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September 30, 2004

Services for John Phillip Wolf, 63, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Lawrence Free Methodist Church. Private inurnment will be in Pioneer Cemetery.

Mr. Wolf died Monday, Sept. 27, 2004, at University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan.

He was born Oct. 27, 1940, in Cleveland, the son of Eldon L. and Mildred Pursell Wolf. He graduated from Shawnee Mission High School in 1958, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy from Kansas University.

Mr. Wolf was an Eagle Scout. He taught philosophy and mathematical logic for 20 years at Kansas University and was assistant dean of continuing education for 30 years with responsibility for Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center and Fire Service Training.

He was a founding member of International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and served as its parliamentarian until his death. He had taught philosophy at University of Honduras at Tegucigalpa and acted as senior AID officer for Central America.

Mr. Wolf was a former Douglas County Emergency Communications coordinator. He was a member of Lawrence Breakfast Cosmos; Douglas County Amateur Radio Club, where he was a former president; Lawrence Lodge No. 6 A.F. & A.M., where he was past master, a 33rd degree member and personal representative; sovereign grand inspector general, Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Valley of Lawrence, Orient of Kansas; and member of Lawrence York Rite Bodies.

He married Phyllis Bono on July 9, 1978, in Lawrence. She survives, of the home.

Other survivors include a daughter, Laura T. Storzer, Pickett, Wis.; a son, David S., Eau Claire, Wis.; two brothers, Richard, Springfield, Mo., and James G., Flagstaff, Ariz.; and two grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. today at Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

The family suggests memorials to Elden L. and Mildred Pursell Wolf Scholarship at Kansas University Endowment Association or to Kansas Masonic Foundation for John P. Wolf 33rd Degree Masonic Professorship in the department of urology at KU Medical Center for prostate cancer research, sent in care of the mortuary.

E-mail condolences may be sent to info@warrenmcelwain.com, subject: Wolf.