WANDA S. KANNADY

April 14, 2021

SHELDON- Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Baptist Church in Nevada, Mo., for Wanda S. Kannady, 86, Sheldon, who died Tuesday, April 13, 2021, at Truman Healthcare in Lamar. Dr. Kevin Daugherty and Rev. Hubert Fox will officiate. Burial will follow in Newton Burial Park in Nevada.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday and from 12 noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, at Ferry Funeral Home.

Memorials are suggested to the Choir/Music Department of First Baptist Church, in care of the funeral home.

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

Survivors include two daughters, Marsha Hooper and husband Rick, Butler and Marilyn Deem and husband Brian, Tallahassee, Fla.; grandchildren, Regan Kluhsman and husband Ben, Nevada, Bailey Wibberley and husband Justin, Tallahassee, Fla., Jordan Deem, US Navy, Monterrey, Calif., Hunter Deem, Camryn Deem, Riley Deem, Noah Deem, Micah Deem and Caleb Deem, all of Tallahassee, Fla.; two great-grandsons, Dawson William Kluhsman and Elias Ronan Wibberley and her former daughter-in-law, Marla (Kannady) Foreman and husband Chet, Walker.

She was preceded in death by her husband Bill; one son, Michael Kannady; a grandson, Will Christian Deem and one brother, Tom “TC” Lemons.

Mrs. Kannady was born Jan. 4, 1935, to Cecil K. and Clara M. (Holt) Lemons, in Bixby, Okla. She married William J. “Bill” Kannady on Oct. 21, 1954, in Bixby, Okla. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary before his death on Nov. 13, 2014.

Although born in Wellington, Texas, Mrs. Kannady moved with her family at a young age to Bixby Okla., where she attended school. She graduated as the class salutatorian from Bixby High School in 1953. She then attended Draughon’s Business School in Tulsa, Okla. and following graduation she worked for a time as a bookkeeper. In 1963, she and her husband came to rural Sheldon, where they established themselves as versatile farmers. She enjoyed living the country life as a farmer’s wife and homemaker, a home she continued to reside in until her passing.

Mrs. Kannady never missed any of her children’s school activities or sporting events. She was a longtime member of the Sheldon Baptist Church, where she played the piano and organ and was a children’s Sunday school eacher. For many years she gave piano lessons. She became a member of the First Baptist Church in Nevada in 1998, where she was active in the Handbell Choir and the Praise Choir. She worked for nearly 30 years at Ferry Funeral Home in Sheldon and in Nevada.

She loved her family very much. She was very family oriented, she loved attending her children and grandchildren’s activities and sporting events, watching golf, keeping up with local sports and playing Jeopardy with Marsha and was an avid reader.



Jordin Mahsman
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