Obituaries

Warren McVey

Apr 1, 2020

Warren LeRoy McVey 89 of Olathe, KS passed away Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at Travanse Living, Olathe, KS.  There will be a private family burial at Johnson County Memorial Gardens, Overland Park, KS.

Warren was born on December 27, 1930, in Jackson County, Kansas City, MO, to LeRoy V. McVey and Cora Angie Hartley.  He grew up...

Margarete Harper

Mar 31, 2020

Margarete Harper, 93, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away March 31, 2020.  No service is scheduled at this time. The full obituary will appear soon.

Charles McGowan

Mar 30, 2020

Charles William McGowan passed away on March 30th 2020 at his home in Overland Park, Kansas.

Charles was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to LeRoy and Lurline McGowan on January 12th 1925.  He grew up in Oklahoma City and was drafted into the Navy in 1943.  He served in World War II, and achieved the rank of...

Mary Marcum

Mar 30, 2020

Mary Catherine “Mary Kay” Marcum, 78, of Leawood, KS, passed away on March 30, 2020, in Leawood from complications due to a stroke suffered on March 29th.

A celebration of Mary Kay’s life will be held at a future date.

Mary Kay was born on June 10th, 1941 in Chicago, IL to Lambert Peter Scholtes...

Danna Russell

Mar 30, 2020

On March 30, 2020, Danna Barton Russell peacefully passed away at the age of 89. Born Danna Marie Barton to Dana Oscar Barton and Kitty Marie Scott-Barton on July 1, 1930 in Vernon, TX.  A proud fifth-generation Texan, Danna was a descendant of those who fought in The Battle of San Jacinto who avenged the siege of The Alamo,...

Mary Morgan

Mar 30, 2020

Mary Elizabeth (Foster) Morgan went home to be with her Lord on March 30, 2020 at the age of 83.

Mary was born on April 8, 1936 to Rhetta Marie (Brown) and Ernest Foster Sr. in Gas City, KS. She graduated from Iola High School and went on to Southern Nazarene University where she met and married...

Lisa Michelle Hetherington

Mar 28, 2020

Lisa Michelle Hetherington, 50, of Gardner, Kansas passed away March 28, 2020.

Lisa was a beloved mother and friend. She is survived by her children; Dalton and Kei Hetherington as well as the many children she has unconditionally loved and adopted into her family.

She is also survived by her sister; Debbie Blevins, brother in-law;...

Jon Farley Mallard

Mar 26, 2020

Jon Farley Mallard, 80, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away March 26, 2020.

Jon was born October 26, 1939 in Dallas, Texas.  He graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School in 1959 and earned his Bachelor Degree of Business Administration from East Texas State College, now Texas A&M University-Commerce, in 1963.

He served as an...

James Walker

Mar 25, 2020

James (Jim) E. Walker (78) was born to Barney E. Walker and Katherine I. Drager Walker on March 19, 1942, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He passed away on March 25, 2020. He leaves behind his soulmate wife Donna Sanders Walker, children James A. Walker, wife Tabitha, Robin Walker, Michael T. Walker, wife Tram, Quentin E. Holy, wife Gretchen, Amy L....

Martha Whithorne

Mar 25, 2020

MARTHA JANE WHITHORNE

Martha Jane Whithorne, 90, passed away on March 25th at Forest Creek Memory Care surrounded by the love of her family.

Martha Jane was born on August 20, 1929 to Elvene and John Willard.  She was the last surviving child of 6.  She met the love of her life, John...

Marguerite Renyer

Mar 24, 2020

Marguerite Ann Renyer, 78, Leavenworth, Kansas went to be with her Heavenly Father on March 24, 2020. Marguerite was born on January 30, 1942 to Wilmer and Helena Renyer.  She was born and raised in Westphalia, KS.  Marguerite graduated from high school in 1960 from Mount St. Schlolastica in Atchison, KS.  She was preceded in death by her parents,...

Pamela Morrison

Mar 23, 2020

Pamela Jo Morrison, 66, of Weston, Missouri passed away March 23, 2020 surrounded by her loving family.  Service information is listed below.  Her full obituary will appear soon.

Betty J. Hauser

Mar 17, 2020

Betty J. Hauser 94, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2020.  Funeral service will be held at Bethany Lutheran Church, 9101 Lamar Ave., Overland Park, KS, 66207 and Graveside service will be held at Mt. Moriah Cemetery, 10507 Holmes Rd, Kansas City, MO.  In these uncertain times, there will be no attendance allowed at the visitation...

Vernon Jones Jr.

Mar 14, 2020

VERNON WINSON JONES, JR.

Vernon Winson Jones, Jr., 71 of Overland Park, Kansas passed away March 14, 2020 surrounded by his loving family.  Vernon was born February 18, 1949 to Vernon and Ruby Jones in Eureka, Kansas.

Vernon grew up in a small town of Virgil, Kansas before his family moved to Kansas...

Oka M. Smotherman

Mar 14, 2020

Oka Marie Hayes Smotherman, 82, of Osawatomie, Kansas passed away March 14, 2020.

Oka was born September 1. 1937 in Kidder, Missouri to Charles McMurtrey and Estella Kay Bowers Hayes.  She was united in marriage to William Crawford Smotherman on June 4, 1956 in Olathe, KS.  This union was blessed with two children; Elizabeth Cruzan and Charles...

Susie (문지은) Lee

Mar 14, 2020

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“...all stories, if continued far enough, end in death” - Ernest Hemingway

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Surrounded by her loving family, Susie (문지은) Lee, 69, passed away in peace and comfort at her home in Overland Park on the morning of March 12th, 2020.

She was born...

Murli Hinduja

Mar 11, 2020

Murli Hinduja’s Obituary

Murli Lachhmandas Hinduja (70) of Olathe, Kansas, passed away on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 in Olathe, Kansas.

Murli Lachhmandas Hinduja was born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, to Lachhmandas and Tulsi Hinduja on June 2, 1949. Murli graduated from Don Bosco High School (Mumbai) in 1966, finished his undergraduate degrees...

Francis M. Saxton

Mar 11, 2020

Francis (Sax) Saxton, 95, born September, 1924 in Crawford, Nebraska, departed this life March 11, 2020 in McAllen, Texas.

We have lost another among the dwindling number of WWII heroes. He served with honor as a Sergeant and Combat Engineer in the 26th Div. of General Patton’s 3rd Army in France. He was a Purple Heart recipient,...

Beverly A. Owen

Mar 11, 2020

Beverly A. Owen, 80, of Alexandria, Virginia, passed away March 11, 2020.  At this time services are pending.  The full obituary will appear soon.

Shirley B. McKay

Mar 11, 2020

Shirley Bell McKay, 93, of Overland Park, Kansas passed away peacefully March 11, 2020.

Shirley was born in Marysville, Kansas on December 17, 1926 to John F. and Berniece Barrett.  She grew up in the Kansas City area and attended Marymount High School in Salina, Kansas.

She enjoyed politics immensely.  Starting in 1960 she volunteered...