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Obituaries
Joseph Gradinger
Feb 22, 2010
Joseph F. Gradinger, 89, passed away on Monday, Feb. 22, 2010. Joe was born on July 19, 1920 in Pittsburg, Kansas to Blanche and Emil Gradinger and was the youngest of five children. He graduated from Pittsburg High School and from Kemper Military Academy in Boonville, Missouri. An avid aviator, he was a flight instructor at Grider Field in Pine...
Martha Westbrook
Feb 21, 2010
MARTHA HUNT WESTBROOK Martha Hunt Westbrook, 88, loving wife, mother, sister and friend, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 21, 2010, at Kansas City Hospice House. A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 27, at Unity Temple on the The Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., Kansas City, Missouri. Martha was born...
Alfred Dixon
Feb 16, 2010
Alfred David Dixon passed away suddenly of a heart attack Tuesday at Lakeview Village in Lenexa. He lived an honored life of service to others and was loved and respected by his family and friends from all walks of life. He will be remembered for his humor, his selflessness, his generosity, and his compassion for man and beast alike. There...
Rex Hay
Feb 9, 2010
Rex Hay of Prairie Village, KS, passed away February 9, 2010. Born September 18, 1921 in Cleveland Ohio to Elbert Curtis and Evelyn Shively Hay. After graduating high school, Rex completed courses in aviation mechanics. He served in World War II, Army Air Corps, B29 Flight Engineer from 1942 to 1946. In 1943 Rex and Mary were wed, they were...
Eva Fredrick
Feb 8, 2010
Eva Frederick, Kansas City, Missouri, was born in Pleasanton, Kansas and departed this life on February 8, 2010. She was a graduate of Kansas State Teachers College at Pittsburg and taught in the elementary schools of Kansas and Missouri for 45 years. In 1987 she retired from the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools. Eva was a Red Cross Volunteer for...
Marjorie Jean Elliott
Feb 7, 2010
Marjorie Jean Schroeder Elliott, 88 years old, passed away peacefully of a variant form of Parkinson's on February 7, 2010 at her home at Bishop Spencer Place, Kansas City, MO. Baptized as an infant at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO, she was the eldest of four daughters born to Harry Robert and Marrie Jean Carr Schroeder at St....
Dorothy Pease
Feb 4, 2010
Dorothy McLaren Pease, 91, passed away Thursday, February 4, 2010 in Colorado Springs, CO. Visitation will be from 10 – 11 a.m. Friday, February 12, 2010 at the D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Overland Park Chapel; burial in Johnson County Memorial Gardens at 11:30 a.m. Friday. Memorial services will be 1 p.m. Friday, February 12th at the Country Club Christian Church (Combs...
Leona Martin
Feb 4, 2010
Leona Veronica Martin passed away Thursday, February 4, 2010. Mass will be said at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at St. Agnes Catholic Church with a visitation prior from 9-11:30, burial in Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to Huntington’s Disease Society of America, 505 8th Ave, Ste 902, New York, NY 10018. Leona was...
Louis Silks, Jr
Feb 3, 2010
Louis A. Silks, Jr. was born August 15, 1927, in Salina, Kansas, and died February 2, 2010, at his home in Shawnee, Kansas. Education: Paseo High School, graduated 1943; University of Kansas, B.A. 1948; L.L.B. 1950; J.D. 1968. He was a member of the Bounders Fraternity at the University of Kansas City. Military service: He served in the U.S.Navy 1944-1946...
Billie Hauber
Jan 28, 2010
Billie Ann Hauber died Thursday January 28th. Loving wife and mother of two very loving children, Billie was surrounded by family and friends. She was active in her church, Holy Trinity and later Holy Cross and was a founding organizer of the Women’s Crusillo Movement of Kansas. She volunteered for many other organizations throughout her life with a particular focus...
Mary Wells
Jan 26, 2010
Mary Elizabeth Wells was born on March 14, 1926, in Neodesha, Kansas. She passed away on January 26, 2010, at St. Luke’s hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, surrounded by family and friends. Mary was the daughter of Carl and Ruth Rice, and survived her sisters Grace, Carlene, and Ruth. Mary married Samuel J. Wells on April 1, 1944, and the...
Donald Timmcke
Jan 26, 2010
Donald L. Timmcke, 88, of Shawnee, KS passed away on January 26, 2010. Visitation will be held Friday, January 29 from 6-8 p.m. at D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Overland Park Chapel. Services will be Saturday, 10 a.m. at Overland Park Lutheran Church. 7810 West 79TH, Overland Park, 66204, with burial to follow at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens. Donald was born August 13,...
Robert Catenhauser
Jan 24, 2010
Robert W. Catenhauser, 96, passed away Monday, January 18, 2010. Memorial services will be 4 p.m. Sunday, January 24, 2010 at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the American Diabetes Assn. Robert graduated from Paseo High School in 1932. He married Vesta Mae Edmonds in 1940. Robert was a Second...
Donald Barron
Jan 23, 2010
Donald H. Barron, 86, of Lawrence, KS (formerly of Shawnee, KS), passed away Saturday, January 23, 2010. Memorial services will be 1 p.m. Monday, February 1, 2010 at the Woodland Ridge Presbyterian Church; inurnment in Shawnee Mission Memory Gardens. The family suggests contributions to the Woodland Ridge Presbyterian Church Building Fund, 9898 W. 95th Street, Overland Park, KS 66212. Donald...
James (Bill) Fisher
Jan 22, 2010
James R. (Bill) Fisher, a lifelong resident of Kansas City, passed away on January 22, 2010. He was born October 28, 1916, in Denver, Colorado, to Charles Vincent Fisher and Blanch Campbell Hunter. He was preceded in death by his wife of 36 years Catherine Knaub Fisher, his sisters Katherine Elizabeth Satterlee and Dorothy Mildred Snyder, and his brother Charles...
Oscar Loevenguth
Jan 22, 2010
Oscar Phillip Loevenguth, Jr., 80, Overland Park, KS, died on January 22, 2010, at home. A memorial service will be at 3pm Saturday, January 30, at the Country Club Christian Church, Kansas City, Mo. Cremation. Memorial contributions may be made to the church, the Nelson-Atkins Museum or a charity of choice. Mr. Loevenguth was born July 23, 1929, in Wichita,...
Harry Deffenbaugh
Jan 20, 2010
Harry Otto Deffenbaugh, Jr., 78, went home to be with the Lord on January 20, 2010 in Tucson, Ariz. Harry was born on February 17, 1931, in Versailles, Mo., to Harry Otto Deffenbaugh, Sr. and Alta Marie (Bonine) Deffenbaugh. On December 15, 1956, he married Joyce Joann Harmon in Miami, Okla. He was founder of Deffenbaugh Contractors in 1962 and...
P. Harris
Jan 17, 2010
P. Stephen Harris, 57, passed away surrounded by his loving family on 1/17/10 in Kansas City, MO. Memorial Services will be held at 4pm on 1/22/10, at Second Presbyterian Church, 55th & Oak Street, Kansas City, MO. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the following: Saint Luke's Hospital Foundation- Main 5 Medical Oncology, 4225 Baltimore Ave, Kansas...
Mr. Gerald Humbert, Sr.
Jan 17, 2010
Gerald Ray Humbert 1946-2010 Services for Gerald Ray Humbert 63 of Overland Park will be 7 p.m. Friday, January 22, 2010 with a visitation prior from 5 – 7 p.m. at the DW Newcomers Overland Park Chapel; burial 11 a.m. Saturday at the Wamego Cemetery, Wamego, KS. Gerald was born Nov. 20, 1946 in Wamego, Kansas. Gerald passed away Sunday...
Aileen Van Auken
Jan 15, 2010
Aileen Ainsworth Van Auken passed away January 15, 2010 at Center Point Care Center in Lakeview Village, Lenexa, Kansas. Aileen was born September 1, 1923 in Norway, Kansas, the daughter of Dale R. and Laura Eastvedt Ainsworth. She attended elementary and high school in Wichita, Kansas until the family moved to Kansas City where she graduated from Southwest High School...
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