1923
Shirley
2015
Shirley Prather
June 9, 1923 — February 10, 2015
Shirley Prather died peacefully with her family by her side on February 10, 2015 at Kansas City Hospice House. A memorial service will be at Country Club Christian Church Chapel, 6101 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri at 10:00 am, Friday, February, 13, 2015. Burial in Kingman, Kansas.
Shirley Anne was born June 9, 1923 to Col. Robert and Leta McLain Kernodle in Kansas City. She attended Border Star Grade School and graduated from Barstow School in 1939. She attended Kansas University and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. At KU she met Charles Prather of Kingman, Kansas. They were married on January 1, 1943. Charlie served in World War II as a P-38 photo reconnisonance pilot out of San Severa, Italy.
They lived in Kingman, Kansas a few years before moving to Albuquerque, N.M., and then to Texas, where they spent 37 years in El Paso, Dallas or Houston. When “CP” retired from American General, they returned to Kansas City and remodeled the Kernodle Brookside home to accommodate them and their boxer dogs for the next 24 years. Shirley was active in the 3 children’s schools, the church women’s societies, community aid projects, KAT activities and especially, her passion, bridge.
Shirley is survived by her three children Robert and Lana Prather of Dallas, Texas; Craig and Barbara Prather of Arlington, Texas; and daughter Rebecca and Rod Laughlin of Leawood, Kansas. She also has 10 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. She loved as sons her nephews John, Jim and Scott Felker of Tennessee and Sam Livingston’s family of Kingman, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by husband, Charles W. Prather, parents Robert and Leta Kernodle, sister Mary June Kernodle Felker and Bruce and Lucile Prather Livingston.
Shirley Anne was born June 9, 1923 to Col. Robert and Leta McLain Kernodle in Kansas City. She attended Border Star Grade School and graduated from Barstow School in 1939. She attended Kansas University and was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. At KU she met Charles Prather of Kingman, Kansas. They were married on January 1, 1943. Charlie served in World War II as a P-38 photo reconnisonance pilot out of San Severa, Italy.
They lived in Kingman, Kansas a few years before moving to Albuquerque, N.M., and then to Texas, where they spent 37 years in El Paso, Dallas or Houston. When “CP” retired from American General, they returned to Kansas City and remodeled the Kernodle Brookside home to accommodate them and their boxer dogs for the next 24 years. Shirley was active in the 3 children’s schools, the church women’s societies, community aid projects, KAT activities and especially, her passion, bridge.
Shirley is survived by her three children Robert and Lana Prather of Dallas, Texas; Craig and Barbara Prather of Arlington, Texas; and daughter Rebecca and Rod Laughlin of Leawood, Kansas. She also has 10 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. She loved as sons her nephews John, Jim and Scott Felker of Tennessee and Sam Livingston’s family of Kingman, Kansas.
She was preceded in death by husband, Charles W. Prather, parents Robert and Leta Kernodle, sister Mary June Kernodle Felker and Bruce and Lucile Prather Livingston.
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