KENNY DEAN YOOS

JOPLIN- Due to the current events, graveside services for the immediate family will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, at the McKill Chapel Cemetery in Bronaugh, for Kenneth Dean Yoos, 58, Joplin, who died unexpectedly on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, at his home. There will be a memorial service for him at a later date that will be announced by the family.

Arrangements are under the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.ferryfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include two daughters, Lindsay Smith and Kaitlyn Yoos, both of Chanute, Kan., Lindsay's husband Blake Smith and three children, Hope, Curtis and Jace, along with Kaitlyn's fiance, Kirk Wilson. Also surviving are his father, Bill Yoos, Webb City and his four siblings, Brenda Magnusson, Bella Vista, Ark. and husband Bob, William Yoos, Centerton, Ark. and wife Rose, Steve Yoos, Costa Mesa, Calif. and his twin sister, Kim Schneider and husband Stan, Springtown, Ark. and one stepbrother, Fred Stoughton and wife Diane, Ft. Scott, Kan. He will also be missed by his many aunts, nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews, cousins and friends. He loved being around his family and friends and they will miss him very much.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Barbara Amer Yoos; his stepmother, Carol Ann Schilling Yoos and his nephew, Corey Dale Larson.

Mr. Yoos was born November 16,1961, along with his twin sister Kim, to Bill and Barbara Yoos in Pittsburg, Kan. He grew up on the family farm in Bronaugh and early on developed a deep love of fishing. During school with the 4H and FFA, he showed cattle along with his siblings and cousins at the Vernon County Youth Fair and he enjoyed being a member of the school chess club and challenging his dad to a game. He was a hard worker on the farm and graduated with the class of 1979 from Bronaugh R-VII High School. Friends and family remember him as being quite the character with a deep laugh and a kind heart. After graduating he continued to help on the family farm and worked for the coal mines.

He married Keitha Matlock in 1982; they divorced later in life and have two daughters and three grandchildren. He was a member of the Garland Kansas Memphis Masonic Lodge. He was a loving father, brother, brother-in-law, uncle and cousin.