Wanda Lavon Beeler, 88 of Basehor, KS, died Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at Tonganoxie Nursing Center in Tonganoxie, KS. Graveside services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, August 7 at the Crescent Hill Cemetery in Adrian, MO. Visitation will be held from 6:00-7:30 p.m. Friday, August 6 at the Atkinson Chapel in Adrian, MO. Memorial contributions may be made to Kansas City Hospice, 9221 Ward Parkway, Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64114.
Wanda was born October 24, 1921 in Oskaloosa, MO, the daughter of John Alan and Candas E. (Harrison) Goforth. She had lived in the Archie and Adrian, MO area before moving to Clinton, MO in 1968. She moved to the Kansas City area in 1980 and had lived in Basehor, KS for the last 10 years. She had worked as a CNA for Delmar Gardens in Lenexa, KS for six years before retiring in 1990.
Wanda was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Orval Beeler and Stanley Drury and one brother, David Goforth. She is survived by one son, Orval Dean Beeler and his wife, Beverly of Kansas City, MO; two daughters, Stangela Harris and her husband, Michael of Basehor, KS and Brenda Drury-Worthington and her husband, James of Harrisonville, MO; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; step-grandchildren; step-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
