Johnson County Funeral Chapel & Memorial Gardens
Obituaries
Hans Christian Ziller
Dec 26, 2023
Hans Christian Ziller was born on September 5, 1928 in Freiburg, Germany to Hans Patriz and Maria Ziller. As a young man, Hans worked as the Service Manager at the local BP gas station where he befriended several American GIs after the war. One of those GIs sponsored Hans to immigrate to the United States, so in 1958, Hans travelled...
Iona Eleanore Oberzan
Dec 25, 2023
Iona Eleanore (Mersman) Oberzan, 93, passed away peacefully on the morning of December 25, 2023. She was born in Richmond, KS to Christopher and Ida (Brummel) Mersman on December 17, 1930, the youngest of eight children. She attended school in Richmond, Scipio, and Greeley, KS and married Edward M. Oberzan in 1950, raising seven children. After the children were all...
Robert Thomas Waisner
Dec 23, 2023
Robert (Bob) Waisner 92 of Overland Park, Kansas passed away while recovering in Shawnee PARC rehabilitation facility. He was scheduled to be released to his home on the day of his death. God took him to his heavenly home instead.
Services will be held at the Johnson County Memorial Gardens on Friday the 29th of December. Visitation will be at 9...
Richard Scott Dorman
Dec 23, 2023
On Saturday morning, 23 December 2023, Richard Scott Dorman died quietly in his sleep at his home in Kansas City. There was no sense of disturbance – only calm. Known as “Scott” through most of his life, he had faced many medical challenges. But there was no indication that any of them was a specific cause of death. He...
Carolyn H. Stiles
Dec 22, 2023
Emily Carolyn Hogan Stiles, 86, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away on December 22,2023. She was born on February 28,1937, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to George Donaghey (Don) and Thelma Louisa Hogan. At age 14, while playing flute at band camp in Gunnison, Colorado, she met clarinetist Merrill Stiles, who would become her husband of 65 years. Carolyn graduated from...
Nancy Heinz
Dec 22, 2023
A friend to all and a stranger to no one, Nancy Lee Ballengee Heinz, Mom, and Nana, lived a full life to the very end as she passed away peacefully December 22, 2023. She spent 91 years on this good Earth doing for others including devoting full attention to raising her six children. She was born September 26, 1932, in...
Gayanne G. Ferguson
Dec 21, 2023
Gayanne Gill Ferguson, 86, of Overland Park, KS died peacefully on Thursday, December 21, 2023.
Gayanne was born on April 27, 1937, in Warren, Arkansas to Max Herring and Maureen Womble Gill. She attended elementary school in Warren and then Kansas City, MO after the family moved. She enjoyed returning to Warren for summer visits for many years....
Pamela Sue Beery
Dec 20, 2023
Pamela Sue Wittman Beery passed peacefully in her sleep in the early hours of December 20th, 2023. She was born in Queens, NY on September 16, 1944 but grew up in Independence, MO. She attended East High School and then went on to and graduated from the University of Missouri. She then earned her Master’s Degree also in elementary education.She...
Mona E. Carlstrom
Dec 19, 2023
Mona Evelyn (Craddick) Carlstrom, born on October 14th, 1933, in Adonis, Missouri, peacefully departed from this earth on December 19th, 2023. She was the first-born child of Faona Fern (Roberts) Craddick and Virgil Lawton Craddick. Mona's early years were marked by tragedy with the loss of her mother, Fern, shortly after the birth of her beloved little sister, Maysel. Mona...
Merlyn "Tippy" McMorris
Dec 19, 2023
Merlyn “Tippy” McMorris passed away at the age of 88 at Menorah Hospital in Overland Park, KS December 19, 2023. She was born in Kansas City, MO. She was a graduate of Kansas University Medical Center school of nursing.
She leaves her son Ron (wife Debbie), daughter Cheryl (husband Randy) and three grandsons Adam, Kevin & Duncan.
She is...
Rev. Dr. Marjean Potter Ehlers
Dec 18, 2023
Rev. Dr. Marjean Potter Ehlers
Marjean Potter Ehlers (born Marjean Paula Potter) came into this world on February 13th, 1950, in Emmetsburg, Iowa to Paul and Irene Potter of Ruthven, Iowa. Greeting her at home was an older brother, Lynn, and later joined by a younger sister, DeeAnn. Her father, Paul, was an itinerate United Methodist Pastor so...
Jack D. Bussell
Dec 16, 2023
Jack Darold Bussell, 92, of Leawood, Kansas passed away peacefully on December 16, 2023 at Olathe Health Hospice House. A celebration of Jack’s life will be held on Friday, December 29, 11:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Wesley Chapel, 13720 Roe Avenue, Leawood, KS followed by a lunch reception. A visitation will precede the church service...
Benjamin L. Sparks, "Ben"
Dec 15, 2023
Benjamin L. Sparks "Ben" (87) of Overland Park, passed away peacefully Dec.15th, 2023 at home, surrounded by his family.Ben was born March 11,1936 in Kansas City, MO to Charles and Marguerite Sparks. He graduated from Westport High School continuing on to Kansas City University where he was the president of his fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon. Ben married his college sweetheart, Lynn,...
Mary M. Adams
Dec 13, 2023
Mary M. Adams, 95, of Overland Park, Kansas, entered eternal life on December 13, 2023.
Mary was the oldest daughter of William Joseph and Verena Nadine Noble, born on June 28, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri. Mary was raised with her sisters, Betty and Sue, in Kansas City where they shared many memories of being raised in a home of hard-working parents. She graduated from Central High School in 1945 and...
Jacquelyn Haynes
Dec 12, 2023
The community of Overland Park, KS, mourns the loss of Jacquelyn Haynes, known to many as Jaxs, who passed away on her 59th birthday, December 12, 2023. Born in San Bernardino, California, to Jackie Lee Rohn and Mary Lou Stephens. Jaxs spent her early years at Norwalk High School, and later made Kansas City her beloved home.Jaxs's life was a...
Alan H. Colen
Dec 12, 2023
Surrounded by his family, Alan Hugh Colen (84) passed away peacefully at his home in Overland Park, Kansas on Dec. 12, 2023. Alan was born to Joseph and Elaine (Harrison) Colen on January 29th, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York.
He attended Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York and was active in the Boy Scouts, ultimately achieving the...
Nancy Jean Aliber
Dec 11, 2023
Nancy Jean Aliber, age 76, of Leawood, Kansas, went home to be with the Lord on Monday, December 11, 2023 at Addington Place of Prairie Village. Nancy is survived by her daughter, Nicole Lee Fisher and her husband David, her grandchildren: Tristan, Iris, and Frances, and Nancy's sister, Dorothine Kulp and her husband Dan and their three children; Chris, Nancy,...
John B. Meiners
Dec 11, 2023
Obituary to be posted at a later date. Please view John's funeral service information below.
Margaret L. Britain
Dec 9, 2023
Early on the morning of December 9, 2023, at the age of 90, Margaret Britain peacefully passed after a long, full, and happy life. In death, Margaret is reunited with Gary, her husband of 54 years, her parents, Alvin and Addie Harding, sisters Betty Sewell and Berniece Sieg, beloved aunts Alta Paquette and Lucille Burrow (and uncle Oren), brother-in-law Bill Sewell,...
Loretta Mae DiVilbiss
Dec 7, 2023
Loretta Mae (Vogel) DiVilbiss
September 1, 1934–December 7, 2023
Loretta Mae (Vogel) DiVilbiss, “MeMe”, 89, of Leawood, Kan., passed away on Thursday, December 7, 2023. Loretta will be forever remembered as a strong, elegant woman whose love and beauty knew no bounds … a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend who led her family with a timeless...
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