Mrs Anne Aikin

Anne Marty Aikin, 79, Overland Park, Kansas, passed away Sunday, May 20, 2012 at Kansas City Hospice House after a brief illness with pancreatic cancer. A visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23, at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Johnson County Chapel. A memorial service will be held beginning at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 24, at Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village. Burial will be private at the Antioch Pioneer Cemetery in Merriam. Anne graduated from Southwest High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1949, when she was 16 years old. She attended William Woods College, and graduated with a degree in music from the University of Kansas, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She was a member of the Tomahawk Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Kansas City Young Matrons, the Friends of Art of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the Kansas City Music Teachers Association. Anne was a past president of the Kansas City Symphony League and a member of the Kansas City Symphony Auxiliary Council. She was an Elder in the United Presbyterian Church, and a Shepherd-Deacon of Village Presbyterian Church. Anne was a board member of People to People and received the Department of the Army's Commander's Award for Public Service for her sponsorship, over a period of 30 years, of allied military officers attending the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth. She was an accompanist at The Barstow School from 1967 to 1974, and taught voice and piano privately for more than 30 years. Anne was a fifth generation area resident whose ancestors purchased their homesteads from the Shawnee Indians in what is now Overland Park. She was preceded in death by her parents, John Robert Marty and Lucile Christie Marty. She is survived by her husband of 28 years, Dr. George Edwin Aikin of Overland Park; her brother, John Robert (Jane) Marty, Jr. of Overland Park; her sons, John Eric (Pamela) Gyllenborg of Leawood, Scott Christie (Christina) Gyllenborg of Leawood, and Richard Marty (Paula) Gyllenborg of Crestwood, Mo.; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three nephews; four stepchildren; and a foster daughter. Memorial contributions may be made to Kansas City Hospice House, Village Presbyterian Church, and the Kansas City Symphony.

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