Overland Park Funeral Chapel
Obituaries
Marvin Elmore
Mar 3, 2012
MARVIN E. ELMORE, 84, passed away March 3, 2012 at Mission, KS. A memorial service will be held at Bickford Mission Springs on Tuesday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m. Marvin was predeceased by his parents Dolphus and Gladys Elmore and nephews Scott and David Cummings. He is survived by a brother, Edgar, of Arvada, CO, sister, Ruth Cummings, of Denver,...
John W. Fox
Feb 25, 2012
John W. Fox, 65, of Overland Park, passed away Saturday, February 25, 2012 at home. A funeral mass will be held at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Friday, March 2, 10:00a.m., 16000 West 143rd St., Olathe. Interment will follow at Resurrection Cemetery, Lenexa. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Giving/. He was...
Orson A. Rau
Feb 25, 2012
Orson A. Rau, 91, passed away Saturday, Feb. 25, 2012. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 at St. Mark's United Methodist Church, 6422 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, KS; burial in Shawnee Mission Memory Gardens. A visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel. The family suggests contributions to...
Frances Cheshire Wayne Todd
Feb 24, 2012
Frances Cheshire Wayne Todd, age 88, died peacefully February 24, 2012 with her family at her side. Born May 14, 1923 in Sandusky, Ohio, Fran was a 60 year Johnson County resident whose life touched countless friends, family members, and students. Fran's greatest joy was her family. She filled her home with pictures, mementoes, and stories of her ancestors, and...
Victor Young
Feb 17, 2012
Victor William Young, 94, passed away Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. A Mass will be said 10 a.m. Tuesday at Cure' of Ars Catholic Church with a visitation prior from 9-10 a.m.; burial in Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Alzheimer's Assn. Vic was born in Turlock, CA. He graduated from U.C. Berkley in 1942....
William Lahme, Jr.
Feb 16, 2012
William H. Lahme, 83, passed away Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Mildred E. Lahme; a daughter, Gail Bacon; grandson, Eric Bacon. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Kids Wish Network, 4060 Louis Ave., Holiday, FL 34691. Graveside services will be at a later date.
Thomas Houston
Feb 16, 2012
Thomas F. Houston, 77, Prairie Village, KS, passed away February 16, at Timberlake Care Center. He is survived by his wife Evelyn, son Mark and wife Robin, daughter Laura and husband Dave, daughter Julie and husband Steve, son Joe and wife Christy and six grandchildren and two adult step-grandchildren. Other survivors include an older brother James of Elko, NV, a...
Dorothy Fleming
Feb 14, 2012
Dorothy Ellen Fleming, 84, Leawood, Kan. [formerly of Raytown, Mo.], passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at Comfort Care Homes surrounded by her sons and people who loved her. Visitation will be held 12:30-2pm, Friday at Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel, 8201 Metcalf Avenue, followed immediately by a 2pm service, also at Overland Park Chapel. Burial will follow at Mount...
Carroll Moore
Feb 10, 2012
Carroll C Moore peacefully passed away on February 10, 2012. He was born June 17, 1920 in Del Rio, TX to the late Dewey E Moore and Willa F Saylor Moore. He is survived by his loving wife of 58 years, Doris L Moore. He was preceded in death by his sister Louise Moore Chaffee. Carroll attended UMKC, MIT and...
Thomas Hess
Feb 10, 2012
Thomas Robert Hess, 56, passed away Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 at the D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel; graveside services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Resurrection Cemetery, Lenexa, KS. The family suggests contributions to PETA. Tom was born Oct. 3, 1955 in Des Moines, IA to Jerry and Marilyn...
Georgia Doolittle
Feb 4, 2012
Georgia Bonn Witter Doolittle passed away Saturday evening February 4, 2012, in Prairie Village, KS at the age of 93. She was a lifelong resident of the Kansas City area. She was born in 1918 in Merwin, MO and moved to Kansas City as an infant with her parents and two sisters. She grew up in the Brookside area and...
Howard Morrison
Feb 4, 2012
Howard (Neil) Morrison, 87, passed away Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 at the D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel. In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions to Odyssey Hospice or Wayside Waifs.
Marjory Scott
Feb 4, 2012
Marjory Chipman Scott passed away early Saturday morning, Feb. 4, 2012 in her Dallas home. Her daughter Lucy Lee Scott was at her side. Marge had a rich eighty-eight year life. She loved her family, and she cherished her friends, good books, crossword puzzles, peanut brittle, and a good glass of wine. She was a Buckeye, born July 12, 1923,...
Mary Obertino
Feb 4, 2012
Mary Obertino died on Saturday, February 4, 2012, at age 93. Mary was an avid golfer and bridge player at Brookridge Country Club. She was also a Red Cross volunteer while living in Overland Park, KS. Thirteen years ago, she relocated to Redondo Beach, California, to live closer to her daughter and granddaughter. During her years in Southern California, Mary...
Dorothy Peterson-Schroeder
Jan 30, 2012
Dorothy J. Peterson-Schroeder age 83 of Lenexa, Kansas passed away January 30, 2012 at KC Hospice. Dorothy was born March 16, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri to Joseph and Hester Opal Shortino. Dorothy moved with her parents and brother to Grandview, Missouri in 1934, starting first grade in the rural grade school, graduating from Grandview High School in 1946. She...
Geraldine Wilfong
Jan 27, 2012
Geraldine E. Wilfong, 76, passed away Friday, January 27, 2012. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 at the D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel. Geri was born in Topeka, KS to Vincent and Dorothy Hassett. She attended Holy Cross Catholic Church. Geri was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Betty Hassett; two brothers: Edward...
Lydia Leuszler
Jan 25, 2012
Lydia Leuszler, 89, Leawood, passed away Jan. 25, 2012 at St. Joseph's Hospital. She was born on November 5, 1922, raised in Brownsville, TX, and married Willhelm (Bill) Leuszler in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1944 during WW II. They had two children, one of whom, Barbara Leuszler, died in 1973 after being lovingly cared for by her parents. Lydia...
Martha Severson
Jan 21, 2012
Martha Anne Elizabeth Severson, age 80 passed away peacefully at her home in Mission, KS on January 21, 2012 after an extended battle with pulmonary disease. Known as Betty to her friends and family, she was a devoted wife and mother, raising three children. She was born at home on November 3, 1931 in New Gretna, NJ to Dorothy and...
Emory James
Jan 18, 2012
Emory F. "Jiggs" James, Prairie Village, Kansas, passed away peacefully at Claridge Court on January 18, just nine days short of his 92nd birthday. He was born January 27, 1920 in Ringling, OK and had lived in the Kansas City area since 1923. He was the youngest of two children born to Emory F. James, Sr. and Mabel C. James....
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