obituaries

Reverend Nelson “Fuzzy” Thompson, one of Kansas City’s leading civil rights leaders, died last weekend. Thompson was a long time president of the Southern…

Updated, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:Two of the four rabbis killed in a terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday had deep ties to the Kansas City Jewish…

Lynda Callon, longtime director of the Community Action Center in Kansas City's Westside died Sunday after a very short illness.Callon was a fierce…

R. Crosby KemperJr., banker, philanthropist, and giant of Kansas City civic life, died last week at his friend's home in Indian Wells, Calif. He was…

Kansas City banker and philanthropist, R. Crosby Kemper Jr. has died at the age of 86.Kemper was best known for leading Kansas City-based UMB Financial…

Marion Bloch died at home on Tuesday in Mission Hills, Kansas, at the age of 83. Bloch was married to Henry W. Bloch, co-founder of the financial services…

The late comedian George Burns once said: "Every morning when I get up, I read the obituary page. If my name's not there, I shave." Obituaries are often…

By Sara Jane CraneKansas City, MO –Jazz greats, stellar newsmen and punk icons were just a few of the memorable folks that we lost in 2010.Ruth Rhoden…

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-927731.mp3Kansas City, Missouri – Representative Karen McCarthy has died in an…

By Delores Jones and Laura ZieglerKansas City, MO – Judge Cordell Meeks, Jr. died suddenly at his home this week. He was 63. Meeks, a 26-year veteran of…