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Thursday, February 8, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Memorial . . .
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newspaper obituary, all necessary paperwork, cremation and a cremation box. He said it also included embaling if embalization was the state where the body was being cremated.
A minimal chapel service included pickup of the body in the Kansas City area, newspaper obituary, all necessary paperwork, embalming, a casket, visitation in the chapel for one evening, register book, cards and cremation, he said.
Steele said prices for comparable services in the Kansas City area ranged from 30 to 50
"I recently had a member come come in and tell me that they had prized a service similar to one I could give them at four other funeral homes in the area," he said. "They told me prices were from 50 to 100 percent bigger."
BUT FUNERAL costs in Lawrence are competitive with the prices offered by memorial societies, according to Fried Burke and of Ramsey Funeral Home 801 Indiana St.
"It's very hard to compare funeral costs of one place to another. Thompson said, "I'm not really sure if I should go."
person may not constitute a funeral to another. What members of the societies don't realize is that they can get comparable prices just by shopping around."
Thompson said that at his funeral home, the cost of a cremation comparable to that offered by Steele for $235 would be about $106, while the cost of Steele's $151 service would be about $400.
"The persons in memorial societies are people with good intentions," he said. "But they could get the same savings as in and through an established funeral director."
THOMPSON SAID no one had contacted him about establishing a memorial society in Lawrence. He also said he had not conferred services for members of memorial societies.
Thompson said he thought people joined memorial societies to avoid paying high taxes.
“It’s a way of thinking,” he said. “Members feel they are avoiding having to make decisions under the pressure of death. But if families would consummate funeral arrangements, it might be ahead of a death, just as much could be accomplished through a funeral home.”
Larry McElwain, director of Warren McElwain Mortuary, 120 West 13th St., said he thought memorial sisters were not dominant in the Midwest because no sentiment against funeral directors existed in this area.
McElwain said a cremation comparable to what Steele offered for $325 would cost $395 at his funeral home. He said a standard chapel service comparable to what Steele offered for $15 would be about $625, including either burial or cremation.
McElwain said no memorial societies had organized in the Lawrence area, and none in other towns.
"If a society were to ask me to bid, I'm not sure that I would," he said. "I feel I'm fair in what I'm doing and could give an individual who might come to me the service he might want without the presence of a society."
Ester Mueller, secretary for the Greater
Society. Society, said the society
killed 77 members.
"We have many families that join," she said. "So the actual number of persons who are eligible for discount prices is much larger."
MUELLER SAID membership dues were
Babies . . .
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series of experiments will not be ready until 20 more babies have been tested, he said. Twenty babies already have been tested. The data are being recorded and coded, Sullivan said, and will not be analyzed until the current phase of the research is over.
"We're in the phase of discovering at what level they can discriminate," he said. LATER, THE experiments will become more complex, using older children and multi-syllabed nonsense words, Sullivan said.
Another researcher at the center, Cindy Ryan, said her work for the project was "very useful."
Ryan goes to the homes of mothers of six-to-eight-month old children to observe whether mother unintentionally teach their children about day-to-day activities, she said.
MOTHERS GENERALLY use more one syllable words and higher intonations when talking to their children than do they when speaking with non-children; this might help the children learn to speak.
Gaddis, another of Sullivan's colleagues, is trying to determine if the speech patterns mothers use in talking to babies could aid the child's language development.
The center's research on early language development is funded through a federal grant.
The research is a long-term project which will be broken into several phases, Sullivan
"We've only been doing pilot work right now."
City planning shown little concern
Lawrence residents showed little interest at last night's hearing to consider public policies.
The chairman of the commission also attended the meeting, where two of the residents suggested improvements for the city.
Two of the five members of a standing committee of the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission and four Lawrence officers were elected at the committee's hearing last night.
Katherine Clark, president of the Oread Neighborhood Association, said the city should provide better street lighting and one or two small parks for the area.
CLARK SUGGESTED that the city establish a home revitalization fund that would provide loans to homeowners to buy or refinance homes, and best estimate a specific amount of money for the fund.
She said the city also should repair alley between Tennessee and Kentucky streets,
Clark also said that Oread needed better public transportation and that the city
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"I think the lack of public transportation in Lawrence hurts primarily the old and underprivileged."
Ivan Reutter, 1900 W. 31 St., said a fire station was needed in south Lawrence. Ruetter said it took nine or ten minutes for a fire truck to respond to an alarm in the area.
"BY THE TIME a fire truck makes it to the most of the house that could be burned." Ruetzler.
"From the way people in my neighborhood were talking, I thought there would be 20 or 25 people here," Ruetter said. "I don't think we'll get anything. If people don't hang together, they won't accomplish anything."
After the meeting, Ruetter said he was disappointed with the attendance.
Lawrence residents may submit suggestions for capital improvements to the council.
The commission will recommend improvements to the Lawrence city commission, which will vote on the recommendations June 12.
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"We use the money to pay the society's membership in the national organization in Washington and for our office costs of mailing information to members," she said. "Our officers donate their time and we are a non-profit organization."
$10 for an individual, $15 for a couple and $20
for a family. She said membership dues
were paid only once and were used to pay
the society's expenses.
"That number is about average for the society's membership since 1975." Steele
Steele said 27 members died last year.
"A LOT OF our members are middleaged persons." Mueller said. "It's easy to assume a society like ours would just be older persons. But actually our members are persons who are just rebelling against the trappings of funerals."
Mueler said the society's goal was to educate people about funeral costs.
the ismary memorial society operating in kansas is the Mid-Kansas Memorial Society in kansas.
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