Grover Thomas LAWRENCE -- Grover Cleveland Thomas, 92, Lawrence, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2003, at a Lawrence hospital. Mr. Thomas had been a painting contractor in Los Angeles. He also was a World War II veteran. He was born Dec. 28, 1910, in St. Louis, to Louis and Julia Thomas. Mr. Thomas was a member of Praise Temple Church. He married Constance Mae Henderson on June 16, 1945, in Kansas City, Kan. She died June 22, 1961. Survivors include two sons, Ronald Thomas, Lawrence, and William Walker, Kansas City, Kan.; three daughters, Jacquelyn Davis, Kansas City, Kan., Brenda Joyce Wright, Kansas City, Mo., and Jeanette Thomas, Battle Creek, Mich.; 18 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at 9th Street Baptist Church in Lawrence. Burial will be in Leavenworth National Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time Friday at the church. Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence is in charge of arrangements.