Obituaries
Robert Geraughty
Feb 26, 2013
Robert was born on April 27, 1919 and passed away on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Robert was a resident of Lenexa, Kansas.
Barbara Sheldon
Feb 26, 2013
Barbara Ann Roesch Sheldon, 82, Cincinnati, Ohio, entered into eternal peace on February 26, 2013, at the Cincinnati Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Blue Ash, Ohio. Barbara was born on April 28, 1930 in Terre Haute, IN, daughter of the late Herman and Grace Roesch. She graduated from Wiley High School in 1947 and Indiana State University in 1951...
Bennie Hicks
Feb 24, 2013
Funeral services for Bennie D. Hicks, 81, West Plains, Missouri, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, February 27, 2013, in the Rose Chapel at Robertson-Drago Funeral Home. Ben passed away at 2:00 a.m., Sunday, February 24, 2013, at West Vue Nursing Center. He was born February 19, 1932, in Fulton County, Arkansas, to George "Dick" Hicks and Hazel Rhoads...
Ben Hicks
Feb 24, 2013
Ben Hicks passed away on Feb. 24th, 2013 in West Plains, Missouri. He was born Feb. 19, 1932 in Fulton Co. Arkansas to George "Dick" Hicks and Hazel Rhoads Hicks. He graduated from West Plains High School in 1949, and that same year married Lois Collins. Ben and Lois were married for over 50 years, until her passing in 2000....
Powell Groner, Jr.
Feb 24, 2013
Powell Campbell Groner, Jr. October 1, 1921 – February 24th, 2013 Powell C. Groner, Jr., 91, passed away February 24th, 2013 at Kingswood Senior Living Community. He was born in New York City, but lived most of his life in the Kansas City area. He attended Pembroke-Country Day School, now Pembroke Hill, and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1943. He...
B Henry
Feb 23, 2013
B. Spencer Henry, 90, passed away Saturday, February 23, 2013. Spencer was born November 21, 1922, in Bay City, MI, to William and Freda (Weber) Henry. He married Lola Jane Lyon, on May 19, 1945. Spencer attended Duke University prior to his service in the Army and graduated from the University of Michigan in business administration in 1948. He worked...
Ching-wen Yang
Feb 22, 2013
Ching-wen Yang, 88, of Overland Park, passed away Feb. 22. He was born to the late Chi-ming and Jong Yang, Oct. 2, 1924, in Taichung, Taiwan. Ching-wen Yang received a BS in agricultural engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1951 and did advanced studies in the U.S. in 1955-56. He married the late Shue-in Huang in 1944, and they...
Thomas Mowrer
Feb 21, 2013
THOMAS "CRAIG" MOWRER, 56, Lenexa, KS passed away peacefully, February 21, 2013. A visitation will be held 11:30 a.m. Monday, February 25, 2013 at Hillcrest Covenant Church, 8801 Nall Ave., Prairie Village, KS 66207 with a funeral service to follow at 12:30 p.m.. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery, Kansas City, MO. Memorial contributions may be made to the...
Michael Payton
Feb 20, 2013
Michael Gene Payton, 67, passed away on February 20, 2013, at home. A Memorial Service will be held Monday, February 25, 2013, beginning at 6 pm followed by a visitation at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Johnson County Chapel, 11200 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, KS. Mike was born September 29, 1945 in Kansas City. He was a Vietnam Veteran and considered himself...
Gatra Miller
Feb 18, 2013
Gatra Moorer Miller, 85, Tulsa, OK, passed away on February 18, 2013. She was pre-deceased by her husband Thomas J. Miller. She is survived by two sons Thomas Miller of Dallas, Texas and Donald Miller and his wife Tara Miller of Overland Park Kansas, two grandchildren David Miller and Abigail Miller of Dallas Texas and one sister Patricia Moorer of...
Agnes Abbey
Feb 17, 2013
Peggy Clark Yearout Abbey, 89, peacefully passed away on February 17, 2013 after a long and fulfilling life. Peggy was born on November 25, 1923 near Pomona, Kansas, to Bess (Clark) and Charles Lewis Blackburn. Peggy's childhood goal was always to "sing on the radio," and from age 13 she sang and played piano and guitar at county fairs and...
Meveline Boswell
Feb 16, 2013
Meveline "Mev" Boswell passed away Saturday, Feb. 16, at 5:57 a.m. at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Overland Park, KS. Mev was born Oct. 19, 1924 in Osawatomie, KS. She married Ray Edward Boswell on Nov. 14, 1948, in Lawrence, KS. During their 64 years together the couple lived in Overland Park, KS, Topeka, KS, Spokane, WA, Portland, OR, and...
Harry McCarl, Jr.
Feb 14, 2013
Harry Berwyn McCarl, 87, passed away on Thursday, February 14, 2013. Harry was born on December 22, 1925, in Mankato, Minnesota, to Harry and Ida (Krogstad) McCarl. He was educated in Mankato schools and graduated from Iowa State University in 1947 with a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering. He received a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering in 1950 from Case University...
Jane Wallis
Feb 14, 2013
Jane Evelyn Wallis, 77, of Overland Park, KS, died Thursday. She was born to Wesley and Agnes Willett on May 1, 1935, in Joplin, MO. She grew up in Greenfield, MO. Jane graduated from high school as Valedictorian and went on to obtain an education degree from the University of Missouri in 1957. After graduating from college, Jane married Ron...
Jessie Wright
Feb 13, 2013
Jessie Elizabeth (Libby) Wright who died on Feb. 13, 2013, in Shawnee Mission, KS, was born in Spartanburg, S.C., on Nov. 10, 1943. The daughter of Lawrence and Lorene Bulman Mahaffey, she graduated from Waco High School in Waco, TX, and in pursuing her passion of music, continued her education at and graduated from North Texas State University in Denton,...
Rev. Wayne Carpenter
Feb 10, 2013
Rev. Carpenter was born on June 12, 1928 and passed away on Sunday, February 10, 2013. Rev. Carpenter was a resident of Merriam, Kansas.
Luciana Mejia
Feb 9, 2013
Luciana "Hope" E. Mejia, 82, Shawnee, KS passed away peacefully February 9, 2013. Funeral Mass will be held 10 a.m. Thursday, February 14, 2013 at Good Shepherd Catholic Church, 12800 W. 75th Street, Shawnee, KS 66216. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m., Rosary will be recited at 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at D.W. Newcomer's...
Dorothy McKillop
Feb 7, 2013
Dorothy Helen McKillop, 102, passed away Feb. 7, 2013. Survived by her daughter, Patricia Anne (Muryl) Laman; daughter-in-law, Betsy McKillop; grandchildren, Susan Laman, Amy (Stacy) Carda, Steven Laman, Kristin (Edward) Feitzinger, Kathleen (Richard) Whitt, Matthew (Janet) McKillop; and 13 great-grandchildren. Proceeded in death by her husband, Oliver McKillop in 1969, and son, Donald McKillop in 1997. She was born June...
Alma Sparks
Feb 5, 2013
Alma Elizabeth Sparks passed away quietly in her sleep at the age of 100 at KU Medical Center on February 5th. She was born on December 19th, 1912, in Kansas City and lived her whole life in the Rosedale neighborhood, marrying her childhood sweetheart Jack Sparks. They raised one son while Jack worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and Alma...
Clora Anderson
Feb 5, 2013
CLORA MAY ANDERSON, 90, Overland Park, KS passed away peacefully, Tuesday, February 5, 2013. Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Friday, February 8, 2013 at New Haven Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 8714 Antioch Road, Overland Park, KS 66212. Interment will follow at Johnson County Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at D.W. Newcomer's...
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