1974
Jennifer
2009
Jennifer Rathbun
March 22, 1974 — March 7, 2009
On Saturday, March 7th, 2009, Jennifer Lynn Rathbun passed away peacefully after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Memorial service will be held on Monday, March 16 at 11:00 A.M. at the Presbyterian Church of Stanley, 14895 Antioch Rd., Overland Park, KS 66221. Private inurnment at Johnson County Memorial Gardens.
Jennifer was born in Omaha, Nebraska, at Immanuel Hospital on March 22nd, 1974 and was raised in Spokane, Washington, graduating from Mead Senior High School. She attended Eastern Oregon State College and graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and while living in California earned her teaching credential from the University of Phoenix and taught pre-school there.
Jennifer’s passion was to teach children at the earliest ages, where she believed the most difference could be made in a child’s life, a decision she made while working as a camp counselor, first at Camp Dartlow, run by the YMCA/YWCA, and then at Camp Sweyloken, run by the Camp Fire Girls, of which she’d been a member, going by the camp name of Jinx.
Her children Wesley and Emma were the center of her life, and she found great fulfillment as a mother.
She was an active member of the local chapter of her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and in her church, The Presbyterian Church of Stanley, and in her MOPS group.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Rathbun, and children Wesley and Emma in Overland Park, Kansas; her mother and step-father Doris and Robert Link; parents-in-law Mary and Ross Rathbun; older brother Rod Steadman; sister Kim Cook; step-brothers John and Tom Link, step-sisters Betty Bannigan, Linda Everett, and Kathy Ryopy; as well as a number of relations throughout the Pacific Northwest and East Coast. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert Steadman, of Topeka, Kansas, and brother Scott Steadman, of Tempe, Arizona.
Arr: D. W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel 913-451-1860.
Jennifer was born in Omaha, Nebraska, at Immanuel Hospital on March 22nd, 1974 and was raised in Spokane, Washington, graduating from Mead Senior High School. She attended Eastern Oregon State College and graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Human Development and while living in California earned her teaching credential from the University of Phoenix and taught pre-school there.
Jennifer’s passion was to teach children at the earliest ages, where she believed the most difference could be made in a child’s life, a decision she made while working as a camp counselor, first at Camp Dartlow, run by the YMCA/YWCA, and then at Camp Sweyloken, run by the Camp Fire Girls, of which she’d been a member, going by the camp name of Jinx.
Her children Wesley and Emma were the center of her life, and she found great fulfillment as a mother.
She was an active member of the local chapter of her sorority, Sigma Kappa, and in her church, The Presbyterian Church of Stanley, and in her MOPS group.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Rathbun, and children Wesley and Emma in Overland Park, Kansas; her mother and step-father Doris and Robert Link; parents-in-law Mary and Ross Rathbun; older brother Rod Steadman; sister Kim Cook; step-brothers John and Tom Link, step-sisters Betty Bannigan, Linda Everett, and Kathy Ryopy; as well as a number of relations throughout the Pacific Northwest and East Coast. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert Steadman, of Topeka, Kansas, and brother Scott Steadman, of Tempe, Arizona.
Arr: D. W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel 913-451-1860.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Jennifer Rathbun, please visit our flower store.