Johnson County Funeral Chapel & Memorial Gardens
Obituaries
Kristi Lynn Sargent
Sep 15, 2023
Kristi Lynn Sargent of Overland Park, KS passed away on September 15, 2023, at the age of 40. She was preceded in death by her grandfathers, Gerald Burns and Robert Sargent and great-grandparents Robert and Elenor Hurley, Lewis and Dorothy Burns. Kristi leaves behind her loving family. Mother Kim Sargent, father Bob Sargent (Connie), grandmothers Ginger Burns and Judy Sargent, siblings Kelli Nemechek (Jacob), Makenzi Sargent, Alex Silva, significant other...
Teresa Ann Jacobs
Sep 14, 2023
Teresa (Terry) Ann Jacobs met her Lord and Savior on Thursday, September 14, when she passed away at home following a years-long battle with cancer. Terry was a devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, caring daughter, and bratty sister. Terry had countless friends from work, church, and school. Her warm heart, roguish laughter, and unwavering love enriched the lives of...
Margaret G. (Beaird) Sale
Sep 9, 2023
Margaret Gertrude (Beaird) Sale, 86, passed away September 9, 2023, at the Kansas City Hospice House. Margaret was born June 21, 1937, in Kansas City Kansas to William and Gertrude Beaird. She married James R. Sale, the love of her life on June 20th, 1955.
Margaret worked at the Shawnee Mission School District for 22 years before she...
William "Bill" Scott
Sep 9, 2023
William “Bill” Scott, 93, of Overland Park passed away peacefully at home on September 9, 2023. A Catholic Mass will be held on Friday, September 15th at 10:00 at Church of the Ascension Catholic Church, 9510 W 127th St, Overland Park, KS 66213. Visitation will be held prior to the Mass from 9:00-10:00AM. A short luncheon will immediately follow the...
Doris Marie Mayse
Sep 7, 2023
Doris was born in Stewartsville, Missouri to Glen B. Winger and Georgia Faye Morgan.
She married her high school sweetheart Elton "Pete" Mayse Jr. on June 21, 1945 at Troy, Kansas.
Together with Pete as a pastor's wife and missionary to the American Indian they traveled all over the Midcentral and Midwest states. She spent her last few years in...
Angel Marceli Daniels
Sep 4, 2023
Angel Marceli (Munoz Keplinger) Daniels of Leawood, Kansas, passed peacefully on September 4th, 2023, at the age of 76. She was preceded in death by her father, Angel Adrian Munoz, and mother Maude Mildred Munoz, brother Pat Munoz, and husband William Daniels. She is survived by her son, Christopher Keplinger [Charity Keplinger] of Gardnerville, Nevada (USCG), daughter Renee (Keplinger)...
Kathleen Susan Coffin
Sep 3, 2023
Kathleen Susan (Fisher) Coffin, 72, passed away on September 3, 2023 at Life Care Center of Kansas City. She was born on April 8, 1951 in Wyandotte County, in Kansas City, Kansas, to Wanda Marie (McClintock) Fisher and Forest Fisher. Her father was a professional baseball player and her mother worked at Sunshine Biscuit Company. She grew up not...
Rose Marie Volkens
Sep 2, 2023
Our dear mother, Rose Marie E. (Williams) Volkens passed away on September 2, 2023, at the age of 94. She was a wonderful mother who was always there when we needed her. She had many friends and was a well-loved member of the community at Colonial Village in Overland Park, Kansas. She was proud to be the first resident to...
Rachel Ann Westfall
Sep 1, 2023
Rachel A. Westfall, loving mother, wife, grandmother, sister and friend passed away peacefully at home on September 1st 2023 surrounded by her family. Rachel is preceded in death by her husband William P. Westfall, and her parents John Ed and Dona Mayes. She is survived by her children Son John Hulse (Tish), daughter Delaine Renko (Todd) and daughter Tara Scarpa...
Evelyne McHenry
Sep 1, 2023
Evelyne McHenry, 87, of Overland Park, Kansas, died September 1, 2023, at Tallgrass Creek in Overland Park. A visitation will be held from 5-7PM on Thursday September 7, 2023, at Johnson County Funeral Chapel and Memorial Gardens, 11200 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS 66210. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association https://www.alz.org/kansascity?form=alz_donate in memory of...
Catherine A. Burlin
Aug 31, 2023
Overland Park, KS – Catherine Ann Burlin, 88 of Overland Park, KS passed away on August 31, 2023 at AdventHealth South Overland Park hospital. She was born on December 15, 1934 at her circa 1908 historic home to parents William M. and Eva (McCue) Stephens, Sr of Garden City, KS. She excelled in music, playing the string bass in orchestra...
John Kenneth Higdon
Aug 29, 2023
John Kenneth (Ken) Higdon, Lenexa, Kansas, died 8 - 29- 2023 at Lakeview Village. Memorial services will be held at Village Presbyterian Church, on September 30, at 10:00AM.
The family suggests contributions to the Village Presbyterian Church. 6641 Mission Road, Prairie Village, KS, 66208: the Sherin H. Custer Memorial Award, K. U. Endowment Association, P. O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS,...
Margaret C. Harris
Aug 27, 2023
Margaret Harris passed to our Heavenly Father August 27th, 2023. She was a devoted daughter, wife, mother and grandmother. She is the only child of her parents Earl and Pearl Carter. She and her husband Richard married on April 22, 1945, and were married over 61 years until Richard’s passing on March 12, 2008. She had 3 boys: Craig,...
Ron A. Abel
Aug 27, 2023
Ronald A. Abel, 96, of Prairie Village, KS, passed away August 26, 2023. Ron was born Sept. 15, 1926, first of 3 children born to Arthur and Fannie Abel on a farm near Ventura, IA. Ron's World War II Service included a two year stint as a radioman aboard a U.S. Navy Destroyer in the Pacific Theater. He was proud...
Allen Hicks
Aug 25, 2023
On August 25, 2023, the angels came to receive Allen Andrew Hicks, 73, and relieved his exhausted body from all the pains it endured fighting a courageous battle against cancer for over a year.
Born on January 29th, 1950 in Moses Lake, California, Allen grew up with four other siblings, Margaret, Marilyn, Marjorie and Rusty. He moved to Cheney, Washington where he attended and graduated from Eastern Washington University with a bachelor’s degree. His professional career took him across the country, from...
Barbara Jean Bertholf
Aug 24, 2023
Barbara Jean Bertholf, 81, passed away peacefully at The Village at Mission on Thursday, August 24, 2023. Barbara was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Jack and Marie Neal on June 30, 1942. She is preceded in death by her parents and her twin sister Betty Hill; and grandson Skye. She was a beloved mother of two sons and had ten...
Karen Kathryn Brooks
Aug 22, 2023
Karen Kathryn (Knebel) Brooks passed away on August 22, 2023, after a ten -year struggle with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. Karen was born on December 21, 1952, in Breese, Illinois. After several moves around the Midwest, the family settled in Kansas City, Missouri, where Karen graduated from Ruskin High School in 1970. Karen had a long relationship with the love...
Guy B. Kerns, Sr.
Aug 20, 2023
Guy B. Kerns, 95, of Mission, KS, died peacefully at his home on August 20, 2023. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, at the Johnson County Memorial Gardens, 11200 Metcalf with inurnment in Johnson County Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project...
Janice Elizabeth Cook
Aug 20, 2023
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Janice Elizabeth (Pitchforth) Cook. Janice peacefully left our midst on August 20, 2023, in Leawood, Kansas, at the age of 65. She was born on December 4, 1957, in Bountiful, Utah. She brought warmth and love to all who knew her.Janice leaves behind her beloved husband, Douglas Cook, who...
Ruth Blauw
Aug 18, 2023
Ruth M. Blauw, 92, of Leawood, Kansas passed away August 18, 2023.
Ruth was born September 19, 1930 in Scranton, Kansas in Osage County to Clyde W. Smith and Florence Anderson Smith.
Ruth graduated from Washburn Rural High School, and then attended Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
Ruth briefly served in the United States Air Force, and was honorably discharged...
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