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Obituaries
Melba Messing
Apr 12, 2014
Melba "Jean" Messing, 85, passed away Saturday, April 12, 2014. Jean was born April 20, 1928, in Inavale, NE. She graduated from Torrington Wyoming High School in 1946. Jean moved to Hastings, NE in 1947 and married Eugene Messing in May of 1948. She worked for the Jones Store at Metcalf South for 23 years. She was a member of...
Joseph Fair
Apr 10, 2014
Joseph Fair passed away April 10, 2014. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1923 to Samuel Barnard Fair, from Clinton, Missouri, and Clara Ruskin, a Russian expatriate. He relocated with his family to the states in 1937 and settled in Los Angeles. He served in the armed forces as a Marine in World War II and was stationed at...
Homer Hanna
Apr 9, 2014
Homer J. Hanna, 90, of Roeland Park, KS, passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2014. There will be a private family service. An inurnment will take place at the Johnson County Memorial Gardens, Overland Park, KS. Homer was born in Ottawa, KS, on July 5, 1923, to Raymond and Ruth (Olsen) Hanna. He graduated from Carthage, MO High School in 1941....
Pearl Plummer
Apr 7, 2014
Pearl Ruth Plummer, 92, loving wife, mother and grandmother died on Monday, April 7, 2014. Born on December 26, 1921, Ruth lived in Kansas City most of her life. Ruth and her husband, Leonard, lived at Lake Quivira, Kansas for 25 years where she was a member of the Quivira Garden Club, served on the Lake Quivira Board of Directors...
Harvey Bayless
Apr 6, 2014
HARVEY ALAN BAYLESS Harvey Alan Bayless, 90, of Overland Park, passed away on April 6, 2014. He was born to the late Harry and Stella Bayless, January 10, 1924 in Frankfort, Ohio. Harvey graduated from Frankfort High School in May 1946. He served in World War II as a 2nd Lieutenant Communications Maintenance Worker for the Air Force. After returning...
Patrick O'Malley
Apr 5, 2014
PATRICK ANTHONY O'MALLEY of Overland Park, Kansas passed away on April 5, 2014. Pat was born in Philadelphia, PA to Helene and Thomas O'Malley on June 22, 1942. He graduated from Benedictine Academy in Richmond, VA in 1960 and Villanova University in 1964 with a degree in Economics. Pat went on to earn an M.B.A. and a PhD. Pat entered...
Judy McGowan
Apr 4, 2014
Judy enjoyed a variety of activies throughout her lifetime. Some of her favorites were Quilting, sewing, and other crafts, playing cards and board games with her family, garage saling, fishing, bowling, gardening, and bird watching. She was a member of the Blue Valley and Raymore Quilt Guilds and Stitch 'N' Time Quilt Club of Belton. Judy will be dearly missed...
Wanda Crawford
Mar 31, 2014
WANDA L. CRAWFORD, 76, Mission, KS passed away March 31, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 4, 2014 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Johnson County Chapel, 11200 Metcalf, Overland Park, KS 66210. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 am before the service. Wanda was preceded in death by a daughter, Marilyn J. Runyon...
Mary Guggemos
Mar 31, 2014
Mary Catherine Guggemos, 77, of Prairie Village, KS, died peacefully in her home on Monday, March 31, 2014. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Stanley "Bud" Guggemos. She is survived by her two daughters, Becky Bakker-Arkema and her husband, Erik, and their children Peter, Gretchen and Jack; and Beth Forbes and her children Andrew and Brady. She is...
Betty Reese
Mar 28, 2014
Betty J. Reese, 81, passed away Friday, March 28, 2014. Betty was born September 26, 1932, in Detroit, MI, to Samuel MacGowan of Scotland and Essie E Miles of California. She graduated from Chadsey High School in Detroit and acculated additional college units at Johnson County Junior College over the years. She retired from the City of Overland Park after...
Patricia Johnson
Mar 26, 2014
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Patricia Drake Johnson (known as "Mimi" to her family) with peace and grace on March 26, 2014 in Springfield, Missouri. Patricia was born in Aurora, Missouri, and raised in Overland Park, Kansas, where she attended school, graduating from Shawnee Mission North. She married George Johnson, who preceded her in...
Billy South
Mar 25, 2014
Billy Joe South, 86, of Overland Park, KS, passed away on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at Kansas City Hospice House. He was born on May 9, 1927 in Kansas City, MO, to Earl and Alice South. He attended and graduated from Paseo High School in 1944. After high school in 1945, Bill enlisted in the United States Navy. Bill married...
Patricia A. "Miss Pattie" Beller
Mar 25, 2014
Patricia Ann Beller, "Miss Pattie", 73, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2014, after a hard-fought battle with ALS. Pattie was born to Erma and Edward Bova on March 15, 1941. She lived most of her life in Overland Park, KS. She was a graduate of Shawnee Mission North High School and later attended the University of Kansas. In 1954, she...
Mr. Lawrence Niemi
Mar 23, 2014
Lawrence Valentine Niemi (Larry), age 75, of Overland Park, KS passed away on March 23, 2014 at Menorah Medical Center. A memorial service will be at 1:30 pm on Thursday, March 27, 2014 at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Johnson County Chapel, 11200 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS. Visitation will be from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm at the chapel. Larry was...
Christopher Kemp
Mar 23, 2014
Dr. Christopher Kemp went on his last adventure March 23, 2014, from complications due to Parkinson's Disease. Dr. Kemp was professor emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, MO. For his doctorial studies, Dr. Kemp did an extensive study on Native American Tribes. A few of the tribes were The Crow, Mescalero Apache, Navajo, Cheyenne and Blackfeet. At the...
Mary VanWinkle
Mar 22, 2014
Mary Van Winkle, 80, passed away Saturday, March 22, 2014, at Aldersgate Village, Topeka, KS. Mary was born August 7, 1933, in Guadalajara, Mexico. She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Jess Van Winkle, Sr., son, Jess Van Winkle, Jr. and parents. Mary is survived by four children, Fredrick, Connie, Victor and Gloria, and two grandchildren, Jasmine and...
Mr. Richard Solenberger
Mar 19, 2014
David R. Solenberger, 66, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away on Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at Kansas City Hospice House after six years of cancer treatment and participation in melanoma clinical research trials. A memorial service is scheduled for Saturday April 5th 2014 at 10:00 am at Colonial United Church of Christ at 7033 Mission Road in Prairie Village, Kansas...
Mrs. Janice Koupal
Mar 19, 2014
Janice Proper Koupal passed away on March 19, 2014 at Kingswood Health Center. Janice was born in Kansas City, MO on October 15, 1929 to Iris and Frank Proper. She attended Border Star Elementary School, Southwest High School and graduated from Sunset Hill School in 1946. She attended Stanford University and graduated with a degree in journalism from the University...
John Jack Shepherd
Mar 19, 2014
John "Jack" Shepherd, 80, Husband, Father, Grandfather and Great Grandfather passed away, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 after a long illness. Jack was born January 15, 1934 in Clearfield, PA to Ward L. Shepherd and Jane (Beightol) Shepherd. At 17, Jack joined the United States Air Force where he served for almost 10 years. He was first stationed in the Kansas...
Betty McAleer
Mar 18, 2014
Betty Hale McAleer, 89, Overland Park, KS, passed away Tuesday, March 18, 2014 at Kansas City Hospice House. Betty was raised in Kansas City Missouri but lived most of her life in Overland Park. She worked at Sinclair Oil Company and the American Heart Association but preferred her role as a full time mother. Betty was an avid golfer and...
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