Overland Park Funeral Chapel
Obituaries
Mary Parshall
Sep 25, 2014
Mary Carolyn “Carol” Parshall, 83 years, of Overland Park, KS, passed away on Thursday, September 25, 2014, at her home. Carol was born on December 2, 1930, in Little Rock, AR. A loving Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother, Carol was preceded in death by her loving husband Tom Parshall of 60 years. She is survived by 3 loving sons and daughter-in-laws;...
Gus Gregory
Sep 25, 2014
Gus (Kosta) Gregory, age 79, Overland Park, KS passed away the 25th of September, 2014 at home. Gus was born in Thessaloniki Greece and immigrated to the United States in 1955. He would joke that he arrived with Christopher Columbus as it was on Columbus Day that he first arrived in the US. He was the owner of Gregory Dental Lab...
Mrs. Vivian Turner
Sep 23, 2014
Vivian Lee Turner, age 68, of Kansas City, KS passed away on September 23, 2014 at Shawnee Mission Medical Center due to complications with heart surgery. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 pm on Thursday, September 25, 2014 at the Overland Park Chapel. Funeral Services will be held at 10 am on Friday, September 26, 2014 also at...
Mr. Michael Harper
Sep 22, 2014
Michael Gordon Harper, age 73, of Mission Hills, KS passed away on September 22, 2014. He was born on November 28, 1940 in Haven, Kansas to Evelyn and Orville Harper. He attended Washburn University for two years where he pledged Phi Delta Theta fraternity which proved a love and continuing focus throughout his life. He finished his education at the...
Thomas Short, Jr.
Sep 22, 2014
Thomas Leahy Short, Jr., 84, Roeland Park, KS, passed away September 22, 2014 at home. The Rosary will be prayed at 9 a.m., Friday, September 26, with visitation until 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial will follow the visitation at 10 a.m. at St. Agnes Catholic Church, 5250 Mission Road, Roeland Park, KS. Burial, with military honors, will follow at Resurrection Cemetery,...
Jack Forbes
Sep 17, 2014
Jack Forbes, 90, of Claridge Court in Prairie Village, Kansas, died September 17, 2014 at his home. Jack was born November 13, 1923, in Kansas City, Kansas to Harry Theo Forbes and Florence McMillan Forbes. He lived all his life in the Kansas City area except from 1980 to 1995 when he resided in Harlingen, Texas. He graduated from Wyandotte High school in...
John Cochran
Sep 16, 2014
John William Cochran, 84, of Merriam, Kansas, passed away on September 16, 2014 at his home. John was born on March 3, 1930 in Kansas City, MO to William and Dorothy (Kaney) Cochran. He was a 1947 graduate of Westport High School and soon after married his high school sweetheart, Joanne Laird. John and Joanne traveled joyfully through life together for 58...
James Schmer
Sep 13, 2014
James E. Schmer, age 89, of Overland Park, KS passed away on September 13, 2014. A visitation will be held from 5 to 7 pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2014 at the Overland Park Funeral Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS. Funeral services will be held at 1 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2014 at Covenant Chapel, 13300 Kenneth...
Geneva Helmsing
Sep 11, 2014
Geneva Viola Young Helmsing died September 11, 2014 as her loving daughters held her hands. She is survived by: daughters Janet Nab (Nick) Laurent and Joan (Tom) Davidson; grandchildren, Amy Scheller, Anne Jones, Julie Davidson, Kristen Davidson, and Anne Butera; seven great grandchildren; and sisters, Gladys Morton and Ina Grill Kleckner. She was preceded in death by: her mother, Hermione Hadenfeld Young;...
Larry Bellmard
Sep 10, 2014
Larry Leonard Bellmard, 88, Prairie Village, KS, passed away September 10, 2014. Visitation will be from 9:30-10:30 a.m, Monday, September 15, followed by the Funeral Service at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 5601 W. 62nd Street, Mission, KS, 66202. Burial, with full military honors, will be at 1:00 p.m. at Memorial Park Cemetery, 3223 N. 18th Street, Kansas City, KS. Memorial...
Edwin Stevens
Sep 7, 2014
Edwin L Stevens, age 79, of Overland Park, KS passed away September 7, 2014 at the Kansas City Hospice House. He was born July 21, 1935 to Melbourne and Bessie (Hamilton) Stevens in Kansas City, KS. He was united in marriage to Shirley Ann Brumley on October 18, 1957. Ed worked for the KC Star at the age of 15 and continued there...
Mrs. Ruth Gradert
Sep 5, 2014
Ruth M. (Wilms) Gradert, 88, went to be with our Lord on Friday, September 5th at Sweet Life, Overland Park, KS. Ruth was born October 20th, 1925 to Rev Elmer and Florence Wilms in Kress, Texas. They moved to Newton, KS in 1941 where she met Vic Gradert. After World War II, Ruth and Vic married and moved to Wichita, KS. They...
Mrs. Floraine Cowherd
Sep 4, 2014
Floraine D. Cowherd, age 91, of Prairie Village, KS passed away on September 4, 2014. A Memorial service will be held at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at Country Club Christian Church, 6101 Ward Parkway Kansas City, MO 64113. Family will greet friends following the service. Private inurnment will take place at Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, MO....
Claude Rice, Jr.
Sep 2, 2014
Claude L Rice, Jr., retired attorney, retired business owner, and skilled private pilot, died Tuesday, September 2, 2014. He was 97 years old. Mr. Rice was born June 8, 1917, in Coffeyville, KS. After graduating high school in Burlington, Kansas, he enrolled at Washburn University where he completed both an undergraduate degree and a law degree (JD). Soon thereafter Pearl Harbor prompted Mr. Rice...
Roberta Baker
Aug 31, 2014
Bertie passed away on Sunday, August 31, 2014 surrounded by her loving family. She was born on June 4, 1931 in West Des Moines, Iowa. Bertie spent most of her adult life in Omaha, Nebraska where she was an enthusiastic Husker fan, an active member of PEO, friend and surrogate mother and grandmother to so many. Her greatest joy was her three...
Bobbie Jones
Aug 29, 2014
Bobbie Jones of Mission Hills, Kansas passed away on August 29th, 2014. A private service will be held on Saturday, September 6th at Mount Moriah Cemetery. All are welcome to attend a celebration of life at her family home at 5:00 that evening. Bobbie was born in Hutchinson, Kansas on March 2nd, 1925. She attended college at Monticello outside of...
Carol Waisner
Aug 27, 2014
Carol Dee Waisner, age 84, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away on August 27, 2014. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm on Monday, September 1, 2014 at the Overland Park Funeral Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS. Funeral will take place at 10 am on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at Overland Park First Assembly of God, 7700 W. 75th...
Raymond Amoury, M.D.
Aug 27, 2014
Dr. Raymond A. Amoury, 86), Leawood, KS, passed away peacefully on August 27, 2014 at his home surrounded by his family. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, August 29 at Overland Park Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS. The Rosary will be prayed at 6 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m., Saturday, August 30, at Church of...
Marilynn Armacost
Aug 24, 2014
Marilynn Graham Armacost lost her courageous battle with breast cancer on August 24, 2014. A Celebration of her Life Memorial Service will be held at Aberdeen Village Chapel, 17500 West 119th St, Wednesday, August 27 at 1:00pm. Marilynn was born in Kansas City on March 10, 1922. She attended Miss Hockaday’s School for Girls, William Chrisman High School where she earned The...
Bette Jensen
Aug 19, 2014
Bette K. Jensen, age 92, of Mission, Kansas, passed away on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 at the family home surrounded by her husband and daughters. She was born January 15, 1922 in Mayview, Missouri. During her youth she was an accomplished roller skater. After graduating Higginsville High School, where she was in the Drum and Bugle Corps, she moved to Kansas...
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