Obituaries
Local Obituaries for families in Shawnee, Kansas and surrounding communities of Johnson County, Shawnee Mission, and the greater Kansas City area.
Joann Steiner
Aug 12, 2021
JoAnn Marie Steiner, 76, Shawnee, KS (formerly of Great Bend, KS) passed away Thursday, August 12, 2021 at the Overland Park Reg. Med. Ctr. Overland Park, KS. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday,, Aug. 24 at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, Shawnee, KS. Visitation will be 9:30-10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the church. Committal service will be 1:00...
Robin Snyder
Aug 12, 2021
Marian 'Robin' Snyder passed peacefully from this world on August 12, 2021 at the age of 77. She was born on July 10, 1944 in Kansas City, MO to Robert and Marian Snyder. She was loved by all who knew her and will be greatly missed. Robin worked 25+ years at Johnson County Developmental Supports where she was a conscientious...
Barbara M. Tomassi
Aug 11, 2021
Barb Tomassi, 95, of Shawnee, passed away on Wednesday August 11, 2021. Barb is survived by her eight children: Bob, Bill, John, Steve, Mary, Joan, Sue and Jim, their spouses as well as 21 grandchildren and 30 great grandchildren. Barb was a registered nurse. She spent many years as a school nurse, retiring from the SMSD in 1987. Visitation: Sat....
Greg Fruehling
Aug 10, 2021
Greg Fruehling, 57, of Raymore, MO and Shawnee, KS passed away on August 10th, 2021. He was born on December 31st, 1963 in Kansas City, MO to William and Luella Fruehling. A visitation will take place on Saturday, August 14th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Amos Family Funeral Home in Shawnee, KS. Greg will be interred beside his mother,...
Janet Marie Page
Aug 9, 2021
Janet M. Page, 76, of Shawnee, KS, passed away on August 9, 2021. Janet was born July 28, 1945, in New York to William and Agnes Warmuth. She was united in marriage to her husband Dick on September 2, 1967. Janet was preceded in death by her husband of 43 years. Janet owned Janet’s Day Care for 30 years in...
Nancy May Chaffin
Aug 9, 2021
Nancy Chaffin, 86, of Basehor, KS passed away August 9th, 2021 in Bonner Springs, KS. A visitation will take place Saturday, August 21st from 10-11 AM at First Baptist Church of Basehor. A Celebration of Life will immediately follow at 11 AM. For anyone wishing to view Nancy’s service online, please access the live stream on the Facebook page for...
Alfred Samuel Hawkey, Jr.
Aug 8, 2021
Alfred Samuel (Sam) Hawkey, Jr. met his Savior on August 8, 2021 while residing at Village Shalom nursing home. Sam was the eldest son born in Newton, Kansas on February 10, 1931 to Dr. Alfred S. and Dorothea (Rodert) Hawkey. He spent the first ten years of his life in Newton. In 1941 he moved with his mother and two...
Stephanie Ann Stahl
Aug 5, 2021
Stephanie Ann Stahl passed August 5, 2021 at AdventHealth Medical Center, with family present. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 25, 1943 to Stephen and Helen Werkowitch. She grew up in a Shawnee, KS home built by her grandparents and attended St. Joseph Grade School, graduating from St. Joseph High School. She became a licensed cosmetologist and...
Barbara "Jeannie" Smith
Aug 5, 2021
Barbara Jean "Jeannie" Perdue Smith was born in a farmhouse in Mosby, Missouri to Percy Elbert Perdue and Mary Jane Thompson Perdue Courter on February 12, 1937. She started 1st grade at the age of 4 in a one room schoolhouse and moved to Paola, Kansas around the age of 11 years old. She met her future husband at a...
Roger Stanley Verrill
Aug 4, 2021
Roger Stanley Verrill, 87, of Shawnee, Kansas passed away August 4, 2021. Roger was born November 29, 1933 in Biddeford, Maine to Basil and Arieta Verrill. Roger was preceded in death by his parents; wife Hazel Verrill; brothers Donald and Larry Verrill. He is survived by his daughters Becky Fuller and her husband Warren, Dianne Verrill and his son Roger...
Eyvonne Esther Moore
Aug 4, 2021
Eyvonne Moore, 69 years old, succumbed to Covid 19 on Aug. 4, 2021. She was born 11/27/1951 in Kemmerer, Wy. She lived in Grandview, Mo. with her dear friend Lorenza Turner and her three four legged companions, LaLa, Kaydo & Freckles. Eyvonne retired from AT&T after 33 years. She is survived by her dear friends, Lorenza and Sandi Pointelin. Eyvonne...
Robert Eugene Mccoy
Aug 3, 2021
Robert E. McCoy 76, De Soto, KS passed away Tuesday, August 3, 2021 at Olathe Medical Center. A funeral will be 11 am, Tuesday, August 10, 2021 at Eudora Baptist Church in Eudora, KS; burial in Shawnee Mission Memorial Gardens. A visitation will be from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Monday, August 9, 2021 at the Amos Family Funeral Home....
Cody Allen Van Lerberg
Aug 3, 2021
Cody Allen Van Lerberg passed away unexpectedly on August 3, 2021 at the University of Kansas Medical Center at the age of 33. Cody was born in Roswell, Georgia on February 27, 1988 to Ward and Linda Van Lerberg, the first born of 4 children. He grew up in Olathe and graduated from Olathe Northwest High School. He married his...
Fern Coombs
Aug 2, 2021
“You taught us the courage of stars before you left How light carries on endlessly, even after death With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite How rare and beautiful it is to even exist” Fern Coombs, 93, was born on October 28th, 1927, in Bedford Iowa. She was the daughter of Bert Holland Hess and Mary Isabelle LeFever Hess....
Daniel J. Bohlken
Aug 1, 2021
Dan “Dirty” J. Bohlken, 59, of Shawnee, Kansas passed away peacefully August 1st, 2021. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. on August 10th, 2021 at the Amos Family Funeral Home in Shawnee. Dan was born June 9th, 1962 in Nebraska City, Nebraska to Robert and Mary (Riley) Bohlken. Dan graduated from Northwest Missouri State University with a...
William "Bill" Pearson
Jul 29, 2021
William "Bill" Joseph Pearson, 69 passed away on July 29, 2021 at Catholic Care Center, Bel Aire, KS. He was born in Pittsburg Kansas, November 5, 1951 to William Nelson and Mathilde(Jorg) Pearson. He graduated from St. Joseph High School, Shawnee, KS in 1969. A few years after graduating he attended a Trade school in Pittsburg, Ks. and returned to...
Glenna R. Ebbert
Jul 28, 2021
Glenna Ruth Zuck Ebbert, 84, Shawnee, KS, died July 28, 2021. Born in McPherson, KS, Feb. 9, 1937, to Joe Myers Zuck and Ruth Darlene Hawbaker. She had two siblings, Wayne J. Zuck (Randine) and is survived by Dr. Gary Dean Zuck (Connie) of Prairie Village, KS. In 1956, Glenna married Charles C. Ebbert who preceded her in death by...
Bill Donald Stewart
Jul 28, 2021
Bill Stewart was called home to the Lord, quietly and peacefully on July 28, 2021. He was living at Brookdale Nursing Home in Shawnee, Kansas at the time. Billy Don was born August 16, 1928 in Dunlap, Kansas to Loren Lewelling and Abby Irene (McCabe) Stewart. His bachelor uncle was asked to file the registration of birth. On the way...
Steven Nail
Jul 27, 2021
Steven Francis Nail, age 66, passed away unexpectedly on July 27, 2021, at his home in Amarillo, Texas. Steve was born on March 14, 1955 to Vernon G. and Mary. E. (Smith) Nail in Kansas City, Kansas. Steve is survived by a sister, Kathy (George) Dobbelaere of Shawnee, KS and a sister, Rita (Jim) Hayes of Blue Springs, MO. He...
Daniel John Straka
Jul 26, 2021
Dan Straka, of Lenexa, died July 26, 2021, at age 84, after a brief stay at Kansas City Hospice. He was the son of George and Elizabeth (Checkon) Straka and the youngest of seven siblings. All predeceased Dan. Due to the Depression, Dan was the first in his family to graduate from high school and complete several years of college....
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