Bettye Kane Obituary (1939

BETTYE JEAN (EMMACK) KANE Bettye Jean (Emmack) Kane, 70, passed away Sunday, November 22, 2009, at Lee''s Summit Medical Center, Lee''s Summit, Missouri. place in Fairfield, Iowa. Funeral services will be at 10:00 A.M. Saturday at the Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield with Pastor Phil Barker officiating. The family will receive friends beginning at 9:00 A.M. Saturday, one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Fairfield. Visitation in Kansas City will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 25, 2009, at McGilley State Line Chapel, 12301 State Line Road, Kansas City, MO 64145. Memorial contributions may be made to Palermo Endowment (make payable to the KU Endowment), Mailstop 3012, 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160, for research into spinal cord injury. Born May 2, 1939, in Fairfield, Iowa, Bettye was the daughter of Leo Edward Emmack and Alice Maude Johnston Emmack. She grew up in the Fairfield area from 1939-1968 and moved to Forrest City, Arkansas, where she lived from 1968-1977. She has resided in the Kansas City area since 1977, spending some winters in Sun Lakes, Arizona. Bettye earned her Associate of Arts Degree in 1980 from Longview College in Lee''s Summit and her Cosmetology Certification from Ottumwa, Iowa School of Cosmetology in 1958. She was a retired property manager, a beauty shop operator and a housewife. She was a member of bridge clubs, ladies auxiliary and tennis clubs. Bettye was preceded in death by her parents, Leo and Alice Emmack, her sister, Lucille Sherfy and her brother William Emmack. Survivors include her husband, Richard E. Kane; one sister, Dorothy Webb, three brothers, Donald Emmack, Jerry Emmack, and Dennis Emmack; one daughter, Jonilee and husband Randall Schroer; one son Jonathan and wife Kristan Kane; and four grandchildren, Lauren and Haley Schroer and Tucker and Elizabeth Kane. Bettye was a fun loving woman and a friend to all, and she will be greatly missed. Funeral arrangements are in the care of the Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield.