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Tweet Prairie Village resident Jesse Dunnagan, one of the lone remaining Pearl Harbor survivors in Johnson County, died Saturday at Select Specialty Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. He was 92. Dunnagan was the gun director for the broadside guns on the USS California the day Japanese bombers raided Pearl Harbor. When the California was struck, [...]
Tweet Former Westwood Hills Mayor E. Allen Roth died Monday at age 77. Roth served as mayor for 14 years, running for office six times. He had an extensive involvement in community affairs, serving as chairman of the Shawnee Indian Mission Foundation and a member of the Johnson County Transportation Council and the Mid-America Regional [...]
Tweet Last week, after a particularly good day here at the Prairie Village Post, I ripped a piece of paper off a notepad on my desk and wrote the name Bob Dillon in large, capital letters. I underlined it. The time had finally come, I decided, to reach out and reconnect with the man [...]
Tweet The Highlands Elementary community is in mourning this week at news of the passing of Debra Utterback, a cornerstone of the school who served as its kindergarten teacher for the past 24 years and had long ties to the Prairie Village area. She died Thursday, April 19, at the age of 58. Friends and [...]
Tweet Jerry Gaines, a Kansas City-area real estate veteran who served on the Prairie Village city council for 22 years, died Monday. He was 96. Gaines started his career as a restauranteur, working as the treasurer of Sydney’s Restaurants, a chain of 24-hour drive ins. He also owned The Leather Bottle, Maggie Jones and the [...]
Tweet Dalton Banks, the man who cut hundreds of area residents’ hair at Village Hairstyling over more than 20 years, died earlier this week at the age of 63. His former colleagues at the Village Shops barbershop got the news from his sister, who called after he passed away on Wednesday. Banks had stopped cutting [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents are remembering former Mayor Austin Harmon, who passed away March 12. Harmon served two terms as the head of city hall starting in 1979. Prior to his election as mayor, he’d been a city councilman for 10 years. The park south of the city pool by the waterpower is named in [...]
Tweet Marjorie Franklin, wife for former Prairie Village Mayor William “Bill” Franklin, died Tuesday, Feb. 1. She was 75. A visitation will begin 7 p.m. Friday at McGilley & Hoge, 8024 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park. Services will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Asbury United Methodist Church, 75th Street and Nall Avenue. Franklin was [...]
