Obituaries

Oct 3, 2021

My mother was tough as a nail but soft as feather and kind hearted.  She had to be, to live through the tumultuous tragic modern history of Korea. Born during the Japanese occupation of Korea in 1933 in Pyongyang. She lived through the WWII in the latter days of Japanese rule and liberation from it.  She then witnessed the...

Oct 2, 2021

Dwain Erskine Wallace, 83, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Saturday, October 2, 2021.

Dwain was born February 27, 1938, in Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of Leora Lee Caldwell and Leland Erskine Wallace. He went to Hazel Grove Elementary School and graduated from Washington Rural High School in 1956. ...

Oct 1, 2021

Gay was born on May 22, 1933 to John and Gaynell Foster in Danville, Virginia.

She would grow up to join the United States Navy and served on Capitol Hill.  She was awarded a National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal. She met Ira Myers (United States Navy) and they married on February 19, 1960...

Sep 30, 2021

Karen Romberg, 78 of Shawnee Kansas, passed away September 30, 2021, with her family by her side. She was born to the late Fredrick and Irene Miller, January 23, 1943, in Parsons, Kansas. Karen graduated from Labette County High School in 1961 and would go on to work for the Santa Fe Railroad until she retired in 2005.

Sep 29, 2021

Victor P. Wolf, 99, Overland Park, passed away Wednesday September 29, 2021.   Victor was born August 9,1922 in Robertsville, MO to Victor L. and Martha Wolf. Victor grew up in Ferguson, Missouri and graduated from high school.    He then attended the University of Iowa where he enrolled in Flight School for 1 year before he entered the US Marines...

Sep 29, 2021

Louis Ashley Elbl, Jr., was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of L. Ashley Elbl, Sr. and Esther Buller Elbl, on April 14, 1943. Ashley, as most people knew him, or Ash, as his family and friends called him, or “Coach” as he came to be known at Brookdale Assisted Living and Memory Care, lived in KCK until...

Sep 25, 2021

“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. “

Billy Graham

On Saturday September 25th, 2021, our beloved mother, grandmother, aunt and friend was gently carried into Jesus’ loving arms peacefully after a long battle with cancer.  She joins her late husband Bob Frank Riggs; sister, Maxine...

Sep 24, 2021

Jeri M. Vick, 80, of Overland Park, KS, passed away, at home, on September 24, 2021, after 22 years of battling cancer.  Jeri was born in Pittsburg, PA on July 4, 1941, to Glenwood and Alice Elizabeth Young.  She had one older sister who died as an infant. Jeri married Kent Alan Vick 58 years ago on December 22, 1962. ...

Sep 24, 2021

James P. "Jim" Elliott born in St. Joseph, MO Nov. 19, 1944 passed away Sept. 24,2021 at Advent Hospital in Merriam, KS, age 76.  He resided at Merriam Gardens Healthcare in Merriam, KS.  Jim retired from Yellow Freight May 3, 2002 with one million miles of accident free over the road truck driving.  His CB handle was "Shade Tree." ...

Sep 24, 2021

Marilyn Ann Simes, age 99, Overland Park, Kansas passed away September 24, 2021 in her home surrounded by family.

Marilyn was born December 10, 1921 in Canton, Ohio where she spent her entire childhood. Growing up she loved softball, tennis, basketball, violin, swimming and singing. Some of her greatest high school achievements were playing first violin in...

Sep 24, 2021

Wanda was born October 31, 1933 in Superior, Nebraska to her parents Harold C Jensen and Elizabeth M (Leece) Jensen and older sister Rita Jensen.

She spent her early childhood in Fremont, Nebraska and moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1942. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and studied fine arts at Creighton University in Omaha,...

Sep 23, 2021

Services have been postponed until probably in the Fall.  Please check back at a later date.  Thank You - David Cooley

Virginia Lynn “Gigi” Cooley passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home on Sept 23, 2021 at age 81.

She was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on July 2, 1940, the first daughter of...

Sep 23, 2021

Mary Pauline Kiefer Miner 1919 - 2021

The  Remarkable Life and Times of a Remarkable Woman

March 21, 1919

Mary Pauline Miner was born on a farmstead a few miles west of Clinton, Missouri, to Florence and Adam Kiefer. Primitive by today’s standards, their two-story wood frame farmhouse had no electricity,...

Sep 22, 2021

Celia Maurine Johnson, aged 79, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday September 22nd.  Celia was born February 21, 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri was raised in the south Kansas City neighborhood of Marlborough Heights. She graduated from Center High School in 1960 and attended Southwest Baptist College for two years.

She began work at Graybar...

Sep 22, 2021

LYNN MARIE MATHEWS

Lynn Marie Mathews, 68, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away September 22, 2021 in Overland Park, Kansas.  Lynn was born December 20, 1952 in Kansas City, Missouri to James W. Mathews and Frances P. Silkwood.  She was a graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School, and attended two years at Kansas State University.

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Sep 21, 2021

Timothy Joe Grauer of Marysville, Kansas went for his final hunt on this earth on September 21, 2021.  He always loved nature, so he fittingly crossed the divide on the first day of Fall, his favorite season.

Tim is survived by his wife, Jane Grauer of the home; his daughter, Stacey Galante and husband Rich of West...

Sep 21, 2021

Edith J. Schultz, 93, of Prairie Village, Kansas passed away September 21, 2021, at Kansas City Hospice House.  A private family inurnment will take place at Johnson County Memorial Gardens at a later date.  Edith was born April 4, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri.  She spent the majority of her life caring for other family members.  She enjoyed the...

Sep 19, 2021

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