BESSIE FRANK

RAYTOWN- Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Daniel Funeral Home in Lamar for Bessie “Bee” Eunice Frank, 93, Raytown, who died peacefully on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., in the company of her children. Interment will be at Oak Grove Cemetery in Oakton.

Family and friends in attendance are welcome to lunch across the street at Oakton United Methodist Church immediately following. Face masks are optional in Barton County.

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

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, One Spirit United Methodist Church or a not for profit of choice.

Survivors include her children, Don and Carol (Smith) Frank of Smithville and former Raytown mayor Sue Frank and her husband Ted Bowman of Raytown; grandchildren Sara Frank of Smithville, Dennis and Emma (Bell) Frank of Junction City, Kan. and Tiffany Bowman of Kansas City, Mo., as well as many beloved nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her siblings, Verna (Conant), Mildred (Kremp), Lowell (Eshom) Laura (Rakestraw), Edward Lisher and Myrtle (Gardner); her husband and former Raytown mayor, Robert B. “Bob” Frank and her beloved son, Greg Frank.

Mrs. Frank was born Oct. 10, 1926, in Lamar, to Lafayette and Signe Justina “Eunice” (Gustafson) Lisher. She married Robert Bryan “Bob” Frank there on August 26, 1950 and they built a home and business in Raytown, where they raised their three children, Gregory, Donald and Susan.

She will be best remembered for her laughter and generosity of spirit. She spent her lifetime tending to her husband, children, grandchildren and loving all her extended family. Her passions included gardening, sewing, playing piano and helping her church, One Spirit/Countryside United Methodist, in the Kansas City area where she lived her adult life.