Name: Funeral service for Leta Ehrman
Start: 2022-11-21T16:00:00.000Z
Location: Warren-McElwain Mortuary & Cremation Services - Lawrence Chapel

Funeral services for Leta Jean Ehrman, 95, Lawrence, Kansas, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, November 21, 2022 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Leta passed away on Monday, November 14, 2022 at KentRidge Senior Living in Kent, Ohio, where she had moved to be near her son Radd and daughter-in-law Cynthia in 2017, after spending five years at Brandon Woods in Lawrence.

Leta was born on April 15, 1927 in Burlington, KS, the daughter of Henry and Reatha M. (Thorne) Ramsdell. She was an honors student throughout her school years and earned a scholarship to Kansas University, where she enrolled in 1945. Within a year she met her future husband Richard, who always referred to her with her high school nickname "Hank" (after her father Henry). Her children did not realize that Hank was not a woman's name until they became adults.

Leta lived in Lawrence for 70 years, from 1945-1957 and 1965-2017; the intervening eight years were spent in Fremont, Nebraska. After college she began her career as a secretary at the Mosser-Wolf film company, Centron, in Lawrence; after the family's move to Nebraska she became the secretary to the publisher of the Fremont Guide and Tribune. When they returned to Lawrence she became the administrative assistant to the Director of the Student Union at the University of Kansas until her retirement in May, 1983.

Leta married Richard L. Ehrman on January 16, 1949 in Burlington, KS. Together they enjoyed an active life of golf, fishing, gardening, and traveling. He preceded her in death on October 23, 1989, after which she continued to pursue her many interests, including garden, reading, knitting, bridge, and investment clubs. Throughout her adult life she was deeply involved in the church, for many years serving on the altar guild at Trinity Episcopal church; later she was active in the

Lawrence Bible Chapel and then in the Free Methodist Church (River City Church). She was also actively engaged in charity work in the community and supported missionary work, especially in Ireland and Kenya.

Leta is survived by her three children: Radd K. Ehrman (Cynthia), Kent, Ohio; Bart D. Ehrman (Sarah Beckwith), Durham, North Carolina; Kerry L. Yearwood (Kevin), Redding, California; by nine grandchildren, Kelly J. Ehrman, Peterborough, New Hampshire; Derek B. Ehrman, Raleigh, North Carolina; Crystalyn Brown, Dayton Ohio; Victoria Weller, Davis, California; Stephanie Brown, Citrus Heights, California; Kimberly Brown, Boston, Massachusetts; Julie

Bruce, Kent, Ohio; Kaylie Ehrman, Kent Ohio; and Miles Ehrman, Kent, Ohio; and by eleven great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Donna Jo Myers.

The family suggests memorials in Leta's name be given to Habitat for Humanity; these may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary, 120 W. 13th Street, Lawrence, KS 66044.

For more information or to post a condolence go to warrenmcelwain.com .

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Published by Lawrence Journal-World on Nov. 19, 2022.

Memories and Condolences
for Leta Ehrman

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Tyson T. Travis, LtCol, USAF (Ret), Pine Bluff AR

December 3, 2022

I knew Dick and Leta Ehrman as a young child starting ca. 1950-51 through my parents, Ken and Trudy Travis. My mom, Trudy, was also employed at Mosser-Wolf Cameras and later Centron Films, where she started as a sales person and later a script writer and director, winning many awards, retiring in the mid-80's. My parents used to socialize after hours with Dick and Leta and took me along as a young child to avoid hiring a baby sitter. In later years (I left Lawrence for the USAF in 1969) we would see one another in passing, and she was always friendly. My strongest memory of our family evenings when I was a young child was of Dick and Leta's console TV, which displayed the reflected picture on a mirror inside the lid when you opened it up 45 degrees (the screen was horizontal inside the cabinet.) It made a strong impression on a young child, I've never seen another like it. Thanks go to Dick and Leta for being friendly coworkers to our family new in Lawrence and later to me, when I worked at the Kansas Union in part-time jobs as a KU student.

Debbie Doud

November 21, 2022

Hi Radd and family:

Although I did not know your mother, she and your father were clearly wonderful, loving parents. It is so difficult to lose the second parent and realize you are the generation holding family history and passing along traditions. You and Cynthia no doubt made the last years of your mother's life especially comforting and memorable. You are all in my thoughts, including for safe travels as all return home.

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