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The funeral services of the late Charles E. Scroggins, Sr., will be held at his late home on Woodland avenue near Nineteenth street, this afternoon, and the interment will take  place at Union cemetery.


Name of Deceased: Georgia R Shore [nee Rolls]
Newspaper: Kansas City Star
Submitters Name: Sally Rolls Pavia

Georgia R. Shore passed away Thursday, May 29, 2003, at the John Knox Care Center. She was born to William and Eliza (Lida) Rolls in Lone Jack, MO on  October 13, 1903. She graduated from Oak Grove High School and received her teacher certification from Central Missouri Teachers College at Warrensburg. She taught school prior to her marriage to Mark Shore on August 11, 1925. They lived and farmed in the Lone Jack and Pleasant Hill area during their 47 years of  marriage. Mr. Shore passed away on July 23, 1973. Georgia moved from the farm to Lee's Summit in 1980 and to John Knox Village where she lived for 19 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Lee's Summit. Services will be held Tuesday, June 3, at the First Baptist Church of Lee's Summit, 1st and Douglas Streets. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. with Service following at 2 p.m. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Her survivors include her daughter, Pauline Hinck of Raytown, MO; two granddaughters, Cindy Bowman of Leawood, KS and Karen Kupersmith of Warrensburg, MO; two great-grandsons, Kyle and Tyler Kupersmith; and several nieces and nephews.
(Arrangements: Wallace Funeral Home,  Pleasant Hill, MO)


Edna Mae Stephens
Kansas City, MO, Age 96
4/11/07
Edna Mae Stephens, age 96, passed away on April 3rd at Decatur County General Hospital. Services were held on Friday, April 6, at Park Lawn Funeral Home in Kansas City, MO.
Interment followed at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Kansas City.
Ms. Stephens was preceded in death by her mother and father, Etta Jones Johnson and Milton Alexander Johnson; her son, Don Stephens; and brothers, Earl and Fonnie Johnson. She is survived by her daughters, Doris Coriel of St. Louis, MO, Brenda Harris of Arizona, and Joan Cagle of Parsons; and her brother, Vernon Johnson of NJ. Other survivors include three grandchildren, twenty-great grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
(Decatur Chronicle, Decaturville, Decatur Co., Tn, Submitted by Christine Walters - 2008)


Name of Deceased: Velma Lucetta (Smith) Stewart
Newspaper: Hutchinson News
Date: Feb. 15, 1999
Obit: Velma Lucetta Smith Stewart

GRANDVIEW, Mo. – Velma  Lucetta Smith Stewart, 91 died Feb. 13, 1999, at her daughter’s home.
She was born Nov. 27, 1907, at Wiley, Colo., the daughter of Albert F. and Margaret Ellen Fickes Smith.  She was a Hutchinson High School graduate.  A Hutchinson resident from 1912 to 1987, moving to Grandview, she was an employee of Bell Telephone, Hutchinson, and was a Reno County Courthouse switchboard operator, retiring in 1972.
She belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, serving as a teacher, and was involved in the geology program as a name extractor.  She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Women’s Auxiliary No. 20 International Typographical Union, both at Hutchinson.
On Nov. 29, 1926, she married Ernest Christian “Buff” Stewart at Kingman.  He died Oct 16, 1975.
Survivors include: a son, Wendall Philip “Pete”, Sandy, Utah; a daughter, Ruth Ann Stewart Lemon, of the home; 12 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three brothers, two sisters and a grandson.
Funeral will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints meeting house, Kansas City, Mo.  Friends may call from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at D. W. Newcomer’s Longview Chapel, Kansas City, Mo.  Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery, Hutchinson.
Memorials may be sent to the Carondolet Hospice, 201 W. RD Mize Rd., Blue Springs, MO 64014.


Name of Deceased: George Walter Stubbs
Newspaper: Kansas City Times, dated 16 Dec 1942
Submitters Name: Sally Rolls Pavia

Obit: George W. Stubbs
For Fifty Years He Practiced Law -- Former Nebraska Judge

George W. Stubbs, 76, died yesterday at his home, 3319 the Paseo. He had been practicing for the last fifty years. He served as a district judge of the seventh judicial district in Nebraska from 1900 to 1904. He came to Kansas City in 1905.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Winifred C. Stubbs, of the home; four sons, Herbert G. Stubbs, Oakland, Calif.; Allan H. Stubbs, 5000 Euclid avenue; Donald C. Stubbs, 6523 Blue Ridge road; and Tom J. Stubbs, 5527 Holmes street; three daughters, Mrs. W. V. Creavy, 1532 East Forty-ninth street; and Mrs. I. M. Helmey and Mrs. J. F. Gier of Oklahoma City; three brothers, Dr. Ernest Stubbs and Dr. Claude Stubbs, Chillicothe, MO., and Schuyler Stubbs, Muskogee, Ok., and a sister, Mrs. Ray Rogers, Los Angeles.
Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday at the Stine & McClure Funeral chapel.


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