Obituaries
Susan Pavlakis
Aug 3, 2022
Susan S. Pavlakis, age 71, passed away on August 3, 2022. She took her own life after a period of severe mental distress that included two hospitalizations and releases. A memorial service will be held at a later date. She is survived by her husband George N. Pavlakis and son Gregory A. Pavlakis, and brother Alan Shaw and his...
Samuel Perez
Jul 30, 2022
SAMUEL PEREZ, AGE 85, OF MISSION HILLS, KANSAS
PASSED AWAY SATURDAY, JULY 30, AT HIS HOME.
SAM WAS BORN IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SEPTEMBER 21, 1936. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS, HERLINDA AND PEDRO PEREZ AND SISTER, LYDIA PEREZ.
HE SPENT HIS CHILDHOOD IN ARMOURDALE, KANSAS.
SAM GRADUATED...
Ryan House
Jul 29, 2022
Ryan James House, 33, of Lawrence, Kansas, was born on April 19, 1989, in Wichita, Kansas. Our family learned of Ryan’s death on July 29, 2022. He was preceded in death by his mother Nancy Gray House who passed in 2015, and adoring grandparents Stan and Julia House. He is survived by his father Robert House (Susan) and...
Jin Hee Lee
Jul 28, 2022
Jin Hee Lee was born in 1919 in Kaesong, during the Japanese occupation of Korea. She was third of seven children. She married at age 19 to a nobleman, and at age 21 she gave birth to her only child, Sung Lan Lee. She lost her husband at age 25. Jin Hee never remarried, devoting her life to providing...
Gary Dykman
Jul 28, 2022
Gary L. Dykman, age 66, passed away on July 28, 2022. Born in Kansas City on February 21,1956 to Leroy and Pauline Dykman, Gary’s childhood was filled with baseball, boy scouts, family road trips, and time with aunts, uncles, and many cousins.
Gary married Patty (Martinsen) in 1981. Their 41 years together were filled with love and plenty of...
Pasumponni Karuppanan
Jul 28, 2022
Pasumponni Karuppanan, a loving mother and a beloved wife, passed away on July 28th at Kansas City Hospice House after a prolonged battle with cancer. She is a double Masters degree holder in Molecular Biology at the University of Akron, worked as a Cancer researcher at Cleveland Clinic, and was a Senior IT Analyst in Oracle Database; admired and...
Robert Wheat
Jul 27, 2022
Robert H. Wheat, 77, of Overland Park passed away on July 27, 2022. Visitation will be held on Saturday, July 30th at 9 a.m. at Johnson County Funeral Chapel, 11200 Metcalf Ave., OP, KS 66210 with service to follow at 10 a.m. Burial in Johnson County Memorial Gardens.
Buck was predeceased by his wife...
William Wubbenhorst
Jul 27, 2022
William (Bill) passed away July 27,2022 at the home of his daughter in Sacramento, CA., at the age of 99 ½ years. Bill was born to John Herman Wubbenhorst and Pauline Ferguson Morgan on January 5, 1923, in Liberty, MO. He graduated from Smithville High School. Bill spent the summers with his brother Norman on his Uncle Fred’s...
Sharon Cooney
Jul 26, 2022
Sharon Cooney (née, Sharon Lou DeCou) died from complications from dementia on July 26, 2022 in Tacoma, WA. She was 87. Sharon is survived by her sister Janice Potter of Louisville, KY and brother David DeCou of Paw Paw, MI, sons Michael Cooney of Perris, CA and Thomas Cooney of Kirkland, WA, and her grandchildren, Kyle, Ryan, Emma,...
Gloria Engelhart
Jul 25, 2022
Gloria Ann "Gigi" Engelhart's story began 74 years ago when she was born to James and Ina Mae Torigian in Aberdeen, SD.
55 years ago, she married the love of her life, James Engelhart, and they were blessed with four children. Her fierce love began when she became a grandmother. She held the love of her 11...
Kay Fulcher
Jul 25, 2022
Kay Fulcher, 77 passed away on July 25, 2022, with her family by her side. Kay was born August 5, 1944, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to parents Francis and Helen Axline. Her childhood years were spent in Cedar Rapids where she graduated from Jefferson High School, class of 1962. Upon moving to Overland Park in 1967, Kay became a...
Betty Gale Larson
Jul 24, 2022
Betty Gale Larson, 92, beloved wife, Mom, Grammy, GG, and Aunt, passed away peacefully in her sleep July 24, 2022, at Lakeview Village in Lenexa, her home for the last 19 years. Gale was born Aug. 11, 1929, in California, MO to Charles L. and Edna Beutler Yost. She was the youngest of four children: Nadia, Paul, and Charles. She...
Rose Grinstead
Jul 23, 2022
Rose Alice Cambern Grinstead—beloved wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, and great-grandmother—died peacefully at age 91 on July 23, 2022, at Lakeview Village Care Center in Lenexa, KS. A talented artist, Rosie was best known for her long career as a master quilter. She won national and regional awards, and her quilts were featured in Hallmark calendars and jigsaw puzzles. One of...
Michael Del Priore
Jul 20, 2022
Michael C. Del Priore (Mike) of Prairie Village, KS passed away on Wednesday July 20, 2022 at The Village on Mission where he resided for the past 5 years.
Michael was born to Antonio and Filomena Del Priore on November 10, 1920 in Brooklyn, NY. After high school graduation, he came to the Kansas...
William Bakeberg
Jul 19, 2022
Please leave the family a message on the Tribute Wall. The family suggested memorials to the Ronald McDonald House .
George Chamblin, Jr.
Jul 19, 2022
George A. Chamblin Jr., was born at home in Chillicothe, MO. to George A. Chamblin and Alpha Stephens Chamblin on July 31, 1928. He was an only child. He attended school in Chillicothe through the eighth grade and graduated from Central High School, St. Joseph, MO in 1946. Following graduation, served in the US Army of Occupation in Pusan,...
James Reichenbach
Jul 18, 2022
James C. Reichenbach, 78, of Overland Park, KS, passed away on Monday, July 18, 2022.James was born on March 4,1944 in Des Moines, Iowa to Fred and Virginia (Clark) Reichenbach. He graduated from Johnston High School in 1962 and then attended Finlay Engineering College in Kansas City, Missouri. Upon his graduation in 1965, Jim was employed by Black &...
Kathryn Egner
Jul 17, 2022
Kathryn H. Egner passed away peacefully on July 17, 2022 at the age of 87, being comforted by her sons and their wives, and surrounded by her extended family both in person and online during her final days. She closed her eyes for the last time after several months at Brookdale OP in Overland Park, KS after a...
Ronald Vader
Jul 14, 2022
Ronald Dean Vader, age 81, of Kansas City, Missouri passed away Thursday, July 14, 2022 in the Good Samaritan Society - Olathe, Kansas.
He was born on August 1, 1940 in Independence, Missouri to Ira and Betty Vader. Ron is preceded in death by his parents and a nephew, Sean Vader. He married Frances...
Bob Daniels
Jul 14, 2022
Robert L. Daniels (Bob), passed away at Overland Park Regional Medical Center on Thursday, July 14, 2022. Bob was born to Tim and Rena Daniels of Ramsey, Illinois where he spent his childhood. He later graduated from Eastern Illinois University. Shortly thereafter, Bob met and married Sandra L. Higgins, his wife of 60 years. They moved to Overland Park, Kansas in 1971 to...
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