Obituaries
Robert Humphrey
May 18, 2017
Robert Glen Humphrey, 66, of Overland Park, KS, passed away May 18, 2017 at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. Robert was born Sept. 11, 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri to Dorothy Humphrey. He was a graduate of Westport High School. He worked at Marley Cooling Company for 42 years beginning in the Copy Area and was promoted over the years to many...
Jeffrey Estopare
May 17, 2017
Jeffrey E. Estopare, 55, of Olathe, Kansas passed away Tuesday May 17, 2017. Jeff was born November 19, 1961 in Kansas City, Missouri and was the proud son of Ernie and Shirley Estopare. He was a career emergency room nurse who spread compassion and provided invaluable care to all of his patients. He was devoted to serving his community while working in the...
Victor Gradert
May 15, 2017
Victor Carl Gradert was born on May 22nd, 1925, in Newton, KS to Carl and Henrietta Gradert, and was their only child. He graduated from Newton High School and joined the Army Air Corps to serve our country in WWII. He flew 33 missions and returned home in November, 1945. He married his high school sweetheart, Ruth Mildred Wilms on May...
Mary Neese
May 14, 2017
Mary Dolores (Wilson) Neese 1930-2017 Mary Dolores (Wilson) Neese died on Mother’s Day, May 14, 2017. She was 86. Growing up as one of 12 children of Belva and Marie Wilson on a farm near California, MO gave her a lifelong love of nature and particularly the Missouri woods. She was salutatorian of her 1947 California High School graduating class and...
Mary Johnson
May 14, 2017
Mary L. Johnson Mary Louise Johnson 96 of Columbia, MO formerly of Overland Park, KS died Sunday, May 14, 2017 at Colony Pointe Assisted Living Facility. Visitation will be from 10:00 to 11:00 then services immediately following at Johnson County Funeral Chapel and Memorial Gardens of Overland Park, KS. Mary was born October 3, 1920 to Guy D. Solomon & Mary...
Mildred Jackson
May 13, 2017
Mildred L. Jackson passed away May 13, 2017. She was born December 27, 1929 in Hepler, Kansas to John H. and Dora (Mahnken) Mein. She married Darrell Jackson on August 27, 1950 in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Hepler, Kansas. They moved to the Kansas City area in 1958. She was a bookkeeper for several Banks and Financial Investment companies before she...
Henry Flanery
May 13, 2017
Henry Steven Flanery, born May, 13, 2017, passed away May 13, 2017. Visitation 10-11AM, service 11AM, on Tuesday, May 23, at Christ Lutheran Church, 11720 Nieman Rd, Overland Park, KS 66210.
Mary Nicolaisen
May 13, 2017
Mary Scharlach Nicolaisen, age 88, passed away Saturday, May 13, 2017 at home in Overland Park, Kansas after a 17-year battle with myelofibrosis and Leukemia. Mary attended Buffalo High School in Buffalo, NY. She then received a Bachelor’s Degree in Medical Technology from the University of Buffalo and Buffalo General Hospital where she worked as a certified Med Tech before retiring...
James Gleeson
May 12, 2017
Jim passed away on May 12, 2017 at The Forum of Overland Park. He was born in Topeka, Kansas on September 9, 1935 to William F. and Vera Barker Gleeson. He graduated from Rockhurst High School in 1953 and Rockhurst College in 1957. On May 2, 1981 he married Judy Rice Eaton. In 1983 he started a very successful manufacturer’s...
Jean Scott
May 11, 2017
Jean Scatterday Scott Jean Scatterday Scott, 83, of Leawood, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, passed away Thursday morning, May 11, 2017, at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Born July 2, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio, she was a graduate of Worthington High School. She attended Ohio State University and graduated with a degree in Elementary Education. While at Ohio State, she was a...
Marian Atwood
May 8, 2017
Marian Olander Atwood, 91, of Kansas City, Missouri, died peacefully on Monday, May 8, 2017 at Bishop Spencer Place. Marian was born August 17, 1925 in Kansas City, Kansas to Mildred Cooke Olander and Frederick Herbert Olander. She graduated from Sunset Hill School in 1943 and went on to Smith College, graduating in 1947 as senior class president. Two years later she married...
Reba Larson
May 8, 2017
Reba Jean (Keys) Larson was welcomed into the arms of her Savior, Jesus Christ, on May 8, 2017 at the age of 82. She passed away peacefully at home after a courageous, ten-year battle with Alzheimer’s Disease. Reba was born on Jan. 5, 1935 to Delbert and Ellen (Grandstaff) Keys in Chandler, OK. Later her family moved to Canon City, CO where...
Gloria Crume
May 5, 2017
Gloria Crume, 88, Lenexa, KS, passed away May 5, 2017. A graveside service will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 8, at Johnson County Memorial Gardens, 11200 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS 66210. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Samaritan's Purse at https://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Eugene "Gene" Tinberg
May 5, 2017
Eugene (Gene) Edward Tinberg, 88 of Overland Park, KS passed away on 5/5/17. Gene was born on September 26, 1928 to Roy and Selma Tinberg in Bonner Springs, KS where he grew up on the family farm as the 5th of six children. He is a graduate of Bonner Springs High School and The University of Kansas earning a bachelor’s...
Gloria Vickrey
May 2, 2017
Gloria Vickrey, 94, Overland Park, KS, passed away May 2, 2017. Private services will be held for the family.
Virgil Hollenbeck, MD
May 1, 2017
Dr. Virgil Clayton Hollenbeck of Leawood, Kansas, 93, passed away May 1, 2017. He was born in Donegal, Kansas on February 27, 1924, the son of Lester and Fern Hollenbeck, and later moved to Hope, KS, where he graduated from high school as valedictorian in 1942. Virgil was proud to have served in the U.S. Navy in WWII, stationed in the...
Martha Johnson
May 1, 2017
Martha Jane Johnson, 61, of Overland Park, KS passed away peacefully on May 1st, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. Martha was born on November 27th, 1955 in Albuquerque New Mexico to Alyce and Max Greer. She grew up in Overland Park KS, graduating from Shawnee Mission South High School and then attended both the University of Arizona in Tucson...
Steven Fink
Apr 29, 2017
Steve Fink brought joy to just about every interaction he had, bettering all who were lucky to know him. During the last year of his life he fought a courageous battle with brain cancer. He approached his cancer with the same steadfast optimism and quiet determination that he lived his life, even keeping his caregivers laughing with his quips. Steve...
Mary Bridge
Apr 29, 2017
Mary Corinne Bridge passed away peacefully at her home on April 29th 2017 in Shawnee Kansas. Mary was born to Ralph Larkin and Cora Belle (Mason) Hilderbrand on March 5, 1931 in Harrison Nebraska. She attended school in Harrison until the death of her mother in 1943. She and her younger siblings were then moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa where...
Laurie Thompson
Apr 28, 2017
Laurie Lea Thompson 78 of Olathe, KS passed away April 28th, 2017 at the KC Hospice House. She is proceeded in death by her parents: Lillian & Lowell Wolverton. She is survived by her brother, Charlie & Nephew, Sean; 3 children: Elizabeth, Kurt, and Jeff; 6 grandchildren: Eric, Rachel, Tyler, Brittany, Justin & Jaeden; & 3 great-grandchildren: Roman, Nixon, and...
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