Dwain E. Wallace
Oct 2, 2021
Dwain Erskine Wallace, 83, of Overland Park, Kansas, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
Dwain was born February 27, 1938, in Kansas City, Kansas. He was the son of Leora Lee Caldwell and Leland Erskine Wallace. He went to Hazel Grove Elementary School and graduated from Washington Rural High School in 1956. ...
Gay F. Myers
Oct 1, 2021
Gay was born on May 22, 1933 to John and Gaynell Foster in Danville, Virginia.
She would grow up to join the United States Navy and served on Capitol Hill. She was awarded a National Defense Service Medal and a Good Conduct Medal. She met Ira Myers (United States Navy) and they married on February 19, 1960...
Karen Romberg
Sep 30, 2021
Karen Romberg, 78 of Shawnee Kansas, passed away September 30, 2021, with her family by her side. She was born to the late Fredrick and Irene Miller, January 23, 1943, in Parsons, Kansas. Karen graduated from Labette County High School in 1961 and would go on to work for the Santa Fe Railroad until she retired in 2005.
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Victor Wolf
Sep 29, 2021
Victor P. Wolf, 99, Overland Park, passed away Wednesday September 29, 2021. Victor was born August 9,1922 in Robertsville, MO to Victor L. and Martha Wolf. Victor grew up in Ferguson, Missouri and graduated from high school. He then attended the University of Iowa where he enrolled in Flight School for 1 year before he entered the US Marines...
L. Ashley Elbl
Sep 29, 2021
Louis Ashley Elbl, Jr., was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the son of L. Ashley Elbl, Sr. and Esther Buller Elbl, on April 14, 1943. Ashley, as most people knew him, or Ash, as his family and friends called him, or “Coach” as he came to be known at Brookdale Assisted Living and Memory Care, lived in KCK until...
Ilene Riggs
Sep 25, 2021
“The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. “
Billy Graham
On Saturday September 25th, 2021, our beloved mother, grandmother, aunt and friend was gently carried into Jesus’ loving arms peacefully after a long battle with cancer. She joins her late husband Bob Frank Riggs; sister, Maxine...
Jeri Vick
Sep 24, 2021
Jeri M. Vick, 80, of Overland Park, KS, passed away, at home, on September 24, 2021, after 22 years of battling cancer. Jeri was born in Pittsburg, PA on July 4, 1941, to Glenwood and Alice Elizabeth Young. She had one older sister who died as an infant. Jeri married Kent Alan Vick 58 years ago on December 22, 1962. ...
James P. Elliott
Sep 24, 2021
James P. "Jim" Elliott born in St. Joseph, MO Nov. 19, 1944 passed away Sept. 24,2021 at Advent Hospital in Merriam, KS, age 76. He resided at Merriam Gardens Healthcare in Merriam, KS. Jim retired from Yellow Freight May 3, 2002 with one million miles of accident free over the road truck driving. His CB handle was "Shade Tree." ...
Marilyn A. Simes
Sep 24, 2021
Marilyn Ann Simes, age 99, Overland Park, Kansas passed away September 24, 2021 in her home surrounded by family.
Marilyn was born December 10, 1921 in Canton, Ohio where she spent her entire childhood. Growing up she loved softball, tennis, basketball, violin, swimming and singing. Some of her greatest high school achievements were playing first violin in...
Wanda Larsen
Sep 24, 2021
Wanda was born October 31, 1933 in Superior, Nebraska to her parents Harold C Jensen and Elizabeth M (Leece) Jensen and older sister Rita Jensen.
She spent her early childhood in Fremont, Nebraska and moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1942. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School and studied fine arts at Creighton University in Omaha,...
Virginia Cooley
Sep 23, 2021
Services have been postponed until probably in the Fall. Please check back at a later date. Thank You - David Cooley
Virginia Lynn “Gigi” Cooley passed away peacefully at her daughter’s home on Sept 23, 2021 at age 81.
She was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma on July 2, 1940, the first daughter of...
Mary Miner
Sep 23, 2021
Mary Pauline Kiefer Miner 1919 - 2021
The Remarkable Life and Times of a Remarkable Woman
March 21, 1919
Mary Pauline Miner was born on a farmstead a few miles west of Clinton, Missouri, to Florence and Adam Kiefer. Primitive by today’s standards, their two-story wood frame farmhouse had no electricity,...
Celia Johnson
Sep 22, 2021
Celia Maurine Johnson, aged 79, passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday September 22nd. Celia was born February 21, 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri was raised in the south Kansas City neighborhood of Marlborough Heights. She graduated from Center High School in 1960 and attended Southwest Baptist College for two years.
She began work at Graybar...
Lynn Mathews
Sep 22, 2021
LYNN MARIE MATHEWS
Lynn Marie Mathews, 68, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away September 22, 2021 in Overland Park, Kansas. Lynn was born December 20, 1952 in Kansas City, Missouri to James W. Mathews and Frances P. Silkwood. She was a graduate of Shawnee Mission South High School, and attended two years at Kansas State University.
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Timothy Grauer
Sep 21, 2021
Timothy Joe Grauer of Marysville, Kansas went for his final hunt on this earth on September 21, 2021. He always loved nature, so he fittingly crossed the divide on the first day of Fall, his favorite season.
Tim is survived by his wife, Jane Grauer of the home; his daughter, Stacey Galante and husband Rich of West...
Edith Schultz
Sep 21, 2021
Edith J. Schultz, 93, of Prairie Village, Kansas passed away September 21, 2021, at Kansas City Hospice House. A private family inurnment will take place at Johnson County Memorial Gardens at a later date. Edith was born April 4, 1928, in Kansas City, Missouri. She spent the majority of her life caring for other family members. She enjoyed the...
Richard Gray
Sep 19, 2021
For obituary information please see the Memorial Program link below.
Scholarship Fund:
Bruce and Rick Gray Scholarship, Columbia Public Schools Business Services
1818 W. Worley St., Columbia, MO 65203
(Please make checks payable to...
Joseph Bacarro, Jr.
Sep 17, 2021
Joseph P Bacarro Jr passed away on September 17, 2021 with
loved ones by his side.
Joe was born on August 21, 1970 in Lodi, California.
He graduated from Blue Valley North and continued his
education at UNLV, receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Business
Administration.
Joe returned...
Marjorie Wilson
Sep 17, 2021
Marjorie Louise Wilson was born in Jefferson City, Missouri to Noah Kenneth and May Gladys Nichols (Seary) on May 6, 1926. She passed away peacefully surrounded by family on September 17, 2021. She was 95 years young when she passed and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
Marge and her family moved to Kansas City...
John Fotopoulos
Sep 16, 2021
John S.(Gene) Fotopoulos, belovedly known as “Foto,” passed away peacefully at his home in Playa Del Carmen, MX. just days after his 90th birthday.
Foto was born in Newton, Kansas and raised in Hutchinson. He excelled as an athlete at Hutchinson High School, Hutchinson Junior College and the University of Kansas. During his High School career, he...
