First Presbyterian Church in Lawrence. The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Soceity or the Christian
Children's Fund and may be sent in care of Warren-EcElwain Mortuary, 120 W 13th Street, Lawrence, 66044-3402
Online condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com Subject: Lacey.
Chase County Leader-News
Cottonwood Falls, Kans., Feb. 28, 2002
by Lorna Marvin
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