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Stanley Groves Jr.
Feb 11, 2022
Stanley "Stan" Groves Jr. was born on October 15, 1964, in Kansas City, Mo to Martha Hatter Groves and Stanley Groves Sr. He was preceded in death by his mother Martha and brother Charles. He was educated in the Kansas City Public School District attending Lincoln College Preparatory Academy for his high school education. That education led him on a...
Jimmy Webb
Feb 9, 2022
Jimmy Webb, 56 of Kansas City, MO passed away Wednesday, February 9, 2022. Services will be held Friday, February 18, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation 9:00 a.m. - 11:00. Interment Twelve Gates Memorial Gardens. Services entrusted to Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors.
Judy Lynn Phillips
Feb 9, 2022
Judy was born in Kansas City, MO on January 9, 1961, to Velma Roberts and Carl Watson. Judy was the middle child of 8 siblings. Growing up in Kansas City July was loved by all. She would always have her siblings back through thick and thin. It wouldn't be uncommon for her to have family over getting a jerry curl...
Stanley Spencer Starks
Feb 6, 2022
Stanley S. Starks, 71 of Belton, Mo passed away Sunday, February 6, 2022. Service will be held Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 1:00 p.m., First Haitian Baptist Church Independence, 10035 Westport Rd., Indep., MO 64052. Visitation 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Interment Forest Hill Cemetery. Masks are required. Services entrusted to Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors Chapel.
Gerald William Bennett
Feb 4, 2022
"For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I kept the faith". 2nd Timothy 4: 6-7 Gerald William Bennett was born September 24, 1963 to the union of Gideon and Allie Bennett. He confessed his love for Christ at an...
Betty J. Canton
Feb 4, 2022
Betty J. Canton was born on October 14, 1940, in Columbia, Missouri second child born to the parents William Anderson and Geraldine Johnson. Betty was educated in Columbia, Missouri. Betty gave her life to Christ in 1969, becoming a member of Pentecostal Church of God in Christ under the leadership of Bishop Daniel M. Jordan, where she served as the...
Fannie Lee Mcmanus
Jan 30, 2022
Fannie Lee Pickens McManus also known as Teenie was born September 9, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi to the late Amos Pickens and Mary McCambry Perry. She accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized at White Hill Baptist Church in Tupelo, Mississippi. She moved to Kansas City, Missouri in 1964, worked and retired from St. Luke's Hospital after 35...
Earl Eugene Guess
Jan 29, 2022
Earl Eugene Guess was born July 13th, 1930, in Luther, Oklahoma. The 1st of 7 children born to Ophelia and Esque Henry Guess. Earl moved to Kansas City, Missouri when Earl was a child and attended Kansas City, Missouri public schools and graduated from the RT Coles vocational high school Brick Mason program. Earl was called to service during the...
Marie Armstrong
Jan 28, 2022
Marie "Pumpkin" Armstrong, 52, of Kansas City, Missouri passed away peacefully, January 28, 2022 with her family by her bedside. Marie was born August 25, 1969, in Kansas City, Missouri to the union of Leonard and Lizzie Armstrong. Her mother Lizzie Armstrong preceded her in death. Marie was educated in the Kansas City School District. She graduated from Central High...
Rhoan Michael Stewart Sr.
Jan 24, 2022
Rhoan M. Stewart passed away peacefully on January 24, 2022 at North Kansas City Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. He was 60. Rhoan was born on May 28, 1961, in Kingston, Jamaica. He was seventh of eight children born to Winniefred Sharpe (deceased). In his late twenties, he moved from Jamaica to the United Stated with his wife and young...
William Gamble
Jan 16, 2022
William Michael Gamble was born on June 22, 1952, in Kansas City, Missouri to Beverly Ann Hamilton. He was proceeded in death by his mother Beverly Ann Hamilton and stepfather George Arthur Hamilton. Michael was educated in the public schools of Kansas City Missouri. He got his GED and later attended Penn Valley Community College. He was a faithful visitor...
Orrin D Rembert Sr.
Jan 12, 2022
Orrin D. Rembert Sr. was born to the union of Robert Rembert and Zelda Shepard Rembert on June 7, 1933, in Garnett, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Zelda Rembert, his sons, Robert, Orrin Jr., and Reginald Rembert, a grandson Orrin III, son in law Theodore Payne, and a daughter in law Johnnetta Rembert. Orrin...
Raymond V. Spencer
Jan 12, 2022
Raymond Varnell Spencer was born December 16, 1949, to the union of Willie Ray and Sadie Mae Milligan Spencer in Kansas City, Missouri. Raymond was preceded in death by his father Willie R. Spencer, stepfather Wardell Williams Sr., stepmother Emogene Spencer, brother Raymond Colston, paternal and maternal grandparents. Raymond accepted Christ at an early age and was baptized by Pastor...
Louise Sterling
Jan 1, 2022
Louise Sterling was born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, April 8, 1932, to the union of Henry and Carrie (Harvey) Smith. She relocated to Rosedale Kansas with her father and 3 sisters, after the passing of her mother. She married Johnnie Sterling and four children were born to this union. Her husband, Johnnie Sterling, her son, Charles Sterling and sisters, Lillie...
Rafael Hines
Dec 31, 2021
Rafael was born on May 18, 1973, in Greenville, MS, the son of the late Viola Marie Hines and Robert Earl Hannah. Rafael grew up in Greenville where he attended the Greenville Public Schools. He attended regular Sunday services at the New White Stone Baptist Church. Rafael was involved in various school activities and church functions prior to relocating to...
Oliver Leslie Jones
Dec 25, 2021
Oliver L. Jones, 72 of Kansas City, MO passed away Saturday, December 25, 2021. Services will be held in Nashville, TN. Services entrusted to Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors.
Diana Marie Pryor
Dec 25, 2021
Diana Marie Pryor, 64 of Kansas City, MO., passed away Saturday, December 25, 2021. Disposition Private. Services entrusted to Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors.
George W. Rackley
Dec 22, 2021
George W. Rackley, 65 of Grandview, MO passed away Wednesday, December 22, 2021. George W. Rackley was born November 12, 1956, in St. Louis, MO to George "Daddy George" and Arsenia" Biggie" Rackley. He was the eighth of twelve children. He was preceded in death by his parents, George "Daddy George" and Arsenia "Biggie" Rackley, his sisters Lucy, Pearlie, and...
Carole J. Steward
Dec 20, 2021
Carole J. Steward, 70 of Kansas City, MO passed away Monday, December 20, 2021. Ms. Carole Jean Steward was the last child born to Leon and Barbara Chism on June 24, 1951, in Kansas City, MO. She was preceded in death by both parents and her two eldest brothers Walter Chism and Ronald Chism. Carole was raised in a Christian...
Larry Selery Sr.
Dec 16, 2021
Larry J. Selery, Sr., 69 of Kansas City, MO passed away Thursday, December 16, 2021. Interment Memphis, Tennesse. Services entrusted to Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors.
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