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Obituaries
Elaine L. Coppenbarger / Linda L. Emberlin
Jun 29, 2023
Elaine Louise Coppenbarger, 75, Overland Park, KS, passed away on June 29th, 2023. Elaine was a devoted wife, best mother, and proud grandmother. She was an animal lover of cats and dogs.
She was preceded in death by her brothers: Terry McGuire, Raymond McGuire, and Alan McGuire, and one sister, Janet Anderson. She leaves behind her husband, James Coppenbarger, twin...
Nancy Kay Hertog
Jun 27, 2023
Nancy Kay Hertog, age 79, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away on June 27, 2023. She was born on August 10, 1943, in Saint Paul, Minnesota to Nils and Ellen (Carlson) Wallin.
She graduated from Harding High School in 1961 and was a member of the National Honor Society and a National Merit Scholarship Finalist. She attended Macalester College in...
Wanda M. Spencer
Jun 27, 2023
Wanda Marie Spencer ,97, passed away June 27. 2023 at Santa Marta in Olathe, Kansas. Funeral services will be held at Johnson County Funeral Chapel located at 11200 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, Kansas.
Visitation will be on July 5th, at 11:00AM. Service will follow the visitation, at 12:00PM. The burial will be at Mt. Moriah Cemetery, at 10507 Holmes...
Scot Alan Phillips
Jun 25, 2023
Scot Alan Phillips 53, of Gallatin, Missouri passed away June 25, 2023, at his home at Lake Viking. Scot was born in Kansas City, Kansas on November 3, 1969. He was born three minutes after his identical twin brother Michael. He felt fortunate to spend most of his adolescent life in Republic, Missouri. He loved every aspect of living...
Everett Goff
Jun 22, 2023
C. Everett Goff, 86, of Lawrence and Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully from congestive heart failure, surrounded by family, June 22, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Everett was born in Topeka, Kansas, to Ralph and Dorothy Goff. He was the oldest of four boys and grew up on their dairy farm in rural Lawrence. He wanted to be...
Bonnie Corbin
Jun 22, 2023
Bonnie Corbin was born on September 24, 1929 in Ballinger, TX to John L. and Rose Corbett Davis and took her final breath surrounded in love on June 22, 2023 in Olathe, KS.Bonnie affectionately known as GaGa was a longtime resident of Texas and Kansas. She was a typing teacher at Meadowbrook Jr. High/Mission Valley Middle school until her retirement...
Robert M. Hawkins
Jun 20, 2023
Robert M. Hawkins, a man known for his unwavering work ethic and positive outlook, passed away on June 20, 2023 at the age of 79, in Leawood, Kansas. Mike was born on September 3, 1943, in Freeport, Texas.Mike received his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1965. He took great pride in being an Aggie was...
David R. Jepsen
Jun 18, 2023
David Randolph Jepsen, nick name, Jeppy , Overland Park, Ks age 58 passed from life to eternal life in paradise on Fathers Day, June 18, 2023 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. David was born November 12, 1958, Chicago, Illinois at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital. David was born to Joan (Zieman) Jepsen and David Robert Jepsen,Maywood, Illinois, who preceded...
Faye Buzzard
Jun 18, 2023
Juanita Faye Buzzard, 83 years, of Overland Park, KS passed away on June 18th, 2023. Funeral Services will be held at 1:30 pm, Friday, June 30th, 2023 at Johnson County Funeral Chapel and Memorial Gardens at 11200 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS 66210. Visitation will be at 12:30 pm, June 30th, 2023.
Faye was born April 16th, 1940 in...
Mabelle Loercher
Jun 17, 2023
Mabelle Loercher passed away on June 17th, 2023, at the age 101. She lived a life filled with love, joy, and creativity. Born on January 3rd, 1922 to Mable Clair Owens and Thomas Trigg Weathers in Little Rock, Arkansas.Mabelle married the love of her life Frank Wallace Loercher and was blessed with sixty-nine memorable years together until his passing. She...
Mary Rose Devine
Jun 17, 2023
Mary R. Devine of the Kansas City Metro area passed away peacefully in her sleep Saturday, June 17, 2023. She was born December, 1923. She attended Major Hudson Elementary School and Rosedale High School in Kansas City, Kansas graduating in 1942. She is preceded in death by her father Charles J. Dewey, Sr., her mother Rose C. (Schraml) Dewey, her...
Paul E. Wirtz
Jun 16, 2023
Paul Edward Wirtz, 84 passed away peacefully on June 16, 2023, in Overland Park, Kansas. He was born on December 22, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa.Paul will be remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather and a friend by those who knew him. He had a successful career path; he worked for IBM Administrative Management (International Business Machines) for 29 years and later joined Grubb &...
Joanne H. Lane
Jun 16, 2023
Joanne H. Lane, 97, of Prairie Village, Kansas, passed away at Claridge Court Health Center on June 16, 2023.
She was born on February 15, 1926, in Kansas City, Missouri to Raymond Porter and Helen Toler Hemphill. She attended Southeast High School and one semester of college at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
She then married Eldon Miller Lane...
Susan Estelle Cammack
Jun 13, 2023
Susan Estelle Cammack was born Dec. 2, 1953, in Ames, Iowa, to Hobart and Jane Cammack.
Hobart was a still a Ph.D. student when Susan was born -- in fact he had just pulled a long night
on a lab report the night before Jane went into labor. Hobart went on to become a chemical
engineer while Jane became...
Barry T. Leonard
Jun 12, 2023
Barry T. Leonard, 78, Overland Park, Kansas passed away Monday June 12, 2023. Barry was born August 16, 1944 in Kansas City, Kansas, son of Russell and Connie Leonard who preceded him in death.
He was a life long resident of the Kansas City area and worked for General Motors for 51 years retiring in 2016. He was an...
Jack Edmond Moore, Jr.
Jun 12, 2023
Jack Moore was born in Kansas City, MO on February 16th, 1951, but became a lifelong resident of Overland Park, KS. He was the second youngest of four siblings, graduating from Shawnee Mission South in the class of 1969 and later a graduate of Mizzou. He served with the Marines in Vietnam and would go on to become a...
Paul Louis Born, Sr.
Jun 10, 2023
Paul died June 10, 2023 in Lenexa, Kansas at the age of 79. He had been dealing with Parkinson’s Disease for over 20 years.
Paul was born October 7, 1943 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin to Chester and Louise Born. He grew up in Sheboygan graduating from North High School and the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. After college he served in...
Jan Southwick O'Rourke
Jun 6, 2023
Beloved wife, mother and “Gaga”, Janet Southwick O’Rourke, passed away on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at Saint Luke’s Hospital after an unexpected health emergency.
Jan was born on May 9, 1943 in Findlay, OH to parents & musicians Richard and Margaret Southwick. After graduating from Needham Broughton High School in Raleigh, NC, she attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music on...
Myrtle Ahlstrom
Jun 6, 2023
Myrtle Ahlstrom, loving mother of three sons and adoring wife to husband Fred, gained her wings peacefully at the age of 96 on Tuesday, June 6. Myrtle was born in 1926 Bedminster, PA to G. Harold and E. Leah (Jones) Furness. She met Fred Ahlstrom while he was serving at Ft. Dix, NJ and they were married 59 years...
Zachary Randolph
Jun 5, 2023
After a sudden illness, Zachary D. Randolph passed away on June 5, 2023, at Research Medical Center. Zach leaves behind parents Mitchell & Angelina Randolph, brother Benjamin, nephew Kilian, grandmothers Margaret Hill and Maureen Schmidt, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. In death, Zach will be reunited with Grandparents DeLucchi and Schmidt; Grandfather Duane Randolph and Uncle Jeff Randolph; and doting Great-grandparents Joe &...
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